++SPACE. ABOUT A DREAM starting on 31 March++ Dear Sir or Madame! Enclosed you find information on our upcoming exhibition. For more detailed information, please don't hesitate to contact me. Yours sincerely Katharina Murschetz katharina.murschetz@kunsthallewien.at +43-1-52189-1221
SPACE. ABOUT A DREAM Vladimir Dubossarsky & Alexander Vinogradov: Cosmonaut No.1, 2006, Private collection, Moscow, Courtesy of the artists © Vladimir Dubossarsky & Alexander Vinogradov   Press conference: Thursday, 31. March, 2011, 10 am, KUNSTHALLEwien Outer space is not only a physically extending sphere, but also a symbol: for centuries, man's dreams and visions have been concerned with conquering the "extraterrestrial zone," with getting to know worlds beyond Earth, and even with colonizing other planets. "Space is the Place", proclaimed the musician Sun Ra, and thousands of science fiction novels and movies testify to this yearning for the other, for the unknown, the "high frontier" that became a scene of geostrategic position fights. Both the Unites States of America and the Soviet Union have invested tremendous amounts to secure their dominance in space. The first manned space flight with the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in 1961 was a key feat in this respect - and its fiftieth anniversary the special occasion for this exhibition. Assembling 51 artists' positions from fifty years, the show reflects the aesthetic, metaphoric and political dimensions connected with the idea of outer space. Works in a wide variety of media - painting, drawing, film, photography, graphic art, and multimedia installation - explore the question which aesthetic and sociopolitical utopias the notion of space is still able to unleash today. Hall 5 of Vienna's Museum of Natural History, which comprises the largest meteorite exhibit in the world, will be accessible from the show "Space. About a Dream" via live stream. Works of art by Artsat, Sylvie Fleury, Pipilotti Rist, and Nives Wiedauer will be on display there. In addition, space toys from the Andreas Karl Collection will be presented in the hall under the title "Wind me up, Scotty!" from April 13 until August 15, 2011. press images for download: http://www.kunsthallewien.at/cgi-bin/event/event.pl?id=4188;lang=en;page=2   Opening: Thursday, 31. March, 2011, 7 pm, KUNSTHALLEwien The exhibition will take place at Kunsthalle Wien and at the Museum of Natural History Vienna http://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/ More detailed information on the cooperation and on the accompanying programme will be published soon on http://www.kunsthallewien.at   Artists represented in the exhibition: Pawel Althamer, Eric Andersen, Julieta Aranda, Artsat, Angela Bulloch, Björn Dahlem, Vladimir Dubossarsky & Alexander Vinogradov, Charles and Ray Eames, Sylvie Fleury, Agnes Fuchs, Daniel & Geo Fuchs, Loris Gréaud, Judith Hopf, Dona Jalufka, Toril Johannessen, William Kentridge, Markus Krottendorfer, Lena Lapschina, Simone Leigh, Jen Liu, Basim Magdy, Mahony, Aleksandra Mir, Jyoti Mistry, monochrom, Mariko Mori, Gianni Motti, Deimantas Narkevicius, Katie Paterson, Simon Patterson, Amalia Pica, Christian Pußwald, Robert Rauschenberg, Pipilotti Rist, Thomas Ruff, Tom Sachs, Wilhelm Sasnal, Charles Schmidt, Michael Snow, Andrei Sokolov, Hildegard Spielhofer, Eve Sussman & Rufus Corporation, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Keith Tyson, Christian Waldvogel, Andy Warhol, Orson Welles, Nives Widauer, Jane & Louise Wilson, Virginie Yassef, Carey Young.   Curator: Cátherine Hug Advisory board: Gerald Matt, Director of the Kunsthalle Wien; Walter Famler, founder of the movement KOCMOC/Gagarin Group; and Christian Köberl, Director of the Museum of Natural History Vienna   Space. About a Dream 1. April to 15. August, 2011
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