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Starting November 8, 2024, the Albertina Museum in Vienna will host a remarkable exhibition showcasing the works of American artist Jim Dine (1935). This exhibition, which runs until March 23, 2025, features highlights from the museum’s extensive collection, including a generous selection of Dine’s donations.

Jim Dine is often categorized as one of the pioneers of Pop Art: a misunderstanding. But anyone who, like Dine, arranged everyday objects into assemblages, no matter how much they were interwoven with his own biography, was almost inevitably assigned to Pop Art in the early 1960s. Jim Dine’s early preference for “popular motifs” such as the heart, garishly colorful and loud, or the subject of the trivial bathrobe inevitably drew him into the maelstrom of this American awakening of the 1960s. Added to this was the artist’s admiration for the fathers of Pop Art, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Claes Oldenburg: the label of Pop Art was thus to stick to Jim Dine’s work for a long time, thus blocking access to its deeply subjective dimension. (ALBERTINA museum)

This exhibition is based on the generous donation that Jim Dine made to the ALBERTINA Museum in 2022. It comprises 400 prints created between 1970 and 2024, many of which feature motifs familiar from his oeuvre: tools, hearts, bathrobes, birds, or the figure of Pinocchio. The collection is part of his “archive”, as the artist calls it, which he has divided up between different museums. The selection presented here once again is testimony to Jim Dine the printmaker’s passion and enthusiasm for the genre.

Jim Dine’s special love for printmaking has now lasted for more than half a century. In the nearly 65 years since he created his first lithograph, he has been exploring the full range of printmaking possibilities like almost no other artist. It is his innovative approach to the traditional printing techniques—woodcut, etching and lithography—that gives his prints significance beyond their motifs. (ALBERTINA museum)

Don’t miss the opportunity to engage with Dine’s innovative art from November 8, 2024, to March 23, 2025.