CHRISTOPH SCHLINGENSIEF: Fear at the Core of Things

BAK Utrecht presents in cooperation with Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
"The Animatograph - Iceland-Edition. (House of Parliament/House of Obsession)
Destroy Thingvellir"

In cooperation with T-B A21, BAK Utrecht presents one of the most representative works of the artistic oeuvre of the theatre director, filmmaker, author, and artist Christoph Schlingensief (1960-2010) - The Animatograph - Iceland-Edition. (House of Parliament/House of Obsession) Destroy Thingvellir from the collection of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary.

“Christoph Schlingensief - Fear at the Core of Things”, curated by Kathrin Rhomberg, is the first solo exhibition of the artist in a Dutch museum. Apart from the central complex multimedia-installation The Animatograph - Iceland-Edition, the exhibition also presents the project Ausländer raus—Bitte liebt Österreich [Foreigners out—Please love Austria], 2000, reconstructed by research documents; and the film Das deutsche Kettensägenmassaker [The German Chainsaw Massacre], 1990.

Christoph Schlingensief
Animatograph - Iceland-Edition. (House of Parliament / House of Obsession) Destroy Thingvellir, 2005
Installation view: T-B A21, Vienna
Photo: Michael Strasser

Opening: Saturday, 4 February 2012, 4 pm
Exhibition: 5 February 2012 – 29 April 2012

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European Premiere of Marina Abramović The Artist is Present

at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival

The documentary Marina Abramović The Artist is Present, directed by Matthew Akers and co-produced by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, offers an exclusive behind-the-scenes portrait of Marina Abramović, one of most compelling and challenging artists of our time, a founder of the performance art movement and radical female performer since the 1970s. The narrative spine of the film is the mounting of the eponymous retrospective and its three-month exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, in 2010. The show’s centerpiece consisted of a new and engaging simple performance: for the entire three months from March to May during the opening hours of the museum, Marina Abramović would be present to perform her new endurance piece. Members of the vast audience of 700.000 visitors to the show were invited to join the artist, one at a time, at the opposite end of a table.

Marina Abramović The Artist is Present
HBO Documentary Films 2012, USA, 105 Min. Directed by Matthew Akers Filmstill Co-produced by T-B A21
David Smoler

Marina Abramović The Artist is Present
HBO Documentary Films 2012, USA, 105 Min. Directed by Matthew Akers Filmstill Co-produced by T-B A21
Jeff Dupre

Marina Abramović The Artist is Present
HBO Documentary Films 2012, USA, 105 Min. Directed by Matthew Akers Filmstill Co-produced by T-B A21
Ulay

62nd INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL BERLIN
February 09 –19, 2012

EUROPEAN PREMIERE
February 11, 2012, 05:00 pm: Cinema International, Karl-Marx Allee 33, 10178 Berlin

FURTHER SCREENINGS
February 12, 2012, 12:00 am: CineStar 7; Potsdamer Strasse 4, 10785 Berlin
February 18, 2012, 05:00 pm: Cine Star 7, Potsdamer Strasse 4, 10785 Berlin
February 19, 2012, 02.30 pm: Colosseum 1, Schönhauser Allee 123, 10437 Berlin

ACCREDITATION
www.berlinale.de

MORE ABOUT THE FILM
www.marinafilm.com

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T-B A21 announces new collaboration with Belvedere

Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary and the Belvedere are pleased to announce their institutional collaboration for a renewable period of three years, beginning in the spring of 2012. The aim of the collaboration is to expand the programming of Augarten Contemporary under the leadership of T-B A21 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.

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The Morning Line
Matthew Ritchie with Aranda\Lasch and Arup AGU

Vienna

Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary launched The Morning Line in Vienna, the homebase of the foundation, with a four-day Sound Festival kicking off the pavilion's six-month residency on Schwarzenbergplatz.