Poster
Sophie von Hellermann
Get Your Head Around It

Sophie von Hellermann has created an extensive new work on canvas for the 62-metre vitrine on the south-west wall of the Kunsthalle’s building. Von Hellermann’s paintings quote fact and fiction, drawing diversely from history and culture to develop expansive, narrative compositions. Get Your Head Around It combines subjects from natural sciences with references to the history of philosophy and culture taking inspiration from its location and proximity to institutions such as Vienna’s Natural History Museum. It pays tribute to the writer, cybernetician, language theorist and musician Oswald Wiener (b. 1935, Vienna; d. 2021, Steiermark) with whom von Hellermann studied Erkenntnistheorie [epistemology] while at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the 1990s.

The exhibition poster is available in a regular version and as a limited edition signed by Sophie von Hellermann (20 copies).