EXHIBITION
KLIMT ⇄ WARHOL
Modern Masterpieces: Empowering Minds, Inspiring Hearts
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Gustav Klimt, Kirche in Unterach am Attersee, 1916 © Heidi Horten Collection
Andy Warhol, Four-Foot Flowers, 1964 © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Licensed by Bildrecht, Wien, 2024, Foto: Heidi Horten Collection
The selection of works for the new Klimt ⇄ Warhol permanent exhibition was shaped by visitors to the Heidi Horten Collection as part of the innovative, participatory #ARTfluence project. In the spirit of active participation, they had around nine months to vote for their favorite works in the collection and thus have a direct influence on the new permanent exhibition.
Highlights of 20th and 21st century art history have been brought together in an exhibition entitled Klimt to Warhol. Different artistic trends and movements such as Vienna around 1900, German Expressionism, the Surrealism of René Magritte, European and American abstraction of the post-war period, the figuration of Francis Bacon, Pop Art, works by the ZERO artists' group and contemporary positions are combined in a presentation that reveals the versatility of the Heidi Horten Collection.
From 6 September 2024
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The display of the collection presentation on the ground floor of the museum is being developed by the Austrian artist Markus Schinwald in close cooperation with the Heidi Horten Collection. The aim is to present the collection's masterpieces in a unique way and to stand out from conventional museum exhibitions, giving the Heidi Horten Collection a special unique selling point.
Schinwald's wall design creates a representative yet intimate atmosphere. The allusions to bourgeois interiors reflect the private origins of the collection. The design of the walls integrates around 50 selected works into an overall artistic setting in which art and visitors can enter into a free dialog with one another. Two wall elements with portholes echo the design of the Tea Room and create new lines of sight and movement in the entrance area of the museum.
EXHIBITION
LIGHT SOUND SENSES
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1. Olafur Eliasson, Your uncertain shadow (colour), 2010
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection
Exhibition view: Olafur Eliasson: Innen Stadt Außen, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany, 2010
Photo: Jens Ziehe | Courtesy Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin
2. John Armleder, Untitled (target), 2001
Heidi Horten Collection, Courtesy of the artists
3. Ernesto Neto, A candle to earth, 2015
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection
4. Brigitte Kowanz, Light up, 2000
Heidi Horten Collection, Copyright Vienna, 2024
The exhibition Light Sound Senses explores light as a physical and natural and aesthetically usable phenomenon and aims to stimulate our diverse sensory perceptions. Visitors are invited to engage with multi-sensory works of art to heighten their own awareness of space, time, light, sound, taste and touch. Light is explored as an indicator of technological development and as a cultural construct with symbolic meaning. Through works from the Heidi Horten Collection as well as loans from TBA21 and site-specific and immersive installations - realized exclusively for the exhibition by invited artists - Light Sound Senses conveys a deeper understanding of the nature of light, sound and our five senses.
In the exhibition, which extends over two floors of the museum, visitors will get to know a pioneer of light art, László Moholy-Nagy, or encounter immersive light installations by Olafur Eliasson, Brigitte Kowanz and Siegrun Appelt. Appelt deals with the topic of light pollution and the scientific background of daylight research.
Tracey Emin and Joseph Kosuth use neon as an artistic and conceptual material. A room-filling sound installation by Austrian artist Bernhard Leitner encourages visitors to “see” sound; other artists use sound to achieve a stronger perception of their own bodies. Finally, works by Lena Henke and Ernesto Neto will stimulate the sense of smell and taste.
20 September 2024 – 23 March 2025
As a special feature of the exhibition, visitors are encouraged to interact with the works in a participatory way. One example of this is Carsten Nicolai's work Bausatz noto, in which the visitors themselves act as sound artists: At a table with four record players, different colored vinyls with different timbres can be combined. Carsten Nicolai will create a light and sound installation exclusively for the exhibition.
The exhibition Light Sound Senses is to take a scientific-critical, humorous and artistic-aesthetic look at our sensory perceptions, to challenge them and play with them.
With works by:
Siegrun Appelt, John M Armleder, Cibelle Cavalli Bastos, Olafur Eliasson, Tracey Emin, Cerith Wyn Evans, Dan Flavin, Ceal Floyer, Peter Friedl, Gelatin, Helga Giffiths, Lena Henke, Carsten Höller, Krištof Kintera, Brigitte Kowanz, Joseph Kosuth, Bernhard Leitner, Paul McCarthy, László Moholy-Nagy, Iván Navarro, Ernesto Neto, Carsten Nicolai, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Tony Oursler, Finnbogi Petursson, Christine Schörkhuber, SUPERFLEX, Iv Toshain and Martin Walde.