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8/6/2004

Juergen Teller

Kunsthalle Wien, Wien

Ich bin vierzig

Juergen Teller, born in Germany in 1964, currently numbers among the stars in contemporary art photography. In the 1990s he revolutionized the international fashion scene, creating pictures at the juncture of the worlds of art, advertising, and fashion. Teller s subtle gaze breaks from glamorous surfaces and paint layered masks to draft depictions and identities of models far removed from their normal appearances on catwalks and in magazines such as Vogue, Face, or ID.

Rather than the high gloss aesthetics, he photographs models such as Stephanie Seymour or Kate Moss without any make up, in casual wear, pregnant, and on vacation. Also in the series Miss World, 1999 in Caracas/Venezuela, during the Miss World competition, Juergen Teller questioned our society s beauty cult and created a satire of the present demands for perfection with photography that was consciously not re touched, and instead showed flaws. In the documentary series Go Sees, in his studio in London, Teller recorded photo models, mostly youths, in photographs, videos, and interviews and in doing so reported on their desires and dreams, fascinated, fixated, and dazzled by a constructed ideal world. Jrgen Teller portrays common and banal situations. His works are a tribute to simplicity and are captivating in their incomparably natural intimacy. In his most recent autobiographically based photo series, Nackig auf dem Fuballplatz, he uses himself as model and investigates how aesthetic/photographically close to reality one is actually able to come and in doing so, almost painfully touches upon it.

The exhibition Ich bin vierzig presents a selection of the well known photo and video works, such as Versace Heart with Kristen McMenamy (1996), The Clients (1999), Go Sees (2001), and Miss World (2000). On view are photographs from Juergen Teller s familial surroundings in Franconia, from the books Mrchenstberl (2002) and Zwei Schufferle mit Klo und eine Kinderportion Schnitzel mit Pommes Frites (2003).

The exhibition achieves its explosive power through the most recent, vomprehensive, and currently unpublished series Hotel de Crillon (2004), taken in the Parisian hotel of the same name, showing self portraits of the artist in role play with the film actress Charlotte Rampling. Juergen Teller was born in Bubenreuth, Germany, in 1964. He lives and works in London.

The theme of the exhibition Fashion and Photography joins the Kunsthalle Wien s cross over exhibitions such as Bourgeois/Holzer/Lang or Beckett/Nauman, which go beyond pure art categories. Collaboration with unit F and the housing of the Austrian Fashion Awards Night 04, which will take place on 25 September 2004, parallel to the exhibition, will carry the concentration on art and fashion into 2004.

A book, with the same name as the series, Hotel de Crillon (2004), will be published by Steidl Verlag, as will a catalogue brochure with texts by Elisabeth Bronfen, Rainer Metzger, and Ulrich Pohlmann. An interview with Juergen Teller and Gerald Matt/Bice Curiger supplements the illustrated brochure.

curators: Gerald Matt, Ulrich Pohlmann

Press conference: Wednesday, 9 June 2004, 10 am

Opening: Wednesday, 9 June 2004, 7 pm

10 June 17 October 2004, hall 2
daily 10 am 7 pm, Thu. 10 am 10 pm, Wed. closed

Information and photographic materials: Katharina Murschetz, KUNSTHALLE wien, office: Museumsplatz 1, A 1070 Vienna phone: +43 1 521 89 1221, fax: +43 1 521 89 1220

KUNSTHALLE wien
Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna, Infoline +43 1 52189 33

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