Bank Austria Art Forum Vienna

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The Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien is an exhibition center at Freyung 8 in Vienna's 1st district , Inner City . The eponymous Bank Austria is the main sponsor of the art forum. The former bank building has been owned by Signa Holding since 2010 and has also housed the Constitutional Court since August 2012 (entrance Renngasse 2; this was given the address Freyung 8 on the occasion of the VfGH relocation). In 2020, the Art Forum states on its website that it will be frequented by 250,000 to 300,000 visitors per year.

history

The Bank Austria Art Forum on the Freyung

The neoclassical building at Freyung 8, at the corner of Renngasse 2, was built between 1914 and 1921 as a bank building for the Österreichische Creditanstalt für Handel und Gewerbe according to designs by architects Ernst Gotthilf and Alexander Neumann . In 1980 the building was owned by the Länderbank , which just celebrated its 100th anniversary. On the occasion of this anniversary and at the suggestion of the actor Heinz Conrads , exhibitions were shown for the first time in the empty former ticket halls. The first show, Departure into Modernism , was seen by around 28,000 visitors.

When other exhibitions were also successful, the then Länderbank general director Franz Vranitzky decided to make this temporary cultural facility a permanent establishment - under the name Länderbank-Kunstforum and headed by Klaus Albrecht Schröder (now director of the Albertina ).

In 1988, the architect Gustav Peichl was commissioned to renovate the art forum; the reopening took place in March 1989. Soon afterwards, the new owner, Bank Austria, renamed the institution Bank Austria Kunstforum . From the end of 1992 to the beginning of 1993, the building was rebuilt again and the exhibition area doubled, as the rooms could no longer cope with the large number of visitors.

2002–2008 the exhibition center was called BA-CA Kunstforum , as the owner operated as Bank Austria Creditanstalt .

In April 2005, the vault in the Bank Austria Kunstforum was opened in a former vault in the building . Young, international art is presented here, but the safe also sees itself as a space for art education and intellectual debate. The design was based on designs by the architekturladen , which had already redesigned the museum shop in 2002. In March 2008, as a result of the sale of Bank Austria to the UniCredit Group, it was renamed Bank Austria Kunstforum .

Ingried Brugger has been the director of the Kunstforum since 2000 . The exhibition area is 1,120 m², in 2011 around 250,000 visitors were counted. (With 223,879 visitors, the Bank Austria Kunstforum was 20th among the most visited sights in Vienna in 2008. ) The Kunstforum presents changing exhibitions with a focus on classic modern painting , the avant-garde of the post-war period and contemporary art.

UniCredit Bank Austria AG sold the building in which the art forum is located to the Tyrolean Signa Holding at the beginning of 2010 . As it became known in spring 2010, the art forum should therefore move to premises in the nearby Seitzergasse in autumn 2011. The move was canceled in December 2010.

On August 20, 2012, the Constitutional Court , relocated from the Bohemian Court Chancellery , started operations in the building; the entrance to the court is around the corner at the former address Renngasse 2, now known as Freyung 8.

Bank Austria art collection

The foundation stone of the collection was laid by the Central Savings Bank of the Municipality of Vienna, which founded an art fund in 1956 as part of its 50th anniversary and continuously endowed it. The task of the fund was to support young and not yet established artists in their careers through project funding. Among those sponsored in the first two decades are numerous painters who later became internationally known, such as Arik Brauer , Ernst Fuchs and Maître Leherb .

In 1991, the Länderbank collection was merged with the art collection of the predecessor institution of UniCredit Bank Austria AG, the Zentralsparkasse.

The credit institute Creditanstalt-Bankverein , founded in 1855, was merged with Bank Austria in 2002, and on August 12, 2002 the collections of what was then Bank Austria merged with the one that Creditanstalt had started in the early 1970s.

The Fotografis Collection is a collection founded by Bank Austria in 1976 of over 1000 photographs from the pioneering days of photography in the 19th century. It contains specimens in the style of pictorialism and straight photography through to experimental positions of the avant-garde and contemporary contributions.

In 2009 the collection was given on permanent loan to the Photography Collection at the Museum der Moderne in Salzburg.

Exhibitions

Many exhibitions took place in cooperation with other art houses.

1989

  • 14.03.1989 - 18.06.1989: Egon Schiele and his time. Austrian painting and drawing from 1900 to 1930. From the Leopold Collection .

