Televisions
Artists
- Maike Abetz & Oliver Drescher
- Vito Acconci
- Ant Farm
- Apsolutno
- Art Club 2000
- Michel Auder
- John Baldessari
- Martin Beck
- Ashley Bickerton
- Dara Birnbaum
- Dike Blair
- Candice Breitz
- Chris Burden
- Miguel Calderón
- Sophie Calle
- Maurizio Cattelan
- Sarah Charlesworth
- Larry Clark
- Hans-Christian Dany / Christoph Schäfer
- Thomas Demand
- Jessica Diamond
- Jan Dibbets
- Do-Foundation
- Peter Dombrowe
- Tracey Emin
- Harun Farocki / Andrej Ujica
- GALA Committee
- General Idea
- Nan Goldin
- Paul Graham
- Simon Grennan & Christopher Sperandio
- Keith Haring
- Astrid Herrmann
- Christine Hill
- Jonathan Horowitz
- Jim Isermann
- Sanja Iveković
- Christian Jankowski
- Martin Kippenberger
- Alexander Kluge
- Barbara Kruger
- Sean Landers
- Louise Lawler
- LOT/ek
- Miltos Manetas
- Dorit Margreiter
- Allan McCollum
- John Miller
- Antonio Muntadas
- Tony Oursler
- Nam June Paik
- Paper Tiger Television
- Philippe Parreno
- Zhang Peili
- Raymond Pettibon
- Daniel Pflumm
- Richard Prince
- David Reeb
- Tobias Rehberger
- Pipilotti Rist
- Gerwald Rockenschaub
- Ursula Rogg
- Julian Rosefeldt
- Martha Rosler
- Christoph Schlingensief
- Ilene Segalove
- Richard Serra
- David Shrigley
- Laurie Simmons
- Michael Smith & Joshua White
- Doron Solomons
- Wolfgang Staehle
- Haim Steinbach
- Szuper Gallery
- TVTV
- Van Gogh T.V.
- Klaus vom Bruch
- Carrie Mae Weems
- William Wegman
- Olav Westphalen
- Måns Wrange
- Joseph Zehrer
Televisions puts the most popular medium of the 20th century in a contemporary art perspective. TV is not only our main supplier of information, entertainment, and infotainment, but also a kind comforter to the lonely, the baby-sitter that children really love, a relaxant, and, to some, the no. 1 cultural epidemic. Television is the greatest repository of collective memories; it shapes and transforms identities – not least because it turns the private into the public.
Televisions shows how artists have incorporated, critically questioned, and occasionally reinvented their TV experience in their work, analysing and ironizing couch potatoes, talk show hosts, quiz programs and TV news, glamorous prime-time shows and the circus of afternoon talk shows. The exhibition documents artists initiatives for a different kind of TV, presents ways of continual image recycling and makes clear that TV is more than easily accessible mine of material for video art. A unique compilation of paintings, photographs, sculpture, installations, and videos illustrates the intense attention that artists from different social and ideological backgrounds have given to TV in their work, in playful or serious ways.
A comprehensive side program of discussions, film showings, club evenings, and concerts gives an expanded survey of the various diverse influences of, and reactions to, TV on different generations of artists and their media and art approaches.
Project manager: Gabriele Mackert, Curator Kunsthalle Wien
Curator side program: Justin Hoffmann, Munich/Vienna