--- type: exposition title: Abstract Loop Austria language: en url: "https://www.belvedere.at/en/abstract-loop-austria-0" --- # Abstract Loop Austria ## Marc Adrian, Richard Kriesche, Helga Philipp, Gerwald Rockenschaub ![Acrylic on wood](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/header_cropped_1920x480_fp/public/jart-images/_450197608000.jpg.webp?itok=2HMfPxTd) **Duration:** 28 January 2016 - 29 May 2016 **In the reception of twentieth-century Austrian art, post-war constructive, concrete art – a major international movement – has been “pitifully sidelined” (Dieter Ronte). Yet in Austria especially there are a wide range of starting points and connections, as kinetic art, op art, concrete, conceptual and computer art all exemplify.** This January an exhibition will be opening at the *21er Haus. Museum of Contemporary Art* that explores this trend in a group show featuring four Austrian artists: Marc Adrian, Richard Kriesche, Helga Philipp, and Gerwald Rockenschaub. The foundations for post-war Austrian constructive, concrete art had been laid by the radical ideas of modernism (Vienna Circle, twelve-tone music), the rejection of Austrian Expressionism’s figurative tendencies, and the general notion of a new beginning after the Second World War. Constructive, concrete art in Austria developed within the international context of the artists’ movement *Nouvelle Tendance* in Zagreb. This organized pioneering gatherings and exhibitions to which Adrian, Kriesche, and Philipp all contributed between the years 1961 and 1973. Then in 1967 Werner Hofmann curated a groundbreaking international exhibition *Kinetika* at today’s 21er Haus. At the heart of this exhibition, the work of Adrian, Kriesche and Philipp reveals the beginnings of constructive, concrete art or op art in Austria. They focus on a (new) role for viewers and their perception, and explore the surface qualities and structures of artworks. These issues were addressed again within the postmodern conditions of the Neo-Geo movement in Vienna in the 1980s, represented here by Gerwald Rockenschaub. The exhibition will show that the shared interest in new design elements and notions such as movement, time, structures and conditions for perception and reception resulted in very different artistic strategies – and continue to do so to this day. *“While the four Austrian perspectives—Adrian, Kreische, Philipp, and Rockenschaub—occupy centre stage of this exhibition, they are also presented in an international context with individual works by the following artists: Josef Albers, Getulio Alviani, Marina Apollonio, Hartmut Böhm, Dadamaino, Kurt Kren, Richard Paul Lohse, Gerold Miller, François Morellet, Uli Pohl, Jorrit Tornquist, and Ludwig Wilding.”* Curated by Axel Köhne*.* ### [Belvedere 21](https://www.belvedere.at/en/visit/belvedere-21) **Opening hours:** Tuesday to Sunday, 11 am - 6 pm; Late Night: Thursday, 11 am - 9 pm **Address:** Belvedere 21, 1030 Vienna ([Getting there]()) [Tickets](https://www.belvedere.at/en/tickets?location%5B0%5D=4) ## Impressions - ![Acrylic on wood — Marc Adrian, Sprungperspektive, 1953 — Private Collection, Photo: © Cornelia Cabuk/ © Bildrecht, Vienna, 2016](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_450197608000_0.jpg.webp?itok=g_7A17mz) - ![Gouache on screenprint on paper, 50 × 50 cm — Helga Philipp, Untitled, 1972 — Estate of Helga Philipp, Photo: © Thomas Freiler](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_445339163116.jpg.webp?itok=0LF8Rm4_) - ![Adhesive foils, colour lacquered on hardboard 99 × 99,2 cm — Richard Kriesche, Stadien eines Themas, before 1967 — Artothek des Bundes, Photo: © Belvedere, Vienna/ © Bildrecht, Vienna, 2016](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_449134689932.jpg.webp?itok=LSLwcYd-) - ![Nitro-lacquer on wood 84 × 84 cm — Marina Apollonio, Dinamica Circolare 6Z III, 1966 — Private Collection, Bad Homburg, Photo: © Axel Schneider, Frankfurt](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_450197608006.jpg.webp?itok=3jxRBUxc) - ![140 × 135 cm — Gerwald Rockenschaub, Color foil on alucore, aluminum frame, 1999 — On permanent loan from Ernst Ploil, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_445339162524.jpg.webp?itok=bDtEam7_) - ![Milled aluminum plates on wood panel 141,5 × 141,5 cm — Dadamaino, Oggetto ottico dinamico, 1961 — © Private collection, Bad Homburg, Photo: © Axel Schneider, Frankfurt](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_450197608007.jpg.webp?itok=AMjxQGpu) - ![Foil, glass, screenprint, wood 115 × 115 cm — Helga Philipp, Kinetisches Objekt [Kinetic object], 1966-68 — Estate Helga Philipp and Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Photo: © David Auner](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_450197608005.jpg.webp?itok=r7_iVIbG) - ![120 × 180 cm — Gerwald Rockenschaub, Color foil on alucore, aluminum frame, 1999 — Collection Sigrid and Franz Wojda, Photo: © Lisa Rastl](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_450197608004.jpg.webp?itok=RjaUGyI5) - ![Acrylic on canvas 90 × 90 cm — Richard Kriesche, Serie IV, Nr. 4, around 1964 — Courtesy Richard Kriesche, Photo: © Belvedere, Wien/ © Bildrecht, Vienna, 2016](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_450197608003.jpg.webp?itok=cAAmmnrP) - ![130 × 180 cm — Gerwald Rockenschaub, Color foil on alucore, aluminum frame, 1999 — Sammlung Geyer, Vienna, Photo: © Belvedere, Wien](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_450197608001.jpg.webp?itok=Ob1eUHWi) - ![Acrylic glass, screenprint, cardboard 120 × 120 cm — Helga Philipp, Kinetisches Objekt, 1966–1968 — Sammlung Hainz, Vienna, Photo: © Belvedere, Vienna:](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_450197607999.jpg.webp?itok=FVE233qa) - ![Abstract Loop Austria](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_450197608370.png.webp?itok=Pq-eKnKk) - ![Abstract Loop Austria — Exhibition View "Abstract Loop Austria" — Photo: © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_453349410972.jpg.webp?itok=8REoRpXO) - ![Abstract Loop Austria — Exhibition View "Abstract Loop Austria" — Photo: © Belvedere, Wien](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_453349410973.jpg.webp?itok=Gue7FMMZ) - 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