Cosima von Bonin’s The Fatigue Empire Opens at Kunsthaus Bregenz

BREGENZ.- Cosima von Bonin is one of the most well-known artists of her generation. Especially since her participation in the last documenta, at which a large number of the works was spread over the entire course of the show, she is no longer an insider-tip and so-called artist’s artist. Nevertheless it is not easy to classify her artistic production. Even though in some of her works references to historical Conceptual Art and Minimal Art can be noticed, and critics like [...]

American Artist Roni Horn Conceives Exhibition Specifically for Kunsthaus Bregenz

BREGENZ.- Roni Horn (b. 1955 in New York) has achieved international recognition as a prominent and influential contemporary artist. Since the early 1970s she has worked across artistic forms, producing sculpture, photographs, artist books, and drawings. Because she chooses not to privilege any one medium, her art defies easy categorization. Materials – used with remarkable virtuosity and sensitivity – take on metaphorical qualities and relate key themes with great visual power. One important aspect of her practice is an exploration [...]

Kunsthaus Bregenz Presents Candice Breitz’s Best Known Video Installations

BREGENZ.- Though Candice Breitz (b. 1972 Johannesburg, South Africa) has focused largely on creating multi-channel video installations since 1999, her approach to the moving image grows out of an earlier body of photographic work, in which she made extensive use of photomontage and cut-and-paste strategies. In composing her multi-channel video installations, Breitz deploys both freshly shot footage and material drawn from familiar films, modifying her source material digitally in the working. Amongst other themes, Breitz’s video oeuvre reflects critically on [...]