Verbund collection

The Verbund collection was launched in 2004 by Verbund , Austria's largest electricity company. The company's collection focuses on contemporary international art with a focus on feminist art from 1970 to the present day.

Content

The works are selected by a board of trustees made up of Gabriele Schor (director), Jessica Morgan (director of the Dia Art Foundation , New York) and Camille Morineau (exhibition director of Monnaie de Paris ).

The maxim of the collection is “depth instead of breadth”. Her focus is on entire groups of works such as the early work of Cindy Sherman and the feminist avant-garde ( Francesca Woodman , Eleonor Antin , Hannah Wilke , Birgit Jürgenssen , Renate Bertlmann , Valie Export , Ana Mendieta , Ketty La Rocca , Suzy Lake , Martha Wilson , Annegret Soltau ua) as well as on works on the topic of spaces / places (including Gordon Matta-Clark , Fred Sandback , Jeff Wall , Loan Nguyen , Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler ).

In addition to large collection presentations in national and international museums, a changing selection of works will be shown in the vertical gallery of the Verbund headquarters at the court in Vienna - remodeled by the architect Christian Knechtl. The Vertical Gallery is freely accessible by prior arrangement as part of an art talk.

Yellow fog

With Yellow Fog by Ólafur Elíasson , Verbund installed an intervention in public space in October 2008 that can be experienced every day at dusk on the facade of the Verbund headquarters. This artistic work focuses on the transition from day to night and subtly draws attention to the change in the daily rhythm.

Collection presentations

2007 MAK Museum for Applied Arts , Vienna
2008 Museum of Modern Art , Istanbul
2010 Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna , Rome (feminist avant-garde of the 1970s)
2010/11 Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien , Vienna (Birgit Jürgenssen retrospective)
2012 Museum der Moderne Mönchsberg , Salzburg (Open Spaces I Secret Places)
2013 PHotoEspaña, Círculo de bellas Artes, Madrid (Feminist avant-garde of the 1970s)
2014 BOZAR Center for Fine Arts, Brussels (Feminist avant-garde of the 1970s)
2014/15 Mjellby Konstmuseum - Halmstadgruppens Museum, Halmstad (Feminist avant-garde of the 1970s)
2015 Hamburger Kunsthalle , Hamburg (Feminist avant-garde of the 1970s)
2016 BOZAR Center for Fine Arts, Brussels (Open Spaces I Secret Places)
2016/2017 Photographers' Gallery, London (Feminist avant-garde of the 1970s)
2017 mumok - museum modern art stiftung ludwig, Vienna (feminist avant-garde of the 1970s)
2017/18 Center for Art and Media , Karlsruhe (Feminist avant-garde of the 1970s)
2018 Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger (Feminist avant-garde of the 1970s)
2018/2019 The Brno House of Arts, Brno (Feminist avant-garde of the 1970s)
2019 CCCB Centro de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (Feminist avant-garde of the 1970s)
2020 ICP International Center of Photography New York (Feminist avant-garde of the 1970s)

Exhibitions in the vertical gallery

2008 space and architecture. Architecture Days 2008
2008 Fred Sandback / Ólafur Elíasson
2008/09 double face. The game of transformation
2009 Birgit Jürgenssen
2010 Real Estates. Memories of places / traces of what has disappeared
2011 Loan Nguyen - Principle of Delicacy, works by the SAMMLUNG VERBUND, Vienna
2012 Cindy Sherman. That's me - that's not me. Early works 1975-1977
2014 Francesca Woodman. Works from the Verbund collection.
2014 my private world. Works from the SAMMLUNG VERBUND, Vienna.
2016 Renate Bertlmann. AMO ERGO SUM. A subversive political program.
2018/19 Louise Lawler. SHE'S HERE. Works from the VERBUND SAMMLUNG, Vienna.

Publications

Hero Together With Water. Art from the Verbund collection . Collection book, 2007 (Verlag Hatje Cantz)
Suyun Bir Arada Tuttuğu. Verbund Koleksiyonu´ndan Sanat. Held Together With Water. Art from the Verbund Collection , exhibition catalog, 2008 (Museum Istanbul Modern)
Birgit Jürgenssen , ed. by Gabriele Schor and Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Hatje Cantz, 2009
Cindy Sherman. The early work 1975-1977. Catalog Raisonné , ed. by Gabriele Schor, Hatje Cantz, 2012
Open spaces | secret places. Works from the Verbund Collection , ed. by Gabriele Schor and Veit Ziegelmaier, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2012
Francesca Woodman. Works from the VERBUND SAMMLUNG , ed. by Gabriele Schor, Elisabeth Bronfen, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2014
Feminist avant-garde. 1970s art. VERBUND SAMMLUNG, Vienna , ed. by Gabriele Schor, Prestel, 2016
Renate Bertlmann. Works 1969-2016. A Subversive Political Program , ed. by Gabriele Schor, Jessica Morgan, Prestel 2016
Louise Lawler. Selected and Related. Works by Louise Lawler acquired by the SAMMLUNG VERBUND Collection, Vienna & Others, ed. by Gabriele Schor, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König 2018

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Verbund Collection: Art with depth , interview by Eva Komarek with Gabriele Schor in Die Presse , Vienna, January 18, 2020
^ Feminist avant-garde - Made in Austria , culture tip at www.kulturredaktion.at
↑ Collection Verbund website ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[1] Verbund Collection: Art with depth , interview by Eva Komarek with Gabriele Schor in Die Presse , Vienna, January 18, 2020

[2] Feminist avant-garde - Made in Austria , culture tip at www.kulturredaktion.at

[3] Collection Verbund website ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2