Tactics of Invisibility is a collaborative project by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, ARTER in Istanbul, and TANAS in Berlin curated by Emre Baykal and Daniela Zyman. As a survey exhibition it will present fifteen artistic positions from Turkey and its diasporas. The multisite exhibition will occupy three spaces in three cities, but it will also attempt to reach out to other practices in each of these cities and produce new networks of exchange.> >
DURATION: April 16 - August 15, 2010
LOCATION: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Himmelpfortgasse 13, 1010 Vienna, Austria
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary has been invited to contribute to Istanbul's contemporary art program as European Capital of Culture 2010 with The Morning Line. A platform for contemporary music and composition, The Morning Line is a public art structure – 8 meter high and 20 meter long, built of 17 tons of coated aluminum – exploring the disciplinary interplays between art, architecture, music, mathematics, cosmology, and science. > >
DURATION: May 22 - September 19, 2010
LOCATION: Istanbul, Turkey
The exhibition Transitory Objects presents architectural objects together with works of art, many drawn from the collection of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. Showing architectural objects alongside artworks or using techniques of presentation and mise-en-scène similar to those used for works of art is an established approach today, yet this exhibition also looks at some of the more complex issues raised by this phenomenon.> >
DURATION: July 3, 2009 - March 14, 2010
LOCATION: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
Himmelpfortgasse 13, 1010 Vienna, Austria
Commissioned by T-B A21 for the 51st Venice Biennale (2005), the work is now a permanent loan to the Kartause Ittingen, whose patron is St. Lawrence. In Welcome to the Tears of St. Lawrence Olaf Nicolai proclaims a nature phenomenon as an exhibition contribution by inviting would-be observers through catalogs and posters to watch falling stars.> >
DURATION: September 18, 2009 - April 11, 2010
LOCATION: Kunstmuseum Thurgau / Kartause Ittingen
