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On Friday evenings at 7 pm, from June 14 to September 20, the atmospheric location set within a lush corner of Augarten will turn into a site of hospitality and artistic expression. In 12 ephemeral episodes, the series explores the rich traditions and evanescent articulations of poetry, literature, performance, and language-based artistic practice by protagonists representing a wide generational and cultural range of interpreters. For the opening evening, TBA21 proudly presents the 2013 Jean Burden Poet and recipient of Shelley Memorial Award, Wanda Coleman and Ásdís Sif Gunnarsdóttir, Icelandic artist and poet, whose poem Feminine Ways has been adapted to the song-lyrics to Ragnar Kjartansson´s video installation The Visitors, currently on show at TBA21–Augarten until June 16, 2013. > >
DURATION: June 14 - September 20, 2013
LOCATION: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary,
TBA21–Augarten, Scherzergasse 1A,
1020 Vienna, Austria
Another novelty at the TBA21–Augarten anniversary will be the official launch of AU Café (Scherzergasse 1A, 1020 Vienna). The Café has been opened for an exclusive sneak peak during the opening of Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors. In the meantime, the finishing touches have been added to serve a traditional Viennese Cuisine with a contemporary twist at AU Café.> >
LOCATION: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary,
TBA21 Augarten, Scherzergasse 1A,
1020 Vienna, Austria
The title of TBA21's fourth exhibition at Vienna’s Augarten, The What If?... Scenario (after LG), is irritating and elliptical as most of Cerith Wyn Evans’s inscriptions tend to be. For one, even though it seems to lean toward an anticipated occurrence, it is a reprise. It embraces Liam Gillick’s eponymous London exhibition of 1996, which speculated about a notional and political sense of the future, outlined in Gillick’s now historic proposition: everything might become something else. And what is more, it contains a slightly disturbing oxymoron or at least a contradistinction. The speculative and unpredictable essence contained in the question of "what if?" is reversed by the assumption about what is forthcoming, its prescience, prophesy, or at least as a "story about what happens in the future."> >
DURATION: July 5 - November 3, 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.> >
