A Question of Evidence
T-B A21, Vienna
Amar Kanwar, The Torn First Pages
Videostill from Ma Win Maw Oo, 2005
The Torn First Pages, Part I, 2004-08
(19-channel video installation)
Co-commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary and Public Press, New Delhi
Courtesy: Amar Kanwar and Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris
Gonkar Gyatso
My Identity, 2003
4 photographs
Courtesy of Fabio Rossi, London
Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Rossi & Rossi Ltd., London
Pak Sheung Chuen
A Present to the Central Government, 2005
Video projection and TV interview
Courtesy of the artist
Photo: Ma Chi Hang
Opening: November 19, 2008
Duration: November 20, 2008 - April 5, 2009
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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 and Public Press, New Delhi
Amar Kanwar, The Torn First Pages
Still from: The Face, 2005
Belongs 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
Still from The Bodhi Tree, 2005
Belongs 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
Belongs 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 Preview: October 7, 2008, 3 pm - 5 pm
Opening: October 7, 2008, 7 pm
Duration: October 8 - November 9, 2008
A Question of Evidence
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
Opening: November 19, 2008
Duration: November 20, 2008 - April 5, 2009
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Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller – The Murder of Crows
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller
The Murder of Crows, 2008
Mixed Media Sound Installation
Commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Exhibition view at Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin 2009
Photo: Roman März
© Courtesy the artists, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Luhring
Augustine, New York
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller
The Murder of Crows, 2008
Mixed Media Sound Installation
Commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Exhibition view at Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin 2009
Photo: Roman März
© Courtesy the artists, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Luhring
Augustine, New York
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller
The Murder of Crows, 2008
Mixed Media Sound Installation
Commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Exhibition view at Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin 2009
Photo: Roman März
© Courtesy the artists, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Luhring
Augustine, New York
Press preview: Thursday, March 12, 2009, 11:00 am
Opening: Friday, March 13, 2009, 8:00 pm
Duration of exhibition: March 14 – May 17, 2009
Location: Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof
Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin / Historical Hall,
Invalidenstr. 50-51, D-10557 Berlin
A project by Freunde Guter Musik Berlin e.V.
Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin
and Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
as part of the series of “Works of Music by Visual Artists”
In collaboration with MaerzMusik 2009 | Berliner Festspiele.
Curated by Ingrid Buschmann und Gabriele Knapstein
The Murder of Crows is commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary .
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The Kaleidoscopic Eye
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art
Contemporary Collection
An exhibition presented by the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Los Carpinteros
Frío Estudio del Desastre, 2005
Cinder blocks, concrete, fishing nylon
Courtesy of Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
Matthew Ritchie
The Family Farm, 2001
Mixed media installation
Installation view: Nature Attitudes, Thyssen-Bornemisza
Art Contemporary, Vienna, 2006
Photo: Michael Strasser / T-B A21
Cerith Wyn Evans
One evening late in the war… and Untitled, 2008
Mauve neon, steal hanging construction /
4 multiple flourescent tubes, wood
Installation view: Cerith Wyn Evans, Galerie Neu, Berlin
Courtesy of the artist / Galerie Neu, Berlin
Spurned and trampled: Human rights in China
April 28th, 2009, 7 pm
Ritu Sarin / Tenzing Sonam
The Dalai Lama: 50 Years After the Fall of Tibet
2009
Filmstill Courtesy of the artists
Ritu Sarin / Tenzing Sonam
The Dalai Lama: 50 Years After the Fall of Tibet
2009
Photo: Jaimie Gramston / Courtesy of the artists
Ritu Sarin / Tenzing Sonam
The Dalai Lama: 50 Years After the Fall of Tibet
2009
Filmstill Courtesy of the artists
Stadtkino, Schwarzenbergplatz 7-8, 1030 Vienna
The panel discussion will be held in English, free admission
Cornelia Vospernik, ORF correspondent in Beijing
Manfred Nowak, UN Commission on Human Rights, Special Rapporteur on Torture
Ming Shi, journalist, author and expert on China
Ritu Sarin und Tenzing Sonam, Indian filmmaker and exile Tibetan filmmaker
Moderated by Rubina Möhring, president of the Austrian division of Reporters Without Borders
Introduction by Francesca von Habsburg, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
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Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary at the 53rd International Art Exhibition
La Biennale di Venezia
No night No day, an abstract opera by Cerith Wyn Evans and Florian Hecker
The Ethics of Dust: Doge’s Palace, Venice, 2009 by Jorge Otero-Pailos
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary is contributing two new provocative works to the 53rd International Art Exhibition Fare Mondi // Making Worlds, La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Daniel Birnbaum. No night No day, an abstract opera by Cerith Wyn Evans and Florian Hecker is performed “off site” on three nights only (June 4–6) at the Teatro Goldoni and The Ethics of Dust: Doge’s Palace, Venice, 2009 by Jorge Otero-Pailos is installed in the Corderie in the Arsenale. A one-day symposium The Last Temptation of the Contemporary. Art/Architecture Experimentation with Heritage at Istituto Veneto contextualizes the projects within today’s discussions on architecture, preservation and art.
