Occupying Space
05/11/2003
Generali Foundation
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Sammlung Generali Foundation Collection
Presentation of the Collection catalogue
Wednesday, 5 November 2003, 7 p.m.
The first comprehensive publication on the internationally renowned Generali Foundation Collection with nu-merous illustrations and texts by the artists.
Edited by Sabine Breitwieser for the Generali Foundation, Vienna.
Foreword Dietrich Karner, Introduction Sabine Breitwieser, numerous text by the artists, Germ./Engl., ca. 664 pages, ca. 680 color- and 420 b&w illustrations.
Softcover ISBN 3-901107-42-8
Hardcover ISBN 3-88375-780-2, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln
Distributed in North America by D.A.P, New York. ISBN 3-901107-41-X
Since the end of the 1980s, the Generali Foundation has established a renowned collection of contemporary art consisting of about 1,400 works by approx. 160 international artists. In contrast to state-owned and many private collections the Generali Foundation does not endeavor to present a comprehensive overview. Instead it focuses on individual artistic approaches in connection with specific themes. Several key works in the col-lection date back to the 1960s and are opposed to more recent ones and placed within a contemporary con-text. The issues addressed in the Generali Foundation Collection include conceptual and performative as-pects of art as well as the crossovers to architecture and design. Most significantly, it features artistic prac-tices that analyze and critically interrogate social parameters and the role of the media.
With works and texts by Gottfried Bechtold, Norbert Brunner/Michael Schuster, Ernst Caramelle, Maria Eichhorn, VALIE EXPORT, Harun Farocki, Andrea Fraser, Rainer Ganahl, Isa Genzken, Bruno Gironcoli, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Hans Hollein, Sanja Ivekovic, Mary Kelly, Richard Kriesche, Elke Krystufek, Friedl Kubelka, Bertrand Lavier, Dorit Margreiter, Gordon Matta-Clark, Walter Pichler, Adrian Piper, Mathias Poledna, Florian Pumhösl, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Martha Rosler, Gerhard Rühm, Allan Sekula, Martin Walde, Peter Weibel, Franz West, Heimo Zobernig as well as other artists especially from the comprehensive video collection.
New homepage online on 5 November 2003.
