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Francisco CarolinumATMichaela MoscouwPresent Absent Anwesend Abwesend– 14 May 2023How does one write about someone who is absent? Someone whose work is present only in a fragmentary sort of way, because destroying it was part of the artistic process? We have not heard much recently about the photographer Michaela Moscouw (b. 1961). She has turned her back on the art market and lives in seclusion in Vienna. She is not available for interviews. Exhibitions are held without her. And yet her works, the result of incessant image production across the decades, have nevertheless s… more Francisco CarolinumATKurt BuchwaldAsymmetry of vision / Asymmetrie des Sehens – 30 Apr 2023Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was no artist in East Germany who used photography to conduct a more provocative and extensive media, political, and ego exploration. From the very beginning, media and cultural self-doubt is palpable in Kurt Buchwald's work. He did not consider either photography itself or the GDR as a state entity to be enlightened marvels - but neither did he consider Western capitalism, as he tried to make clear immediately after the fall of the Wall. Interpreting li… more Francisco CarolinumATMicha Brendelin the flesh / leibsaftig – 30 Apr 2023Micha Brendel works in the artistic fields of photography, painting, performance, installation, object and text. A large part of his photo-based artworks can be seen as the result of a multi-layered work "in the material". Brendel's apparatus of attack includes photographic structural investigations as well as object alienations by means of experimental manipulations. What the artist achieves aesthetically on the basis of mechanical and chemical attacks against the photographic material or th… more Francisco CarolinumATErich-Wolfgang HartzschSecond skin / Zweite Haut – 30 Apr 2023Erich-Wolfgang Hartzsch (born 1952), painter and media artist, was an important representative of the oppositional nonconformist art scene in the GDR. He studied painting and graphic arts in Chemnitz, took part in numerous actions and performances, and from 1980 was a member of the music group "Kartoffelschälmaschine" (Potato Peeling Machine) alongside Andreas Hartzsch, Frank Raßbach, Gitte Hähner-Springmühl and Klaus Hähner-Springmühl. His broad inter- and multimedia work includes painti… more Francisco CarolinumATHeidi HarsieberHand.Camera – 19 Mar 2023Heidi Harsieber (b. 1948) first apprenticed as a photographer and then took courses at the Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt in Vienna. When she embarked on her career, she was the youngest professional photographer in Austria. In addition to doing commercial photography for tableware producers and industrial enterprises, she began to develop an independent body of artistic work as early as the 1960s and early 1970s. From 1977 to 2001, she taught at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Ha… more Francisco CarolinumATHerbert W. FrankeVisionary / Visionär – 3 Jul 2022On the occasion of the 95th birthday of the media art pioneer Herbert W. Franke, the Upper Austrian Landes-Kultur GmbH is honouring his life and extraordinary work with an exhibition. Herbert W. Franke is a pioneer in many worlds, a border crosser between art and science who made very early and decisive achievements in numerous disciplines. As a computer artist of the first hour, he first experimented with generative photography in 1952, but as early as 1954 he first used an analogue computer an… more Francisco CarolinumATAnna EhrensteinTools for Conviviality – 6 Mar 2022Anna Ehrenstein (b. 1993) found inspiration for her Tools for Conviviality during extended stays in Dakar in 2018 and 2019. In the Senegalese capital the artist met Saliou Ba, Donkafele (Mandé Mory Bah and Thibault Houssou), Nyamwathi Gichau, Lydia Likibi, and Awa Seck, all of whom would become her friends and artistic collaborators. Ehrenstein’s own migration experience between Germany and Albania sensitized her to the living conditions of her collaborators, who all migrated at … more Francisco CarolinumATGeta BrãtescuThe Woman and the Bird – 20 Feb 2022With the exhibition "Geta Brătescu – The Woman and the Bird" the Francisco Carolinum is the first museum in Austrria, offering an insight to the work of the Romanian artist. Geta Brătescu was born in 1926 in Ploiești, Romania. She developed an impressive understanding of playful, artistic freedom in her work during the period of communist Stalinist dictatorship (1965 to 1989) under Nicolae Ceaușescu. She not only witnessed the revolution against the regi… more Francisco CarolinumATHE YunchangThe Golden Sunshine kuratiert von Ai Weiwei– 20 Feb 2022He Yunchang (*1967 in Kunming, Yunnan) is one of the most important performing artists in China. He studied painting at the Yunnan Art Institute and moved to Beijing in the 1990s, where his first performative works were created. Over the past two decades, he was best known for a series of radical actions. For instance, he had his hand cast in concrete for 24 hours, tried–hanging from a crane–to divide a river in half with his own blood, burned the clothes he was wearing, he ventured to stay … more Francisco CarolinumATGina PaneAction Psyché – 20 Feb 2022With her spectacular actions, pushing her body to its bearable limit, Gina Pane (1939-1990) is considered as one of the most radical performance artists of the 1970s. She studied painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Influenced by the social upheavals and student protests in Paris in May 1968, she developed a performative oeuvre characterized by self-harm in the short spell between 1970 and 1978. Her "actions" targeted what she considered a devastatingly desolate poli… more Francisco CarolinumATNatalia LLTHE MYSTERIOUS WORLD – 26 Sep 2021Polish artist Natalia LL has gained international success since the 1970s with the picture series "Consumer Art" and "Post-Consumer Art". The series depict young women licking and sucking foods like bananas, sausages, and pudding with relish. These works were appropriated by feminist art from the beginning. To this day, they are presented in many exhibitions on corporeality, gender, and sexuality. The exhibition at the FC - Francisco Carolinum displays examples of these s… more Francisco CarolinumATRoger BallenTHE PLACE OF THE MIND RETROSPEKTIVE– 21 May 2021Roger Ballen’s errily beautiful photographs are populated by outsiders, animals, and enigmatic objects. With his photographic stagings, which create a strange and perplexing atmosphere, Roger Ballen dives into the abysmal depths of the human psyche. Born in New York in 1950, Roger Ballen is one of the most important and influential international art photographers of today. For more than 40 years, he has been living and working in Johannesburg, South Africa. With his both fascinating and… more Francisco CarolinumATAneta GrzeszykowskaFAMILY SKIN – 5 Apr 2021For more than 15 years, Polish artist Aneta Grzeszykowska (*1974) has been reflecting on fundamental questions of identity and self-understanding in her works. Her subject of focus is the human body, particularly that of women, in its role as a projection screen and construction. Family Skin addresses the wide range of methods, products, creams, gels, masks, massages and plastic surgery procedures for enhancing, perfecting and self-optimising the skin. The exhibition is set against the backdro… more Francisco CarolinumATLuo YangYOUTH, GIRLS Selected Works– 28 Mar 2021The Chinese photographer Luo Yang (born 1984) is one of the most internationally recognised artists* of her generation. After completing her studies in graphic design at the renowned Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang, she turned to photography. Numerous exhibitions in China in recent years, and latterly more frequently in Europe also, are proof of the international interest in her work. The presentation at FC-Francisco Carolinum of works from the series GIRLS and YOUTH is Luo Yang's f… more |
