Exhibition
The exhibition took place from 25 November 2009 to 10 March 2010.
Pulse of sensuality. Retrospective on the work of BIRGIT JÜRGENSSEN
From 25 November 2009 to 10 March 2010, the VERBUND COLLECTION, Vienna, presented 40 drawings and photographs of the Austrian artist Birgit Jürgenssen in the Vertical Gallery.
The VERBUND COLLECTION, which was founded in 2004, committed itself from the outset to the work of Birgit Jürgenssen as one of the most important positions of Austrian art post-1945. In line with the collection’s maxim “Depth not breadth”, around 50 works from all of the artist’s creative periods and areas of work were purchased and presented to a wide public for the first time in 2009, in the Vertical Gallery.
Curator:
Curated by Gabriele Schor, founding director of the VERBUND COLLECTION, Vienna
Team of the VERBUND COLLECTION, Vienna
Ema Rajković – curatorial assistant
Barbara Wünsch – curatorial assistant
Artist
Birgit Jürgenssen
Birgit Jürgenssen, a prominent artist of the feminist art movement, explored themes of corporeality, identity, and everyday objects, presenting them in unconventional contexts in her works. Through her creative depictions of female experience and subjectivity, Jürgenssen inspired new perspectives on gender roles and identity.
VERTIKALE GALERIE der SAMMLUNG VERBUND
Am Hof 6a | 1010 Wien
Insights into the exhibition Pulse of sensuality
Publication:
Birgit Jürgenssen
published by Gabriele Schor & Abigail Solomon-Godeau
Hardcover: 296 pages
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Edition: 2009
Languages: German/English
ISBN: 978-3-7757-2460-9
BIRGIT JÜRGENSSEN
The Austrian Birgit Jürgenssen (1949-2003) is one of the outstanding female artists of the Feminist Avant-Garde. Jürgenssen created a diverse œuvre comprising around three thousand works. In her prints, drawings, watercolours, collages, paintings, photographs like rayographs, solar graphics, Polaroids and objects, the artist dealt with the staging of the female body and its metamorphoses. In the 1970s and 1980s, she debunked traditional images of femininity as well as the gender roles assigned by society.
Photos: © Barbara Wünsch
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Booklet
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