TBA21—Augarten’s third exhibition is a prelude to an ongoing collaboration with the Icelandic artist and performer Ragnar Kjartansson. The Visitors presents his celebrated nine-channel video installation, which premiered in 2012, together with the video The Man (2010), a portrait of the American blues legend Pinetop Perkins. Both works are part of TBA21’s collection of contemporary art. The exhibition will be followed by a newly commissioned performative production in 2014, centering on the novel World Light by Halldór Laxness (1937-1940).> >
DURATION: March 8 - June 16, 2013
LOCATION: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary,
TBA21–Augarten, Scherzergasse 1A,
1020 Vienna, Austria
Words by Ásdís Sif Gunnarsdóttir, score by Kjartan Sveinsson, Davíð Þór Jónsson
Repetition, circularity and the experimentation with musical canons are the artistic signature of Ragnar Kjartansson. The elegiac and mysterious quality of the human voice in the process of tiring, exhaustion and erosion, in a state of solipsism or polyphony, consonance or cacophony, modulate his durational performance pieces to the dialogue between the performer's inner voice and his capacity for declamation to an audience.> >
DURATION: March 7, 2013
LOCATION: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary,
TBA21–Augarten, Scherzergasse 1A,
1020 Vienna, Austria
In November 2011 the Belvedere Museum announced their institutional collaboration with the TBA21 foundation for a renewable period of four years. Augarten Contemporary, as the space was called under the curatorship of the Belvedere, became TBA21's new exhibition venue. Upon a closer inspection of the site it became obvious that the history of the spaces, too, needed investigation. Prior to the ten years of presenting contemporary art under the curatorship of the Belvedere, the premises had been devoted entirely to the exhibition of a single artist’s works, namely to the work of Gustinus Ambrosi (1893–1975). One part of the building complex is still dedicated to a strictly monographic presentation of his art.> >
LOCATION: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary,
TBA21–Augarten, Scherzergasse 1A,
1020 Vienna, Austria
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary and the Belvedere are pleased to announce their institutional collaboration for a renewable period of four years, starting on May 29, 2012. The aim of the collaboration is to expand the programming of Augarten Contemporary under the leadership of TBA21 and to engage in shared cultural activities to spark the appreciation of contemporary art in Vienna and within an international context. The collaboration proposes a model for a mutually beneficial partnership between a public museum and a private foundation.> >
