Tomma Abts
Silvia Bachli
Anna Barriball
Marc Bauer
Michaël Borremans
Andrea Bowers
Olga Chernysheva
Amy Cutler
Tacita Dean
Sonja Gangl
Nikolaus Gansterer
Monika Grzymala
Toba Khedoori
Los Carpinteros
Constantin Luser
Lotte Lyon
Julie Mehretu
Aleksandra Mir
Muntean Rosenblum
Paul Noble
Jockum Nordstrom
Micha Payer
Martin Gabriel
Fritz Panzer
Dan Perjovschi
Chloe Piene
Rainer Prohaska
Robin Rhode
Mithu Sen
David Shrigley
Paul Sietsema
Tatiana Trouve
Ignacio Uriarte
Marcel van Eeden
Erik van Lieshout
Sandra Vasquez de la Horra
Jorinde Voigt
Rainer Prohaska
Elsy Lahner
27/5/2015
Two Exhibitions
Albertina, Wien
Drawing Now: 2015 illustrates the broad spectrum of present-day tendencies of drawing in art. Rainer Prohaska presents 'Drawing and orange line' demonstrates quite clearly how drawing is no longer limited to paper, but can also conquer walls and rooms.
Curated by: Elsy Lahner
Drawing Now: 2015
29 May 2015 - 11 October 2015
Forty years after Drawing Now, the legendary exhibition mounted jointly with the MoMA in New York, 2015 will see the Albertina once again attempt to take stock of what drawing means or can mean today. In the present showing, selected works by 36 international artists and artist groups turn the spotlight on relevant movements of the past ten years.
Drawing Now: 2015 illustrates the broad spectrum of present-day tendencies of drawing in art: its range of featured works runs from the abstract to the figurative and from sketches to large-scale projects planned in great detail. In terms of content, the artists devote their works to private experiences, simple everyday observations, and political events. They also reflect on the medium of drawing itself, examining the conditions and possibilities of such works’ production while also making a theme of appropriated drawing and drawing as a performative or collaborative act.
For this exhibition, the façade of the Albertina itself becomes a three-dimensional drawing board, with artist Rainer Prohaska stretching orange belts around the architectural complex in which the Albertina is housed in order to effect the graphical interconnection of the building’s various elements. Prohaska thus articulates an expansion of the notion of drawing in a manner that is particularly emphatic: Drawing an Orange Line shows that drawing is no longer limited to paper, but can also conquer walls and rooms, architecture and the cityscape.
The Albertina plans to continue Drawing Now as a series, to be shown at irregular intervals with differing emphases.
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Rainer Prohaska: Drawing and orange line
29 May 2015 - 20 September 2015
Rainer Prohaska’s work, conceived at the invitation of the Albertina, takes on the architecture of the museum’s palatial setting. Orange straps stretched around the architectural complex by the artist, who is known for his modular architectonic forms and furniture creations, serve to effect a graphical interconnection of its individual elements. The Albertina is thus transformed into a three-dimensional drawing board, that augments the exhibition Drawing Now: 2015 by an extension into the exterior space. With his intervention, Prohaska effects a particularly intense articulation of an expanded notion of drawing: Drawing an Orange Line demonstrates quite clearly how drawing is no longer limited to paper, but can also conquer walls and rooms, architecture and the cityscape.
Image: Rainer Prohaska
Press Contact:
Barbara Walcher, 534 83-514, presse@albertina.at
Opening: 28 May 2015, 6.30 pm, admission free
Albertina
Albertinaplatz 1 1010 Wien, A
HOURS
Daily 10 am to 6 pm
Wednesday 10 am to 9 pm
Adults € 11.90
Senior citizens (aged 60 and over) € 9.90
Students with ID (up to age 26) € 8.50
Children and young people (younger than 19), Friends of the Albertina,
ICOM members no charge