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Exhibition Program 2021 October 2020 I Modifications reserved
Faces
Portraits between the Wars
12 February– 24 May 2021
Starting from Helmar Lerski’s outstanding photo series Metamorphose – Verwandlungen
durch Licht (Metamorphosis through Light) (1935/36), the exhibition Faces presents portraits
from the period of the Weimar Republic.
The 1920s and ’30s saw photographers radically renew the conventional understanding of the
classic portrait: their aim was no longer to represent an individual’s personality; instead, they
conceived of the face as material to be staged according to their own ideas. In this, the
photographed face became a locus for dealing with avant-garde aesthetic ideas as well as
interwar-period social developments. And it was thus that modernist experiments, the
relationship between individual and general type, feminist roll-playing, and political
ideologies collided in—and thereby expanded—the general understanding of portrait
photography.
Helmar Lerski Helmar Lerski Marta Astfalck-Vietz
Metamorphosis, 885, 1935–1936 Metamorphosis, 604, 1935–1936 Ohne Titel (Akt mit Spitze), um 1927
The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Foto: Dietmar Katz/Berlinische Galerie
Munch and Beyond
19 February – 20 June 2021
The ALBERTINA Museum is devoting its main exhibition of early 2021 to Edvard Munch as
well as artists who have been inspired by him. Munch and Beyond presents 60 masterpieces
by Edvard Munch (1863–1944) together with works by 20th-century greats including Andy
Warhol and Georg Baselitz as well as by contemporary artists such as Marlene Dumas, Peter
Doig, Miriam Cahn and Tracey Emin.
Munch’s deeply pessimistic and melancholic worldview—of which human beings’ ultimate
isolation is a hallmark—continues to define our understanding of his works. But his
experiments with printing techniques and color, which helped shape the history of painting
and are still reflected in contemporary artistic practices, have proved just as influential, as
have iconic works such as The Scream and Madonna.
Munch and Beyond concentrates first and foremost on Munch’s later output and its
relevance. And together with direct variations on individual works, such as in Andy Warhol’s
After Munch series, the focus is also on artists who took up Munch’s expanded, experimental
and modernist notion of painting or transformed his themes and motifs.
This presentation picks up on the ALBERTINA Museum’s record-breaking Munch exhibitions
of 2003 and 2015 and is being supported by both the Munch Museet and the National
Museum Of Art, Architecture, and Design (Oslo) as well as by numerous other international
institutions and private collections.
Edvard Munch Edvard Munch Georg Baselitz
Madonna, 1895/1902 Self portrait, 1895 Edvards Geist, 1983
The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna © Daniel Blau
Michela Ghisetti 5 March – 6 July 2021 The ALBERTINA Museum is the first institution of its kind to devote a sweeping retrospective presentation to Michela Ghisetti. The oeuvre of this artist, born in Bergamo, Italy in 1966 and a resident of Vienna since 1992, fluctuates between the poles of abstraction and figuration. Ghisetti’s works interweave elements both biographical and emotional as well as philosophical and art-theoretical. This gives rise to conceptually stringent, humorous, and intuitive groups of works in which the artist continually explores new content and the most varied materials. Michela Ghisetti Michela Ghisetti FELICIA, 2010 AFUA/DER WEG (Triptychon/Zweiter Teil), 2012 © Michela Ghisetti © Michela Ghisetti
Xenia Hausner
TRUE LIES
9 March – 27 July 2021
The exhibition at the ALBERTINA Museum presents one of the most important Austrian
painters of our time. The main focus of the show is on Xenia Hausner’s practice of staging so
characteristic of her work. For her paintings, Hausner first constructs and then photographs
spatial settings in her studio. Automobile fragments or train compartments thus naturally
become inhabited places, peculiar scenarios in which trivial objects are co-actors. It is in these
environments that her protagonists interact. Her figures emancipate themselves within a
predominantly female cosmos and assume roles in Hausner’s stories, which resist clear
interpretation. In fragmentary montages, the artist confronts us with our innate
contradictions in close-up views that we are loathe to permit. And it is indeed precisely the
fiction of these works that makes it possible for Hausner, her gaze thus sharpened, to
apprehend underlying truths and reveal them visually.
This exhibition is conceived as a retrospective, beginning with Xenia Hausner’s initial works
from the 1990s and advancing to include her recent moving series, the Exiles.
