Brigitte Kowanz at Belvedere Museum Wien
Work by Brigitte Kowanz will be featured in the exhibition Public Matters at the Belvedere Museum in Vienna. From May through September, an extensive contemporary sculpture project complements the Baroque sculpture program at the Belvedere’s three locations. Site-specific as well as existing works by international and local artists will connect all of the museum’s gardens along a path – from the main courtyard of the Lower Belvedere and its Privy Garden to the grand Baroque gardens of the Upper Belvedere and the modernist sculpture garden of the Belvedere 21 – highlighting how the gardens organically grew into an ensemble.
Practical information:
Public Matters
13 May – 1 October, 2023
Belvedere Museum, Vienna
Featured artwork:
Meaning Code, 2007
LED, acrylic glass, aluminium,
325 x 18 x 18 cm / Base: 1 x 100 x 100 cm
ABOUT Brigitte Kowanz
Brigitte Kowanz (1957-2022) is known for her evocative sculptures, installations, and environments with a decidedly non-physical medium: light. Since the early 1980s, she has been exploring both the utilitarian and conceptual resonances of light with neon tubing, LED bulbs, aluminum, mirrors, and text. She draws upon such multidisciplinary sources as advertising, architecture, film, music, and the history of painting for inspiration. Through her use of mirrors, Kowanz aims to break down the boundaries between art and life, drawing viewers into her illuminated visions. Kowanz studied from 1975 to 1980 at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. She has been Professor of Transmedial Art there since 1997.
