Andrea Zittel
dal 5/10/2012 al 11/1/2013
Segnalato da
5/10/2012
Andrea Zittel
Kiesler Foundation Vienna, Wien
Artist - Architect. The prize-winner of the 8th Austrian Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts. Zittel takes an expansive approach to art and space making, creating social sculptures that traverse boundaries between art, architecture, design and technology.
The exhibition ANDREA ZITTEL _ KÜNSTLERARCHITEKTIN is dedicated to this year’s Kiesler Prize winner. The chosen works reflect an ongoing creative process devoted above all to analysing and shaping our immediate environment. The exhibition at the Kiesler Foundation underlines the decision of the jury 2012 who selected ANDREA ZITTEL primarily for her experimental and innovative work that has extended the dialogue of contemporary art and ideas. In the spirit of Frederick Kiesler, her work is both intellectual and yet deals with real life situations and occurrences.
The international jury of the Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts 2012 pays tribute to Andrea Zittel as a “leading artist at mid-career, who is both influential and somewhat underrecognized. Based in Los Angeles and Joshua Tree, California, Zittel takes an expansive approach to art and space making, creating social sculptures that traverse boundaries between art, architecture, design and technology. [...] The jury selected her primarily for her experimental and innovative work that has extended the dialogue of contemporary art and ideas. In the spirit of Frederick Kiesler, her work is both intellectual and yet deals with real life situations and occurrences. Zittel's sculptures and spatial installations transform everything necessary for life - such as eating, sleeping, bathing, and socializing - into artful experiments and scenarios for new ways of living.” (Decision of the Jury, extract)
“However one of the most important goals of this work is to illuminate how we attribute significance to chosen structures or ways of life, and how arbitrary any choice of structure can be. I do not mean to deny the personal significance of these decisions, instead, I use my work in order to try to comprehend values such as ‘freedom’, ‘security’, ‘authorship’, and ‘expertis’.” (Andrea Zittel).
The award, with a substantial prize-money of 55,000 euros, is presented alternately by the Republic of Austria and the City of Vienna every two years “for outstanding achievements in the field of architecture and the arts that conform to Frederick Kiesler’s experimental, innovative conceptions and his theory of correlated arts”. (Statutes of the Kiesler Prize)
Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Prize for Architecture and Art
At the express wish of Frederick Kiesler’s widow Lillian, the Austrian Frederick Kiesler Award for Architecture and Art was endowed in 1997. The award, with a substantial prize-money of 55,000 euros, is presented alternately by the Republic of Austria and the city of Vienna every two years, with the ceremony being organised by the Kiesler Foundation Vienna. An international jury of experts, comprising theorists, artists and architects, bestows the award for “extraordinary achievements in architecture and the arts that relate to Frederick Kiesler’s experimental and innovative attitudes and his theory of ‘correlated arts’ by transcending the boundaries between the traditional disciplines”.
Image: Between Art and Life Costume Gallery, Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy, 2010 ©Andrea Zittel
Press contact:
T: +43-(0)1-513 0775 Monika Pessler, monika.pessler@kiesler.org; Katrin Suppick: katrin.suppick@kiesler.org
Exhibition Opening during the ORF Long Night of the Museums
October 6, 2012, 6 pm
Kiesler Foundation Vienna
Mariahilfer Straße 1b, 1060 Wien