The artist book Event, in which Leslie Thornton applies her technique of montaging imagery and textual material to the book medium, is published in conjunction with the exhibition Crossing by James Richards & Leslie Thornton.
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James Richards and Leslie Thornton are showing their first collaborative project Crossing (2016) at the Secession. This video installation materializes an intense phase of exchange between the artists who belong to two distinct generations and contexts.
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In her exhibition in the Secession’s sublevel gallery, Anne Speier intertwines painting and sculpture in a kind of utopian architecture, short-circuiting its spatial premises with its metaphorical purport.
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For her first solo exhibition in Austria, in Secession’s iconic gallery space, Turner Prize nominee (2016) Anthea Hamilton has developed an immersive site-specific installation. The artist has occupied the space by covering it with an all-over pattern, namely a Hamilton tartan.
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The artist Maruša Sagadin designed the Herz-Bar, the new bar in the members area of the artist association. Photo: belle & sass – Natascha Unkart
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Conservator Johannes Duda reconstructed the fresco by Koloman Moser, Reigen der Kranzträgerinnen (Dance of the Wreath-Bearing Maidens, 1898), on the the Secession’s rear side façade.
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On occasion of the centenary of Koloman Moser’s (1869–1918) death, a model panel from his fresco Reigen der Kranzträgerinnen (Dance of the Wreath-Bearing Maidens) will be on display on the Secession’s rear side façade. Created in 1898 for the Secession building, which was completed that year, the fresco originally adorned the rear façade until its […]
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The renovation of the Secession is successfully completed – today Gernot Blümel, Federal Minister for the EU, Art, Culture and Media; Veronica Kaup-Hasler, Vienna City Councilor for Art, Culture, and Science; and Boris Marte, Deputy Chairman of the Board, ERSTE Foundation attended our press conference. Photo: belle & sass – Natascha Unkart
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In July 2018 the works on the façade were completed. Inside the building of the Secession the renovation of the infrastructure is still going on.
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