An exhibition at the invitation of: Simone Bader, Jannik Franzen, Katharina Hölzl, Pille-Riin Jaik, Ma Jia, Jakob Krameritsch, Emanuel Mauthe, Florian Mayr, Jelena Micić, Bianca Phos, Heimo Zobernig
Photo: Legacy Teresa Feodorowna Ries
In posession of Valerie Habsburg.
Contributors: Steffi Alte, AQUARIUM Archive, Berhanu Ashagrie,
Simone Bader, Tina Bepperling, Josef Dabernig, Jannik Franzen, Valerie
Habsburg, Pille-Riin Jaik, Ma Jia, Leopold Kessler, Elisabeth
Kihlström, Roland Kollnitz, Lone Haugaard Madsen, Florian Mayr, Sabelo
Mlangeni, Christian Mühlbauer, Noële Ody, Bianca Phos, Marion Porten,
Liesl Raff, Samuel Seger, Eva Seiler, Werner Würtinger, Heimo
Zobernig
The inscription Spezialschule für Bildhauerei (Specialist School for Sculpture) can
still be found on the building in Kurzbauergasse today. The sculpture
school was formally called “special” between 1864 and 1921 to
distinguish it from the Allgemeine Bildhauereischule (General Sculpture School), which was to prepare students for the facility. The exhibition Specialist School for Sculpture brings
together artistic positions that, in various ways, forge bridges to
the sculpture studio of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, which was
built in 1912/13 in the cottage quarter of the Prater.
Jannik Franzen, Wien–Liberec (Still), 2019
© Jannik Franzen
Research on the history of the building as well as on
artistic works related to the institution was strongly tied to personal
conversations and interview situations from the outset and developed in
different directions through the members of the working group. Without
laying claim to completeness and a chronological approach in its
presentation, the exhibition introduces artistic contributions that
address the history of different sculptural practices as well as
personal strategies and approaches in the confrontation with the period
of study.
Heimo Zobernig: Ohne Titel, 1993
© Bildrecht, Wien, 2019
Foto: Archiv Heimo Zobernig
Supplementing the exhibition, a bilingual book was produced, which approaches the history of the Specialist School for Sculpture
in Vienna’s Prater in the form of monthly miniatures from the founding
year of the building in 1913. The publication takes selected events,
occurrences, and facts of this year’s various months as an opportunity
to highlight relevant strands and episodes in the history of the
building and its protagonists.
http://www.schlebruegge.com/en/content/spezialschule