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15/10/2010

Valie Export: Time and Countertime

Lentos Art Museum, Linz

Valie Export: Time and Countertime

Curator: Angelika Nollert (Director of the New Museum Nürnberg since 2007)

To underline the topicality and undiminished importance of VALIE EXPORT’s work, two comprehensive exhibitions, both curated by Angelika Nollert, are scheduled for 2010/11: one in the artist’s birth place, Linz, the other in Vienna, the city where she has chosen to work.
The two exhibitions will be taking place simultaneously, one at the LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz (Opening: 16 October) and the other at the Belvedere Vienna (Opening: 15 October). In both the emphasis will be on the artist’s work over the last 20 years, especially on spatial installations.

In these works themes are in evidence that partly hark back to earlier artworks. Some display this kinship in formal terms, others pick up the thread begun in older works in their content.
The development and redevelopment of artistic motifs, their semantic shifts, the differences with regard to the media used and their sheer number and diversity are to be amply and adequately documented in Vienna and in Linz.

Completely autonomous by design, the two exhibitions are nevertheless interlinked and supplement each other in terms of content to let visitors experience VALIE EXPORT’s work as a single multidimensional and multimedia-based space.

The exhibitions organize the artist’s work along different thematic strands, such as works addressing trauma and violence; female role models and the ways women are made to conform; the modifications and changes brought about by architecture and urban and/or rural contexts; different mental states, irritating worlds of perception and the power of language.

Even though VALIE EXPORT’s works have featured in a great number of exhibitions both in Austria and abroad, it is still her early work that has been paramount in terms of the artist’s reception: TAPP- und TASTKINO, Aktionshose: Genitalpanik and the Body-Sign-Action are considered icons of art history. They have acquired a status that makes them almost synonymous with VALIE EXPORT’s work as a whole.

It is therefore all the more important to draw attention to another of VALIE EXPORT’s great achievements: in a great number of utterly diverse works, she has consistently developed new and topical content and a novel, congenial formal language to deal with her signature themes.

The video works and video installations, the video, film and TV rooms and the conceptual photo work present the themes of VALIE EXPORT’s artistic work in the light of her consistent use – and, even more notably, her independent development – of a media specific language.

Enabling new perspectives on VALIE EXPORT’s œuvre has been an important consideration in planning the exhibitions in Vienna and Linz. This is why altogether less well-known, recent large scale works have been accorded a prominent place, making it possible for visitors to view the classic icons embedded in a much broader artistic context.

One catalogue, containing a selection of essays by internationally renowned authors, will accompany the two exhibitions. While the exhibitions organize the artist’s work along different thematic strands and examine the impact these have on different media, the catalogue opts for the opposite strategy: the essays analyze the effects resulting from VALIE EXPORT’s choice of media on the content of her works. Acknowledged experts will be discussing the artist’s use of film, photography, drawing, performance, sculpture and installation and how these relate to what she has to say on the female role model and female identity.

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Uli Aigner. The inquisitive museum 17 October - 14 November 2010

Who actually "makes" a museum? How does a so-called cultural instituation take shape? Artist Uli Aigner (AT/DE) is interested in what motivates people involved in the field of culture to act as they do. Following the invitation by LENTOS and Linz 2009 European Capital of Culture, Uli Aigner has created a work in collaboration with the film-maker Michal Kosakowski that illustrates the involvement of a wide range of agents in the production of contemporary art.
Two artists, an art historian and art theorist, a translator, a publicist and theorist and a museum director talk openly and with no holds barred about their roles and their self-perception. Neither documentary nor the proverbial "look behind the scenes", this work is a subjective and independently conceived selection distilled from more than eight hours of talks between Uli Aigner and Stella Rollig and a succession of guests who dropped by at the LENTOS.

DAS NEUGIERIGE MUSEUM / THE INQUISITIVE MUSEUM
Video presentation
HD/Colour/Stereo/30 min

Concept, director: Uli Aigner
Camera, cutting, production: Michal Kosakowski
Music: Box Codax, Paolo Marzocchi
Featuring Uli Aigner, Sabeth Buchmann, Aileen Derieg, Elisabeth Plank, Stella Rollig, Georg Schöllhammer

Video presentation with a commentary by film maker Angela Summereder
Saturday, 6 November 2010, 3 pm
€ 3.00 plus admission

Image: OBSESSIONS, 1972/1977/2010 © VBK, Vienna 2010
Exhibition view, Belvedere, Wien, 2010. Installation 2 photographs mounted on wooden frames, old door, broken glass, ice skates, oil cans with used oil 220 x 125 x 170 cm. Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna. Photo: AnnA BlaU

Press contact:
Nina Kirsch Tel.: +43(0)732/7070/3603 Fax: +43(0)732/7070/3604 nina.kirsch@lentos.at

OPENING: Saturday, 16 October 2010, 7 pm

Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz
Ernst-Koref-Promenade 1 - 4020 Linz
Hours:
daily 10am - 6pm, Thursday 10am - 9pm. closed 24 and 25 December, on December 31 h 10am - 4pm
Admission:
adults EUR 6,50
Reduced admission (students under 26, senior citizens, those serving in state service) EUR 4,50
Families (parents+children) EUR 13,00
School group, per student free
Children under 7 free of charge

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