Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein

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Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein (born January 15, 1964 in Klagenfurt ) is an Austrian art historian and professor at the Institute for Art and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and designated exhibition curator of the Austria contribution 2019 at the 58th Venice Biennale . She is also the author and publisher of numerous publications, initiator and director of the Cathrin Pichler Archive for Science, Art and Curatorial Practice and a member of the board of trustees of the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien . Her research fields include modern art, contemporary art, arts-based research, feminist theory and art practice, as well as body and space production.

life and work

In 2001 Thun-Hohenstein received her doctorate with her work Emancipation and Expansion of Printmaking in Dieter Roth's Work . Her habilitation ( from cartographic view to synchronistic experience. On the performance of spatial worlds in art .) Followed in 2005. In 2009 she was visiting professor at the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of California in Santa Barbara.

Her research focuses on the performative perspective, which examines particularly dynamic processes (both between people and between people and their environment) and deals with current challenges in art. New methods, communication processes and languages ​​are to be developed that capture the transformative and political potential of art. "Thinking against thinking" should be encouraged.

Together with the Russian performance artist Fyodor Pavlov-Andreevich , she presented a group of young, up-and-coming local and international artists at the Vienna Festival in 2016 in “Fyodor's Performance Carousel”. a. Sebastian Alvarez, Pêdra Costa, Yingmei Duan , Alexander Felch, Andrés Knob, Roberta Lima , Evamaria Schaller and Anna Vasof.

In the Kunstraum Niederoesterreich she curated the exhibition that showed the extensive work of the performance artist Martha Wilson . The Two Halves of Martha Wilson's Brain shed light on both her artistic work and her activities in the bookstore and art space Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc., which she founded in 1976.

At the 58th Venice Biennale , Thun-Hohenstein is presenting the artist Renate Bertlmann , who is the first woman in Austrian history to use the pavilion alone. The former Minister of Culture Gernot Blümel called this decision at the press conference in Venice a “brave step”. Thun-Hohenstein contradicted: “That wasn't brave. That was extremely necessary. ” Discordo ergo sum (Latin: I contradict, therefore I am) - a reinterpretation of René Descarte's principle Cogito ergo sum - is Bertlmann's three-part installation: The white exhibition architecture planned by the VlayStreeruwitz office and almost floating in the room shows large-format Posters that guide you through Bertlmann's oeuvre like a cinematic review. The 312 knife roses in the garden of the pavilion are made of fragile glass and act like an army of tenderness exposed to the anger of their surroundings (e.g. weather conditions). The artist signs the facade like a canvas with the shadow of her life motto amo ergo sum (Latin: I love, therefore I am). The exhibition catalog in paperback format includes texts by the Spanish architectural theorist Beatriz Colomina , the French writer Hélène Cixous , the senior curator for international art (performance) of the Tate Gallery of Modern Art Catherine Wood, the art historian and sex researcher Peter Gorsen , the architect Lina Streeruwitz, the art historian Maria Vogel and the artist herself. A source book is also included with previously unpublished material (e.g. sketches, diary entries, text excerpts, notes, etc.).

Thun-Hohenstein lives and works in Vienna.

Curated exhibitions (selection)

  • 2008 SynChroniCity , Austrian contribution to the 11th Cairo Biennale
  • 2010 Hans Weigand, Deep Water Horizon at the University Art Gallery San Diego
  • 2012 Roberta Lima, Aesthetics of Risk , curated by_vienna 2012, Galerie Charim, Vienna
  • 2014 Self-Timer Stories in the Museum der Moderne Salzburg
  • 2014 Self-Timer Stories in the Austrian Cultural Forum New York
  • 2014 Self-Timer Stories at MUSAC - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León
  • 2016 Pro (s) thesis in the picture gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna , co-curated by Berenice Pahl
  • 2016 Albert Mayr. Orchestrated View , Neuer Kunstverein Wien
  • 2016 Painting is not the Issue, Neuer Kunstverein Wien
  • 2016 Toni Schmale. Feuerbock , New Art Association Vienna
  • 2016 Elisabeth von Samsonow. Transplants , Zeitkunst Niederösterreich, Krems
  • 2016 Fyodor's Performance Carousel , Wiener Festwochen , Vienna
  • 2017 Material Traces in the Charim Gallery, Vienna
  • 2017 Feminicities at the Solyanka State Gallery, Moscow
  • 2017 Yingmei Duan , Neuer Kunstverein, Vienna
  • 2018 The Two Halves of Martha Wilson's Brain, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna
  • 2019 Renate Bertlmann, Discordo Ergo Sum , Austrian Pavilion, Biennale di Venezia , 2019

Fonts

  • Renate Bertlmann, Discordo ergo sum (cat.), Verlag für moderne Kunst, Vienna, 2019 ISBN 978-3-903269-59-0
  • The Curator as…, edited with Sabine Priglinger, Schlebrügge, Vienna, 2017 ISBN 978-3-903172-03-6
  • Pro (s) thesis (cat.), Edited with Berenice Pahl, self-published, 2017
  • Self-Timer Stories (cat.), Schlebrügge, Vienna 2015 ISBN 978-3-902833-76-1
  • Performing the Sentence - Research and Teaching in Performative Fine Arts , ed. With Carola Dertnig , Publication Series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, vol. 13, 2014
  • Performance and its spatial conditions: Perspektiven einer Kunstgeschichte, Böhlau, Vienna, 2012 ISBN 978-3-205-78791-4
  • Synchronicity (cat.), Walther König, Cologne, 2009
  • Dieter Roth: Druckgrafik und Bücher - Prints and Books 1949–1979 , Oktogon, Cologne, 1998 ISBN 978-3-89611-048-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hedi Grager: Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein: think against thinking. Parnass Verlag Ges.mbH, May 2, 2019, accessed on July 31, 2019 .
  2. ↑ The Two Halves of Martha Wilson's Brain. Accessed July 31, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Barbara Unterthurner: 312 roses in Venice: Nice weapons for Instagram. Retrieved on July 31, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Thun-Hohenstein, Felicitas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian art historian and curator
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt