RE-PLAY: Beginnings of International Media Art in Austria Caroline Schneider.GENERALI FOUNDATION The Generali Foundation was established in 1988 by the Generali Group Austria as a private and non-profit-making art association for the promotion of contemporary art. Situated in [Vienna], [Austria], it is one of the important museums specialised in collecting and exhibiting conceptual With this ambitious multimedia show, curators Sabine Breitwieser and Heidi Grundmann focus on work from the late '60s to the early '80s, juxtaposing Austrian artists (Ernst Caramelle, Valie Export Valie Export (born May 17 1940 in Linz as Waltraud Lehner) is an Austrian artist. Her artistic work includes video installations, body performances, expanded cinema, computer animations, photography, sculptures and publications covering contemporary arts. , Friederike Pezold, and Peter Weibel The tense of this article is unsuitable for an encyclopedia. Please consider rewriting to a detached, past tense. Peter Weibel (* March 5 1944 in Odessa, Ukraine) is an artist, curator and theoretician. ) with their internationally better-known counterparts (Vito Acconci Vito Hannibal Acconci (born January 24, 1940) is a Bronx, New York-born, Brooklyn-based architect, landscape architect, and installation artist. His father was an Italian immigrant who took him to museums and opera houses and gave him his first arts education. , Laurie Anderson, Shigeko Kubota, and Joan Jonas). Including some 25 video-and-audio installations, telecommunication projects, and 180 single-channel videos, the exhibition should offer a fresh perspective on the conventional narrative of video history and prove that Vienna is home to more than one political ideology. A comprehensive catalogue accompanies the show. May 12 -Aug. 6. |
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