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But we loved her - Ursula Mayer

BUT WE LOVED HER  So since october 13th a new exhibition by Ursula Mayer is showed at belvederes 21er Haus in Vienna. I am full of shame that i did not make the opening performace  (out of pure  laziness #mesosorry) but its most definitely worth seeing! i looked into if and really regret not going to the vernissage the first day. here is a description on the project and thank you Guy-dierdir Debast - i stole your pictures ;) #kiss – the title of Ursula Mayer’s exhibition was taken from a picture in the April 17, 2013 issue of the British daily paper The Independent, the day Margaret Thatcher was interred.  The London-based artist collected all the newspaper articles in the days that followed Thatcher’s death, programmatically positioning these four words at the forefront of her exhibition in Vienna, and in a phase of her work that foregrounds questions about the opportunities offers by neoliberal identity, about consumer culture in a pos...

the past view days...

...where filled with events and happenings. First of them was this right here, the opening of the " House 21 " From 1962 and 2001 the former "House 20" was used as a Museum of modern art in vienna. 1963 Wortuba (austrian sculpting artist) had his big retro perspective here. YAY! so much information. Anyhow we find it is really important that austrian art gets pushed more and more. And up till now there was no platform like the House 21. Showing art from the 1950 up to today. great! Just don`t forget that there are a lot of artists in front of your door!! We can imagine that being the curator of such a House can be very challenging due to the fact the the House is actually ONE BIG OPEN SPACE and to create exhibitions there..puh! longs for a lot of creativity and real input into the house.  Seing and watching how the space of the house reacts to different art spaces being used and considering also the light(which we really thought could have been solved differentl...