Amar Kanwar: The Torn First Pages
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary presents The Torn First Pages
at Haus der Kunst in Munich and at T-B A21 Vienna
A project by Amar Kanwar, co-commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Amar Kanwar, The Torn First Pages
Still from: The Face, 2005
Belong to Part 1 of The Torn First pages 2008
(6 channel video installation, colour, sound)
Courtesy: Amar Kanwar and Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris
© Katrin Guntershausen
Amar Kanwar, The Torn First Pages
Still from The Bodhi Tree, 2005
Belong to Part 1 of The Torn First pages 2008 (6 channel video installation, Colour, Sound)
Courtesy: Amar Kanwar et Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris
© Katrin Guntershausen
Amar Kanwar, The Torn First Pages
Still from Thet Win Aung, 2005
Belong to Part 1 of The Torn First pages 2008 (6 channel video installation, Colour, Sound)
Courtesy: Amar Kanwar and Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris
© Amar Kanwar
Amar Kanwar: The Torn First Pages
Haus der Kunst, Munich
Press Conference: 7th October 2008 (tbc)
Opening: 7th October 2008
Duration: 8th October 2008 - 9th November 2008
Amar Kanwar: The Torn First Pages
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
Opening: 19th November 2008
Duration: 20th November 2008 - 9th January 2009
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Matthew Ritchie: THE MORNING LINE
Commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Architecture in collaboration with Aranda/Lasch & Arup AGU
Cosmology/Science in collaboration with Paul J. Steinhardt and Neil Turok
Music in collaboration with Florian Hecker, Bryce Dessner, Thom Willems, Luke Dubois and David Sheppard
Animation & programming in collaboration with Nick Roth, James Case, Luke Dubois & M R C York
LAUNCH on 2nd October 2008 at: YOUniverse, 3rd Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla
PREVIEW at: Out There. Architecture Beyond Building. 11th International Architecture Biennal Venice*
*The foundation's first anti-pavilion will be introduced in an abstract model-like presentation called THE EVENING LINE as part of its bigger structure, The Morning Line
Matthew Ritchie, Aranda/Lasch and Arup AGU
The Morning Line, 2008
perspective drawings
Matthew Ritchie Studio
Matthew Ritchie, Aranda/Lasch and Arup AGU
The Morning Line, 2008
perspective drawings
Matthew Ritchie Studio
Preview: 10th - 13th September 2008
Press conference: 11th September 2008
Duration: 14th September - 23rd November 2008
Location The Evening Line: Corderie dell’Arsenale (Castello 2169/f)
3rd Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla:
Press conference: 1st October 2008
Duration: 2nd October 2008 - 11th January 2009
Location The Morning Line: Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo
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François Roche/Stéphanie Lavaux, R&Sie(n): The Garden of Earthly Delights
11th Architecture Biennial, Venice
Also on the occassion of the Biennial Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
introduces its third pavilion project The Garden of Earthly Delights
11th Architecture Exhibition Venice
Duration: 14th September - 23rd November 2008
Location: Italian Pavilion
The Way Things Are...Works from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection
Centre of Contemporary Art Torun, Poland
Julian Rosefeldt
asylum, 2001/02
9-channel film installation
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Photo: Courtesy of the artist
Andreas Siekman
Die Exklusive auf dem Plattenspieler, 2004
Model on a record player, wood, plastic, paper
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Photo: Jens Ziehe / Courtesy of Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkácová
After the Order, 2006
Photoprint
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Photo: Courtesy of the artists
Centre of Contemporary Art Torun
Duration: 14th June - 31st October 2008
Daily film program True [Hi]stories of Work
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Olafur Eliasson / David Adjaye Your black horizon Art Pavilion
open for another season: 1st May - 31st October 2008
Lopud Island, Croatia
Olafur Eliasson / David Adjaye
Your black horizon Art Pavilion, Lopud, Croatia, 2007
Photo: Michael Strasser / Thyssen-Bornemisza
Art Contemporary
Olafur Eliasson / David Adjaye
Your black horizon Art Pavilion, Lopud, Croatia, 2007
Photo: Michael Strasser / Thyssen-Bornemisza
Art Contemporary
Olafur Eliasson / David Adjaye
Your black horizon Art Pavilion, Lopud, Croatia, 2007
Photo: Michael Strasser / Thyssen-Bornemisza
Art Contemporary
Olafur Eliasson / David Adjaye
Your black horizon Art Pavilion
Installation view, Your black horizon, Lopud, Croatia, 2007
Photo: Michael Strasser / Thyssen-Bornemisza
Art Contemporary
Olafur Eliasson / David Adjaye
Your black horizon Art Pavilion
Installation view, Your black horizon, Lopud, Croatia, 2007
Photo: Michael Strasser / Thyssen-Bornemisza
Art Contemporary
Olafur Eliasson / David Adjaye
Your black horizon Art Pavilion
Installation view, Your black horizon, Lopud, Croatia, 2007
Photo: Michael Strasser / Thyssen-Bornemisza
Art Contemporary
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. Collection as Aleph.
