Der zerbrochene Spiegel. Positionen zur Malerei heute

Location

Kunsthalle Wien
Karlsplatz

Curators: Kaspar König, Hans Ulrich Obrist

Artists

Eugène Leroy
Agnes Martin
Maria Lassnig
Leon Golub
Arnulf Rainer
Gérard Gasiorowski
Raoul De Keyser
Robert Ryman
Malcolm Morley
On Kawara
Gerhard Richter
Dick Bengtsson
Edward Ruscha
Niele Toroni
Georg Baselitz
Per Kirkeby
Mary Heilmann
Sigmar Polke
Edward Dwurnik
Joseph Marioni
Helmut Federle
Jean-Frédéric Schnyder
David Reed
Jan Knap
René Daniels
Luis Claramunt
Francesco Clemente
Günther Förg
Hubert Schmalix
Michael Bach
Marlene Dumas
Walter Obholzer
Albert Oehlen
Bernard Frize
Philip Akkerman
Luc Tuymans
Herbert Brandl
Lisa Milroy
Antonin Strizek
Britta Huttenlocher

The exhibition, as part of Wiener Festwochen, presented a critical survey of the possibilities of painting in the early 1990s with 300 paintings by 43 artists. Given a long-standing tendency to break with the conventions of the frame, Der zerbrochene Spiegel [The Broken Mirror] explored where painting critically reflects this rule-breaking while still allowing the painting to remain a viable medium. Particular attention was paid to the work of Ed Ruscha on the entire outer wall of the Kunsthalle and its counterpart on the outer wall of Halle B of the MuseumsQuartier. The traditional medium of painting was thus once again brought to the centre of general interest.

Additional exhibition venue: Deichtorhallen Hamburg