A GOLDEN THREAD - TEXTILE PATHS IN ART
March 25 - October 29, 2023
The traditional manual activities of sewing, crocheting, embroidery and knitting have long since established themselves in contemporary art and are no longer disparagingly equated with »arts and crafts«.
Textiles also run like the proverbial golden thread through Daniel Spoerri's life - in his works as well as in his private collection of special fabrics from throughout the world, blankets and towels.
This season's exhibition at Ausstellungshaus Spoerri gives an insight into the astonishing variety of textile art: sewn plants, embroidered interiors, carpet pictures, crochet dishes, cross-stitches on a plastic bag, knitted architecture, sewn writing, yesteryear clothing, idiosyncratic figures and a variety of flags.
Works by:
Natascha Borowsky, Roz Chast, Silke Eggl, Jochen Flinzer, Helena Hafemann, Claudia Kallscheuer, Theo Kerp, Katharina Krenkel, Ursula Kreutz, Victoria Martini, Sabine Perez, Rosa d’Ortona, Irene Stamp, Lea Stein, Annette Streyl, Patricia Waller, Petra Weifenbach, Ingrid Wiener and Daniel Spoerri.
Exhibitions since 2009
SEASON 2022: BEN & SPOERRI
Ben Vautier (*1935 in Naples) has been a long-standing artistic companion and friend of Daniel Spoerri. After they got to know each other in the early 1960s, they have worked together on joint proj...
SEASON 2021: LIVING IN THE MOON – DANIEL SPOERRI & ART BRUT
With LIVING IN THE MOON, the main exhibition of 2021 was dedicated entirely to Daniel Spoerri's relationship to Art Brut (Raw Art). The juxtaposition of exhibits from the collection of the »Friends...
Season 2020: Daniel Spoerri and Eat Art
When Daniel Spoerri coined the term »Eat Art«, he was not referring to fine cuisine. Rather, he was concerned with the basics of nutrition, the preparation of the simplest ingredients, the differen...
SEASON 2019: PLURALLY UNIQUE - THE MULTIPLE
When Daniel Spoerri experimented with the term »multiple« in the 1950s, he was not interested in reproductions, but in serially produced, three-dimensional originals in a limited edition that could...
Season 2018: Fluxus
In 2018 the exhibition house led its visitors into the world of Fluxus. In the early 1960s, the »Fluxists« wanted to show that the boundaries between art and life are fluid. The merging of art and ...
Season 2017: ART TOLD WITH FLOWERS
This magnificent exhibition showed works by Rozbeh Asmani, Rudolf Bonvie, Karoline Bröckel, Katharina Duwen, Werner Henkel, the artificial flower manufactory, Christiane Löhr, Scénocosme, Dieter Se...
Season 2016: ARTIST FRIENDS – JEAN TINGUELY & DANIEL SPOERRI
August 30 2016 marked the 25th anniversary of the death of Jean Tinguely. He was Daniel Spoerri's closest artist friend – and probably also the most important for his development. Tinguely was ther...
Season 2016: Morellet – Spoerri – Topor
The drawings of the caricaturist and master of black humor, Roland Topor, might not seem to have much in common with the austere graphics of François Morellet. Daniel Spoerri and Alexandre Devaux, ...
Season 2015: LOVING & HAVING
Love. Lover. Collector. Collections and works by 25 collectors and artists.
On the occasion of Daniel Spoerri's 85th birthday, the exhibition center has taken up a theme that is constitutive of S...
Season 2014: NEW WORKS BY DANIEL SPOERRI
Newly created works by Daniel Spoerri were presented as the second main exhibition of the 2014 season, including the »Clone«, faux tableaux pièges from the series »Bistrot di Santa Marta«, »Oraclet...
SEASON 2014: JOINING - 3 x WIEGAND and SPOERRI
The exhibition house opened the 2014 season with this show evolving around the »Artist Friends Pair« of Daniel Spoerri and Gottfried Wiegand. The exhibition was curated by the siblings Jan and Suse...
SEASON 2013: BERNHARD LUGINBÜHL
A retrospective of the great Swiss iron sculptor Bernhard Luginbühl, who is rarely shown in Austria – a lifelong friend and artist colleague of Daniel Spoerri!
Exhibition period: March 23 – Novem...
SEASON 2012: PARALIPOMENA
A group exhibition on the subject of »nature« and »collecting«, accompanying Daniel Spoerri's exhibition »An incompetent dialogue« at the Museum of Natural History in Vienna.
Participating artists...
Season 2011: Vera Mercer & Daniel Spoerri
Large-format colour photographs by Vera Mercer were hung opposite or to the side of the current faux tableaux pièges from Daniel Spoerri's »Mosaiques des années cinquantes« series – a magnificent t...
Season 2011: André Thomkins & Daniel Spoerri
Gathered for the first time in Austria: drawings, prints, word art and small sculptures by the artist André Thomkins accompanied by selected works of Daniel Spoerri.
Exhibition period: May 28 – A...
SEASON 2011: THE ARTISTS OF THE GIARDINO
16 hectares of land, 50 artists, 103 installations – also known as »Il Giardino di Daniel Spoerri« in southern Tuscany.
Sketches, letters and models by the artists represented in the Giardino bec...
Season 2010: Eva Aeppli & Daniel Spoerri
A representative exhibition of works by the great Swiss artist Eva Aeppli - a tribute to Daniel Spoerri's »oldest« friend...
Exhibition period: March 20 – October 28, 2010
2009 SEASON: Grace Note to Prelude – DANIEL SPOERRI
Opening exhibition at the exhibition house as a first retrospective in honor of the artist.
Exhibition period: June 19 – October 28, 2009