[artinfo] Generali Foundation presents How Society And Politics Get In The Picture

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HOW SOCIETY AND POLITICS GET IN THE PICTURE
16 September through 18 December 2005

Generali Foundation
Wiedner Hauptstrasse 15
1040 Vienna, Austria
Phone +43 1 504 98 80
Fax +43 1 504 98 83
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HOW SOCIETY AND POLITICS GET IN THE PICTURE

With works by Bureau d’études, Alice Creischer / 
Andreas Siekmann, Maria Eichhorn, Hans Haacke, 
Klub Zwei / SFC – Schwarze Frauen Community, 
Andreja Kuluncic, Adrian Piper, Martha Rosler, 
Stephen Willats

The exhibition cycle launched last year to 
highlight themes of the collection is this time 
dedicated to an area that more than any other is 
significant for the Generali Foundation: Art – 
Society – Politics. The focus of this second 
exhibition in the series is on artistic practices 
reflecting on—or even intervening in—social and 
political conditions. Since the 1960s, if not 
before, artists have centered their work more 
increasingly and offensively on issues of class, 
gender or ethnic origin—as well as on related 
socio-political parameters. The exhibition, 
compiled from both works of the collection and 
loans, centers on some of the highly diverse and 
often surprising artistic approaches that have 
been deployed in this field.

The exhibition is structured by four renowned 
artistic stances in which socio-political issues 
have formed a fundamental theme since the 
1960s/70s. The se-lected works by artists of the 
younger generation can be read in relation to 
this. Rather than individual works here it is 
more comprehensive artistic projects that form 
the focus. Like several overlapping circles, 
differentiated artistic practices and image 
politics crystallize within the exhibition.

The exhibition cycle dealing with themes of the 
collection was launched last year with the 
exhibition COLLECTED VIEWS FROM EAST OR WEST, a 
show reflecting the East-West issue. A series of 
publications featuring theoretical texts will 
accompany the various exhibitions.

Through this long term project, the Generali 
Foundation Collection is being more intensively 
mediated on various levels: previously organized 
theme exhibitions are being focused on a 
discourse about the collection. At the same time 
the international exhibition tour of the Generali 
Foundation Collection, entitled Occupying Space, 
is to be made better known in Vienna. Following 
the exhibition in Munich at the Haus der Kunst, 
the exhibition was hosted in 
Rotterdam/Netherlands at the Nederlands 
fotomuseum, Witte de With and TENT. until the end 
of August. From 28 October to 9 December 2005 the 
Generali Foundation Collection will be presented 
in cooperation with the Museum for Contemporary 
Art in Zagreb/Croatia.

Curator: Sabine Breitwieser

Press Contact: Carmen Buchacher +43 1 504 98 80-24, found.presse at generali.at
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