Xenia Hausner Xenia Hausner Xenia Hausner
Nacht der Skorpione, 1995 Hotel Shanghai, 2010 Kopfschuss, 2002–2004
The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna Courtesy Xenia Hausner
The Batliner Collection © Bildrecht, Vienna, 2020 © Bildrecht, Vienna, 2020
© Bildrecht, Vienna, 2020
ARAKI 11 June – 3 October 2021 Nobuyoshi Araki (*1940) numbers among Japan’s most important and productive contemporary photographers. Though known primarily for his nudes, as provocative as they are now controversial, Araki’s oeuvre encompasses a diversity of themes including cities, still lifes, and everyday themes. This exhibition of the ALBERTINA Museum concentrates on the artist’s early output, with which he began radically renewing classic documentary photography in the 1960s under the influence of Tokyo’s various avant-garde movements. His photographic debut about the working-class boy Satchin and his brother Mabo (1963) is included here, as are his series on Tokyo’s urban life. At the center of this presentation is Araki’s grandiose and influential series Sentimental Journey (1971–2017). In this long-running project, he makes a theme of his own life in the form of blunt, snapshot-like photos of his wife Yoko. Much like in a diary, these intimate photos show their honeymoon, their life together as a couple, and Yoko’s untimely death. The artist only finished working on this autobiographic theme a few years ago with a final continuation of the series. Nabuyoshi Araki Nabuyoshi Araki Sentimental Journay, 1971 Sentimental Journay, 1971 © Nabuyoshi Araki © Nabuyoshi Araki
Modigliani – Picasso
The Primitivist Revolution
17 September 2021 – 9 January 2022
The ALBERTINA Museum will honor Amedeo Modigliani with a major retrospective to mark
the one hundredth anniversary of his death. For the first time, Modigliani will not be regarded
as a bohemian under the influence of alcohol and drugs, as a pleasing portraitist and pioneer
of Art Déco, but as a leading artist of the avant-garde who carried the revolution of
Primitivism far into the twentieth century.
Modigliani will premier in Austria with his celebrated nudes and outstanding portraits, as well
as his sculptures, which are rarely to be found in museums throughout Europe. The exhibition
will bring together works from major public museums and the most prominent private
collection between America and Asia.
A special focus will be placed on the artist’s lifelong exploration of the art of Primitivism.
Modigliani’s oeuvre will thus be juxtaposed with characteristic key works by such artists as
Pablo Picasso, Constantin Brâncuşi, and André Derain, as well as artifacts from so-called
“primitive” — prehistoric, archaic, and non-European — civilizations.
Amedeo Modigliani Amedeo Modigliani Amedeo Modigliani
Jeune fille en chemise, 1918 Head, 1911–1912 Reclining Nude , 1917
The ALBERTINA Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Gift of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Mr. and
Vienna – The Batliner Collection Mr. and Mrs. John Cowles, 62.73.1 Mrs. Klaus G. Perls Collection, 1997
Photo: Minneapolis Institute of Art
ALBERTINA MODERN
The Essl Collection
4 December 2020 – 6 March 2021
The autumn/winter season of 2020/2021 at ALBERTINA MODERN is given over to the Essl
Collection.
This marks the first time that an overview of the Essl Collection’s historical depth and
geographical breadth, ranging from American output to artworks from China, has been
presented in Austria’s capital city—with 150 masterpieces created between 1960 and the
present by famous artists ranging from Antoni Tàpies to Erwin Wurm, Maria Lassnig, and
Georg Baselitz, and from Alex Katz and Per Kirkeby to Fang Lijun, Annette Messager, Andreas
Gursky, and Nam June Paik.
The selected paintings, sculptures, objects, installations, and videos simultaneously provide
an impression of the great diversity of media covered by the Essl Collection, which has been
held by the ALBERTINA Museum since 2017 and now forms the backbone of the museum’s
modern and contemporary art holdings.
This exhibition places the most influential and important Austrian artists in dialog with
pivotal international artistic stances of the present era and their foremost proponents.
Tony Cragg Gilbert & George Tony Oursler
Spyrogyra, 1992 Blood and Tears, 1997 Give it back, 1995
The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – The ESSL Collection The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna
The ESSL Collection Foto: Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Paris – Salzburg – The ESSL Collection
Foto: Galerie Academia, Salzburg © Gilbert & George © Foto: Franz Schachinger, Wien
© Bildrecht, Vienna, 2020
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