BIENNALE CUVÉE
in the course of HÖhenrausch.3
June 14 -October 13 2013
http://www.ok-centrum.at/?q=en/content/programm/1441
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The ascension to the Höhenrausch exhibition poses not only a physical challenge but also a mental one. The path to the top winds through the OK building passing nineteen outstanding examples of international contemporary art, which we “collected” at the most important Biennials around the globe and put together to create this cuvée. The selection ranges from the discovery of the young Cuban artist Hander Lara, whose work Building Illusions is shown for the first time in Austria, up to the highly renowned pioneer of Austrian conceptual art VALIE EXPORT, shown at Höhenrausch with her work in which she built a tower out of 104 Kalaschnikovs.
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For the fourth time now, OK Labor is showcasing a selection of artistic projects that featured at some of the world’s key biennials in recent years at its current *Biennale Cuvée* exhibition. The title “Cuvée” alludes to the particularly good mix that OK has put together from the global phenomenon of biennials. Biennials are still the most important exhibition format in the contemporary art world, even though they are geographically so dispersed that they remain the preserve of a small group of travelling art professionals and local audiences. The major biennials in Latin America or rather South America and Asia, generally showcase artists not yet represented in the European market. The scope and quality of these events naturally not only depend on the particular location but first and foremost on the curatorial concept. For instance, at the last São Paulo Biennale, an unusually high number of North Brazilian artists were showcased along with some museum pieces of European conceptual art. The Biennale in Havana, on the other hand, bucked the current trend in presenting some large-scale installations and locally specific works from artists largely unknown here in Europe.
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OK’s *Cuvée* not only showcases a multi-layered cross-section of contemporary art, but offers a global, rather than purely Eurocentric, window on the world. The works exhibited here were previously on show at biennials in places like Berlin, Busan, Genk, Havana, Istanbul, Liverpool, Montevideo, Paris, São Paulo and Venice. Equally international are the 20 artists represented here, who come from 19 different countries of origin. What they all have in common is an affiliation with the younger or middle-age artist generation, as well as great potential and very little previous exposure in Austria. In our view, their works are truly “state of the art”, since they not only reflect current art trends but also the access OK has to contemporary art per se. Their artistic methods are captivatingly sensual and innovative, and the range of works displayed extends from atmospheric installations to political statements.
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