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Exhibition Program 2020
Wilhelm Leibl The Art of Seeing 31 January – 10 May 2020 Encouraged by Courbet, influenced by Manet, and esteemed by Van Gogh, Wilhelm Leibl (1844–1900) was among the most important representatives of realism in Europe. His œuvre revolves around the uncompromisingly authentic portrayal of human beings. With his retreat from the city to the country, Leibl founded a style of modern figural painting in which the truth of nature took priority over the idylls and narrative tendencies of traditional genre painting. Wilhelm Leibl’s guiding principle was not that his models be beautiful, but that they be “well perceived.” This exhibition, which includes loan works from Germany, Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, and the USA, arose in cooperation with the Kunsthaus Zürich. Mädchen mit weissem Kopftuch, um Das Mädchen mit der Nelke Selbstbildnis, 1891 1876 Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe Kunsthaus Zürich, Grafische Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen © bpk / Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe / Annette Sammlung, 1931 München – Neue Pinakothek Fischer/Heike Kohler © Kunsthaus Zürich © bpk / Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
The Renaissance of Etching From Dürer to Bruegel 12 February – 10 May 2020 The early days of printmaking were punctuated by several important innovations that ended up giving rise to a multitude of technical processes by 1500. In this context, the emergence of the etching during the late 15th century along with its subsequent swift spread during the early 16th century represents one of the most important turning points. Following development of this technique’s basic elements in the workshops of armor decorators, German printmaker Daniel Hopfer began using etched (i.e., acid treated) metal plates to produce prints on paper. Etching proved so easy to do that artists from the most varied fields found themselves able to produce their own prints— and among this new medium’s pioneers were central artistic figures of the Renaissance such as Albrecht Dürer, Parmigianino, and Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The present exhibition at the ALBERTINA Museum focuses on the first 70 years of the etched print: from its beginnings in Dürer’s time to Breugel’s era, which already saw numerous famous and less-famous artists in Germany, Flanders, Italy, and France working in this technique. Approximately 125 etchings will be shown along with drawings, printing plates, and illustrated books. This exhibition has been conceived in cooperation with the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Daniel Hopfer Albrecht Dürer Woman and Attendant Surprised by Death, 1500–1510 Landscape with a Canon, 1518 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna
Van Gogh, Cézanne, Matisse, Hodler
The Hahnloser Collection
22 February – 24 May 2020
The ALBERTINA Museum is devoting its spring exhibition of 2020 to one of the most
important private collections of French modernist art.
It was during the early 20th century that the Hahnloser Collection arose from close and
friendly exchange between the collecting couple of Arthur and Hedy Hahnloser-Bühler and
artist-friends including Pierre Bonnard, Ferdinand Hodler, Henri Matisse, and Félix Vallotton.
Later on, works by their famous artistic forebears Cézanne, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, and
Van Gogh likewise became part of this immense collection, which now includes one-of-a-kind
groups of Swiss and French modernist works.
For Arthur and Hedy Hahnloser, collecting was a source of meaning in life—and they staged
the collection that they compiled at their Villa Flora in Winterthur as a total work of art and
a “teaching museum”.
The present 120-work exhibition provides an overview of this internationally unique
collection of modern art rounded out by important works on loan from the fine art museums
Kunstmuseum Bern and Kunst Museum Winterthur.
Vincent van Gogh Henri Manguin Paul Cézanne
Le Café de nuit à Arles, 1888 Les Enfants Hans et Lisa Groupe de maison, 1876/77
Hahnloser/Jaeggli Stiftung, Villa Flora, Winterthur Hahnloser, 1910 Dauerleihgabe an Hahnloser/Jaeggli Stiftung,
Foto: Reto Pedrini, Zürich Dauerleihgabe an Villa Flora, Winterthur
Hahnloser/Jaeggli Stiftung, Foto: Reto Pedrini, Zürich
Villa Flora, Winterthur
Foto: Reto Pedrini, Zürich
Michael Horowitz
28 February – 13 April 2020
The Viennese journalist, publisher, and author Michael Horowitz (*1950) began working as a
photographer all the way back in 1966, while still a school student. And by the end of the
1980s, he had produced numerous photo reportages and portraits featuring well-known
personalities from public life. The ALBERTINA Museum is now presenting a monographic
exhibition that includes a first-ever selection of works from this creative phase. The emphasis
here is on photographs from the Viennese cultural scene, with whose protagonists Horowitz
was closely connected. He created relatively large series in collaboration with figures such as
Helmut Qualtinger, Kiki Kogelnik, and the Gugging artists: these and other photos stand out
by virtue of Horowitz’s emphatic gaze, his clear visual language, and his feel for highly
expressive moments.
