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EXHIBITIONS 2020

BEETHOVEN MOVES
March 25 – July 5, 2020

SUSANNA FRITSCHER AT THE THESEUS TEMPLE
April – October 2020

TITIAN‘S VISION OF WOMEN:
BEAUTY – LOVE – POETRY
October 13, 2020 – February 7, 2021

EXHIBITIONS ABROAD

NATURA IN POSA
November 30, 2019 – Mai 31, 2020
Museo di Santa Caterina, Treviso
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MARCH 25 –        BEETHOVEN MOVES
JULY 5, 2020
                  In the spring of 2020, the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, in
PICTURE GALLERY
                  cooperation with the Archive of the Gesellschaft der
                  Musikfreunde in Vienna, will present an unusual homage to
                  Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), the great representative of
                  the First Viennese School. Beethoven’s popularity remains
                  unbroken, even 250 years after his birth. Beyond the music, his
                  humanistic messages have influenced the history of art and
                  culture. His early deafness shaped his image as a tragic genius.
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Beethoven’s universal and unique reception, the epochal
significance of his music but also the perception of his deified
persona, create numerous points of entry; high and popular
culture, commerce and politics all form an inexhaustible reserve
of inspiration and appropriation.

The exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum brings together
paintings by Caspar David Friedrich, sketchbooks by William
Turner, graphic works by Francisco de Goya and Jorinde Voigt,
sculptures by Auguste Rodin, Rebecca Horn and John Baldessari,
a video by Guido van der Werve and a new work developed for
the exhibition by Tino Sehgal, all of which are brought into
dialogue with the music and persona of Beethoven. The exhibition
will thus build a bridge to the present by presenting a poetic
reflection of the composer and his work: masterpieces of fine art
form connections with music and silence.

The expressive power of Beethoven’s sound is thus vividly given
shape. His music will not only be heard but also seen.

The elaborately staged exhibition will not present any artworks
from the Kunsthistorisches Museum's collection. However, it is
shown in the Picture Gallery in the context of the art and culture
of many centuries; hundreds of works that precede Beethoven’s
lifetime and in some ways also lead up to it.

Beethoven is one of the great influential figures in the history of
music and culture, not only in Vienna but also internationally. As
the largest museum in Austria, the Kunsthistorisches Museum
would therefore like to address the anniversary of his 250th
birthday.

Museums are treasure houses, part of the cultural consciousness
and tourist magnets but beyond that, they are also discursive
spaces for reflection and confrontation, laboratories for fantasy
and the connection of ideas – these aspects will become
particularly clear in this exhibition project curated by Andreas
Kugler, Jasper Sharp, Stefan Weppelmann and Andreas
Zimmermann.
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APRIL – OCTOBER   SUSANNA FRITSCHER AT THE THESEUS TEMPLE
2020
                  The Kunsthistorisches Museum will present a single, major work
                  by the artist Susanna Fritscher (born 1960 in Vienna, Austria)
                  within the Theseus Temple during the spring and summer of 2020.

                  In 2012, the museum began a new series of exhibitions within the
                  Temple, a neo-classical structure built by court architect Peter von
                  Nobile in 1823 to be the home for a single work of then-
                  contemporary art: Antonio Canova's white marble masterpiece
                  Theseus Slaying the Centaur. For almost seventy years this
                  artwork stood alone inside the building, until in 1891 it was
                  moved to the newly-completed Kunsthistorisches Museum where
                  it still stands today. More than a century later, these exhibitions
                  have returned the Temple to its original purpose: to house
                  remarkable artworks by contemporary artists, one at a time.
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OCTOBER 13, 2020 -   TITIAN‘S VISION OF WOMEN:
FEBRUARY 7, 2021     BEAUTY – LOVE – POETRY
                     With the help of sixty paintings on loan from international
PICTURE GALLERY
                     collections, this year’s Old Master exhibition examines how
                     women are depicted in the work of Titian (Pieve di Cadore c.
                     1488-1576, Venice) and his contemporaries Jacopo Tintoretto,
                     Paolo Veronese, Paris Bordone and Lorenzo Lotto.

                     There are numerous reasons for the prominence of women in
                     Venetian sixteenth-century painting, among them the socio-
                     political structure of the Serene Republic which accorded them
                     special rights regarding their dowry and ability to inherit, and the
                     city’s culturally progressive and cosmopolitan climate: influential
                     publishing houses attracted renowned poets and humanists –
                     among them Pietro Bembo, Sperone Speroni and Ludovico Dolce
                     – who celebrated the fairer sex and love in their writings. But the
                     crucial impulse for the visual implementation of this idea came
                     from Titian, the Serenissima’s most illustrious painter. His
                     pioneering compositions would influence and inform European
                     painting for centuries to come.

