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The ALBERTINA Museum presents an exhibition of works from VERBUND COLLECTION, Vienna, held in celebration of the collection’s twentieth anniversary. The corporate collection was founded by the leading Austrian electricity company VERBUND in 2004 and holds around one thousand works by two hundred artists. The show includes new acquisitions that will be presented in Austria for the first time.

The term feminist avant-garde was coined by VERBUND COLLECTION’s founding director Gabriele Schor in 2007 to honor the pioneering work of these artists.

Artists:

Renate Bertlmann, Barbara Bloom, Marcella Campagnano, Veronika Dreier, Renate Eisenegger, VALIE EXPORT, Gerda Fassel, Simon Fujiwara, Simryn Gill, Nan Goldin, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Suzy Lake, Lebohang Kganye, Anne Marie Jehle, Birgit Jürgenssen, Kirsten Justessen, Sin Wai Kin, Joachim Koester, Auguste Kronheim, Brigitte Lang, Louise Lawler, Angelika Loderer, Karin Mack, Gordon Matta-Clark, Anita Münz, Zanele Muholi, Ernesto Neto, ORLAN, Gabriel Orozco, Frida Orupabo, Florentina Pakosta, Margot Pilz, Ingeborg G Pluhar, Elodie Pong, Ulrike Rosenbach, Tomoko Sawada, Senga Nengudi, Elaine Shemilt, Cindy Sherman, Lorna Simpson, Penny Slinger, Annegret Soltau, Sophie Thun, Alexander Ugay, Jeff Wall, Gillian Wearing, Carrie Mae Weems, Hannah Wilke, Martha Wilson, David Wojnarowicz, Francesca Woodman, Nil Yalter.

The anniversary exhibition presents new acquisitions 

The anniversary exhibition presents new acquisitions in the context of ‘Gender, Identity & Diversity,’ works that have never been shown in Austria before. Artists create spaces of memory; see, for instance, South African-born Lebohang Kganye, who uses photomontages to explore her relationship with her deceased mother, or Kazakhstan-born Alexander Ugay. A descendant of the Korean diaspora, he traces his ancestors with analogue and AI photographs. With her large-format collages, Norwegian-Nigerian artist Frida Orupabo creates scenes that address colonial history, slavery, racism, and sexism. Zanele Muholi identifies as non-binary and actively campaigns for LGBTQIA+ rights in South Africa. Muholi’s staged self-portraits criticize the Eurocentric view of the black body. Sin Wai Kin deconstructs and reconstructs social narratives and embodies four non-binary identities of a fictional boy band in the video ‘It’s Always You’. (ALBERTINA Museum)

Curator: Gabriele Schor, founding director, VERBUND COLLECTION, Vienna.

On view from 29 February until 5 May 2024 at the ALBERTINA Museum in Vienna.