Events 2011

November 11, 2011:
Lecture Series part II
on the current exhibition LIFE-FORM in the ART FORMAT  

Jasper Sharp
Peggy & Kiesler: Art of This Century 1942-1947
(Lecture in English)
Friday, November 11, 2011, 5 pm
Kiesler Foundation Vienna, Mariahilferstraße 1b, 1060 Vienna

Jasper Sharp
Jasper Sharp is the Adjunct Curator for Modern and Contemporary Art  at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. He completed undergraduate studies in Edinburgh and London, and is currently writing his PhD on the American modernist photographer and sculptor David Hare. He worked at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, between 1999 and 2005 where he was responsible for exhibitions, collection display and research, and contemporary projects including the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. After moving to Vienna in 2006, he worked as a curator at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary.
He has written catalogue essays and lectured on artists including Donald Judd, Lucian Freud, Robert Rauschenberg, Alberto Giacometti, David Smith, Jackson Pollock, Conrad Marca-Relli and William Baziotes. Major editorial projects include the landmark publication 'Peggy Guggenheim and Frederick Kiesler: The Story of Art of This Century' and a début monograph of artist Arcangelo Sassolino for JRP|Ringier. Recent curatorial projects include the collateral exhibition 'John Gerrard: Animated Scene' at the 53rd Venice Biennale, a site-specific exhibitions in New York, London, Vienna and Dublin.

PAST EVENTS

October 14 - 15, 2011
Symposium
Richard Buckminster Fuller
World Game

Friday, 14.10.2011, 5pm
Saturday, 15.10.2011, 2pm 
Architekturzentrum Wien, Podium 
Museumsplatz 1, in the MQ
A-1070 Wien 
   
Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) was a visionary whose utopias have become reality today: a proponent of a networked world as opposed to a hierarchic one; an early endorser of the build it yourself culture; pioneer of the connection between man and environment. In the 1930s Buckminster Fuller began to experiment with new ways of depicting the planet. This culminated in the geodesic construction or the Dymaxion map, which enabled the 3D world to be presented in a 2D form with a minimum of distortion. This map enabled a better understanding of our 'home' while being a practical tool for illustrating distances and interrelationships on our planet plausibly and making them easier to understand. It also makes issues relating to the distribution of resources easier to address. This series of lectures and workshops engages critically with the so-called Dymaxion map — an arena for geomapping and games theory, a tool for conveying information on the givens and current state of our planet.

October 7, 2011:
Lecture Series part I
on the current exhibition LIFE-FORM in the ART FORMAT 

Karin Wimmer
Max Ernst und die surrealistische Szene in New York
Friday, October 7,2011, 6 pm
Kiesler Foundation Vienna, Mariahilferstraße 1b, 1060 Vienna

 CD-book presentation

HOFSTETTER KURT. ZART una cantata moebius
June 29, 2011, 7 p.m.

at the Kiesler Foundation Vienna, Mariahilfer Straße 1b, 1060 Vienna

The MOEBIUS KANTATE ZART provokes a musical experience along the “eventhorizon of time”. In the moment of their stereo-acoustic perception the cantata enfolds its sound potential directed both towards the future as well as towards the past. After the first release of the MOEBIUS KANTATE ZART at the Kiesler Foundation Vienna, the CD-book HOFSTETTER KURT. ZART una cantata moebius will also be presented here.

For all of you who haven't had a chance to hear this unique composition yet:
Performance of the MOEBIUS KANTATE ZART, 4th movement, 7.30 p.m.

The continuing creative process of the MOEBIUS KANTATE ZART (!)
will be presented in the experimental video  n o w h e r e 1  by Barbara Doser and Hofstetter Kurt.

HOFSTETTER KURT: ZART una cantata moebius, ed. by  Zwei Kongruent Null - Verein zur Förderung von Kunst und Wissenschaft and the Kiesler Foundation Vienna, with an introduction by Dieter Bogner and texts by Werner Depauli-Schimanovich, Barbara Doser, Thomas Mießgang, Bariaa Mourad, Monika Pessler, Gerald Alcyon Pío Fromm and Peter Weibel, Ed. TRITON|Barcelona: Beirut: Viena, Vienna 2010/2011.

"Vom Offenen in der Architektur" by Luisa Paumann
on October 15, 2011 at 7 p.m.

at the Kiesler Foundation Vienna
Mariahilfer Straße 1b, 1060 Vienna

The architect and theorist Luisa Paumann is going to present her recently published book „Vom Offenen in der Architektur“ at the Kiesler Foundation Vienna.


Luisa Paumann: Vom Offenen in der Architektur
256 pages with ill. in colour
Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2010
ISBN 978-3-85165-840-8

Luisa Paumann, born in 1969, studied architecture in Vienna, Paris and New York. Dissertation at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She currently works as an author and architect in Antwerp and Vienna.