4.10.2017 - 28.1.20184.10.2017 - 28.1.2018The Austrian graphic, object and photographic artist, poet and composer Gerhard Rühm (b. in Vienna in 1930, lives and works in Cologne and Vienna) was co-founder of the Wiener Gruppe (Vienna Group) and in his graphic work constantly pursues an expansion of the medium of “language and speech”. The autumn exhibition of the Bank Austria Kunstforum will present the multifarious oeuvre spanning more than six decades of the crossover artist Gerhard Rühm. It will also focus on Rühm’s radical linguistic and phonetic experiments in the context of the international avant-garde movements of the early twentieth century – to which the Kunstforum has for years continually devoted major exhibitions – anchoring and accentuating how he links up with their achievements and develops them further. Links to them for Rühm are for instance epitomised in Constructivist Zaum poetry (Vladimir Khlebnikov, Aleksei Kruchenykh, Olga Rosanova), the Dadaist Merz writings of Kurt Schwitters, and the “Parole in libertà” of the Futurist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. Rühm’s subtly sensitive work and sound creations expressed in drawings, photo montages, text-objects, silhouettes and paper cuttings, music scores and performances testify to his profound interest in the materiality of speech and language as visual and phonetic material: a reflection on the entities of “I” and of “You” and the here and the now constantly accompany Rühm’s work, as do elements of chance and humour.
Besides numerous solo exhibitions since 1958, his works have been featured for instance in the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, the documenta events of 1977 and 1987 in Kassel, the Frankfurt Schirn Kunsthalle and the Universalmuseum Joanneum in Graz. In 2012 the Austrian National Library acquired Rühm’s premature legacy. Curator: Heike Eipeldauer
Gerhard RühmBank Austria Kunstforum Main address:
Bank Austria KunstforumWells Fargo CenterFreyung 81010Wien, AustriaBank Austria KunstforumWells Fargo CenterFreyung 81010Wien, Austria4.10.2017 - 28.1.20184.10.2017 - 28.1.2018The Austrian graphic, object and photographic artist, poet and composer Gerhard Rühm (b. in Vienna in 1930, lives and works in Cologne and Vienna) was co-founder of the Wiener Gruppe (Vienna Group) and in his graphic work constantly pursues an expansion of the medium of “language and speech”. The autumn exhibition of the Bank Austria Kunstforum will present the multifarious oeuvre spanning more than six decades of the crossover artist Gerhard Rühm. It will also focus on Rühm’s radical linguistic and phonetic experiments in the context of the international avant-garde movements of the early twentieth century – to which the Kunstforum has for years continually devoted major exhibitions – anchoring and accentuating how he links up with their achievements and develops them further. Links to them for Rühm are for instance epitomised in Constructivist Zaum poetry (Vladimir Khlebnikov, Aleksei Kruchenykh, Olga Rosanova), the Dadaist Merz writings of Kurt Schwitters, and the “Parole in libertà” of the Futurist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. Rühm’s subtly sensitive work and sound creations expressed in drawings, photo montages, text-objects, silhouettes and paper cuttings, music scores and performances testify to his profound interest in the materiality of speech and language as visual and phonetic material: a reflection on the entities of “I” and of “You” and the here and the now constantly accompany Rühm’s work, as do elements of chance and humour.
Besides numerous solo exhibitions since 1958, his works have been featured for instance in the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, the documenta events of 1977 and 1987 in Kassel, the Frankfurt Schirn Kunsthalle and the Universalmuseum Joanneum in Graz. In 2012 the Austrian National Library acquired Rühm’s premature legacy. Curator: Heike Eipeldauer
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