Produced on the occasion of Luciano Fabro’s exhibition at Micheline Szwajcer Gallery, Antwerp, that opened on 20 May, 1985.
Produced on the occasion of Luciano Fabro’s exhibition at Micheline Szwajcer Gallery, Antwerp, 20 April–4 June, 2016.
Produced on the occasion of the exhibitions at Palacio de Velázquez, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 8 November, 2012–15 April, 2013 and Kunsthaus Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz, 7 June–1 September, 2013. With texts by Eva Badura-Triska, Archiv HZ, Jürgen Bock, Achim Hochdörfer, Andrew Renton and Gertrud Sandqvist.
Heimo Zobernig’s contribution to the Venice Biennial responded directly to the existing exhibition situation in the Austrian Pavilion, built in 1934 based on plans by Josef Hoffmann and Robert Kramreiter. The Pavilion’s structure, with its rounded classical arches and majestic visual axes, on the one hand, and clear, rational forms and modern construction materials, on the other, moves between the poles of historicism and modernism. At the same time, Zobernig’s intervention connected inside and outside, to create an enclosed site where one can linger and reflect on human presence in space.
Edited by Yilmaz Dziewior.
Produced on the occasion of Heimo Zobernig’s exhibition at Micheline Szwajcer Gallery, Antwerp, 13 March–15 April, 2020
Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Forrest Bess at Fridericianum, Kassel, 15 February–6 September, 2020.
Forrest Bess was one of the most interesting figures in US-American post-war art. Starting in the 1940s, he lived in isolation in Texas and created small, biomorphic abstractions that reflected his visionary experiences between wakefulness and sleep. Bess combined art with an intense exploration of mythology, psychology, and sexology, believing that the path to completeness and immortality could only be achieved through what he called hermaphroditism. His unconventional works received posthumous recognition in international exhibitions and influenced many contemporary artists such as Amy Sillman, Richard Hawkins and James Benning.
With texts from Tomma Abts, Dieter Schwarz, Amy Sillman & Moritz Wesseler.