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Works from the Collection Gertraud & Dieter Bogner at mumok
In 2007, Gertraud and Dieter Bogner donated the mumok–Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig in Vienna more than 100 pictures, sculptures and objects as well as 300 drawings, gouaches, prints, autographs, artists’ books, and archive materials. The museum has since received further important works and archive materials from the Bogner Collection. In addition, other art works have been purchased from the Bogners over the last few years upon the museum's suggestion.
At the invitation of mumok and in cooperation with Rainer Fuchs, they developed an exhibition entitled Konstruktion_Reflexion (Construction_Reflection) using works from their collection.
The selection of works dating from the 1950s to today provides a unique view on a collection that is at first, in terms of form, characterised by geometric abstraction and systematic-constructive design processes. The initial focus of the collection is broken with early by positions with a conceptual and media-related focus. Ever since he began collecting in the 1970s, Dieter Bogner's focus on the "content" as a category of constructive-abstract art played a central role, bucking contemporary trends. Bringing this question up to date, the exhibition aims to highlight connections to current discussions of a "politics of form", some of which were always to be found within the work, others which have remained hidden until now. Form and content are thus seen as categories that are inseparable from each other and from their socio-cultural and socio-historical context. Socially and politically relevant (and sometimes controversial) content is revealed even when the artists have avoided figurative and narrative art forms. The selected works provide an insight into this type of art history.
Konstruktion_Reflexion forms a dynamic and sensual collection of installations, paintings, videos, photos, texts, and publications created by artists such as Mark Adrian, Robert Adrian X, Heinz Gappmayr, Dan Graham, Jenny Holzer, Alfredo Jaar, Stansilav Kolíbal, František Lesák, Richard Paul Lohse, David Maljkovic, Dorit Margreiter, Helmut Mark, François Morellet, Dóra Maurer, Hermann Painitz, museum in progress, Peter Sandbichler, Jorrit Tornquist, Peter Weibel, Heimo Zobernig, and many more.
