A television broadcast about the exhibition I curated for KUNST HAUS WIEN. See also my book on Hundertwasser published by Prestel.

After a long time in hiding I am now showing some of my photography at Haus Wittgenstein in Vienna. This is mainly portrait work, generally people I photographed over the last couple of decades. Opening monday, June 20th 2011 at 7 p.m. at 1030 Vienna, Parkgasse 18.

Meine Mutter / My mother, Wien / Vienna, 2011, Foto / Photo: Andreas Hirsch

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The new exhibition by Alexandra Uccusic titled GLOCKENREIHER is due to open Tuesday April 5th 2011 at the legendary villa designed by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.

First Preview of the GLOCKENREIHER Exhibition

A videoclip catches key thoughts and mood of the MAK NITE panel discussion on November 9th 2010 that took off from the piece PALACES & COURTS by Markus Hanakam & Roswitha Schuller. I had the pleasure of participating in this discussion and meeting the artists and several other nice people.

The exhibition “René Burri – Photographs” at KUNST HAUS WIEN brings together works of this legendary Magnum-Photographer from more than four decades, celebrating the humanistic and aesthetic genius of the man who took many of the photographs that have become icons of the 20th century. More Info.

René Burri Exhibition at KUNST HAUS WIEN

A Video documentation of the OPEN SOURCE LIFE Conference that I had the pleasure of curating for Ars Electronica this year is now available. The conference took place on Saturday, September 4th 2010, in Linz.

Round II with Andreas Hirsch, Carlo Ratti, Ginger Krieg Dosier and John Thackara.

Round III with Amelia Andersdotter, Maxwell Salzberg and Geert Lovink.

Round IV with Saskia Sassen, Joichi Ito and Derrick de Kerckhove.

Setting the stage for the OPEN SOURCE LIFE conference on Saturday September 4th: the historial premises of the Tabakfabrik in Linz (Photo: Susi Windischbauer / Ars Electronica)

The conference OPEN SOURCE LIFE, taking place on Saturday September 4th, is part of Ars Electronica Festival 2010 in Linz. OPEN SOURCE LIFE addresses questions around the different paradigm changes summarized by Ars Electronica under the title “repair society”, namely: Is life and work according to ideas from the development of open source software the vision of a sustainable future, a nightmare scenario of total transparency or something that’s long been common practice? Can Open-Source-Mindsets of the individual and Open-Source-Structures in societies and economies act as agents of positive change?

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Tina Modotti, Photo: Johan Hagemeyer (c) Galerie Bilderwelt Berlin

The exhibition “TINA MODOTTI – Photographer and Revolutionary”, which I had the honour of curating (together with Reinhard Schultz) is  on show at the KUNST HAUS WIEN until November 7th 2010. Modotti (1896 – 1942) created her photographic oevre mainly within 7 years spent in the Mexico of the 1920-ies. She became legendary for both her photographic sensibility and her involvement in the revolutionary movements of her time. The exhibition combines a retrospective of her work as photographer with documentation of her being part of the artistic-revolutionary subcultures in Mexico and Europe, her being close with artists like Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo or Edward Weston or writers like B. Traven or Pablo Neruda. We also produced a catalogue with essays in german and english.

The exhibition BADETAG KUNSTWAESCHE opened with a performance. Natascha Uccusic and Georg Hitsch (dasKabelwerk.at) documented the event, see the images on Flickr.

Ausstellung Badetag Kunstwäsche von coop.incontro

This is the first collective public project of the artist’s cooperative coop.incontro – titled BADETAG KUNSTWÄSCHE. A project for the kabelwerkARTspace, a gallery in the new quarter “Kabelwerk” in Vienna. Four members of coop.incontro present their works that all circle around the exhibition’s overall theme of “encounters”: Katja Uccusic-Indra showing her paintings from the last year, Alexandra Uccusic presenting recent paintings and drawings, Judith Nicolussi displaying her graphic works and collages. I am showing some photograpghy – 13 images from the series “Encounter Art” and two sets from the newly conceived project “The Alphabet of Photography”. The exhibition opens May 11 at 7 p.m. with a performance in which the exhibition setup is completed, with a certain reference to the setting of kabelwerkARTspace and everyday life of the inhabitants of this new neighbourhood. More info at coop.incontro