[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
foundation at generali.at
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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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