Portraits of Artists on Video

museum in progress has been organising the series "Portraits of Artists" since 1992 - conversations with international artists who are exhibiting and/or taking part in a symposium in Vienna. The conversation, with a partner chosen by the artist, is recorded on video (10 - 30 minutes) and then broadcast in television programmes or shown in museums and galleries. The original idea is from Peter Kogler and museum in progress.

"Portraits of Artists" is produced in co-operation with various institutions and participants who can change during the course of this project without a time limit. The Studio for New Media at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts has been a partner since the beginning of the project, which was also supported over a long period as part of the curatorship programme of the Austrian Minister of Education and Art and then the Minister of Trade, Research and Art (curator 1992-1994: Robert Fleck; curator 1994-1996 Stella Rollig).

As part of the first thematic exhibition on the programme of the new "Kunsthaus Bregenz", the gallery became a partner of museum in progress: 38 interviews were selected from the 70 then existing and twelve were re-shot to explore more closely the exhibition theme of "Artists". The exhibition, "Artists. 50 positions of contemporary international art. Video portraits and works" took place between 28 September and 30 November 1997 at the Kunsthaus Bregenz. A publication of the same name appeared to accompany the exhibition with printed versions of the 50 interviews in their original languages. "Artists" has since been shown at other institutions such as the Centre Georges Pompidou.

Portraits of Artists - Baselitz, Georg Portraits of Artists - Fraser, Andrea Portraits of Artists - Federle, Helmut Portraits of Artists - Heilmann, Mary Portraits of Artists - Höller, Carsten Portraits of Artists - Pistoletto, Michelangelo Portraits of Artists - Gilbert & George Portraits of Artists - Mc Carthy, Paul Portraits of Artists - Feldmann, Hans-Peter Portraits of Artists - Spero, Nancy Portraits of Artists - Baldessari, John Portraits of Artists - Rosenquist, Jim Portraits of Artists - Kosuth, Joseph Portraits of Artists - Nitsch, Hermann Portraits of Artists - Bayrle, Thomas Portraits of Artists - Mullican, Matt Portraits of Artists - Shaw, Jim Portraits of Artists - Akkerman, Philip Portraits of Artists - Barry, Robert Portraits of Artists - Schmalix, Hubert Portraits of Artists - Koons, Jeff Portraits of Artists - Herold, Georg Portraits of Artists - Taaffe, Philip Portraits of Artists - Oberhuber, Oswald Portraits of Artists - Burden, Chris Portraits of Artists - Pettibon, Raymond Portraits of Artists - Gonzalez-Torres, Felix Portraits of Artists - Zobernig, Heimo Portraits of Artists - Knap, Jan Portraits of Artists - Weiner, Lawrence Portraits of Artists - Clegg & Guttmann Portraits of Artists - Brus, Günter Portraits of Artists - Steinbach, Haim Portraits of Artists - Boltanski, Christian Portraits of Artists - Gironcoli, Bruno Portraits of Artists - Toroni, Niele Portraits of Artists - Graham, Dan Portraits of Artists - Acconci, Vito Portraits of Artists - Rainer, Arnulf Portraits of Artists - Holzer, Jenny Portraits of Artists - Birnbaum, Dara Portraits of Artists - Tiravanija, Rirkrit Portraits of Artists - Baechler, Donald Portraits of Artists - Gappmayr, Heinz Portraits of Artists - Lassnig, Maria Portraits of Artists - Oursler, Tony Portraits of Artists - Krystufek, Elke Portraits of Artists - West, Franz Portraits of Artists - Kelley, Mike Portraits of Artists - Gordon, Douglas

Texts: Portraits of Artits, Robert Fleck Portraits of Artists on Video - Concept, museum in progress List of all Portraits of Artists on Video, museum in progress