Michael Horowitz Michael Horowitz
Arnold Schwarzenegger, 1975 Mick Jagger, 1967
Hahnemühle Fine Art Baryta Print Hahnemühle Fine Art Baryta Print
Property of the artist Property of the artist
© Michael Horowitz © Michael Horowitz
Xenia Hausner
TRUE LIES
6 May – 6 September 2020
The exhibition at the ALBERTINA Museum presents one of the most important Austrian
painters of our time. The main focus of the show is on Xenia Hausner’s practice of staging so
characteristic of her work. For her paintings, Hausner first constructs and then photographs
spatial settings in her studio. Automobile fragments or train compartments thus naturally
become inhabited places, peculiar scenarios in which trivial objects are co-actors. It is in these
environments that her protagonists interact. Her figures emancipate themselves within a
predominantly female cosmos and assume roles in Hausner’s stories, which resist clear
interpretation. In fragmentary montages, the artist confronts us with our innate
contradictions in close-up views that we are loathe to permit. And it is indeed precisely the
fiction of these works that makes it possible for Hausner, her gaze thus sharpened, to
apprehend underlying truths and reveal them visually.
This exhibition is conceived as a retrospective, beginning with Xenia Hausner’s initial works
from the 1990s and advancing to include her recent moving series, the Exiles.
Xenia Hausner Xenia Hausner Xenia Hausner
Nacht der Skorpione, 1995 Hotel Shanghai, 2010 Kopfschuss, 2002–2004
The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna Courtesy Xenia Hausner
The Batliner Collection © Bildrecht, Wien, 2019 © Bildrecht, Wien, 2020
© Bildrecht, Wien, 2019
Michela Ghisetti I’m going Home 28 May – 13 September 2020 The ALBERTINA Museum is the first institution of its kind to devote a sweeping retrospective presentation to Michela Ghisetti. The oeuvre of this artist, born in Bergamo, Italy in 1966 and a resident of Vienna since 1992, fluctuates between the poles of abstraction and figuration. Ghisetti’s works interweave elements both biographical and emotional as well as philosophical and art-theoretical. This gives rise to conceptually stringent, humorous, and intuitive groups of works in which the artist continually explores new content and the most varied materials. Michela Ghisetti Michela Ghisetti FELICIA, 2010 AFUA/DER WEG (Triptychon/Zweiter Teil), 2012 © Michela Ghisetti © Michela Ghisetti
Francesco Clemente Self-Portraits and Sirens 4 June – 4 October 2020 The ALBERTINA Museum is devoting a comprehensive solo presentation to the Italian- American artist Francesco Clemente. It serves to mark the ALBERTINA Museum’s acquisition of the Jablonka Collection, which holds a great many of Clemente’s important works. A particular focus here is on Clemente’s self-portraits and the travels inextricably linked therewith, to be seen in works created all over the world. Impressions and experiences, stories and myths are likewise clearly visible in this artist’s output, alluding to their important role for him as a person in all of their many facets. Alongside works from the Jablonka Collection, several further key works from the ALBERTINA’s own holdings are also included as well as the Sirens, a series of oil paintings completed just recently. Francesco Clemente Francesco Clemente Francesco Clemente Isola, 1981 Southern Cross, 2006 Rifugio, 1991 The ALBERTINA Museum, The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – The The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – The Vienna – The ESSL Collection JABLONKA Collection Batliner Collection © Francesco Clemente © Francesco Clementa © Bildrecht, Vienna, 2020
American Photography
10 June – 23 August 2020
America’s vast expanses, everyday culture, social landscapes, and urban metropolises: this
exhibition centers of American iconography’s post-1945 renewal. Exaggeratedly idealized
landscapes were replaced by everyday motifs that had previously been considered unworthy
of portrayal. Photographers took road trips and created series portraying American society
in a critical light. In capturing the dynamic of big cities, the tendency was to employ a pictorial
language that was spontaneous and snapshot-like. And in a contrasting approach, other
works involved the staging of elaborate film-like tableaux that served to grapple with
photographic reality and illusion as well as with societal developments.
