Vienna

Kontakt … works from the Collection of Erste Bank Group

Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien MUMOK 17.3.2006 – 21.5.2006
tranzit workshops, Bratislava

In Kontakt, MUMOK presents the collection of Erste Bank Group. The exhibition will show an overview of art from Central, East, and Southeastern Europe since the 1960s.
The exhibition showed a general overview of major currents in art from Central Europe, Eastern Europe and Southeastern Europe since the 1960s. Performance art, media reflexivity and responses to modernist art practices are central to the presentation, which marked the start of the Erste Bank Group´s collecting activities. With this project, art from the countries of Central Europe is for the first time being presented in two locations in a border-crossing show: in Vienna and Bratislava.
The works shown in the exhibition reflect the political and historical transformations that have taken place in Europe since the 1960s, as well as the importance of art before the backdrop of current cultural, social, and economic developments. Erste Bank Group thus presents an up until now neglected chapter in the international history of art and contributes to its reevaluation in the current art discourse. While the earlier works in the exhibition from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s will be shown in MUMOK, the more recent positions will be exhibited in Tranzit Workshops in Bratislava. The recently founded exhibition space for young art makes clear the crucial intention of the Erste Bank Group to provide infrastructural support and create artistic platforms of production in the countries they do business.
Press Release MUMOK, February 21, 2006


Impressum:

Exhibition
MUMOK
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
Director: Edelbert Köb

Curators: Silvia Eiblmayr, Georg Schöllhammer, Walter Seidl, Jiří Ševčík, Branka Stipančić, Adam Szymczyk
Head of production (MUMOK): Claudia Dohr, Rainer Fuchs
Head of production (Erste Bank Group): Walter Seidl, Cornelia Stellwag-Carion
Restoration: Charlotte Karl
Press: Barbara Hammerschmied
Marketing: Wolfgang Schreiner, Daniela Birk
Fundraising: Bärbel Holaus, Sonja Lackner
Exhibition architecture: Nicole Six & Paul Petritsch
Exhibition installation: Olli Aigner & Team, MUMOK–Arbeitsteam
Audiovisual technician: Michi Krupica
Art education program: Jörg Wolfert, Johanna Gudden & Team, (Responsible for project: Beate Hartmann, Mikki Muhr)
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