Preview 22.02. 2024, 14-17 Uhr

Vernissage 22.02. 2024, 17-20 Uhr
Public Days 23 - 25.02.2024
Freitag-Samstag 12-19 Uhr
Sonntag 12-18 Uhr
Festspielhaus Bregenz

 

 

Stand-Ansicht, Stage Bregenz 2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fragile Obsessions

29. September 2023 - 3. March 2024

 

 

 

 

Exhibition view,  Renate Bertlmann, Fragile Obsessions, Belvedere 21 © pocket exhibition

 

 

Renate Bertlmann is one of the main protagonists of the Austrian feminist avant-garde. In recent years she has gained international attention, especially through her solo presentation at the Austrian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale 2019. On the occasion of her 80th birthday, the Belvedere honors her oeuvre with a first comprehensive retrospective. 

 

Bertlmann's radical, ironically provocative works subvert social attributions and stereotypes of gender, femininity, and masculinity, thus addressing the female body as a battlefield as well as the ambivalences of pleasure and pain, desire and discipline, tenderness and vulnerability. The artist draws both from conceptual and pop-cultural aesthetics, appropriates pornography and kitsch from an altered perspective, and references literature, film, medicine, religion, and spirituality. Her work is characterized by her interest in experimenting with a wide range of media and materials, such as conceptual photographs, drawings, paintings, collages, sculptures made of latex and Plexiglas, performances, and large-scale installations.

 

The retrospective at Belvedere 21 includes some two hundred exhibits, ranging from the late 1960s to her recent artistic production, including iconic works from the 1970s, pivotal sculptures and installations, performative photographs, and drawings, as well as numerous works that will be on view for the first time. The exhibition is accompanied by an extensive publication.

 

Curated by Luisa Ziaja

 

 

 

 

 

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Preview 2. November 2023 (Invitation only)

Public days 3. – 5. November 2023

 

 

Renate Bertlmann, „Ausstülpung", 1982, Fotosequenz, Vintage s/w-Fotografie, 9,2 x 14 cm

 

Carol Tachdjian +43 (0) 699 11 69 49 34

Silvia Steinek +43 (0) 664 200 10 41

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Renate Bertlmann
03 - 05/11/2023
Artissima. International fair of contemporary art Torino


Renate Bertlmann, Tender Christ, 2023, Foto edition, 55 x 35 cm, 12 + 2 AP
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