Cerith Wyn Evans and Florian Hecker
No night No day
Produced by Thyssen-Bornemizsa Art Contemporary
Photo: Courtesy of Cerith Wyn Evans
Cerith Wyn Evans and Florian Hecker
No night No day
Produced by Thyssen-Bornemizsa Art Contemporary
Photo: Courtesy of Cerith Wyn Evans
Cerith Wyn Evans and Florian Hecker
No night No day
Produced by Thyssen-Bornemizsa Art Contemporary
Photo: Courtesy of Cerith Wyn Evans
Jorge Otero-Palos
The Ethics of Dust: Doge’s Palace, Venice, 2009
Exhibition view Fare Mondi // Making Worlds
53rd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
Produced by Thyssen-Bornemizsa Art Contemporary
Photo: Courtesy of Jorge Otero-Pailos
Jorge Otero-Palos
The Ethics of Dust: Doge’s Palace, Venice, 2009
Produced by Thyssen-Bornemizsa Art Contemporary
The original wall in the Doge’s Palace, Venice, after cleaning
Photo: Courtesy of Jorge Otero-Pailos
Jorge Otero-Palos
The Ethics of Dust: Doge’s Palace, Venice, 2009
Produced by Thyssen-Bornemizsa Art Contemporary
Process documentation
Photos: Courtesy of Michele Nastasi
Cerith Wyn Evans and Florian Hecker: No night No day
Location Teatro Goldoni, San Marco 4650B, Calle Goldoni, Venice
Gala premiere Thursday, 4 June 2009, at 8:00 pm
Additional performances: Friday, 5 June and Saturday, 6 June, at 8:00 pm and 10:00 pm
free admission (limited to Biennale preview-card holders and subject to seat availability)
Symposium
The Last Temptation of the Contemporary. Art/Architecture Experimentation with Heritage
Location Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Palazzo Franchetti, Sala del Portego, S. Marco 2847 / Campo S. Stefano, Venice
Date Saturday, 6 June 2009, 4:00 pm, free admission
PRESS MEETINGS
4 June 2009, 2:00 pm–4:00 pm
Jorge Otero-Pailos and Francesca von Habsburg will be available for questions at the installationThe Ethics of Dustin the Corderie.
5 June 2009, 8:40 pm–10:00 pm
Cerith Wyn Evans and Florian Hecker will introduce No night No day at the Teatro Goldoni and will be available together with Francesca von Habsburg for questions.
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Transitory Objects
Vienna
Alisa Andrasek / BIOTHING
Mesonic Emission/Seroussi Pavilion Paris, 2007
2 SLS (Selective Laser Sintering) models
Courtesy of the architect
Photo: Courtesy of the architect
David Maljković
Retired Compositions, 2008
Collage on paper
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Photo: Courtesy of Metro Pictures, New York
Greg Lynn
Blobwall©, 2007
Low-density, recyclable and impact-resistant polymer
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Photo: Courtesy of Phillips de Pury & Company
Opening: July 2, 2009
Duration: July 3, 2009 - March 21, 2010
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Your black horizon Art Pavilion
David Adjaye / Olafur Eliasson /
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Lopud, Croatia
Your black horizon Art Pavilion in Lopud, Croatia, 2007
Photos: Michael Strasser / Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary