Octavian Trauttmansdorff, 1999, Photo: Angelika Hausenblas


Octavian Trauttmansdorff, born 1965 in Vienna, studies the conditions of art production and reception as well as the mechanisms of social behavior by shifting the terms of every movement in art and playfully incorporating a contradiction in each notion of art. His works refer to the institution-critical, media-oriented installation of the nineties and to contemporary socio-political situations which he integrates in his projects in a subversive way.
 
His exhibition project at the Secession addresses the impact of the interplay between nature and culture as a projection surface for social and private visions and ideas. The controversy of settlements and nature, human assimilation of nature and the domination of nature, etc. will be dealt with in imagery in the Graphisches Kabinett.
  

PUBLICATION

OCTAVIAN TRAUTTMANSDORFF 32 pages, 21 colored illustrations, 36 b/w illustrations authors: Roger M. Buergel, Octavian Trauttmansdorff, Werner Würtinger Secession 1999, ISBN 3-901926-06-2 ___________________ available in the shop

 
OCTAVIAN TRAUTTMANSDORFF Exhibitions (selected): Aperto, Biennale Venedig (1993); "E", Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (1993); Grazer Kunstverein (1994); "Kunstbetrieb. What Am I Doing Here", Salzburger Kunstverein (1995); "27,9%, Krobath Wimmer, Wien (1998); "Aufnehmen", Ambrosi Museum, Wien (1999); Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (1999).

PIERRE HUYGHE   BARBARA HOLUB

EXHIBITION PROGRAM 1999

 
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