Archive 2021–2008

With the new format Considering the Collection & An Insert by… , a series of exhibitions has been established for the coming years that is to show prominent works from the collection and to feature, in a separate part of the Paintings Gallery, a contemporary position resulting from engagement with the Academy’s Art Collections.

The Purloined Masterpiece. Images as Time Machines contrasts the conventional practice of collection display with a model that allows the Academy’s historical art collections – the Paintings Gallery, the Graphic Collection and the Plaster Cast Collection – to enter into conversation with contemporary works.

Sabine Folie, Director of the Art Collections, together with her team cordially invites you to the opening of the exhibition The Purloined Masterpiece. Pictures as Time Machines at the Picture Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

Welcome: Ingeborg Erhart, Vice Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Jacques-Pierre Gougeon, Director of the Institut Français

Introduction to the Exhibition: Klaus Speidel, curator of the exhibition

Live Music: Eugène Michelangeli (Clavecin), Pierre Pitzl (Basse de viole), Johannes Weiss (Tenor) and Gertraud Wimmer (Flûte traversière) play François Couperin, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Jacques Hotteterre and André Campra.

The artist will be present.

Welcome: Eva Blimlinger, Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Introduction to the Exhibition: Julia M. Nauhaus, Director of the Paintings Gallery, Graphic Collection and Sculpture Collection of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

The artist will be present.

Live Music: Pawel Markowicz, pianist, will play compositions by Philip Glass and Frédéric Chopin.