Exhibition
The exhibition took place from 13 March to 29 May 2013.
open spaces | secret places. Works from the VERBUND COLLECTION, Vienna
From 13 March to 29 May 2013, the VERBUND COLLECTION, Vienna, presented the exhibition open spaces | secret places in the Vertical Gallery.
The exhibition open spaces | secret places showed artistic positions from 1970 to today from the VERBUND COLLECTION. Visualised are phenomena of the perception of spaces and places. The increasing spatialisation of art goes hand-in-hand with our practice of life, which has undergone dramatic social and cultural change through new spatial circumstances (virtual space, greater mobility). Precisely because of this fluctuating presence, we seem to want to be all the more keenly aware of our location. We used to ask the other person on the phone, “How are you?”, today we ask, “Where are you?”.
The exhibition was conceived for the Museum of Modern Art Mönchsberg and was on show there from 20 October 2012 to 3 March 2013.
Curator:
Curated by Gabriele Schor, founding director of the VERBUND COLLECTION, Vienna
Team of the VERBUND COLLECTION, Vienna
Theresa Dann – curatorial assistant
Ema Rajković – curatorial assistant
Artists
open spaces
Francis Alÿs | Eleanor Antin | Bernd und Hilla Becher | Tom Burr | Ceal Floyer | Teresa Hubbard und Alexander Birchler | Joachim Koester | Louise Lawler | Gordon Matta-Clark | Wilfredo Prieto | Fred Sandback | Jeff Wall
VERTIKALE GALERIE der SAMMLUNG VERBUND
Am Hof 6a | 1010 Wien
Insights into the exhibition open spaces | secret places. Works from the VERBUND COLLECTION, Vienna
Publication:
open spaces | secret places. Works from the VERBUND COLLECTION
published by Gabriele Schor
Hardcover: 188 pages
Publisher: Buchhandlung Walther König
Edition: 2012
Language: German
ISBN 978-3-8633-5266-0
SPATIAL FRAGMENTS
Jeff Wall secretively stages fragments of urbanity on the periphery. Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joachim Koester, and Teresa Hubbard/Alexander Birchler examine the fragility of the present given the historical change in space and time. Louise Lawler guides our gaze to places in which artworks are kept and presented. Gordon Matta-Clark deconstructs rooms and houses, cuts them open and radically redefines them for the viewer. Following this style, Tom Burr creates his sculpture Split, a timber house split into two parts. It is a replica of a multi-seat outhouse from the pre-modern era, with which Burr refers to “a lost form of intimacy”. Fred Sandback breaks with the conventional idea of sculpture and creates a volumes without mass in the space using tensioned threads.
Photos: © Karl Kühn, Vienna
