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ОглавлениеAUSTRIA GARS AM KAMP
KUNSTRAUM BUCHBERG
Permanent contemporary installations and projects in the park
Collectors:
Gertraud & Dieter Bogner
Address:
Buchberg am Kamp 1
3571 Gars am Kamp
Austria
Tel +43 676 7806699
By appointment only.
Gertraud and Dieter Bogner are museum experts. The couple runs an internationally active agency for museum planning, cultural and strategic museum concepts, and exhibition management in Vienna. Some of their prestige projects in recent years include the New Museum in New York City or the Bauhaus Museum in Dessau. Of course, with this type of background, the Bogners also have a strong interest in living with art. This is done at their twelfth-century castle Schloss Buchberg located in Lower Austria, where, since 1979, they have invited artists to come and work with its spaces. Thus far twenty-seven permanent, site-specific, full-scale installations have been realized: in the gardens and courtyards stars like Dan Graham or Heimo Zobernig have executed striking works relating to the architecture. In the spaces inside, installations have been created by artists like Monika Brandmeier, Roland Goeschl, John Hilliard, Thomas Kaminsky, Dorit Margreiter, and François Morellet.
AUSTRIA LEBRING
SCHLOSSPARK EYBESFELD
Carefully executed art projects in a palace-garden setting
Collectors:
Christine & Bertrand Conrad-Eybesfeld
Address:
Jöss 1
8403 Lebring
Austria
Tel +43 3182 240812
Tel +43 3182 240818
Only guided tours by appointment.
A palace, a garden, and an enthusiastic couple. Christine and Bertrand Conrad-Eybesfeld do not buy their art off the rack. It originates on site, sometimes in a few weeks, sometimes over a period of years. The owners of a cultural management agency do not consider themselves collectors or patrons, but rather artists’ partners for these outdoor projects. Indeed, the couple has enough space: the palace is located in the sparsely populated state of Styria, in southeastern Austria. It all started with the artist Heimo Zobernig, who in 1989 made his mark on the palace’s former tennis court with a fifteen-centimeter-thick concrete plate. Sol LeWitt executed a large-scale work shortly before his death, in 2007. For the Conrad-Eybesfelds, at least as important as the end result is getting people involved in the whole process, including the local community.
AUSTRIA NEUHAUS
MUSEUM LIAUNIG
Austrian art after 1945 and prominent works by international artists
Collector:
Herbert W. Liaunig
Address:
Neuhaus 41
9155 Neuhaus
Austria
Tel +43 4356 21115
Opening Hours:
May–October
Wed–Sun: 10am–6pm
With its slim, slightly rounded form, the Museum Liaunig resembles a gigantic USB-stick plugged into verdant hills. Carinthian businessman Herbert W. Liaunig opened this radically modern-looking museum far away from the urban hustle and bustle in the summer of 2008, and had it greatly expanded in 2014. The building was masterminded by the Viennese architects Querkraft, who lean toward understatement: 90 percent of the rooms are located underground. Liaunig collected “what resulted from personal encounters and predilections.” The more than 3 000 works include key pieces of Austrian postwar art by figures like Arnulf Rainer or Maria Lassnig, but also undiscovered or overlooked works, as well as young positions. Since the museum was founded, Liaunig has collected with more focus and closed some previous gaps, such as his acquisition of several Viennese Actionists. His goal is to bring Austrian art since 1945 alive for the visitor.
AUSTRIA THALHEIM BEI WELS
MUSEUM ANGERLEHNER
The unique collection of an entrepreneur fascinated by art and artists
Collector:
Heinz J. Angerlehner
Address:
Ascheter Strasse 54
4600 Thalheim bei Wels
Austria
Tel +43 7242 2244220
Opening Hours:
Fri–Sun: 10am–6pm
And by appointment.
The Upper Austrian entrepreneur Heinz J. Angerlehner describes himself as “a collector with heart and soul.” Over a thirty-year period he acquired more than 2 500 works of art. They have either attracted him emotionally or spontaneously—without regard for any art-historical classification, but with a high regard for quality. This is how his collection grew over the years to include many famous names from his homeland, such as Arnulf Rainer, Gunter Damisch, Hubert Schmalix, or Andreas Leikauf. In September 2013 the Museum Angerlehner opened in Thalheim, near Wels. It is housed in a former assembly hall covered with iridescent black metal panels, which in addition to showing the collection also hosts temporary exhibitions in its roughly 2 000-square-meter space. An added highlight is the fifty-meter-long display storeroom with retractable walls.
AUSTRIA VIENNA
SAMMLUNG SANZIANY & PALAIS RASUMOFSKY
Figurative art in a noble, palatial atmosphere
Collectors:
Adrian Riklin & Antonis Stachel
Address:
Rasumofskygasse 23–25
1030 Vienna
Austria
Only guided tours with prior registration.
Upon entering Palais Rasumofsky, it’s easy to be dazzled by its magnificent marble columns, opulent crown moldings, and lavish chandeliers. If you didn’t know better, you would never guess that the classical garden palace, once the residence of Russian art collector and ambassador of the Russian Empire Prince Andrej K. Rasumovsky, is home to a significant collection of contemporary art. Entrepreneur Adrian Riklin, who acquired the building in 2004, originally envisioned it as a luxury hotel but things turned out differently. Now Riklin and his partner Antonis Stachel present their magnificent collection on exclusive guided tours. Represented are works by Austrian sculptors such as Alfred Hrdlicka and Erwin Wurm or international artists like Nan Goldin and Julian Opie. The exhibition features primarily figurative art—not hung in museum style, but in a way typical of private living spaces: closely together and surrounded by designer furniture.
VIENNA
No other city in the German-speaking world boasts such a dense network of museums and galleries like Vienna, the Austrian metropolis of 1.8 million inhabitants. The best place to begin a tour is MuseumsQuartier Wien (MQ), where you’ll find three institutions of international standing: the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (MuMoK), founded in 1962, featuring the largest collection of twentieth- and twenty-first century art in central Europe, the Kunsthalle Wien, focusing on contemporary discourse, and the Leopold Museum, with the largest Egon Schiele collection in the world. Other highlights on the Vienna tour include the Belvedere, with Austrian art from 1900 onwards, and its annex for contemporary art, the 21er Haus. Art Nouveau enthusiasts should not miss the Vienna Secession. Every fall, Vienna-Contemporary, an international contemporary art fair, draws visitors to the Marx Halle, a brick building and once popular market hall designed in the nineteenth-century by renowned architect Rudolf Frey. This is also the perfect chance to discover the local gallery scene of experienced protagonists who have set the tone with committed international and avant-garde programs. In the city’s first municipal district, Rosemarie Schwarzwälder has shown abstract and concept art since 1984 at Galerie nächst St. Stephan, on Grünangergasse. Located just a stone’s throw away are the exhibition spaces of Ursula Krinzinger, the grande dame of Vienna’s galleries. Since 1971, Krinzinger has been synonymous with performance and body art, as well as the Viennese Actionism of Hermann Nitsch and Rudolf Schwarzkogler. Further to the southwest, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, on Schleifmühlgasse, has made a name for itself since the late 1990s with artists like Gerwald Rockenschaub, Clegg & Guttmann, or Mark Dion. Next door you’ll find the galleries of Christine König and Kerstin Engholm, also well worth a visit. As the day draws to a close, the Viennese art scene enjoys meeting up for schnitzel, goulash, and Czech beer at the legendary Viennese Beisl Café Anzengruber.
