Viennese Actionism - Path to Action, Photo by Pablo Chiereghin, 2022
VIENNA ACTIONISM – PATH TO ACTIONS
GÜNTER BRUS, MICHA HIRT, OTTO MUEHL, HERMANN NITSCH, KARL HEINZ SCHLÖGELHOFER, RUDOLF SCHWARZKOGLER, and MONIKA STANKE UHLIG
curated by Marcello Farabegoli and Antonio Rosa de Pauli
27 May 2021 – 30 October 2022
SAMMLUNG FRIEDRICHSHOF
Römerstraße 3, 2424 Zurndorf, Österreich
www.sammlungfriedrichshof.at
Curator's tour as part of "offen.2022" on 22 May 2022: https://www.bildendekunstburgenland.at/2-offen-kunstort-nord/sammlung-friedrichshof
The core holdings of the Sammlung Friedrichshof (Friedrichshof Collection) form one of the largest private collections of historical works of Viennese Actionism from the years 1956 to 1976. There have been solo exhibitions and publications highlighting important international allies of the Viennese Actionists – such as Allan Kaprow and Carolee Schneemann – since 2010. In 2011 the museum at the Friedrichshof in Zurndorf was redesigned by the architect Adolf Krischanitz, with a branch project space “Stadtraum” opening on Schleifmühlgasse in Vienna’s gallery district in 2012. Since then, the core holdings of the Friedrichshof Collection have been accompanied by contextual juxtapositions. The collection’s programme also foregrounds positions previously overlooked in Austria, which nonetheless correspond in terms of performance and thematic preoccupations, through solo exhibitions by artists such as Paul McCarthy, Ion Grigorescu and Bjarne Melgaard. These were joined by further solo exhibitions – Rita Ackermann, Brener/Schurz, Helmut Lang, Denisa Lehocka, Yasumasa Murimura and Marcel Odenbach.
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Press contact:
Marcello Farabegoli
Senior Curator Sammlung Friedrichshof
farabegoli@friedrichshof.at
M +43 664 918 37 80 or +43 660 143 52 54
Posthumous note: In 2022, the Friedrichshof Collection was sold and closed. Some references to the very last exhibition "Viennese Actionism - Path to Action" are here: https://www.basis-wien.at/db/event/114851, https://www.diepresse.com/6182280/muehls-finaler-auszug-aus-der-kommune, https://kurier.at/kultur/viele-millionen-fuer-muehls-kommunen-sammlung/402125687
Viennese Actionism - Path to Action, Room 1, Otto Muehl (left and center) & Hermann Nitsch (right), Photo by Pablo Chiereghin, 2022
Viennese Actionism - Path to Action, Room 1, Otto Muehl, Photo by Pablo Chiereghin, 2022
Viennese Actionism - Path to Action, Room 2, Günter Brus (left) & Monika Stanke-Uhlig (right), Photo by Pablo Chiereghin, 2022
Viennese Actionism - Path to Action, Room 2, Günter Brus, Photo by Pablo Chiereghin, 2022
Viennese Actionism - Path to Action, Room 2, Günter Brus, Photo by Pablo Chiereghin, 2022
Viennese Actionism - Path to Action, Room 2, Günter Brus, Photo by Pablo Chiereghin, 2022
Viennese Actionism - Path to Action, Room 2, Rudolf Schwarzkogler (in front) & Otto Muehl (right), Photo by Pablo Chiereghin, 2022
Viennese Actionism - Path to Action, Room 2, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Photo by Pablo Chiereghin, 2022
Viennese Actionism - Path to Action, Room 2, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Photo by Pablo Chiereghin, 2022
Viennese Actionism - Path to Action, Room 2, Rudolf Schwarzkogler (left) & Günter Brus (right), Photo by Pablo Chiereghin, 2022
Viennese Actionism - Path to Action, Room 2, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Photo by Pablo Chiereghin, 2022
Viennese Actionism - Path to Action, Room 2, Günter Brus, Photo by Pablo Chiereghin, 2022
Viennese Actionism - Path to Action, Corridor, Photo by Pablo Chiereghin, 2022
Viennese Actionism - Path to Action, Corridor, Günter Brus, Photo by Pablo Chiereghin, 2022
Viennese Actionism - Path to Action, Corridor, Otto Muehl, Photo by Pablo Chiereghin, 2022