TBA21—Augarten’s third exhibition is a prelude to an ongoing collaboration with the Icelandic artist and performer Ragnar Kjartansson. The Visitors presents his celebrated nine-channel video installation, which premiered in 2012, together with the video The Man (2010), a portrait of the American blues legend Pinetop Perkins. Both works are part of TBA21’s collection of contemporary art. The exhibition will be followed by a newly commissioned performative production in 2014, centering on the novel World Light by Halldór Laxness (1937-1940).> >
DURATION: March 8 - June 16, 2013
LOCATION: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary,
TBA21–Augarten, Scherzergasse 1A,
1020 Vienna, Austria
Words by Ásdís Sif Gunnarsdóttir, score by Kjartan Sveinsson, Davíð Þór Jónsson
Repetition, circularity and the experimentation with musical canons are the artistic signature of Ragnar Kjartansson. The elegiac and mysterious quality of the human voice in the process of tiring, exhaustion and erosion, in a state of solipsism or polyphony, consonance or cacophony, modulate his durational performance pieces to the dialogue between the performer's inner voice and his capacity for declamation to an audience.> >
DURATION: March 7, 2013
LOCATION: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary,
TBA21–Augarten, Scherzergasse 1A,
1020 Vienna, Austria
Golden Days (Remedios, Colombia 2012) is a new film by the Swedish artists and filmmakers Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Thomas Nordanstad, commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. It has been entirely shot onsite in Colombia and is part of TBA21's current initiative in Latin America. The film was premiered in Bogotá in January at the National University.> >
The feature-length documentary film Marina Abramović The Artist is Present, co-produced by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, was premiered at Sundance Festival in 2011 and shown at festivals around the world. The film takes us inside Marina Abramović’s world as she prepares her major retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.> >
Our seas and oceans are the most sound rich habitat on the planet. The Oceans are full of the songs and sounds of lives below the surface, which are still relatively unknown to a wider audience. This special research mission of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Foundation to the Silver Bank National Sanctuary off the Dominican Republic coast is to investigate and reveal the complex beauty of this sonic undersea environment in a way that will inform and engage audiences worldwide, whilst delivering a powerful message on our current understanding of this vast space, its inhabitants and the need for its continued conservation.> >
LOCATION: TBA21–Academy
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary presents The Murder of Crows, a work by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller from the foundation's collection at Vandalorum, Värnamo, Sweden. An astounding 30-minute long, this 98-speaker artwork that envelops the viewer/ listener is the artists' largest installation to date and continues their explorations into the experience of the sculptural and physical qualities of sound.> >
DURATION: March 9 - June 2, 2013
LOCATION: Vandalorum, Värnamo, Sweden