Ocula Conversation Jess Johnson: Worlds Within Worlds Geometric patterns, anthropomorphic characters, architectural spatial environments, and relics of the ancient world appear throughout Jess Johnson's artworks.Johnson's solo art-ventures began in drawing, but her long-term collaborative relationship with animator Simon Ward brings her drawings to life in videos and virtual reality. The animator has...
Ocula Conversation Melati Suryodarmo: Performance Art as Trigger In 2012, Melati Suryodarmo opened Studio Plesungan in her native Surakarta, also known as Solo, the historic royal capital of the Mataram Empire of Java in Indonesia. Suryodarmo had returned to Indonesia from Germany, where she studied Butoh and choreography with Butoh dancer and choreographer Anzu Furukawa, time-based media with avantgarde...
Ocula Report Lagos Biennial 2019: Stories from Africa’s most Populous City 15 Nov 2019 : Jareh Das for Ocula Under the direction of Folakunle Oshun, the second edition of the Lagos Biennial (26 October–23 November 2019) includes works by over 40 Lagos-based and international artists, architects, and collectives. Curated by architect Tosin Oshinowo, curator and producer Oyindamola Fakeye, and assistant curator of photography at the Art Institute of...
Ocula Insight | Video Hans Hartung and Art Informel at Mazzoleni London (1 October 2019-18 January 2020) presents key works by the French-German painter while highlighting his connection with artists active in Paris during the 50s and 60s. In this video, writer and historian Alan Montgomery discusses Hartung's practice and its legacy.Born in Leipzig in 1904, Hans...
Kunsthalle Wien sees itself as the basis for a wide array of art forms that comprises well-known approaches to contemporary art as well as those which are yet to be discovered. It views itself as a forum that attributes equal importance to the presentation of art and the reflection of art and culture. Aware of the significance of contemporary art today, Kunsthalle Wien develops innovative exhibition formats which correspond to the large diversity of artistic media.
Since it opened in 1992 – originally as a makeshift structure shaped like a container, today with locations at the Museumsquartier and Karlsplatz – Kunsthalle Wien, as an urban institution, presents national and international contemporary art. In this respect, it is both a location for established art and negotiation site for current societal issues as well as future developments.
Kunsthalle Wien provides a space for experiments and artistic diversity. As an institution without its own collection, it focuses on themed group exhibitions, solo presentations of international artists as well as exhibitions of artists who are yet to be discovered. It therefore has an exceptional position among Viennese cultural institutions. Additionally, three different exhibition halls with individual interior profiles provide possibilities for realizing a variety of exhibition concepts.
Contemporary art does not explain itself. Therefore, our art education program, which covers a wide range of topics with innovative concepts, is crucial to our work at Kunsthalle Wien. We aim to provide access to presentations on a variety of levels, to facilitate a consolidation of artistic practices and their theoretical reflection, and to assist in an in-depth examination of current issues.
