---
type: exposition
title: Hans Schabus
language: en
url: "https://www.belvedere.at/en/hans-schabus"
---

# Hans Schabus

## Vertical Endeavor

![Hans Schabus](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/header_cropped_1920x480_fp/public/jart-images/_439886226375.jpg.webp?itok=SxQalcaF) 

**Duration:** 1 June 2012 - 9 September 2012

For the first monographic exhibition in the recently reopened 21er Haus, the Austrian artist Hans Schabus (b. 1970) has conceived a **room-spanning installation** confronting the architectural order of the Modernist building with the coarseness and unpredictability of the outside world: **abstraction encountering realism**.  

This tensional relationship opens up a wide field of problems and themes for discourse, ranging from the exploration of the subject of space and its accomplishment and the challenges the museum is facing as a concept to its role as an institution of real and intellectual space.

Resembling a threat to the conservatory efforts of a museum, **material will virtually be “carted” into the exhibition room**. Hans Schabus is interested in the principles of order in architecture and society and seeks to symbolically undermine and persistently question them. In this solo exhibition, his investigations will take on the form of a personal design for a museum.

### [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](<https://www.google.com/maps?q=Belvedere 21,+Arsenalstraße 1,+1030+Vienna>))

[Tickets](https://www.belvedere.at/en/tickets?location%5B0%5D=4)

## Impressions

- ![Hans Schabus — Photo \xa9 Hans Schabus](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886226381.jpg.webp?itok=MxEORwmK)
- ![Hans Schabus](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886226382.jpg.webp?itok=mdCaOwHp)
- ![Hans Schabus — Photo \xa9 Hans Schabus](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886226371.jpg.webp?itok=tWD6XLNv)
- ![Hans Schabus — Photo \xa9 Hans Schabus](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886226370.jpg.webp?itok=B-U3Juw5)
- ![Hans Schabus — Photo \xa9 Roland Unger](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886226380.jpg.webp?itok=TfHiGl4u)
- ![Hans Schabus — Photo \xa9 Hans Schabus](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886226374.jpg.webp?itok=8Z3J0vqq)
- ![Hans Schabus — Photo \xa9 Hans Schabus](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886226368.jpg.webp?itok=iraLu0bX)
- ![Hans Schabus](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886226376.jpg.webp?itok=v1f16mKv)
- ![Hans Schabus](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886226379.jpg.webp?itok=VuSq6G1v)
- ![Hans Schabus — Portrait Hans Schabus — \xa9 Michael Rausch-Schott](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_439886224716.jpg.webp?itok=-CYX3SKS)