Hans Haacke's fascinating retrospective in Vienna: Art with a statement!

Hans Haacke's fascinating retrospective in Vienna: Art with a statement!

Im Belvedere 21 in Vienna, the comprehensive retrospective of the 88-year-old artist Hans Haacke is opened, which was realized almost 25 years after his only monographic exhibition in Austria. The show, which was created in cooperation with the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, offers a detailed overview of Haackes oeuvre and shows the relevance of his work today. As curator Luisa Ziaja emphasized, Haacke is an artist who "believes in the power of the factual", which makes it all the more important for current discussions, according to the reporting of the Kleine Zeitung .

diverse work and critical reflections

The exhibition covers Haacke's work from early photographs to current installations, including its critical examination of the history and the aftermath of National Socialism. Haacke's work warn of socio -political grievances and, among other things, address racism and historical policy. The highlights are iconic works such as "News" and the "large condensation cubes", which play with physical and biological experiments and uncover how freely the reality develops within given framework conditions, the Belvedere .

The exhibition also documents significant Austrian covers, for example Haacke's reformulation of fascist symbolism in a memorial for the victims of National Socialism. The impressive work "Gift Gaul" brings the dark topic of the stock exchange courses as part of lively art into focus and makes it clear how Haacke also deals with ecological questions. "Haacke is a pioneer of contemporary art," said the general director Stella Rollig, which recognizes the retrospective of his outstanding contributions to art history.