Safety Curtain

Safety Curtain 2018/2019

For the 21st "Safety Curtain", the jury (Daniel Birnbaum and Hans-Ulrich Obrist) selected the internationally renowned artist Pierre Alechinsky.

A selection of lithographs, which feature many-layered references to the "Safety Curtain", were shown in an exhibition at the opera house. Additionally these works were presented in the display windows of PRIVAT BANK of the Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich in Vienna in Operngasse 2.

The exhibition series "Safety Curtain" is a project of museum in progress in cooperation with the Vienna State Opera and the Bundestheater-Holding, kindly supported in 2018 by the Kingdom of Belgium, the Wallonie-Bruxelles International (WBI) and Belcolade (Puratos Austria GmbH). Support: ART for ART, Bildrecht; Sparkling Wine: Johann Kattus. Management: Kaspar Mühlemann Hartl, Alois Herrmann.

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