Exhibition "Curtain – Vorhang", museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, Marble Hall, 2017–2018
Photo: Rudolf Strobl
Exhibition "Curtain – Vorhang", museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, Marble Hall, 2017–2018
Photo: Rudolf Strobl
Exhibition "Curtain – Vorhang", museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, Marble Hall, 2017–2018
Photo: Rudolf Strobl
Exhibition "Curtain – Vorhang", museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, Marble Hall, 2017–2018
Photo: Rudolf Strobl
Exhibition "Curtain – Vorhang", museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, Marble Hall, 2017–2018
Photo: Rudolf Strobl
Exhibition "Curtain – Vorhang", museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, Marble Hall, 2017–2018
Photo: Rudolf Strobl
Exhibition "Curtain – Vorhang", museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, Marble Hall, 2017–2018
Photo: Rudolf Strobl
Exhibition "Curtain – Vorhang", museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, Marble Hall, 2017–2018
Photo: Rudolf Strobl
Exhibition "Curtain – Vorhang", museum in progress, Bildraum Bodensee, 2018
Photo: Harald Gmeiner
Exhibition "Curtain – Vorhang", museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, Marble Hall, 2017–2018
Photo: Rudolf Strobl
Exhibition "Curtain – Vorhang", museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, Marble Hall, 2017–2018
Photo: Andreas Scheiblecker
Exhibition "Curtain – Vorhang", museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, Marble Hall, 2017–2018, press conference
Photo: Andreas Scheiblecker
Exhibition "Curtain – Vorhang", museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, Marble Hall, 2017–2018
Photo: Rudolf Strobl
Exhibition "Curtain – Vorhang", museum in progress, Bildraum Bodensee, 2018
Photo: Harald Gmeiner
Exhibition "Curtain – Vorhang", museum in progress, Bildraum Bodensee, 2018
Photo: Harald Gmeiner
Exhibition "Curtain – Vorhang", museum in progress, Bildraum Bodensee, 2018
Photo: Harald Gmeiner
Exhibition "Curtain – Vorhang", museum in progress, Bildraum Bodensee, 2018
Photo: Harald Gmeiner
Exhibition "Curtain – Vorhang", museum in progress, Bildraum Bodensee, 2018
Photo: Harald Gmeiner
Exhibition "Curtain – Vorhang", museum in progress, Bildraum Bodensee, 2018
Photo: Harald Gmeiner
Exhibition "Curtain – Vorhang", museum in progress, Bildraum Bodensee, 2018
Photo: Harald Gmeiner
Exhibition "Curtain – Vorhang", museum in progress, Bildraum Bodensee, 2018
Photo: Harald Gmeiner
Exhibition "Curtain – Vorhang", museum in progress, Bildraum Bodensee, 2018
Photo: Harald Gmeiner
Exhibition "Curtain – Vorhang", museum in progress, Bildraum Bodensee, 2018
Photo: Harald Gmeiner
Exhibition "Curtain – Vorhang", museum in progress, Bildraum Bodensee, 2018
Photo: Harald Gmeiner
Curtain – Vorhang, 2017, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2017, publication
Photo: Andreas Scheiblecker
Curtain – Vorhang, 2017, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2017, publication
Photo: Andreas Scheiblecker
Curtain – Vorhang, 2017, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2017, publication
Photo: Andreas Scheiblecker
Curtain – Vorhang, 2017, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2017, publication
Photo: Andreas Scheiblecker
Curtain – Vorhang, 2017, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2017, publication
Photo: Andreas Scheiblecker
Curtain – Vorhang, 2017, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2017, publication
Photo: Andreas Scheiblecker
Marble Hall of the Vienna State Opera
18 October 2017 until 4 July 2018
Bildraum Bodensee in Bregenz (Seestraße 5)
23 August until 27 September 2018
The exhibition "Curtain – Vorhang" documents the long-term art project "Safety Curtain" of museum in progress and the Wiener Staatsoper. The "Safety Curtain" exhibition series has represented a symbolic interface between performance and visual arts since 1998. Beyond the reproductions of the actual curtain images that have originated over the years "Curtain – Vorhang" offers an associative and sensuous link to further related works of the participating artists in several different media forms. These supplementary works present a great variety of artistic explorations of the motives opera, music and performance. With "Artists Talking" the exhibition includes a conversation series with internationally renowned artists, which was initiated in 1992 and is based on a unique concept by Peter Kogler and museum in progress. The art project "Safety Curtain", because of its quality, its year-long existence and its dimension of 176 m² is singular and enables a distinctive perspective of art history of the past twenty years.
Jury "Safety Curtain": Daniel Birnbaum and Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Artists: Tauba Auerbach, John Baldessari, Matthew Barney, Thomas Bayrle, Tacita Dean, Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, Cerith Wyn Evans, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Richard Hamilton, David Hockney, Christine & Irene Hohenbüchler, Joan Jonas, Jeff Koons, Maria Lassnig, Oswald Oberhuber, Giulio Paolini, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Rosemarie Trockel, Cy Twombly, Kara Walker and Franz West
The exhibition catalogue was published by Verlag für moderne Kunst in 2017.
