DRAMA DISPLAY
This portfolio presents the work of an artist whose oeuvre expands (in and of itself) when exhibited, as only then does it become fully visible and properly challenged. For Heimo Zobernig, the most international of Austrian artists, painting, sculpture, film, video, performance, architectural models and design are multiple and at times contradictory modes of questioning and discovery. As the curator, Karola Kraus, notes in her essay on the artist, ‘Heimo Zobernig’s works encompass processes of art production and material aesthetics as well as issues of display and architecture, and question the mechanisms whereby museums and galleries function.’ For the portfolio section of Electra, Zobernig ‘selected the images focusing on installation shots from important exhibitions’, creating a continuum that comprises both his artistic work and exhibition practice.
K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 2003
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Stellproben, deSingel international arts centre, Antwerp, 2008
© Photo: Jan Kempenaers
Heimo Zobernig and the Collection of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Centre of Modern Art, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, 2009
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CAPC, Museum of Contemporary Art of Bordeaux, 2009
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Festival, Galerie Sud, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2009
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Untitled (in red), Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, 2011
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Heimo Zobernig, Palacio de Velázquez, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2012
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Austrian Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale, 2015
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Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, 2015
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wood painting, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, 2016
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