Steve McQueen

With his powerful, mostly silent films, Steve McQueen, born 1969 in London, has meanwhile become something like a secret star of the international art scene. His short art films are modern in a classical sense. Their emotion-charged directness is stunning, and they are characterized by an impressive minimalism in the use of filmic means. In 1999, Steve McQueen received the Turner Prize, Great Britain's most distinguished award for contemporary artists. In the Kunsthalle exhibition, the first-time-ever presentation of Steve McQueen's work in Austria, the artist was showing some earlier films (Bear, 1993, Deadpan, 1997), alongside his most recent pieces. One special treat in the exhibition was his latest film, TRICKY (2001).