Exhibitions – now showing
Monday 14 April - Thursday 31 July 2008
Austrian Cultural Forum, London
Peter Rauter: Immigrants of Influence
The Exhibition will be temporarily closed Tuesday 15 - Thursday 17 April 2008
The exhibition presented by the ACF London pays tribute not only to the personalities and accomplishments of those portrayed but also the life of the photographer Peter Rauter (1948-2006).
Peter Rauter’s collection of photographs record and honour his family’s Austrian heritage and their experience as part of the larger London émigré community, after both his parents had come from Austria to London, his mother on the Kindertransport, and settled in North London. . Among the portraits featured are those of the painter Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, art historian Ernst Gombrich, painter and cartoonist Hugo Dachinger, and gallerist Gustav Delbanco. The original exhibition was awarded the Silver AFAP (Association of Photographers) Award in 1993.333999333999
Venue and Information
Austrian Cultural Forum, London
28 Rutland Gate
T 020 7225 7300, E culture@austria.org.uk;
Wednesday 28 May – 25 August, 2008
Hayward Gallery, London
Gelitin at Psycho Buildings: Architecture by Artists
This exhibition marks The Hayward’s 40th anniversary and its significance as one of the world’s architecturally most unique exhibition venues. The exhibition brings together the work of artists who create habitat-like structures and environments. Viewers enter and explore a series of constructions that use elements of light, color, smell and design to heighten their experience of the spaces. The exhibition will feature major installations, including one by the Vienna-based artists’ collective Gelitin, known for their spectacular performance-installations.
www.haywardgallery.org.uk
Venue and Information
Hayward Gallery, London
Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX,
E customer@southbankcentre.co.uk, Ticket office: T 0871 663 2500
Wednesday 25 April - 31 August, 2008
Serpentine Gallery, London
Maria Lassnig
Maria Lassnig (born in 1919), avant-garde pioneer with a feminist viewpoint and one of Austria’s most successful painters, has been producing work over a period of 60 years in Paris, New York and Vienna. Her recent work includes some of her finest pieces. Powerful, bold and introspective, her paintings investigate human emotions and bodily sensations.
The Serpentine exhibition is the first public solo presentation of her work in a public gallery in the UK and will include the first ever showing of sensational new oil paintings as well as screenings of rare films.
www.serpentinegallery.org
Venue and Information
Serpentine Gallery, London
Kensington Gardens, W2 3XA;
T 020 7402 6075, information@serpentinegallery.org
Tuesday 20 May - Saturday 26 July 2008
Maughan Library and ISC, Kings College London
Arthur Schnitzler’s Hidden Manuscripts
Papers about Arthur Schnitzler and his Viennese circle will be on display for two months in the Library of King’s College London. Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931) was an inspirational Viennese novelist and playwright, but a large part of his work has still to be published.
The exhibition will show unique archival documents (commented and linked by a narrative) which cannot normally be seen by the general public, including correspondence between Schnitzler and Sigmund Freud, Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Karl Kraus and many others. (For conservation reasons, high-resolution facsimiles of the documents will be displayed).
A small selection of related material from the library holdings of
King’s College London will accompany the material from Cambridge University Library.
Map: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/campuses/strand-det.html
Opening hours: Monday-Saturday, 9.30-17.00.