The House21 was built during the 1950s by Karl Schwanzer.
From 1962 and 2001 the former "House 20" was used as a Museum of modern art in vienna.
1963 Wortuba (austrian sculpting artist) had his big retro perspective here. YAY! so much information.
Anyhow we find it is really important that austrian art gets pushed more and more. And up till now there was no platform like the House 21.
Showing art from the 1950 up to today. great! Just don`t forget that there are a lot of artists in front of your door!!
We can imagine that being the curator of such a House can be very challenging due to the fact the the House is actually ONE BIG OPEN SPACE and to create exhibitions there..puh! longs for a lot of creativity and real input into the house.
Seing and watching how the space of the house reacts to different art spaces being used and considering also the light(which we really thought could have been solved differently!) and the weather conditions. (becuase everything is out of Glas!)
Installation with the red carpets by Marcus Geiger (not quite sure what to think of it, maybe a bit to "austrianflag" red)
haha the speech was really funny. prepare next time guys.
uhm... a cool light installation by some guy with a very south american sounding name...ups we forgot
Later then we saw that Marcus Geigers installation was wrapping the whole House 21... now thats cool! ;)
the museum in the museum
Former known as the House 20 in the Arselnalstrasse 1 1030 Vienna has about 2275qm exhibition space.
Other than that the "Wortuba-foundation" and cinema and as of 2012 the Artothek will be moving in the Basement.
The current Exhibition "Schöne Aussichten" can be viewed until the 8th of January until
(Wednesday to Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm)
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