Space. About a dream
The exhibition takes place in the Kunsthalle Wien as well as in some rooms of the Natural History Museum of Vienna.
Space
always carried a tremendous fascination for people. This enchantment has been reflected in a great variety of forms throughout
art history.
April 12th, 2011 marks the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s flight into space, the first of its kind and
the one which kicked off the era of manned space flight. Kunsthalle Wien takes the opportunity offered by these celebrations
to shine a light on the theme of space travel with a comprehensive group exhibition (involving some 51 artistic positions)
that will illuminate this rich thematic field, ranging from meteorites to landing on the moon, from the fear of Martians to
theories of the Big Bang, in a manner both playful and multi-facetted.
Artists
Paweł Althamer, Eric Andersen, Julieta Aranda, Artsat, Angela Bulloch, Björn Dahlem, Vladimir Dubossarsky & Alexander Vinogradov, Charles and Ray Eames, Sylvie Fleury, Agnes Fuchs, Daniel & Geo Fuchs, Loris Gréaud, Judith Hopf, Dona Jalufka, Toril Johannessen, William Kentridge, Markus Krottendorfer, Lena Lapschina, Simone Leigh, Jen Liu, Basim Magdy, Mahony, Aleksandra Mir, Jyoti Mistry, monochrom, Mariko Mori, Gianni Motti, Deimantas Narkevičius, Katie Paterson, Simon Patterson, Amalia Pica, Christian Pußwald, Robert Rauschenberg, Pipilotti Rist, Thomas Ruff, Tom Sachs, Wilhelm Sasnal, Charles Schmidt, Michael Snow, Andrei Sokolov, Hildegard Spielhofer, Eve Sussman & Rufus Corporation, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Keith Tyson, Christian Waldvogel, Andy Warhol, Orson Welles, Nives Widauer, Jane & Louise Wilson, Virginie Yassef, Carey Young.
Curator
Cathérine
Hug
Advisory board
Gerald Matt (Director Kunsthalle Wien), Walter Famler (Founder of the Movement KOCMOC/Group Gagarin), Christian Köberl (Director of the Natural History Museum of Vienna).
