How Society And Politics Get In The Picture

How Society And Politics Get In The Picture

Generali Foundation

September 12, 2005

How Society And Politics Get In The Picture
16 September - 18 December 2005

Generali Foundation 
Wiedner Hauptstrasse 15
1040 Vienna, Austria

foundation@generali.at

HOW SOCIETY AND POLITICS GET IN THE PICTURE

With works by Bureau détudes, Alice Creischer / Andreas Siekmann, Maria Eichhorn, Hans Haacke, Klub Zwei / SFC Schwarze Frauen Community, Andreja Kuluncic, Adrian Piper, Martha Rosler, Stephen Willats

The exhibition cycle launched last year to highlight themes of the collection is this time dedicated to an area that more than any other is significant for the Generali Foundation: Art Society Politics. The focus of this second exhibition in the series is on artistic practices reflecting onor even intervening insocial and political conditions. Since the 1960s, if not before, artists have centered their work more increasingly and offensively on issues of class, gender or ethnic originas well as on related socio-political parameters. The exhibition, compiled from both works of the collection and loans, centers on some of the highly diverse and often surprising artistic approaches that have been deployed in this field.

The exhibition is structured by four renowned artistic stances in which socio-political issues have formed a fundamental theme since the 1960s/70s. The se-lected works by artists of the younger generation can be read in relation to this. Rather than individual works here it is more comprehensive artistic projects that form the focus. Like several overlapping circles, differentiated artistic practices and image politics crystallize within the exhibition.

The exhibition cycle dealing with themes of the collection was launched last year with the exhibition COLLECTED VIEWS FROM EAST OR WEST, a show reflecting the East-West issue. A series of publications featuring theoretical texts will accompany the various exhibitions.

Through this long term project, the Generali Foundation Collection is being more intensively mediated on various levels: previously organized theme exhibitions are being focused on a discourse about the collection. At the same time the international exhibition tour of the Generali Foundation Collection, entitled Occupying Space, is to be made better known in Vienna. Following the exhibition in Munich at the Haus der Kunst, the exhibition was hosted in Rotterdam/Netherlands at the Nederlands fotomuseum, Witte de With and TENT. until the end of August. From 28 October to 9 December 2005 the Generali Foundation Collection will be presented in cooperation with the Museum for Contemporary Art in Zagreb/Croatia.
Curator: Sabine Breitwieser
Press Contact: Carmen Buchacher 43 1 504 98 80-24, found.presse@generali.at
For further information please visit foundation.generali.at

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