Duration:
Part 1 (19th Century): prolongated till 17.01.2016
Part 2 (20th - 21st Century): till 06.09.2015
The term “landscape” can be understood in many different ways – both inside and outside of artistic discourse. It can refer to the real living environment of a person or to an area visited by tourists or utilised for tourism. It can refer to land researched within different disciplines, or to land which is changed or used for various purposes.
Topics and artists in the exhibition
The multimedia exhibits in the exhibition primarily come from the collection of the Neue Galerie and span a timeframe of two centuries.
On the ground floor (19th century), the following topics can be seen: opening up the landscape – transforming the landscape into an ideology – the idealisation of the landscape – autonomous nature – images of far away: between ideal and reality – geological research and visual representation.
There are pieces by Thomas Ender, Friedrich and Jakob Gauermann, Anton Hansch, Joseph Heicke, Blasius Höfel in the style of Johann Peter Krafft, Johann Huber in the style of Johann Peter Krafft, Josef Franz Kaiser, Johann Kniep, Vinzenz Kreuzer, Joseph Kuwasseg, Christian Friedrich Mali, Johann Nepomuk Passini in the style of Thomas Ender, Markus Pernhart, Ignaz Raffalt, Carl Reichert, Anton Schiffer, Alois Schönn, Joseph Selleny, Franz Steinfeld, Melanie Stürgkh nach Matthäus Loder, Georg Matthäus Vischer and Michael Wutky (attributed).
On the upper floor (20th and 21st century), the exhibition focusses on the topics of travel as concept –land art’s stamp – landscape as text – landscape as social construction – landscape in 3D – painting: experiencing nature and abstraction – painting: experiencing nature and realism.
On this floor, we are exhibiting works by Imre Bak, Rosa Barba, Josef Bauer, Gottfried Bechtold, Erwin Bohatsch, Herbert Brandl, George Brecht, Wolfgang Buchner, Ernst Caramelle, Christo, Mario Decleva, Ger Dekkers, Braco Dimitrijevic, Peter Fend, Hamish Fulton, Heinz Gappmayr, Jochen Gerz, Franz Grabmayr, Haus-Rucker-Co, Peter Gerwin Hoffmann, Wolfgang Hollegha, Seppo Gründler, Alois Kiendlhofer, Josef Klammer, Hildegard Könighofer, Richard Kriesche, Branko Lenart, Frantisek Lesak, Petra Maitz, Elga Maly, Lukas Marxt, Alois Mosbacher, Walter Niedermayr, Franz Novinc, Fritz Panzer, Max Peintner, Rudolf Pointner, Hans Werner Poschauko, Drago J. Prelog, Alfons Pressnitz, Peter Pongratz, Hannes Priesch, Ed Ruscha, Luis Sammer, Liddy Scheffknecht, Hubert Schmalix, Michael Schuster, Sempas-Familie, Karl Stranzinger, Miroslav Sutej, Josef Taucher, Mario Terzic, Gustav Troger, Luciano Trojanis, Franco Vaccari, Paul Virilio, Günter Waldorf, Peter Weibel, Max Weiler, Wolfgang Wiedner, Manfred Willmann and Erwin Wurm.