Kunsthalle Wien: Beton
Factsheet
Format: Sponsoring: Group exhibition
Location: 1070 Vienna, Museumsplatz 1, MuseumsQuartier
Time frame: 06-10/2016
Curators: Vanessa Joan Müller, Nicolaus Schafhausen
Artists: Kasper Akhøj, Heba Amin, Monica Bonvicini, Mark Boyle, Andreas Bunte, Tom Burr, Thomas Demand, Werner Feiersinger, Karsten Födinger, Cyprien Gaillard, Isa Genzken, Liam Gillick, Annette Kelm, Hubert Kiecol, Jakob Kolding, Miki Kratsman, Susanne Kriemann, David Maljković, Jumana Manna, Ingrid Martens, Isa Melsheimer, Olaf Metzel, Maximilian Pramatarov, Heidi Specker, Ron Terada Tercerunquinto, Sofie Thorsen, Klaus Weber, Tobias Zielony
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Info/Scope: Content-related participation (panel discussion: social housing) and monetary support for the realisation of the Kunsthalle Wien exhibition.
Scale: Group exhibition with 29 participating artists and an extensive accompanying programme (panel discussions, workshops, excursions and special interest tours)
Kunsthalle Wien: Beton / Concrete
Vanessa Joan Müller and Nicolaus Schafhausen presented the materiality of concrete in the major exhibition of contemporary artistic works referencing the beginnings of the “concrete utopia” to the current renaissance in “Human Modernism”. The exhibition also shed light on the brutalist, social and ideological aspects of the modern material, which characterises numerous municipal buildings, cultural centres, educational institutions and the urban planning of late modernism, outside the Kunsthalle: visitors were brought to outstanding concrete structures in public spaces, artists’ ateliers and a cement works. In addition to sponsoring, BUWOG was also substantively involved in the project in the panel discussion on social housing.
