Vienna is about to open one of the largest museums of modern art in the world, the Albertina modern. It will come to life on March 12, 2020 at the House of Artists on Karlsplatz, and its collection will include more than 60,000 works by 5,000 artists.
In mid-March, the Albertina Museum opens its second exhibition venue on more than 2,500 square meters Albertina modern which is based on the extensive Essl art collection and wants to strongly underline the importance of the art of today and the semi-past era. The museum will be opened on March 13 with an appropriately named exhibition The beginning. Art in Vienna between 1945 and 1980. The exhibition focuses on the period before 1980, which was so crucial for international contemporary art and represents the most important Austrian artistic trends at the turn into postmodernism.
Albertina modern can boast of a collection more than 60,000 drawings, watercolors, prints and photographs. The emphasis is on Austrian art with works by Arnulf Rainer, Marie Lassnig, Franz West, Erwin Wurm and Valie Export. Among the foreign authors we find Germans such as Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer, Markus Lüpertz, Jörg Immendorff and Günther Förg, as well as American contemporary artists such as Andy Warhol, Alex Katz, Eric Fischl, Robert Longo, Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine, Ross Bleckner, and Michael Heizer.
The artists' association Künstlerhaus will be housed on the first floor of the House of Artists
The first floor of the House of Artists on Karlsplatz will house an independent, interdisciplinary and internationally oriented association of artists Künstlerhaus. The president of the association is a Slovenian from Carinthia, Tanja Prusnik, which is also the first female president of the association since its foundation in 1861.
The house of artists will be opened with an exhibition Alles war Klar with which they want to build bridges between the past, present and future of the Künstlerhaus. Visitors will thus be led through seven exhibition spaces, which will follow a carefully developed dramaturgy. The exhibition, prepared and curated by Tim Voss, will offer visitors both intellectually demanding contexts as well as direct, sensual pleasures.
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