Guided tour of the exhibition with curators – Bird Flight. Erika Giovanna Klien in dialogue with contemporary artistic positions

Erika Giovanna Klien, Bird Flight, Bart van der Heide, Andreas Hapkemeyer, Brita Köhler, Matilde Cassani, Austrian Cultural Forum in Milan, Mark Adrian, Alberto Biasi, Dadamaino, Fortunato Depero, Spencer Finch, Ceal Floyer, Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack, Elisabeth Karlinsky, Liliana Moro, Max Oppenheimer, Otto Piene, Eva Schlegel, Benjamin Tomasi, Günther Uecker, David Medalla, Parables of Friendship, Steven Cairns, Fatima Hellberg, Michael Kleine,

In the Spirit of the Avant-Garde. Awakening and Movement in the Artistic Legacy of Erika Giovanna Klien

Part of the Studium General event programme

Thursday 9 June 2022
at 6 pm

Booking necessary: book via Eventbrite
The tour will be held in German

A special guided tour with insights into the works on display. Visits with the curators and the director are a unique opportunity to get behind the scenes and information about the concept of the exhibition, the works on display and the artists directly from those who conceived it.

Bird Flight takes its title from a series of paintings by the Austrian artist Erika Giovanna Klien (1900-1957), in which the flight of birds is expressed through movement and light, which are central themes in her art. Overlooked by the history of art like many other twentieth century female artists, and included in Lea Vergine’s The Other Half of the Avant-Garde, published in the 1980s, Klein was one of the most interesting exponents of the Kinetism movement, founded by Franz Cizek in Vienna after the First World War.

 

 

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