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25/2/2014

Vienna Complex

Austrian Cultural Forum, New York

Artists: Ei Arakawa & Shimon Minamikawa, Josef Dabernig, Verena Dengler, Anke Dyer & Niklas Lichti, Harun Farocki, Tonio Kröner, Ulla Rossek, Astrid Wagner, Franz West, Heimo Zobernig.

Curator Cosima Rainer.

The Austrian Cultural Forum New York is partnering with New York’s Carnegie Hall to present the large-scale “Vienna: City of Dreams” festival in Spring 2014. The Austrian Cultural Forum opens the mind and senses to Vienna today. Building upon the vast artistic, intellectual, and cultural legacies of Vienna in 1900, the ACFNY explores the vibrant creative fabric of the ‘city of dreams’ in the 21st century with a festival of contemporary music, a symposium, a film series, and a major visual art exhibition titled “Vienna Complex.”

This international group exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, titled Vienna Complex, is being presented in conjunction with Carnegie Hall’s three week-long festival, Vienna: City of Dreams.

The show takes the transformative psychoanalytic momentum of Vienna in 1900, and the resulting entwinement and fascination of the proponents of modernist abstraction with this therapeutic revolution as a point of departure. Based on the hypothesis that the culture of self-improvement that permeates all spheres of society today is also a result of the artistic dissemination of therapeutic ideas into the mainstream, the exhibition presents contemporary artistic reflections on the phenomenon of our modern meritocracy.

Curated by Austrian Cosima Rainer, it will be the first exhibition produced under the auspices of the Austrian Cultural Forum's new director, Christine Moser. The centerpiece of the exhibition is a skeletal metal couch by the late Austrian artist Franz West titled Liège, culled from the collection of Vienna's Sigmund Freud Museum. The artists featured in Vienna Complex employ a self-referential approach, by reflecting on the artistic process itself, and the ways in which artistic practice has been influenced by therapeutic currents.

Image: Verena Dengler, The Verena Complex (2014)

About the festival
This exhibition is part of the Austrian Cultural Forum's Vienna Complex Festival 2014. The ACFNY is partnering with New York’s Carnegie Hall to present the large-scale Vienna: City of Dreams festival in Spring 2014. The Austrian Cultural Forum opens the mind and senses to Vienna today. Building upon the vast artistic, intellectual, and cultural legacies of Vienna in 1900, the ACFNY explores the vibrant creative fabric of the ‘city of dreams’ in the 21st century with a festival of contemporary music, a symposium, a film series, and a major visual art exhibition titled “Vienna Complex.”

Please visit www.acfny.org/events for complete information on venues and ticket reservations.

Exhibition Design: Astrid Wagner

More informations about the festival www.carnegiehall.org/vienna

Image: Ei Arakawa & Shimon Minamikawa, Paris Adapted Homeland (2013), 11:16 min. Courtesy of the artists

Press contacts:
Kerstin Schuetz-Mueller: T +1 212 319 5300 x78 ksm@acfny.org
Andy Cushman: T +1 917 744 4042 ac@8op.us
Synneve Carlino T 212 903 9750 E-mail: pr@carnegiehall.org

Opening: February 26, 6–8pm

VENUES:

Austrian Cultural Forum New York
11 East 52nd Street New York, NY 10022
www.acfny.org
Open Daily, 10 AM – 6 PM | Admission to exhibitions, concerts, and other events is free.

Czech Center
321 E. 73rd Street, New York, NY 10021
www.bohemiannationalhall.com

(le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street New York, 10012
lepoissonrouge.com

The Museum of Modern Art
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters 11 West 53 Street New York, NY 10019
www.moma.org

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