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CARLONE CONTEMPORARY: Dara Birnbaum
Bruckner: Symphonie Nr. 5 B-Dur
The Belvedere will showcase the installation Bruckner: Symphonie Nr. 5 B-Dur by American artist Dara Birnbaum (born in 1946) as part of the CARLONE CONTEMPORARY series. The Austrian Ludwig Foundation acquired the artwork for the Belvedere in 2024. The context-specific work, which was developed in Vienna, uses Anton Bruckner's (1824-96) Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major and traces the political in Austrian music history. The composer spent the final year of his life at the Belvedere, and the presentation coincides with his 200th birthday.
Curated by Luisa Ziaja.
Assistant curator: Theresa Dann-Freyenschlag
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The Artist
Dara Birnbaum was born in 1946 in New York, USA, where she currently lives and works. A pioneer in media art, she has been critically examining mass media imagery since the 1970s. Her work has received numerous awards and has been exhibited widely, most recently at Tai Kwun, Hong Kong (2023); Fondazione Prada Osservatorio, Milan (2023); Prada Tokyo Aoyama (2023); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2023, also 2008); MoMA PS1, New York (2019); National Portrait Gallery, London (2018); Cleveland Museum of Art (2018). Major retrospectives have been shown at the Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson (2022); the Miller Institute for Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh (2022); the Museu de Arte Contemporånea de Serralves, Porto (2010); and the S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent (2009). Birnbaum also took part in documenta 7, 8, and 9. In 1987, she was the first woman in video to receive the prestigious Maya Deren Award from the American Film Institute. In recognition of her achievements, the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University established the Birnbaum Award in 2017.
CARLONE CONTEMPORARY
The CARLONE CONTEMPORARY series presents contemporary works in the Carlone Hall of the Upper Belvedere in six-month intervals. From the frescoed ancient world of the deities Apollo and Diana to the present day, contemporary artists bridge the Baroque pictorial program with new artistic stances.