Chapter 2
Kunsthaus Graz
Fiona Banner
All the World's Fighter Planes, 2004
Wall drawing
Installation view: Thyssen-Bornemisza
Art Contemporary. Collection as Aleph, Kunsthaus Graz, 2008
Photo: Niki Lackner / Landesmuseum Joanneum
Isa Genzken
empire vampire III, 19, 2004
Plastic, metal, glass, fabric, lacquer, paper and wood
Photo: Jens Ziehe, Berlin
Olaf Nicolai
Rodakis, 2007
Single-channel video installation
Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Galerie EIGEN+ART, Leipzig / Berlin
Kunsthaus Graz, Space02
6th March 2008 - 26th October 2008
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. Collection as Aleph
Chapter 1
Kunsthaus Graz
Carsten Höller
Y, 2003
960 lightbulbs, aluminium, wood, cables, electronic circuitry, light signs, mirrors
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Installation view: Delays and Revolutions, 50th Venice Biennale, 2003
Photo: Attilio Maranzano / 50th Venice Biennale, 2003
Sarah Lucas
Bunny Gets Snookered #3, 1997
Tan tights, green stockings, red office chair, clamp, kapok and wire
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Photo: Courtesy of Sadie Coles HQ, London
A collaboration with Kunsthaus Graz.
Curated by Adam Budak and Daniela Zyman.
Kunsthaus Graz, Space02
Duration: 6th March 2008 - 26th October 2008
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Other than Yourself. An Investigation between Inner and Outer Space.
Vienna
Cindy Sherman
Untitled Film Still, 1979
Gelatin silver print
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York
Mario García Torres
Carta Abierta a Dr. Atl (Open Letter to Dr. Atl), 2005
Single-channel video projection (Super 8 Ektachrome film transferred to video)
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Photo: Courtesy of the artist
Hans Schabus
Western, 2002
Single-channel video projection
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna
Salla Tykkä
Pain, Pleasure, Guilt, 2000
C-print
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Yvon Lambert, Paris / New York
Pipilotti Rist
Related Legs (Yokohama Dandelions), 2001
audio-video installation
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Credits: Installation view: ein-leuchten, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna / Museum der Moderne Rupertinum, Salzburg, 2004
Photo: Andrew Phelps / Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth Zürich London
Paul McCarthy
Basement Bunker: Painted Queen Small Blue Room, 2003
C-print on aluminium
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Photo: Courtesy of the artist / Hauser & Wirth, London / Zurich
8th February - 21st September 2008
Lecture: Amar Kanwar The Lightning Testimonies
Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 6pm
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Francesca von Habsburg
Photographer: Luc Castel
Francesca von Habsburg, 2008
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Foto: Luc Castel
Francesca von Habsburg
Photographer: JB Mondino
Francesca von Habsburg, 2007
Published in New York Times Magazine, March 2007
Stylist: Jerry Stafford
Hair and make-up: Tina Rovainen @ Airport
Set builder: Daniel Adric
Foto: JB Mondino