Selected photographers:
Diane Arbus | Philip-Lorca diCorcia | William Eggleston | Lee Friedlander | Nan Goldin | Ray
K. Metzker | Lisette Model | Cindy Sherman | Stephen Shore | Joel Sternfeld | Garry
Winogrand
Joel Sternfeld Lee Friedlander
Red Rock State Campground, Gallup, New Mexico, September New York City, 1963
1982, 1982 ALBERTINA, Wien – Dauerleihgabe Österreichische Ludwig-Stiftung
ALBERTINA, Wien – Dauerleihgabe Österreichische Ludwig- für Kunst und Wissenschaft
Stiftung für Kunst und Wissenschaft © Lee Friedlander
© Courtesy of the artist and Buchmann Galerie, Berlin 2019
Modigliani – Picasso
The Primitivist Revolution
18 September 2020 – 10 January 2021
The ALBERTINA Museum will honor Amedeo Modigliani with a major retrospective to mark
the one hundredth anniversary of his death. For the first time, Modigliani will not be regarded
as a bohemian under the influence of alcohol and drugs, as a pleasing portraitist and pioneer
of Art Déco, but as a leading artist of the avant-garde who carried the revolution of
Primitivism far into the twentieth century.
Modigliani will premier in Austria with his celebrated nudes and outstanding portraits, as well
as his sculptures, which are rarely to be found in museums throughout Europe. The exhibition
will bring together works from major public museums and the most prominent private
collection between America and Asia.
A special focus will be placed on the artist’s lifelong exploration of the art of Primitivism.
Modigliani’s oeuvre will thus be juxtaposed with characteristic key works by such artists as
Pablo Picasso, Constantin Brâncuşi, and André Derain, as well as artifacts from so-called
“primitive” — prehistoric, archaic, and non-European — civilizations.
Amedeo Modigliani Amedeo Modigliani Amedeo Modigliani
Jeune fille en chemise, 1918 Head, 1911–1912 Reclining Nude , 1917
The ALBERTINA Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Gift of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Mr. and
Vienna – The Batliner Collection Mr. and Mrs. John Cowles, 62.73.1 Mrs. Klaus G. Perls Collection, 1997
Photo: Minneapolis Institute of ArtMy Generation The Jablonka Collection 2 October 2020 – 31 January 2021 For the first time, Rafael Jablonka is appearing at the ALBERTINA Museum to provide insights into his contemporary art collection, one of the most distinctive collections of American and German art from the 1980s, which he turned over to the ALBERTINA Museum in July 2019. Jablonka spent decades collecting with a consistent eye to acquiring more and more works from the various creative phases of the artists on whom he had chosen to focus. In this showing, Jablonka—a German art dealer, gallerist, and curator who was born in 1952—devotes himself above all to artists of his own generation. The selected works provide a representative look into these artists’ respective oeuvres in keeping with a one-artist-per- room concept. The museum is using two levels to show around 120 works including paintings, sculptures, works on paper, woodcuts, and architectural models, thus enabling visitors to experience all of the Jablonka Collection’s broad diversity. Featured artists: Miquel Barceló | Ross Bleckner | Richard Deacon | Eric Fischl | Damien Hirst | Roni Horn | Mike Kelley | Sherrie Levine | Cady Noland | Thomas Schütte | Andreas Slominski | Philip Taaffe | Terry Winters Eric Fischl Mike Kelley Sherrie Levine The Krefeld Project: The Bedroom. Scene 1, 2002 Kandor 13, 2007 Fountain (Buddha), 1996 The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – The The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – The The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna JABLONKA Collection JABLONKA Collection – The JABLONKA Collection © Eric Fischl / Bildrecht, Wien, 2019 © Mike Kelley © Sherrie Levine
Faces
Portraits between the Wars
23 October 2020 – 7 February 2021
Starting from Helmar Lerski’s outstanding photo series Metamorphose – Verwandlungen
durch Licht (Metamorphosis through Light) (1935/36), the exhibition Faces presents portraits
from the period of the Weimar Republic.
