Kunsthalle Wien
Kunsthalle Wien is the exhibition hall of the City of Vienna for international contemporary art and discourse with locations Museum Quarter and Karlsplatz. You demonstrated and taught contemporary artistic positions that make the current problems experienced - both in terms of themes in art and in social contexts. As Kunsthalle it does not have its own collection but also organizes exhibitions and projects on topics related to the presence or to the work of individual artists.
History
Originally designed as a temporary construction container in the form of Adolf Krischanitz for the Karlsplatz, she was ibid. opened in spring 1992 and was already before the opening in the center of fierce public debate. The " huge fight " ( Courier 21 March 1992) to the windowless, first simply blue - yellow container in a central location was seen as a " cultural war " with " populist verbal attacks " ( Courier March 25, 1992 ), it was unable to political solidarity initiatives with the architect, but also criticism from colleagues such as Roland Rainer ( in: The Press 25 March 1992). " Cabaret maturity word duels " coined a related meeting of the Vienna City Council ( Courier March 28, 1992 ). The Kronen-Zeitung of 12 June 1992 claiming that the new Kunsthalle bring " the soul of the people to cook ."
In May 2001, the Kunsthalle a new building in the former " ovals Hof" moved into new home building in the Museum Quarter, including the former winter riding hall of the royal stables. The temporary container at Karlsplatz now functionless pedestrian passage was dismantled. He was replaced by a smaller, glazed exhibition space, against which there were no protests. This now serves as the Kunsthalle project space. The Café of the Kunsthalle Wien is also still on the old site Karlsplatz.
Locations and Architecture
Originally the building of the Kunsthalle Wien was designed as a temporary building in container form by the Austrian architect Adolf Krischanitz for the Karlsplatz. Even before its opening in February 1992 was the construction in the center of fierce public debate. The yellow- blue container not only shaped the city of Vienna, but also changed the Viennese art and exhibition scene sustainable.
Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier
First Reflections on a Museum Quarter in the center of Vienna, there were already in the 1980 years before the tender of a competition, which the architects Ortner & Ortner ( Ortner, Laurids and Manfred Ortner ) finally decided in his favor in 1990. The new building of the main house at the Kunsthalle Wien took place behind a listed façade of the former winter riding hall in the center of the Museum Quarter. Between Leopold Museum MUMOK and. The historic building was supplemented by a brick building, which houses two exhibition halls or connected with her. In May 2001, the Kunsthalle Wien moved into its new main building in the museum district.
Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz
" An inexpensive architecture as a medium, a test tube for artistic interventions, an ideas - acceleration machine for a scene that will probably never feel right in marble halls and Stuckaturhallen. "
After moving to the Museum Quarter of blue- yellow container was scaled at Karlsplatz to a glass pavilion. The relatively small glass cube at Karlsplatz should the temporary art gallery from containers that were empty after the opening of the Museum Quarter replace. As a second location of the Kunsthalle Wien the glass cube transported art at one of the neuralgic points of intersection of the city, the Karlsplatz. By 2012, this glazed exhibition space of the Kunsthalle Wien served as project space. Since 2013 he is equivalent exhibition and event space of the Kunsthalle Wien.
Corporate Design
In April 2013 presented the Kunsthalle Wien in front of her new visual appearance. Designed by Belgian graphic designer and artist Boy Vereecken concept holds up two very different associated with urban design elements: the objective, geometric grid of the Wiener Werkstätte and the figure of the eagle as an emblem of Vienna. The design dispensed with a fixed trademarks and stands as a synonym for the mutability of the Kunsthalle Wien.
Others
- Since 1992, over one million people have visited the exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Wien.
- In 2002, the Kunsthalle Wien named as one of the six best in Europe exhibition houses the Italian art magazine ARTE.
- In March 2005, the courtyard facade of the Kunsthalle with the flag installation Kanak Attack. The third Turkish siege of the artist Feridun Zaimoğlu imposed.