Marina Abramovic
The Artist Is Present
The feature-length documentary film MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ THE ARTIST IS PRESENT, co-produced by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary and premiered at Sundance Festival and Berlinale, takes us inside Marina Abramovic’s world as she prepares her major retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.> >
DURATION: February 9 - February 19, 2012
LOCATION: Berlinale, Berlin
Christoph Schlingensief
Animatograph-Iceland-Edition
The exhibition Christoph Schlingensief: Fear at the Core of Things at BAK Utrecht showcases the Animatograph-Iceland-Edition. (House of Parliament/House of Obsession) Destroy Thingvellir, 2005 by Christoph Schlingensief, a work from the collection of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. The Animatograph is a many-faceted installation that refigures the gaze as an all-seeing eye, providing both a metaphor for a universal ur-narration and an apparatus for its navigation.> >
DURATION: February 5 - April 29, 2012
LOCATION: BAK basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller
Murder of Crows
Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki presents The Murder of Crows, a work by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller from the collection of 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.> >
DURATION: February 17 - May 20, 2012
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.> >
The Morning Line - Vienna
Schwarzenbergplatz, Vienna
T-B A21 presents its most ambitious public project to date in Vienna. A platform for contemporary music and composition, The Morning Line by Matthew Ritchie with Aranda\Lasch and Arup AGU is a public art structure – 8 meter high and 20 meter long, built of 20 tons of coated aluminum.
27 sound artists have contributed compositions, specially conceived for the pavilion’s architecture, which filled the sonic landscape of Schwarzenbergplatz during the pavilion’s first 6 months’ residency.
Over the coming winter months, The Morning Line will be shown without its sound component, getting ready for a new season of compositions in Spring 2012.> >
DURATION: June 7, 2011 - June 1, 2012
LOCATION: Schwarzenbergplatz, Vienna
