Featuring the work of five contemporary Viennese artists/artist groups, Unterspiel explored the problematics of contemporary art production in Vienna. The works in the exhibition demonstrated a specific, sometimes belated relation to a tradition of avant-gardism that has its origins in fin de siecle Vienna. At the same time, they sometimes paradoxically took issue with the provocative actions of the Viennese Actionists (1960s). In the wake of the Actionists' inherently political and violent work, contemporary Viennese art often engages in socio-political issues concerning notions of Austrian identity, or in confrontation to political and/or art institutions.
Jan 18, 2007 – Feb 25, 2007
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Unterspiel
Patrick Baumüller & Severin Hofmann, Catrin Bolt, Marlene Haring, monochrom, Hans Schabus
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- Séamus Kealy
Séamus Kealy is an award-winning international museum and gallery director, curator, and artist. He is currently Director of the Salzburger Kunstverein in Austria. From 2008 to 2013, he was Director of The Model, Sligo, Ireland, which he led through a major redevelopment. From 2005 to 2008, he was Curator at the Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto, Canada. He has lectured at universities world-wide, including as Visiting Lecturer for the Higher Institute for Visual Arts in Ghent, Belgium. He has held artist and curatorial residencies in Canada, Chile, Ireland, Austria, and France. Awards and acknowledgements include the "Top Exhibition in Austria” in 2014 (Punctum), "Number Four (of Top Ten) Exhibitions in Austria” in 2016, (The People’s Cinema); both by Profil Magazine, the Curatorial Writing Award in 2007 by the Ontario Association of Art Galleries, “Number Five (of Top Ten) Exhibitions of 2007 (Canada)” (Unterspiel) by Canadian Art Magazine, as well as finalist for the Lexmark Pan-European Painting Prize (2004), and finalist for the RBC National Painting Award in Canada (2002). In 2018 he was International Juror for Canada’s Sobey Art Award. He studied Fine Arts (BFA), including photography, under Jeff Wall, and later Art History: Curatorial Studies (MA) at the University of British Columbia.
This exhibition was generously funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Trillium Foundation, the Gladestone Hotel, the Austrian Cultural Forum in Ottawa and Simple Alternative Funeral Centres.
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