BELVEDERE: EXHIBITION PROGRAMME 2019
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BELVEDERE: EXHIBITION PROGRAMME 2019 Newly discovered artists, contemporary dialogues and Klimt exhibition in Japan The Belvedere is crowning 2018 with yet another record number of visitors and significant increases in visitors to all venues. The museum’s programme for 2019 features important presentations of both prestigious and still underrated artists as well as surprising dialogues between historical and contemporary art. Furthermore, the Belvedere will also be travelling to Japan for a major Klimt exhibition this coming year. Stella Rollig, CEO of the Belvedere, and her team of curators have jointly compiled a programme of some 19 exhibitions for 2019. It is characterised by a wide range of artistic approaches and unconventional exhibition concepts. ‘With its world-class collection, the Belvedere’s success affords us the freedom to design a programme that goes beyond the expected blockbusters. We take our educational mandate seriously: the Belvedere invites visitors to make their own discoveries while also providing them with a modern-day perspective on artistic creations from throughout the ages. We go against the grain of art history and give artists a big platform,’ is how Stella Rollig summarises her intentions. Contact Belvedere Press Office T +43 (01) 795 57 -177 /-185 M press@belvedere.at www.belvedere.at
On 25 January the show City of Women: Female Artists in Vienna from 1900 to 1938 will start in the Lower Belvedere. ‘A long-overdue presentation demonstrating the significance of women in the age of Viennese Modernism’, according to Stella Rollig. The exhibition is curated by Sabine Fellner, who has tracked down with meticulous detail the now almost forgotten female artists who in their day worked on an equal footing with Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele. The life and work of around fifty artists will be on display who had hitherto been denied their rightful place in the canon of art history. From February, a large solo show at the Belvedere 21 will focus on Christian Ludwig Attersee’s early work. For some sixty years, the Austrian artist’s oeuvre has featured pop, humour and irony just as much as the subjects of music, sailing, nature and eroticism. Attersee: Feuerstelle spotlights all facets of his creative work. At the same time, the show On the New: Young Scenes in Vienna at the Belvedere 21 offers a tour of local artistic hotspots. From March, the exhibition will bring together a range of individual artistic approaches as well as important artist-run and alternative exhibition spaces, asking: what subjects do the artists address, and what artistic strategies and media do they use? Contact Belvedere Press Office T +43 (01) 795 57 -177 /-185 M press@belvedere.at www.belvedere.at
The exhibition Talking Heads: Contemporary Dialogues with F. X. Messerschmidt in the Orangery of the Lower Belvedere likewise starts in early March. The world-famous busts by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt are juxtaposed with eleven contemporary international approaches that concentrate on the subject of the head, giving rise to dialogues that span the centuries and comprise works by Douglas Gordon, Maria Lassnig, Bruce Nauman and Arnulf Rainer. From June, a large solo show on one of the most highly regarded contemporary artists will be hosted by the Lower Belvedere. Kiki Smith: Procession will display pieces from the past three decades as well as recent works – largely site-specific figurative sculptures that were produced in reaction to the Baroque atmosphere. For the summer, the Italian artist Monica Bonvicini has developed an immersive installation for the Belvedere 21 that makes direct reference to the building’s pavilion architecture. Here, Bonvicini is interested in the social and political power structures that are expressed in the constructed space. In the autumn, the Belvedere 21 will be the first federal museum to present a monographic show on the Upper Austrian concept artist Josef Bauer, to whom too little tribute has been paid thus far. Other exhibitions at the Belvedere 21 are dedicated to Eva Grubinger, Nicolas Jasmin, Caroline Achaintre and Henrike Naumann. Contact Belvedere Press Office T +43 (01) 795 57 -177 /-185 M press@belvedere.at www.belvedere.at
