Charim Galerie Wien curated by Brigitte Huck & Martin Guttmann
„Days of Future Just Past“

Curator(s):

Brigitte Huck & Martin Guttmann More

Brigitte Huck—art historian, freelance curator—and artist Martin Guttmann live and work in Vienna, New York and Berlin.

Artist(s):

• Josef Bauer
• Clegg & Guttmann More
  The artist duo Clegg & Guttmann (both born in 1957) has now been working for thirty years with a notion of art that can be understood as a “social communicative” process, whereby they not only engage with specific urban spaces, but the structure of publicity itself. The term Spontaneous Opera refers to those objects that can primarily be considered events. In contrast to this, the term Social Sculpture subsumes objects in a broader sense. A third classification of their projects is their categorization as Community Portraits; here they are considered intentional actions, where at issue is representation. These three terms do not stand for essential qualities of the work itself, but for the various postures of their producers or receivers. Some Clegg and Guttmann projects are recontexualizations of others, in one of the many meanings of this term. Site and mode of presentation place their work in a discursive art context that distinguishes it from purely social intervention and locates them on the dividing line between social-political action and artistic sculpture. Their most important works in public space were Die offene Bibliothek in Graz (1991), Breaking Down the Boundaries between Art and Life, the New School for Social Research, New York (1995), Die sieben Brücken von Königsberg, Duisburg (1999), A Monument for Historical Change, Rosa Luxemburg Platz e.V., Berlin (2004) and the Sieben Künste von Pritzwalk, Potsdam (2014). Their works have been shown in numerous exhibitions, most recently at MUMOK Vienna and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2010), Kunsthaus Graz (2011), BAWAG Contemporary Vienna (2012) and Kunstverein Brandenburg (2015). In addition, their works can also be found in numerous international collections.
• Valie Export
• Marguerite Humeau
• Thomas Locher More
  Thomas Locher (born 1956 in Mundekringen, lives and works in Berlin/Leipzig), a pioneering German artist for the realm of neo-conceptual art, achieved international renown for his spatial text works and installations. He has been consistently concerned for many years with foundations like the grammatical order of language and the complexity of its functioning in legal texts or economics, foundations that seem permanent, but nonetheless contain a portion of fictionality. His engagement with systems of meaning stretches also to their content, especially the political implications and the practical impacts on the life reality of individuals and groups. If we speak about Thomas Locher’s works, we are tempted to follow the conceptuality of the theories that lie at their foundation. But his works do not represent linguistic or sociological research, nor are they theories set into image. They stand as artworks, as aesthetic units of their own, their consistent design, sober on first glance, on second glance soaked in irony, allow us to follow his considerations without reference to theories. Thomas Locher has exhibited his work around the world: KMD Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, The Forestay Museum of Art, Cully Galerie, Galerie Silberkuppe, Berlin (2017), Secession Vienna (2013), ZKM Karlsruhe (2012), Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (2012), MAK, Vienna (2012), Kunstpalais Erlangen (2012), Berlin Biennale, Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna (2010), ZKM, Karlsruhe (2009), Kunstverein Heilbronn (2007), Museum of Modern Art, New York (2006), Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna (2006, 2002, 1999), Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (2004), Museum of Modern Art Saitama/Japan (1994), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (1992) and Tate Gallery, Liverpool (1989).
• Dorit Margreiter More
  Born 1967 in Vienna, Austria. Lives and works in Vienna.
• Heimo Zobernig More
  *1958, lives in Vienna
• Beatrix Curran More
  * 1988 Sydney, l. in Vienna
• Mark Dion More
  * 1961 New Bedford, MA, l. in New York
• Sherrie Levine More
  * 1947 Hazelton, PA, l. in New York
• Christian Mayer More
  * 1976 Sigmaringen, Germany; l. in Vienna
• Markus Schinwald More
  * 1973 Salzburg, l. in Vienna and New York
• Robert Smithson More
  * 1938 Passaic, NJ – 1973 New Mexico