Exhibitions – event archive
Monday 7 - Friday 17 April 2008
Nehru Centre, London
Bindu Art
The Nehru Centre will host a remarkable exhibition displaying the work of artists from the Bindu Art School, a social art initiative founded by the Austrian artist Werner Dornik in 2005 in the leprosy colony Bharatapuram in southern India. The School aims to enable a new way of life for people affected by leprosy through the production of art. The students, between the ages of 25-75, are mostly illiterate and from different regions in India. Together they have produced an immediate, innocent and spontaneous body of work. This exhibition is intended to bring attention to the reality and artistic quality of India’s ‘untouchables’.
www.nehrucentre.org.uk or www.bindu-art.at
Venue and Information
Nehru Centre, London
8 South Audly Street, W1K 1HF
Friday 25 January - 13 April 2008
Hayward Gallery at the Southbank
Martin Walde and Jun Yang at
Laughing in a Foreign Language
The exhibition explores the role of laughter and humour in contemporary art. In a globalised world, this international exhibition questions if humour can only be appreciated by people with similar cultural, political or historical backgrounds and memories, or whether laughter can act as a catalyst for understanding what you are not familiar with. The exhibition brings together more than 70 videos, photographs and interactive installation works by more than 30 artists from all around the world.
www.haywardgallery.org.uk
Venue and Information
Hayward Gallery at the Southbank
Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX
T 0871 663 2500
Wednesday 9 January - 26 March 2008
Austrian Cultural Forum London
Lifelong Impressions
Paintings, Prints and Drawings by Milein Cosman
The Austrian Cultural Forum will host a major retrospective of the work of German-born Jewish artist Milein Cosman (b.1921), presented by The Jewish Museum. It spans more than six decades of prolific output, ranging from prints and drawings to oil paintings and watercolours, selected by the artist. The exhibition will feature around 80 works including portraits of distinguished cultural figures such as Henry Moore, Francis Bacon, T.S.Eliot, Iris Murdoch, and Martin Buber. Most of the work on display has not previously been exhibited.
Born in Germany, Cosman arrived in England in 1939 to study at the Slade. In 1947 she met and later married the Austrian-born musician, writer and broadcaster Hans Keller, who had a major influence on musical life in this country. Cosman is an outstanding draftswoman and portraitist whose work catches the essence of character and movement with its spontaneity and feeling of freedom. She remains active as an artist and has had numerous exhibitions. Her work is represented in many public collections in the UK and abroad, including the National Portrait Gallery, the V&A, the British Museum, the Ashmolean in Oxford and the Fitzwilliam in Cambridge.
The exhibition has been organized by the friends of The Jewish Museum, London. After the show at the Austrian Cultural Forum her works will be on view at the Hampstead Museum at Burgh House from 9 April to June 2008, to reflect her life in Hampstead.
For more information visit:
www.austria.org.uk/culture/category/exhibitions/up-coming-events & www.jewishmuseum.org.uk
The exhibition will be closed over the Easter holiday (21-24 March 2008)
Venue & Information
Austrian Cultural Forum London
London 28 Rutland Gate
London SW7 1PQ
T: 020 7225 7300
E: culture@austria.org.uk
Friday 1 February - Sunday 23 March 2008
Cournerhouse, Manchester
Sissi Farassat and Gregor Neuerer
Left but a Trace
New works by the two Vienna-based artists focus on the documentation and (in)visibility of traces and identities. Gregor Neuerer documents traces of people in public and private environments. His work relates to the social and political context of contemporary and modern urban architectural concepts such as the English Terrace House, the 19th century Viennese Apartment House or contemporary urban developments. Sissi Farassat, who came to Vienna to live and work from Teheran in 1978, works with hidden light boxes, a series of 20 Polaroid photos, film, and sewed and sequined photographs. The femal box, controntations with intimacy, private atmosphere and explorations of closeness and distance have become her trademark.
Venue and Information
Cournerhouse, Manchester
70 Oxford Street,
T 0161 2001500; E info@cournerhouse.org; www.cournerhouse.org
Thursday 13 March – Thursday 20 March 2008
Club Row Gallery, London
Gelitin at A.TV and Agrifashionista
The Viennese art group Gelitin, together with other artists, will participate in A.TV.com, an internet TV station where all the content is developed and delivered by visual artists. Gelitin will contribute seven films in seven different genres, examining their own practice and the processes inherent in television. The group, consisting of four artists, usually build objects out of found discarded material. These constructions always fulfil their aim of creating new experiences for both Gelitin and their audience. Their elaborate projects often culminate in spectacles lasting several days. And the audience is always right at the centre.
