In cooperation with TBA21, 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: BAK Utrecht, 2012
Photo: Victor Nieuwenhuijs
Christoph Schlingensief
Animatograph - Iceland-Edition. (House of Parliament / House of Obsession) Destroy Thingvellir, 2005
Installation view: BAK Utrecht, 2012
Photo: Victor Nieuwenhuijs
Christoph Schlingensief
Animatograph - Iceland-Edition. (House of Parliament / House of Obsession) Destroy Thingvellir, 2005
Installation view: BAK Utrecht, 2012
Photo: Victor Nieuwenhuijs
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Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki presents The Murder of Crows, a work by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller which has been commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary.
An astounding, 30-minute long, this 98-speaker artwork that envelops the viewer/ listener, it is the artists' largest installation to date and continues their explorations into the experience of the sculptural and physical qualities of sound.
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller
The Murder of Crows, 2008
Installation view: Kiasma, Helsinki, 2012
Photo: Finnish National Gallery/Central Art Archives/Petri Virtanen
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller
The Murder of Crows, 2008
Installation view: Kiasma, Helsinki, 2012
Photo: Finnish National Gallery/Central Art Archives/Petri Virtanen
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller
The Murder of Crows, 2008
Installation view: Kiasma, Helsinki, 2012
Photo: Finnish National Gallery/Central Art Archives/Petri Virtanen
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Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary is celebrating the foundation's relocation to Vienna's Augarten park with the inaugural exhibition Simon Starling in collaboration with SUPERFLEX – Reprototypes, Triangulations and Road Tests which showcases seminal artworks from TBA21’s renowned collection of contemporary art and several new works presented for the first time in Vienna.
In addition, the performance series Ephemeropterae˜ explores the rich traditions and innovations in the arena of the spoken (and sung) word – storytelling, lyrics, poetry, and music – concentrating on ephemeral forms of presentations. Throughout the summer, the series transforms the garden into a vibrant stage for art and hospitality.
TBA21 Augarten
Photo: Hertha Hurnaus / TBA21, 2012
Simon Starling
Three Birds, Seven Stories, Interpolation and Bifurcations, 2007/2008
Installation view: Simon Starling in collaboration with Superflex – Reprototypes, Triangulations and Road Tests, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary – Augarten, 2012
Photo: Jens Ziehe / TBA21, 2012
Simon Starling
Prouvé (Road Test), 2012
Installation view: Simon Starling in collaboration with Superflex – Reprototypes, Triangulations and Road Tests, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary - Augarten, 2012
Photo: Jens Ziehe / TBA21, 2012
Gustinus Ambrosi
Model of Maiden with Cow
Untitled, 1942
Photo: Belvedere, Wien
Simon Starling
Venus Mirrors (05/06/12, Hawaii & Tahiti (Inverted)), 2012
Two drilled 600mm telescope mirrors, stands
Photo: Courtesy of the artist, 2012
Simon Starling
Exposition, 2004
Installation view: Simon Starling in collaboration with Superflex – Reprototypes, Triangulations and Road Tests, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary - Augarten, 2012
Photo: Jens Ziehe / TBA21, 2012
SUPERFLEX
Kuh, 2012
Exhibition: Simon Starling in collaboration with Superflex – Reprototypes, Triangualtions and Road Tests, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary – Augarten, 2012
Photo: Jakob Polacsek / TBA21, 2012
David Adjaye
Ephereropterae˜ Pavilion, 2012
Photo: Jakob Polascek / TBA21, 2012
Ephereropterae˜
Spoken Word Performance Series, 2012
Pavilion by David Adjaye
Photo: TBA21, 2012
SIMON STARLING IN COLLABORATION WITH SUPERFLEX
Reprototypes, Triangulations and Road Tests
Exhibition: May 30 – September 23, 2012
EPHEMEROPTERAE˜
(Performer, Audience, Word, Spoken, Garden, Friday, Evening)
Performance series at Augarten, each Friday from June to September 2012
Performances start at 7 pm and under all weather conditions,
Free admission to all performances,
Garden Party and Picnic with prepared picnic baskets for EUR 9,50 (for two) from 6 pm.
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Simon Starling Exposition ( 4.1 MB )
Simon Starling Three Birds ( 5.6 MB )
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Sharon Lockhart | Noa Eshkol, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary’s upcoming exhibition at its new venue in the Augarten, is a singular encounter with the work of Israeli dance composer, theoretician and artist Noa Eshkol (1924–2007). Since the 1990s Los Angeles based artist Sharon Lockhart (*1964) has developed a film and photography practice dedicated to profound portraiture of the everyday, often focusing on individuals living in marginal communities and recording milieus that are undergoing radical social transformation. Lockhart’s in-depth explorations allow her to discern and distill the day-to-day rhythms and routines of her protagonists.
Sharon Lockhart
Five Dances and Nine Wall Carpets by Noa Eshkol, 2011
5-channel installation
Filmstill: © Sharon Lockhart, 2011 Courtesy the artist, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels, and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles.
Sharon Lockhart
Four Exercises in Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation, 2011
Single-channel installation
Filmstill: © Sharon Lockhart, 2011 Courtesy the artist, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels, and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles.
Sharon Lockhart
Five Dances and Nine Wall Carpets by Noa Eshkol, 2011
5-channel installation
Installation view: SHARON LOCKHART | NOA ESHKOL, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, 2012; Photo by Jens Ziehe / TBA21, 2012.
Noa Eshkol
Village in South Lebanon, 1985
Installation view: SHARON LOCKHART | NOA ESHKOL, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, 2012; Photo by Jens Ziehe / TBA21, 2012.
Sharon Lockhart
Four Exercises in Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation, 2011
Single-channel installation
Installation view: SHARON LOCKHART | NOA ESHKOL, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, 2012; Photo by Jens Ziehe / TBA21, 2012.
Sharon Lockhart
Models of Orbits in the System of Reference, Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation System: Sphere Five at Three Points in Its Rotation, 2011
Three framed chromogenic prints, each: 50 x 39,7 cm
Photo: © Sharon Lockhart, 2011 Courtesy Noa Eshkol Foundation for Movement Notation, Holon, Israel, and neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Photo by Jens Ziehe, Berlin.
Sharon Lockhart
Models of Orbits in the System of Reference, Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation System: Sphere Seven at Three Points in Its Rotation, 2011
Three framed chromogenic prints, each: 50 x 39,7 cm
Photo: © Sharon Lockhart, 2011 Courtesy Noa Eshkol Foundation for Movement Notation, Holon, Israel, and neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Photo by Jens Ziehe, Berlin.
Sharon Lockhart | Noa Eshkol,
Exhibition: November 23 – February 24, 2012
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Five Dances and Nine Wall Carpets by Noa Eshkol, 2011, filmstill JPG ( 3.8 MB )
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On the occasion of dOCUMENTA (13), TBA21 has co-commissioned the following projects by Omer Fast, Amar Kanwar and Walid Raad. Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21) is committed to supporting the production of contemporary art and is actively engaged in commissioning and disseminating unconventional projects that defy traditional disciplinary categorizations.
Amar Kanwar
The Sovereign Forrest, A work in progress since 2010
Mixed-media installation, including films, books and seed
Film stills by the Artist
Omer Fast
Continuity, 2012
Digital film, color, sound
Film stills by Bernhard Keller
Walid Raad
Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Art in the Arab World, 2010-2012
Mixed-media installation, including films, sculptures, prints and sound
Jakob Polacsek / TBA21, 2011
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Amar Kanwar The Sovereign Forrest ( 5.6 MB )
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