Vienna Complex

27.02.2014 - 26.05.2014

Austrian Cultural Forum, New York / United States

The show takes the transformative psychoanalytic momentum of Vienna in 1900, and the resulting entwinement and fascination of the proponents of modernist abstraction with this therapeutic revolution as a point of departure. Based on the hypothesis that the culture of self-improvement that permeates all spheres of society today is also a result of the artistic dissemination of therapeutic ideas into the mainstream, the exhibition presents contemporary artistic reflections on the phenomenon of our modern meritocracy....

Exhibition Design: Astrid Wagner

[Quelle: www.acfny.org]