Broadcasting live from Club Row Gallery
Visit http://www.afoundation.org.uk/afoundation/news.php to view
Venue and Information
Club Row Gallery, London
Rochelles School, Arnold Circus, E2 7ES
Thursday 6 December 2007 - 27 January 2008
Freud Museum, Camden Arts Centre, London
William Cobbing: Gradiva Project
The Roman Gradiva bas-relief at the Vatican Museum was the subject of a novella by Wilhelm Jensen (1903). Sigmund Freud published an essay on the novella in 1907, and Gradiva also became a muse for the surrealists. Against this backdrop, British artist William Cobbing creates a series of public installations at the Freud Museum and Camden Arts Centre
Venue and Information
Freud Museum, Camden Arts Centre, London
20 Maresfield Gardens, London NW3 5SX
T 020 7435 2002, F 020 7431 5452, E info@freud.org.uk,
Opening hours and fees see website: www.freud.org.uk/fmopene.htm
Saturday 24 November 2007- 20 January 2008
Plymouth Arts Centre
Barbara Holub: More Oppertunities
Barbara Holub’s first UK solo exhibition, presented by Plymouth Arts Centre, will introduce new work created during her artist’s residency. Employing various media she explores the walled and inaccessible areas of the city, talking with local residents, planning departments, working with local artists and researching the historical fabric of the city. More Opportunities relates to a city in search of a new identity and the concerns raised by regeneration. Holub transforms her research into narratives and poetic elements oscillating between reality and fiction.
Vienna based artist, architect and urban designer Barbara Holub has been President of the Vienna Secession since 2006. Together with her partner Paul Rajakovics, Holub created the architecture and urbanism company Transparadiso in 1999. They are currently realising a new city quarter in Salzburg.
For more information visit www.plymouthac.org.uk
Venue and Information
Plymouth Arts Centre
38 Looe Street
Plymouth PL4 0EB
Tel : 01752 206114
Thursday 4 October – Sunday 30 December 2007
Hayward Gallery, London
Johanna Kandl at The Painting of Modern Life
The exhibition explores one of the most influential developments in the history of contemporary painting: the use and translation of photographic imagery. The paintings by Johanna Kandl (born in Vienna 1954) disclose the collision of different cultures and modes of perception, but also economic predicaments. She evolves in word and image a variety of scenarios reflecting social coexistence, thereby investigating the role of the artist and his/her position in society.
Venue and Information
Hayward Gallery, London
Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX, E customer@southbankcentre.co.uk,
Ticket office: T 0044 (0) 871 663 2500,
www.haywardgallery.org.uk
Wednesday 3 October 2007, 7pm
Austrian Cultural Forum London
In memory of Jakov Lind (1927–2007)
In February this year, the Austrian born writer, actor and painter Jakov Lind passed away in London shortly after his 80th birthday. To commemorate the artist, the Austrian Cultural Forum and the Jewish Museum Vienna will show a small exhibition of his drawings and watercolours.
The opening will be held in the presence of Oona Lind Napier, Jakov Lind’s daughter. Werner Hanak and Gabriele Braunsberg will present texts (read by Gerald Davidson), reminiscences, and clips of a 1972 film portrait by Georg Stefan Troller.
Entry is free, but reservation is essential!
Venue & Information
Austrian Cultural Forum London
London 28 Rutland Gate
London SW7 1PQ
T: 020 7225 7300
E: culture@austria.org.uk
Friday 28 September – Sunday 9 December 2007
Southampton City Art Gallery
Marie-Louise von Motesiczky
The painter Marie-Louise von Motesiczky was born in Vienna in 1906. Leaving Vienna after the “Anschluss” in 1938, she spent the rest of her life in England. Her artistic career, which spans seventy years, began in the 1920s when she visited Max Beckmann’s master class in Frankfurt. Several critically acclaimed exhibitions, especially in London, Liverpool and Vienna, have acquainted the public with Motesiczky’s oeuvre which comprises portraits, self-portraits, still-lifes, landscapes and allegorical paintings.