Big Picture II (Szenen/Figuren)

April 14, 2012 - January 27, 2013
K21 STÄNDEHAUS

The third installment of Big Picture – an overview of the collection’s large-scale installations – centers around the question: What is presentation? On view in the basement level of K21, designed by Stadler Prenn Architekten Berlin, is a concentrated selection of works which articulate ideas about roles, identity, and the self in contemporary art.

The Window in Art since Matisse and Duchamp

March, 31- August, 12, 2012
K20 GRABBEPLATZ

For centuries, the window has been found among the most favored artistic motifs. The picture of a "room with a view" in which the window marks the threshold between exterior and interior has long fostered reflections on the medium of painting itself.

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Within Reach of Hand or Eye

February 25 - May 28, 2012
K21 STÄNDEHAUS

At the latest since his much-acclaimed work for the Czech and Slovakian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of 2009, Roman Ondák (born 1966, lives in Bratislava) has been regarded as a key figure among younger artists who have taken up and developed the traditions of conceptual, process-oriented, and installation art in strikingly independent ways. 

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DA SIĘ WYTRZYMAĆ
IT’S BEARABLE   

February 03 - June 10, 2012
SCHMELA HAUS

This duo of Polish artist, born respectively 1979 and 1977 in Poznan/Poland, where both still live, have collaborated in particular on literary and musical themes. Typically for their generation, both artists pursue a confrontation with a reality apparently devoid of plan or aim, while at the same time maintaining an existential commitment characterized by philosophical and poetic penetration.

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