                     The exhibition traces the many facets of this fascinating subject
                     and identifies, examines and interprets the various gestures,
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glances and attributes. Love and desire play a role in both real and
idealized portraits inspired by poetic adaptations, in historical,
mythological and allegorical depictions. We also analyze the
function of contemporary fashion, coiffure and precious
goldsmith work in these portraits. The period’s wealth of treatises
and love poetry offer a solid base for new readings of these unique
portrayals of women.

Curated by Sylvia Ferino-Pagden, the exhibition opens at the
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna in October 2020 before
moving to the Palazzo Reale in Mailand in February 2021.
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EXHIBITIONS ABROAD

NOVEMBER 30, 2019 -   NATURA IN POSA
MAY 31, 2020          Masterpieces from the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna,
                      in Dialogue with Contemporary Photography

MUSEO DI SANTA        The exhibition “Natura in Posa. Masterpieces from the
CATERINA, TREVISO     Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna in Dialogue with
                      Contemporary Photography” is a collaboration between the city
                      of Treviso, the Civita Tre Venezia, and the Kunsthistorisches
                      Museum Vienna. The show documents the evolution of still-life
                      painting in Europe from its beginnings in the late-sixteenth and
                      seventeenth century. Around fifty masterpieces selected from the
                      Picture Gallery of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna – works
                      by artists including Francesco Bassano, Jan Brueghel, Pieter
                      Claesz, Willem Claesz Heda, Jan Weenix, Gerard Dou, Evaristo
                      Baschenis, Gasparo Lopez dei Fiori and Elisabetta Marchioni –
                      are augmented by important loans from Veneto museums and
                      take visitors on a fascinating journey through market scenes,
                      bouquets, vanitas allegories and breakfast still-lifes.

                      A second section, curated by Denis Curti, looks at contemporary
                      photography, documenting that still-lifes play a seminal role in the
                      oeuvres of artists such as David LaChapelle, Martin Parr, Robert
                      Mapplethorpe, Nobuyoshi Araki, Franco Vimercati, and Hans Op
                      De Beeck.
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TALKS AND LECTURES   MODERN & CONTEMPORARY TALKS

                     The Kunsthistorisches Museum has been inviting leading figures
                     from the world of Modern and Contemporary art to spend time at
                     the museum and speak publicly about their responses to it.

                     For regular updates and more information on upcoming events go
                     to https://www.khm.at/en/visit/modern-contemporary-art/talks/

                     IN CONVERSATION WITH OLD MASTERS

                     Our series “In Conversation with Old Masters” offers lectures by
                     international experts followed by a panel discussion on
                     fascinating aspects of the Kunsthistorisches Museum collections
                     and special exhibitions. These entertaining talks designed for the
                     general public present contemporary research and thus new ways
                     of seeing Old Masters.

#KUNSTSCHATZI
                     COCKTAILBAR & DJ-LINEUP IN THE CUPOLA HALL
                     In the spring of 2016 we began to turn the Cupola Hall into a
                     spectacular cocktail bar once a month – complete with cool
                     sounds, interesting guided tours and delicious drinks. For each
                     event barkeeper Tom Sipos creates a delectable cocktail to reflect
                     the evening’s motto, and hip DJs choose and play suitable music.
                     On Kunstschatzi evenings we also offer guided tours of the
                     highlights of the Kunsthistorisches Museum.

                     7pm – 11pm in the Cupola Hall

                     For regular updates and more information on upcoming events
                     go to https://www.khm.at/kunstschatzi
PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS

                    John Baldessari (born 1931)
                    Beethoven's Trumpet (with Ear) Opus # 133, 2007
                    Photo: Timo Ohler
                    © John Baldessari; Courtesy of the artist, Sprüth Magers
                    and Beyer Projects

                    Guido van der Werve (born 1977)
                    Nummer acht, everything is going to be alright, 2007
                    Gulf of Bothnia FI, 2007
                    16mm to HD
                    Edition of 7 and 2 artist's proofs
                    Duration: 10:10 minutes
                    © Guido van der Werve;
                    Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York

                    Titian (1488 – 1567)
                    Nymph and Shepherd
                    c. 1570/75
                    © KHM-Museumsverband
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