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Austrian Cultural Forum NYC - Past Events

Below is a list of all past events for Austrian Cultural Forum NYC. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.

"Beauty Contest" Exhibition
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- Media: Photography - Sculpture - Installation
- 2011-09-21 - 2012-01-03
"Beauty Contest" deals with one of the most trivial everyday experiences: the daily encounter with human beauty and its social construction. A perennial anthropologic subject dating back to the writings...More »
"Fünf Räume" Exhibition
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- Media: Installation
- 2011-05-23 - 2011-09-05
The exhibition presents five emerging artists who have been given the opportunity to transform a distinct space within the gallery of the Austrian Cultural Forum by creating new, site-specific installations....More »
"Alpine Desire" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2011-01-27 - 2011-05-08
The exhibition dialectically examines the various desires associated with and the abysses hiding behind the cultural-historical subject of the Alps. It juxtaposes art-historical icons of 19th century Romanticism...More »
"Serbia - Frequently Asked Question" Exhibition
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- Media: Installation - Other - Video installation
- 2010-09-23 - 2011-01-11
The Austrian Cultural Forum New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade presents an exhibition of works by 18 contemporary artists entitled Serbia - Frequently Asked Questions. The artists, many...More »
"FAQ Serbia" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture
- 2010-09-23 - 2010-10-10
With the onset of war in former Yugoslavia, Serbia became perceived by some as a violent and xenophobic nation. International media coverage of the war helped establish stereotypes across the world and...More »
"NineteenEightyFour" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Installation - Video installation
- 2010-05-27 - 2010-09-05
This exhibition examines the evolution of imagery and language in what has been described as our panoptic era. While its roots are grounded in the concepts that arose from the 1948 novel by George Orwell,...More »
"Solace" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Installation - Performance Art
- 2010-02-04 - 2010-05-15
This exhibition understands art in a very mundane sense as a source of solace. It is committed to the mildly intoxicating character of beauty and the inebriating quality of alcohol and embraces the baser...More »
"Videorama: Subversion, Absurdity, and Form in Austrian Video Art" Exhibition
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- Media: Video installation
- 2009-12-01 - 2010-01-23
The Ursula Blickle Videoarchiv of the Kunsthalle Wien consists of several thousand videos focusing on video art from Austria. Three jurors: Massimiliano Gioni, Sabine Himmelsbach, and Ian White selected...More »
"1989: The End of History or the Beginning of the Future? Video Art Comments on a Time Shift" Exhibition
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- Media: Video installation
- 2009-11-02 - 2009-11-24
As its fall focus, the Austrian Cultural Forum presents the video-based exhibition "1989: The End of History or the Beginning of the Future?" which features 15 films from international artists, and will...More »
"sound:frame festival" Exhibition
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- Media: Other - Video installation
- 2009-09-13 - 2009-10-31
The Austrian Cultural Forum New York presents the best work from the sound:frame festival, the worldwide leading VJ/DJ event from Vienna. The exhibit sound:frame:remix will show seven videos and installations...More »
"Critical Strategies in Art and Media: Perspectives of New Cultural Practices" Conference & Symposium
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2009-09-10 - 2009-09-10
A roundtable conference of digital theorists and practitioners on the future of cultural intelligence and freedoms. This roundtable will address questions such as "Beyond the obsolete models of artist...More »
"The Seen and the Hidden: (Dis)covering the Veil" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Photography - Installation - Video installation
- 2009-05-22 - 2009-08-29
The woman's veil is one of the most symbolically charged pieces of clothing in contemporary dress; it is provocative even when it is not revealing. With roots in the three Abrahamic religions, it has become...More »
"Open Space Uncurated: Creative Migration" Exhibition
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- Media: Other - Other
- 2009-04-14 - 2009-05-14
This spring, the Austrian Cultural Forum New York is launching its new project, OPEN SPACE UNCURATED, as an annual event. For one month, young Austrian artists living in the USA and working in a variety...More »
"The Artist As Troublemaker" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Installation - Performance Art
- 2008-12-10 - 2009-04-03
Art often has the potential to "make trouble", with artists serving as the "troublemakers" who want to rethink and reinvent the existing social order and its institutions. Museums are the focal point and...More »
"Cutting Realities: Gender Strategies in Art" Exhibition
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- Media: Sculpture - Installation - Performance Art
- 2008-09-23 - 2008-11-29
"Cutting Realities" is an exhibition that links the historically important decade of the 1960s with contemporary approaches to issues of gender, demonstrating how artists articulate their concerns on a...More »
"Bread and Soccer" Exhibition
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- Media: Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2008-05-28 - 2008-09-13
In June 2008, Austria and Switzerland play host to the European championship soccer tournament UEFA Euro 2008. Spectators and players alike will celebrate a game that has been a cultural phenomenon long...More »
"Under Pain of Death" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography
- 2008-01-22 - 2008-05-10
In 2006, 1,591 people were executed around the world. They were hanged, shot, beheaded, poisoned, or tortured to death. In China, the country where most executions were carried out, the bodies of delinquents...More »