1990

  • January 31, 1990 - April 21, 1990: From Caspar David Friedrich to Adolph Menzel. Watercolors and drawings of the Romantic period from the National Gallery in Berlin / GDR
  • 04/28/1990 - 07/15/1990: Fashion Photography - From 1900 to today (Kunstforum Länderbank)
  • September 14, 1990 - December 16, 1990: Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller
  • March 14, 1990 - June 23, 1991: Oskar Kokoschka

1991

  • 08/30/1991 - 10/20/1991: The decade of painting - Austria 1980 to 1990. Essl collection
  • 11/20/1991 - 02/02/1992: Japan - The flowing world. The private collection Drennig

1992

1993

  • March 31, 1993 - June 27, 1993: Viennese Biedermeier . Painting between the Congress of Vienna and the Revolution.
  • 12/10/1993 - 02/20/1994: Baroque in Naples. Art at the time of the Austrian viceroys. In cooperation with: Kunsthistorisches Museum , Vienna, Soprintendenza per I Beni Artisitici e Storici, Naples

1994

1995

  • 04/01/1995 - 07/02/1995: The New Objectivity [1] . Austria 1918 to 1938
  • 08/24/1995 - 11/19/1995: In Perfect Harmony: Picture + Frame 1850 - 1920
  • 11/28/1995 - 02/18/1996: Paths of Expressionism - The Bridge

1996

1997

1998

  • 03/13/1998 - 06/18/1998: Monet to Picasso . The collector's eye, (private collection)
  • 09/03/1998 - 11/29/1998: Red in Russian Art. In cooperation with: State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
  • December 18, 1998 - February 28, 1999: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner . In cooperation with: Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung , Munich

1999

  • 03/12/1999 - 06/06/1999: Max Beckmann . Landscape as a stranger.
  • 07.10.1999 - 02.01.2000: Century of women. From impressionism to the present. Austria 1870 until today

2000

  • 01/20/2000 - 04/25/2000: Cézanne : Completed - Unfinished, with Kunsthaus Zürich
  • 05/11/2000 - 08/13/2000: Arnulf Rainer : AGAINST.PICTURES.
  • 07.09.2000 - 07.01.2001: Picasso. Figure and portrait - major works from the Bernard Picasso collection

2001

  • January 17, 2001 - March 4, 2001: Adolf Frohner , defense of the center
  • 03/14/2001 - 06/04/2001: Miró , later rebel
  • June 14, 2001 - August 26, 2001: The myth of the big city - architecture and urban architecture in Central Europe 1890 - 1937
  • 09/05/2001 - 12/02/2001: Malevich
  • 13.12.2001 - 03.03.2002: Emil Nolde and the South Seas

2002

2003

  • 07.03.2003 - 29.06.2003: Futurism - Radical Avant-garde
  • 04.09.2003 - 30.11.2003: Under the spell of modernity. Picasso. Chagall. Jawlensky
  • December 11, 2003 - March 7, 2004: Roy Lichtenstein

2004

2005

2006

  • 03/27/2006 - 05/01/2006: safe: Abstract Papers
  • May 8, 2006 - June 18, 2006: Crazy Love from Dalí to Francis Bacon - The Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection
  • May 18, 2006 - May 31, 2006: tresor: Eisler Prize 2005 - An exhibition of the BA-CA Art Prize
  • 06/03/2006 - 06/18/2006 : safe: composition - Andrés Ramírez Gaviria
  • September 6, 2006 - November 5, 2006: Markus Lüpertz
  • 09/22/2006 - 09/29/2006: tresor: Eisler Prize 2006 - nominee for the BA-CA Art Prize
  • 10/17/2006 - 10/31/2006 : tresor: Kulturkontakt Austria Artists in Residence 2005 - One year after
  • 11/02/2006 - 11/11/2006: safe: Henkel Art. Award. 2006
  • 11/15/2006 - 02/18/2007: Marc Chagall. Masterpieces 1908–1922
  • 07.12.2006 - 28.01.2007: safe: Anna Jermolaewa - Orchestra reloaded

2007

  • 02/15/2007 - 02/21/2007: tresor: Eisler Prize 2006 - An exhibition of the BA-CA Art Prize
  • 03/01/2007 - 07/22/2007: Eros in modern art
  • 03/01/2007 - 07/22/2007: tresor: Eros in modern art - extended exhibition space
  • 04.09.2007 - 07.10.2007: "whenever for the time being". News from the BA-CA art collection
  • October 16, 2007 - February 3, 2008: The kiss of the Sphinx. Symbolism in Belgium
  • 11/30/2007 - 02/03/2008: safe: Dan Perjovschi and Nedko Solakov - Walls & Floor (without the ceiling)

