Visionäre Räume. Walter Pichler trifft Friedrich Kiesler

In the organizer's words:

The exhibition project Visionary Spaces will present two important avant-gardists of different generations, Friedrich Kiesler (1890-1965) and Walter Pichler (1936-2012).

The Austro-American architect Kiesler, who increasingly turned to sculpture after his pioneering exhibition displays and architectural visions of the 1920s, meets the Austrian sculptor Pichler. In the early 1960s, Pichler's sculptures, which he declared to be alternative living spaces, provided a decisive and internationally acclaimed impetus. As pioneers, both began early on to question conventional construction methods and to develop experimental alternatives: biomorphic, sculptural architecture or architectural sculptures.
The interdisciplinary collective raumlaborberlin is responsible for the artistic-architectural design and realizes a display that makes it possible to view these utopian projects from today's perspective. With around 120 international loans, including never-before-seen archival documents and objects, six thematic stations will present both central content-related and formal phenomena in a comparative manner.

The show, which is aimed at a broad audience interested in art and architecture, offers the first comprehensive overview of Walter Pichler's work in Germany since 1987. Friedrich Kiesler's work will also be presented comprehensively for the first time in North Rhine-Westphalia and the BENELUX region.

Visionary spaces. Walter Pichler meets Friedrich Kiesler, an exhibition by the Belvedere, Vienna, in collaboration with the Kunstmuseen Krefeld, is curated in Vienna by Verena Gamper and in Krefeld by Michael Krajewski.

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