The 1920s and ’30s saw photographers radically renew the conventional understanding of the
classic portrait: their aim was no longer to represent an individual’s personality; instead, they
conceived of the face as material to be staged according to their own ideas. In this, the
photographed face became a locus for dealing with avant-garde aesthetic ideas as well as
interwar-period social developments. And it was thus that modernist experiments, the
relationship between individual and general type, feminist roll-playing, and political
ideologies collided in—and thereby expanded—the general understanding of portrait
photography.
Helmar Lerski Helmar Lerski Marta Astfalck-Vietz
Metamorphosis, 885, 1935–1936 Metamorphosis, 604, 1935–1936 Ohne Titel (Akt mit Spitze), um 1927
The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Foto: Dietmar Katz/Berlinische GalerieALBERTINA Modern
The Beginning
Art in Austria, 1945 to 1980
13 March – 2 August 2020
The opening exhibition of ALBERTINA MODERN, entitled The Beginning. Art in Austria, 1945
to 1980, offers the first-ever comprehensive overview of a period that numbers among
Austrian art history’s most innovative. The Beginning presents the most important artistic
stances situated at the threshold of postmodernism—from the Vienna School of Fantastic
Realism to early abstraction, Viennese Actionism, kinetic and concrete art, Austria’s own
version of pop art, and the socially critical realism so characteristic of Vienna.
Robert Klemmer Günter Brus VALIE EXPORT
Running Klemmer, 1969 Self-Painting II, 1965 Action Pants: Genital Panic, 1969/2001
Mixed media (oil and egg tempera) on canvas B/W photographs by Ludwig Hoffenreich b/w photograph; barita on aluminum
The Ph. Konzett Collection, Vienna from a twenty-part series The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – The
© Estate Robert Klemmer The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – The ESSL ESSL Collection
Collection © Bildrecht, Vienna, 2020
© Günter BrusNow: The Essl Collection
4 September 2020 – 7 February 2021
The autumn/winter season of 2020/2021 at ALBERTINA MODERN is given over to the Essl
Collection.
This marks the first time that an overview of the Essl Collection’s historical depth and
geographical breadth, ranging from American output to artworks from China, has been
presented in Austria’s capital city—with 150 masterpieces created between 1960 and the
present by famous artists ranging from Antoni Tàpies to Erwin Wurm, Maria Lassnig, and
Georg Baselitz, and from Alex Katz and Per Kirkeby to Fang Lijun, Annette Messager, Andreas
Gursky, and Nam June Paik.
The selected paintings, sculptures, objects, installations, and videos simultaneously provide
an impression of the great diversity of media covered by the Essl Collection, which has been
held by the ALBERTINA Museum since 2017 and now forms the backbone of the museum’s
modern and contemporary art holdings.
This exhibition places the most influential and important Austrian artists in dialog with
pivotal international artistic stances of the present era and their foremost proponents.
Tony Cragg Gilbert & George Tony Oursler
Spyrogyra, 1992 Blood and Tears, 1997 Give it back, 1995
Sandgestrahlte Flaschen auf Mischtechnik Installation mit Videoprojektion,
Stahlkonstruktion The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – The ESSL Collection Farbe, Ton
The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – Foto: Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Paris – Salzburg The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna
The ESSL Collection © Gilbert & George – The ESSL Collection
Foto: Galerie Academia, Salzburg © Foto: Franz Schachinger, Wien
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