2008

  • 02/28/2008 - 06/29/2008: Monet - Kandinsky - Rothko and the consequences. Paths of abstract painting
  • 14.03.2008 - 04.05.2008: safe: Regina Hofer / Tobias Pils
  • May 21, 2008 - May 28, 2008: safe: Stefan Sandner. Eisler Prize Winner 2007
  • 09/11/2008 - 10/29/2008: Fotografis collection reloaded
  • 11/14/2008 - 03/01/2009: Georges Braque
  • 11/17/2008 - 11/30/2008: tresor: Eisler Prize 2008
  • December 6, 2008 - January 18, 2009: Safe: Lucia Nimcova. Unoffical III

2009

  • May 27, 2009 - June 28, 2009: Gugging .! In Vienna
  • May 28, 2009 - June 14, 2009: safe: Bertram Hasenauer. Eisler Prize Winner 2008
  • October 16, 2009 - January 10, 2010: Past Present Future. Works from the Unicredit Group Collection
  • October 30, 2009 - January 10, 2010: safe: Olga Cernysheva. Inner dialogue

2010

  • 02/10/2010 - 05/30/2010: A feast for the eyes. Of still life eating
  • 01.09.2010 - 05.12.2010: Frida Kahlo retrospective
  • 07.12.2010 - 19.12.2010: tresor: Eisler Prize 2010. Nominated for the Bank Austria Art Prize
  • December 16, 2010 - March 6, 2011: Birgit Jürgenssen retrospective

2011

  • 01/10/2011 - 01/16/2011: safe: Kucsko. Double Coated IP Capsule
  • 21.01.2011 - 06.03.2011: safe: Igor Eskionja
  • March 17, 2011 - July 10, 2011: Iwan K. Aivazovsky . Painter of the sea
  • 25.03.2011 - 22.05.2011: safe: Svenja Deininger. Eisler Prize Winner 2010
  • May 27, 2011 - July 10, 2011: tresor: The 80s: New painting. Collected # 1
  • October 12, 2011 - January 15, 2012: Botero
  • 09.11.2011 - 15.01.2012: safe: Rudolf Goessl

2012

  • 01/26/2012 - 04/15/2012: Herbert Brandl
  • 03.02.2012 - 18.03.2012: safe: Body.Action Collected # 2
  • April 26, 2012 - July 15, 2012: My Private Passion - Hubert Looser Collection
  • 05/09/2012 - 07/15/2012: safe: Rainer Ganahl. I wanna be Alfred Jarry
  • 09/12/2012 - 12/02/2012: The eight. Hungary's Highway to Modernity
  • 19.09.2012 - 13.11.2012: safe: Özlem Sulak
  • 11/28/2012 - 05/12/2013: tresor: Drawing the Line. Drawings from the Bank Austria art collection. Collected # 3
  • 12/12/2012 - 03/10/2013: Miquel Barceló

2013

2014

  • 02/13/2014 - 04/27/2014: Siegfried Anzinger
  • 02/27/2014 - 04/27/2014: tresor: pictures on pictures. Painting and photography in interplay. Collected # 4
  • May 8, 2014 - July 13, 2014: Eyes Wide Open. Stanley Kubrick as a photographer
  • May 22, 2014 - July 13, 2014: safe: Stephanie Pflaum
  • October 16, 2014 - January 25, 2015: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec , The Path to Modernity
  • 23.10.2014 - 16.11.2014: tresor: LET THE CHILDREN PLAY. Photographs by Lukas M. Hüller
  • November 20, 2014 - January 25, 2015: Safe: Werner Schrödl. Snooky Games

2015

  • 02/11/2015 - 04/26/2015: Landscape in my Mind. Landscape photography today. From Hamish Fulton to Andreas Gursky
  • 25.02.2015 - 26.04.2015: safe: Michael Höpfner. Lie Down, Get Up, Walk On / Lie down, straighten up, walk
  • 05/06/2015 - 07/12/2015: Hubert Schmalix
  • 05/13/2015 - 07/12/2015: safe: Alf Poier
  • 02.09.2015 - 04.10.2015: tresor: Special exhibition: Rolf Kauka's Fix & Foxi . Two foxes take off
  • October 14, 2015 - January 31, 2016: Love in times of revolution. Artist couples of the Russian avant-garde
  • October 29, 2015 - January 31, 2016: tresor: reflection. Self-reflections in photography. Collected # 5

2016

  • February 24, 2016 - June 19, 2016: Baltus . Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • 09/08/2016 - 11/27/2016: Martin Kippenberger
  • 19.09.2016 - 02.10.2016: tresor: paraflows.XI - IDENTITY
  • 12/07/2016 - 03/26/2017: Georgia O'Keeffe

