Figuration/Abstraction in Austria
This group exhibition presents a selection of figurative and abstract post-war and contemporary austrian artists. It ranges from abstract expressionist works by Hans Staudacher, a large scale museum piece by Jürgen Messensee, last on display at Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna along with Diego Velázquez up to early and rare feminist figurative works as well as later tricolore paintings by Florentina Pakosta and geometric and constructivist artworks by austrian grande dame Hildegard Joos.
Exhibition: March 3 - June 6 2020
Location: Habsburgergasse 5, 1010 Vienna
Artists
Hermann Nitsch | Hildegard Joos | Florentina Pakosta | Hans Staudacher | Wolfgang Herzig | Jürgen Messensee | Kiki Kogelnik | Franz Ringel | Markus Huemer | Georg Salner | Peter Sengl | Heimo Zobernig
Installation views
Works
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Hildegard Joos
Verschiebung, ca. 1972
Acrylic on canvas
150 x 115 cm -
Florentina Pakosta
o.T. (Trikolore), 1995
Acrylic on canvas
94 x 64 cm -
Florentina Pakosta
Winkende Hand I, 1981-2009
Crayon on paper
109 x 84,2 cm -
Florentina Pakosta
Ein Stück blauer Himmel, 1988
Oil on canvas
57 x 73 cm -
Hermann Nitsch
"Wiener Secession" - 20. Malaktion, 1987
Oil, blood, fat on cardboard
90 x 124 cm -
Hermann Nitsch
o.T. (Motiv IV/VI), 2019
Terragraph on canvas
89 x 71 cm
Limited Edition of 48 -
Markus Prachensky
Hong Kong Ramble II, 2000
Acrylic on canvas
155,5 x 115,5 cm -
Hans Staudacher
o.T., 1986
Acrylic on canvas
120 x 100 cm -
Hans Staudacher
o.T., 1987
Acrylic on canvas
120 x 100 cm -
Kiki Kogelnik
New York Heads, 1994
Mixed media on paper
80 x 120 cm -
Franz Ringel
Selbstportrait, 1986
Oil, crayon, pencil, pastel on paper
100 x 69,5 cm -
Georg Salner
typ.log 36 EXP No. 22, 2007
Oil on canvas
180 x 130 cm -
Wolfgang Herzig
Gnadenort, 2015
Oil on canvas
217 x 92 cm -
Peter Sengl
45 Dinge erklären WAS?
Mixed media on canvas
120 x 100 cm -
Kiki Kogelnik
Split Gold, 1996
Murano glass dust and screenprint on paper
70 x 50 cm
Limited Edition: 57/100