
Beatriz Milhazes, 2021, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2021/2022, large-scale picture

Carrie Mae Weems, Queen B (Mary J. Blige), 2020, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2020/2021, large-scale picture

Martha Jungwirth, The Trojan Horse, 2019, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2019/2020, large scale picture

Pierre Alechinsky, Loin d'ici, 2018, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2018/2019, large-scale picture

John Baldessari, Graduation, 2017, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2017/2018, large-scale picture

Tauba Auerbach, A Flexible Fabric of Inflexible Parts III, 2016, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2016/2017, large scale picture

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Helen & Gordon, 2015, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2015/2016, large scale picture

Joan Jonas, 2014, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2014/2015, large-scale picture

Oswald Oberhuber, 2013, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2013/2014, large-scale picture

David Hockney, 2012, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2012/2013, large-scale picture

Cerith Wyn Evans, 2011, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2011/2012, large-scale picture

Cy Twombly, Bacchus, 2010, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2010/2011, large-scale picture

Franz West, Drei – Vom Vorgang ins Temperament, 2009, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2009/2010, large-scale picture

Rosemarie Trockel, 2008, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2008/2009, large-scale picture

Jeff Koons, Geisha, 2007, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2007/2008, large-scale picture

Rirkrit Tiravanija, Fear Eats the Soul, 2006, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2006/2007, large-scale picture

Maria Lassnig, Breakfast with Ear, 2005, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2005/2006, large-scale picture

Tacita Dean, Play as Cast, 2004, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2004/2005, large scale picture

Thomas Bayrle, 2003, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2003/2004, large scale picture

Giulio Paolini, 2002, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2002/2003, large-scale picture

Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, Looking Back, 2002, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Komische Oper Berlin, 2002/2003, large scale picture

Richard Hamilton, Retard en Fer – Delay in Iron, 2001, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2001/2002, large-scale picture

Matthew Barney, 2000, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2000/2001, large-scale picture

Christine and Irene Hohenbüchler, 1999, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 1999/2000, large-scale picture

Kara Walker, 1998, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 1998/1999, large scale picture



























"Safety Curtain" is an exhibition series conceived by museum in progress in cooperation with the Vienna State Opera, which transforms the safety curtain into a temporary exhibition space for contemporary art. For the 24th Safety Curtain, the jury (Daniel Birnbaum, Bice Curiger and Hans-Ulrich Obrist) selected the Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes.
The exhibition series “Safety Curtain” is a project of museum in progress in cooperation with the Vienna State Opera and the Bundestheater-Holding. Jury: Daniel Birnbaum, Bice Curiger and Hans-Ulrich Obrist. With further support of PRIVAT BANK of the Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich, ART for ART, Barta & Partner, Brasilian Embassy Vienna, Johann Kattus and Hotel Topazz Lamée. Media partners: Die Furche and Die Presse.
In 2002/03 museum in progress presented a "Safety Curtain" by the artist duo Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset at the Komische Oper Berlin. Curator: Ina Blom. In 2019 the Safety Curtain "Helen & Gordon" by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (from 2015/16) was newly presented at the Opéra Théâtre de Metz in cooperation with the Centre Pompidou-Metz.
The large-format pictures (Vienna: 176 square metres, Berlin: 90 square metres) are produced and installed using an innovative process: The images are printed on plastic-nets and they are fixed with magnets on the safety curtain.
Production: Trevision; Digital Imaging: Albert Winkler