Georg Kargl Fine Arts curated by Wolfgang Kos
„VIENNA TRANSIT“

14.9 - 13.10.2018 Press release

Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Schleifmühlgasse 5, 1040 Vienna
Georg Kargl BOX, Schleifmühlgasse 5, 1040 Vienna
Georg Kargl PERMANENT, Schleifmühlgasse 17, 1040 Vienna

www.georgkargl.com

Curator(s):

Wolfgang Kos

Artist(s):

Jitka Hanzlová More

Czech artist Jitka Hanzlová (born in 1958) explores in her various series of photographs the individual, his surroundings, and the landscape in which she lives. In so doing, she often approaches the sites of her childhood, an aspect that she describes in the following terms. “The path that I take is a path back to look into the future.” She dedicated her first extensive series Rokytník, made between 1990 and 1994, to the small Czech village of the same name, which she visited regularly over a period of five years. While in this and other work groups, she prefers sociological aspects with a documentary-seeming aesthetic, in the series Forest (2000-2005) she allows mythological dimensions to resonate. Hanzlová took photographs in the forests of her Czech homeland near the Carpathian Mountains. She shows the forest as a metaphor, as a concrete landscape, but also as a site where the line dividing fantasy and reality becomes thin. Her photography, which is never subjected to editing after being taken, is striking in both its objectivity and its sensitivity. Their composition always seems refined, and yet random, the tones are tender and fragile, and yet lend a palpable materiality to what is represented, making them seem unnaturally close. In 1982 Jitka Hanzlová came to Germany, studied visual communication with main focus photography at University Essen (1987-1994), in 1993 she was awarded the Dr.-Otto-Steinert-Preis by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie, in 1995 she received the DG BANK Frankfurt scholarship, in 2003 the Grand Prix, Arles, and in 2007 the Paris Photo Prize for Contemporary Photography. Her work has been shown in numerous international individual exhibitions, including the National Galleries of Scotland (2013), the exhibition Billboards at Kunsthaus Bregenz (2008), Museum Folkwang in Essen (2006), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2001), or Deichtorhallen Hamburg (2000).
Christian Philipp Müller More

Christian Philipp Müller (born in 1957) engages with questions of the art context, the specificities of a site, and the medium of the exhibition in and of itself. His installations are based on artistic research that links the most varied facts and things to one another and engages with existing social, economic, and cultural relationships. With his decidedly pointed works, he has been counted since the mid-1980s as one of the most important representatives of institutional critique. Christian Philipp Müller sees the task of the artist in exploring action spaces and limits of social action in site-specific projects and by filtering facts and fictions deepening our understanding of a given situation. Christian Philipp Müller has not only participated in numerous international exhibitions, such as at the Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Biennial (1993) and Documenta X, but also participated as organizer and curator in important projects. His work was honored with a retrospective in 2007 at Museum für Gegenwartksunst in Basel.
Gerwald Rockenschaub
Milan Mladenović More

*1980 in Nis (Serbia)
David Maljković More

In his installations, videos, and collages, David Maljković (born 1973 in Rijeka, lives and works in Zagreb) is concerned with aspects of the eventful history of his country. The far-reaching consequences of the transformation from a communist to a capitalist social form and the linked economic and cultural impacts form the subtext of his artistic production. His works often show abandoned buildings and monuments of the 1960s and 1970s, which impressively reflect the promise of a better future, while at the same time evoke failure due to their currently ruinous state, adding a melancholy touch. In taking this step, the artist consciously uses examples where the ideas of a universal, modernistic progress are linked to a specific understanding of socialism as a potentially radical, experimentally modernistic concept. The combination makes clear the exemplary outlines of his approach, which equally counts the inclusion of research, as well as the interweaving of past, future, and present. Selected exhibitions: With the Collection, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka (2020); Also on View, The Renaissance Society, Chicago (2019); Mario Merz Prize 3rd Edition. The Finalists, Fondazione Merz, Turin (2019); Again and Again, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana (2016); A Retrospective by Appointment, the Nova Gallery, HDD (The Croatian Designers Association), the artist’s studio and Cinema Tuskanac, Croatian Film Association, Zagreb (2015); In Low Resolution, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2015); Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen (2014); Morgenlied, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (with Latifa Echakhch) (2014); Sources in the Air, Van Abbemuseum, Eidhoven (2012), traveling to BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead and GAMeC, Bergamo (2013); New Reproductions, CAC Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius (2012); SculptureCenter, New York (with Lucy Skaer) (2012); Exhibitions for Secession, Secession, Vienna (2011); Out of Projections, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid (2009); Almost Here, Kunstverein Hamburg 2007 and MoMA PS1, New York (2007). He participated at the 11th Gwangju Biennale (2016), the 56th Venice Biennale (2015) and the 29th São Paulo Biennial (2010). His work is represented in the collections of Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, MUMOK (Vienna), Tate Collection (London), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Museum of Modern Art (New York), Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art (Budapest) and Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam).
Anna Jermolaewa
Yves Mettler
Roman Ondak More

* 1966 in Zilina (SK) lives and works in Bratislava (SK).
Zara Pfeifer
Sue Williams