The autumn exhibition in the Orangery of the Lower Belvedere has been designed by Johanna Kandl. In Material: What We Paint with and Why, she addresses the substantial, i.e. material, side of art. In the exhibition she will establish a connection between her own work, numerous paintings from the Belvedere collection, an array of loans as well as the basic materials used in painting. A comprehensive retrospective on Wolfgang Paalen will be on display in the Lower Belvedere at the same time. From his bases in Paris and Mexico, he was the only Austrian Surrealist in the group around André Breton to have a lasting influence on the art world of his time. In the Upper Belvedere, the exhibition series IN-SIGHT will continue with three projects. In the spring, it will focus on Leopold Kiesling’s work Mars and Venus with Cupid. In the summer, attention will be directed to the underrated genre of oil sketches. In the autumn, the Belvedere will pay tribute to the Baroque painter Josef Ignaz Mildorfer on the occasion of what would have been his 300th birthday. Carlone Contemporary will be host to a monumental ceramic vessel by Uli Aigner in the spring. In 2019 Austria and Japan are celebrating 150 years since the beginning of diplomatic ties between the two countries. The exhibition Gustav Klimt: Vienna and Japan 1900 is one of Austria’s contributions to mark this occasion. Organised by Asahi Shimbun, the exhibition will be on show at Contact Belvedere Press Office T +43 (01) 795 57 -177 /-185 M press@belvedere.at www.belvedere.at
the Metropolitan Art Museum in Tokyo and at the Municipal Museum of Art in Toyota. A cornerstone of the exhibition is Klimt’s relationship with Japan: the country had an impact on the artist that can be detected time and again in his oeuvre. Contact Belvedere Press Office T +43 (01) 795 57 -177 /-185 M press@belvedere.at www.belvedere.at
EXHIBITIONS 2019 Nicolas Jasmin and other works 18 January to – 22 April 2019 Belvedere 21 /basement floor City of Women Female Artists in Vienna from 1900 to 1938 25 January 2019 to 19 May 2019 Lower Belvedere ATTERSEE Feuerstelle 01 February 2019 to 18 August 2019 Belvedere 21 / upper floor IN-SIGHT: Leopold Kiesling. The Myth of Mars and Venus with Cupid 15 February 2019 to 12 May 2019 Upper Belvedere On the New Young Scenes in Vienna 01 March 2019 to 02 June 2019 Belvedere 21 / ground floor Talking Heads Contemporary Dialogues with F.X. Messerschmidt 08 March 2019 to 18 August 2019 Lower Belvedere /Orangery CARLONE CONTEMPORARY: Uli Aigner. One Million – ITEM 2361 – Monumental Porcelain Vessel 12 April 2019 to 13 November 2019 Upper Belvedere /Carlone Hall Contact Belvedere Press Office T +43 (01) 795 57-177 M press@belvedere.at www.belvedere.at
Caroline Achaintre 17 May 2019 to 15 September 2019 Belvedere 21 / basement floor IN-SIGHT: FAST & FLUID. THE FASCINATION OF THE OIL SKETCH 23 May 2019 to 08 September 2019 Upper Belvedere Kiki Smith. Procession 07 June to 15 September 2019 Lower Belvedere Monica Bonvicini 28 June 2019 to 27 October 2019 Belvedere 21 /EG Josef Bauer Tactile Poetry 06 September 2019 to 23 February 2020 Belvedere 21 / upper floor Johanna Kandl. Material. What we paint with and why 13 September 2019 to 19 January 2020 Lower Belvedere /Orangery Henrike Naumann from 26 September 2019 Belvedere 21 / basement floor Wolfgang Paalen (1905–1959) An Austrian surrealist in Paris and Mexico 04 October 2019 to 19 January 2020 Lower Belvedere Contact Belvedere Press Office T +43 (01) 795 57-177 M press@belvedere.at www.belvedere.at
Eva Grubinger 22 November 2019 to 23 February 2020 Belvedere 21 / ground floor CARLONE CONTEMPORARY: Walter Pichler from November 2019 Upper Belvedere Belvedere external exhibitions Gustav Klimt. Vienna and Japan 1900 23 April to 10 July 2019 Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan 23 July to 14 October 2019 Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Japan ILLUSTRIOUS GUESTS Faistauer, Schiele, Harta & Co. Painting connects Belvedere as guest of Salzburg Museum 12 July to 13 October 2019 Contact Belvedere Press Office T +43 (01) 795 57-177 M press@belvedere.at www.belvedere.at
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