2017

  • 19.01.2017 - 26.03.2017: tresor: White Cube - Black Box. collected # 6
  • April 6, 2017 - April 11, 2017: Special exhibition: Simon Quendler
  • 05/05/2017 - 16/07/2017: James Welling, International Contemporary Photography.
  • May 18, 2017 - July 17, 2017 : tresor: Anna Artaker: THE PENCIL OF NATURE
  • July 31, 2017 - August 10, 2017: Special exhibition: Jiny Lan
  • 07/31/2017 - 09/17/2017: Special exhibition: Bai Yuping
  • August 12, 2017 - August 21, 2017: Special exhibition: Matthias Brandes
  • 08/16/2017 - 09/17/2017: Special exhibition: Bai Tue
  • 08/23/2017 - 09/17/2017: Special exhibition: Feng Jianguo. The power of the plateau
  • 04.10.2017 - 28.01.2018: Gerhard Rühm
  • 10.10.2017 - 29.10.2017: Special exhibition in the "tresor": world views, photo exhibition
  • 11/29/2017 - 01/21/2018: safe: Other rooms. collected # 7

2018

  • 02/14 - 06/24/2018: Man Ray
  • 26.4. - 24.6.2018: safe: Michaela Frühwirth: act, earthward
  • August 19, 2018 - September 20, 2018: Special exhibition: SEO The shared dream of megalopolis
  • August 19, 2018 - September 20, 2018: Special exhibition: Andy Denzler The Dark Corner of the Human Mind
  • 10.10.2018 - 20.1.2019: Fascination Japan Monet - Van Gogh - Klimt
  • November 8, 2018 - January 13, 2019: safe: Thean Chie Chan. Incredibly outlined.

2019

  • 02/21/2019 - 03/31/2019: tresor: Images of women? Masterpieces from the Bank Austria Art Collection collected # 8
  • 15.2. - 23.6.2019: Flying High: Artists of the Art Brut
  • 04/11 - 16.06.2019: safe: DAGUERRE'S SOUP Christian Kosmas Mayer x FOTOGRAFIS
  • 3.8. - 14.8.2019: Special exhibition: Sultan Adler: Flying Ornament
  • 4.8. - 26.8.2019: Special exhibition: Ahmet Güneştekin The Universe of Myths
  • 15.8. - 28.8.2019: Special exhibition: Bernd Kirschner oracle
  • 4.9.2019 - 21.9.2019: Special exhibition: KAIROS. The right moment. Wolfgang Beltracchi and Mauro Fiorese
  • 10. - 24.9.2019: Special exhibition in the tresor: Martin Grandits ABSOLUT GRANDITS
  • 10.10.2019 - 12.01.2020: Pierre Bonnard The color of memory
  • November 7, 2019 - January 12, 2020: safe: Alfredo Barsuglia: Take on me

2020

  • 29.01. - 21.06.2020: The Cindy Sherman Effect Identity and Transformation in Contemporary Art

Web links

Commons : Bank Austria Kunstforum  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://derstandard.at/2000077336152/Mitvertrag-voBank-Austria-Kunstforum-ruettelt-an-Standort
  2. ^ Building description on the website of the Constitutional Court.
  3. ↑ Ernst Gotthilf. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
  4. ^ Reports in daily newspapers in Vienna on December 17, 2010
  5. ↑ Report from the Vienna daily Der Standard , August 21, 2012, p. 7
  6. ↑ Zentralsparkasse der Gemeinde Wien (Institute) in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  7. ^ Art fund in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  8. ↑ The Fotografis Collection - A History of Photography. In: CastYourArt , accessed March 15, 2017.
  9. ↑ Bank Austria's Fotografis collection for the first time in Salzburg . leisure.at. June 19, 2009. Retrieved February 11, 2020.
  10. ↑ Cézanne: Complete - Unfinished In: oe-journal.at , the Austria Journal
  11. ↑ In cooperation with Your Family Entertainment AG (YFE)
  12. ↑ In cooperation with BELL ART, Hamburg. http://www.bell-artcenter.de/
  13. ↑ a b c In cooperation with BELL ART, Hamburg.
  14. ↑ In cooperation with the nature and knowledge magazine Terra Mater .
  15. ↑ a b c d The exhibition was created in cooperation with Galerie Michael Schultz GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin.
  16. ↑ The exhibition was created in cooperation with the Opera Gallery, New York, Miami, Aspen, London, Paris, Monaco, Geneva, Singapore, Hong Kong, Seoul, Beirut and Dubai.
  17. ↑ The exhibition was created in cooperation with mSE-GmbH Management Solutions, Munich.
  18. ↑ The exhibition was created in cooperation with HO GALLERY, Vienna.

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