Body Experiences – Günter Brus. Photographs from Actions
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Otto Molden Foyer
Culture
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in deutscher SpracheIn cooperation with the museum of modern art in Vienna
A quintessential interest of Vienna Actionism was the experience of the human body in all its aspects – including the socially tabooed or those connected to fears. Günter Brus, to whom this exhibition is dedicated, was one of the main protagonists of this movement. Transgressing his initial medium of painting, he has worked “directly” with real bodies, objects and substances in space and time. With his radical questioning of artistic as well as social values his art caused uproar and scandal in postwar Austria, but it also provoked essential discussions and co-initiated changes in the way we perceive and think.
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Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Franz FISCHLER
President, European Forum Alpbach, Vienna
| 1973-1979 | Research Assistant, Institute for Agricultural Management, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna |
| 1978 | Doctorate, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna |
| 1979-1984 | Executive Assistant, Provincial Chamber of Agriculture of Tyrol, Innsbruck |
| 1985-1989 | Director, Provincial Chamber of Agriculture of Tyrol, Innsbruck |
| 1989-1994 | Austrian Federal Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, Vienna |
| 1995-2004 | European Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries, Brussels |
| 2005-2011 | Chairman, Ecosocial Forum Europe, Vienna |
| 2005-2015 | Chairman, RISE-Foundation, Brussels |
| 2014-2015 | Chairman of the Steering Committee of the EU scientific programme for Expo Milano 2015 |
| since 2012 | President, European Forum Alpbach, Vienna |
| since 2016 | President, Board of Trustees to the Austrian Institute of Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna |
Dr. Eva BADURA-TRISKA
Curator, mumok - museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien, Vienna
| Studied art history in Vienna and London |
