MARIA EICHHORN
Kunsthaus Bregenz
Karl-Tizian-Platz - Bregenz
10 May–6 July 2014
There are only very few artists like Maria Eichhorn, whose work possesses such an extremely rigorous conceptual charisma but which also occasionally engages in a subtle humor. By means of visually minimal gestures, interventions, and large-scale works, Maria Eichhorn analyzes behaviors that have been socially shaped as well as political and economic interrelationships, frequently focusing her attention on the art system in particular. A vivid example of this approach was her contribution to Documenta11 in Kassel (2002), when she founded a corporation, the peculiar status of which prescribes that its capital may not increase.
Eichhorn’s work Curtain from 1989 likewise spans a long period of time. In her exhibition at Kunsthaus Bregenz, a denim curtain from this series will completely cover one of the almost twent-meter-long and over four-meter-high walls.
In addition to updated versions of some of her best-known works, such as Maria Eichhorn Public Limited Company, Film Lexicon of Sexual Practices, and Curtain (Denim) | Lectures by Yuko Fujita, Mika Obayashi, Maria Eichhorn’s exhibition at the Kunsthaus will also include a new work especially created for Bregenz. Despite all the rationality which apparently determines her work, not infrequent moments exist involving emotional and irrational questions, such as the relationship of people to money, sexuality, or, as in her new large-scale work especially produced for Bregenz, the locating of water with the aid of pendulums and dowsing sticks. Following solo exhibitions in renowned institutions—in Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Japan, and Canada, amongst others—the exhibition at Kunsthaus Bregenz will be the first large-scale presentation of Maria Eichhorn’s work in Austria.
A catalogue raisonné of Maria Eichhorn’s work will be published with an essay by Alexander Alberro and Nora M. Alter as well as an interview between Maria Eichhorn and Yilmaz Dziewior.
Image: Maria Eichhorn, Building diagram, 12 pendulums, 8 rods, 2014. Floor drawing, texts, object descriptions, hose, pump; pendulums, rods (on loan from Michael Berbig). Installation view, third floor, Kunsthaus Bregenz. Photo: Markus Tretter. © Bildrecht, Vienna, 2014 and Kunsthaus Bregenz.
Kunsthaus Bregenz
Karl-Tizian-Platz - Bregenz
10 May–6 July 2014
There are only very few artists like Maria Eichhorn, whose work possesses such an extremely rigorous conceptual charisma but which also occasionally engages in a subtle humor. By means of visually minimal gestures, interventions, and large-scale works, Maria Eichhorn analyzes behaviors that have been socially shaped as well as political and economic interrelationships, frequently focusing her attention on the art system in particular. A vivid example of this approach was her contribution to Documenta11 in Kassel (2002), when she founded a corporation, the peculiar status of which prescribes that its capital may not increase.
Eichhorn’s work Curtain from 1989 likewise spans a long period of time. In her exhibition at Kunsthaus Bregenz, a denim curtain from this series will completely cover one of the almost twent-meter-long and over four-meter-high walls.
In addition to updated versions of some of her best-known works, such as Maria Eichhorn Public Limited Company, Film Lexicon of Sexual Practices, and Curtain (Denim) | Lectures by Yuko Fujita, Mika Obayashi, Maria Eichhorn’s exhibition at the Kunsthaus will also include a new work especially created for Bregenz. Despite all the rationality which apparently determines her work, not infrequent moments exist involving emotional and irrational questions, such as the relationship of people to money, sexuality, or, as in her new large-scale work especially produced for Bregenz, the locating of water with the aid of pendulums and dowsing sticks. Following solo exhibitions in renowned institutions—in Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Japan, and Canada, amongst others—the exhibition at Kunsthaus Bregenz will be the first large-scale presentation of Maria Eichhorn’s work in Austria.
A catalogue raisonné of Maria Eichhorn’s work will be published with an essay by Alexander Alberro and Nora M. Alter as well as an interview between Maria Eichhorn and Yilmaz Dziewior.
Image: Maria Eichhorn, Building diagram, 12 pendulums, 8 rods, 2014. Floor drawing, texts, object descriptions, hose, pump; pendulums, rods (on loan from Michael Berbig). Installation view, third floor, Kunsthaus Bregenz. Photo: Markus Tretter. © Bildrecht, Vienna, 2014 and Kunsthaus Bregenz.
