The Beauty of Diversity

From 17 February 2024

Verena Bretschneider (vormals Georgy Bretschneider) | Adam | ALBERTINA, Wien – Sammlung Dagmar und Manfred Chobot | © Verena Bretschneider
Verena Bretschneider (vormals Georgy Bretschneider) | Adam | ALBERTINA, Wien – Sammlung Dagmar und Manfred Chobot | © Verena Bretschneider

Gelitin (vormals Gelatin) | MONA LISA (2184) | ALBERTINA, Wien – Familiensammlung Haselsteiner | © Gelitin & Bildrecht Wien, 2023
Gelitin (vormals Gelatin) | MONA LISA (2184) | ALBERTINA, Wien – Familiensammlung Haselsteiner | © Gelitin & Bildrecht Wien, 2023

Efforts to round out, expand, and diversify museum collections quite necessarily follow from today’s unconditional calls for equal rights and freedom of expression. The diversity to be found among artistic approaches in terms of both style and substance represents an enrichment of the art-historical canon.

For nearly three centuries, the ALBERTINA acquired, collected, and exhibited works by white men—from Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael to Dürer, Rembrandt, and Rubens and on to Goya, Casper David Friedrich, Cézanne, Picasso, Schiele, Warhol, and Klimt.

The historical collections of the ALBERTINA Museum offer an impression that is deeply one-sided and that characterized the overall artistic canon for centuries. The 21st century, however, smashed this canon—through globalization, but also (at least in large parts of the world) through the attainment of equality by groups that had previously been marginalized and subject to discrimination.

This exhibition brings up the diversity of our time, the diversity of identities and art forms, of materials and genders. In the comprehensive show, ALBERTINA MODERN presents highlights by outstanding female artists such as Eva Beresin, whose repertoire of figures is fed by grotesque painting, or works by the international shooting star, the Franco-Senegalese artist Alexandre Diop, who combines the aesthetic traditions of Expressionism, Dadaism and Graffiti Art in assemblages.

In addition, the exhibition is dedicated to the outsiders of art and aims to include outstanding, hitherto little-lit positions such as Verena Bretschneider, Stephanie Erjautz and August Walla. It also integrates new acquisitions that fill gaps in the collection. The show reveals the richness of a collection that unfolds before the contrasting foil of the Old Masters from the ALBERTINA, from Dürer to Rembrandt and Rubens to Picasso and Monet, who are presented at the beginning as graphic icons.

The exhibition is on view at the ALBERTINA MODERN Museum from 17 February to 4 August 2024.

August Walla | Ewigkeitendepolizist.! | ALBERTINA, Wien – Familiensammlung Haselsteiner | © ART BRUT KG
August Walla | Ewigkeitendepolizist.! | ALBERTINA, Wien – Familiensammlung Haselsteiner | © ART BRUT KG
Verena Bretschneider (vormals Georgy Bretschneider): Adam, 1989

Verena Bretschneider (vormals Georgy Bretschneider) | Adam, 1989 | ALBERTINA, Wien – Sammlung Dagmar und Manfred Chobot | © Verena Bretschneider

Gelitin (vormals Gelatin): MONA LISA (2184), 2020

Gelitin (vormals Gelatin) | MONA LISA (2184), 2020 | ALBERTINA, Wien – Familiensammlung Haselsteiner | © Gelitin & Bildrecht Wien, 2023

August Walla: Ewigkeitendepolizist.!, 1988

August Walla | Ewigkeitendepolizist.!, 1988 | ALBERTINA, Wien – Familiensammlung Haselsteiner | © ART BRUT KG

Jean Dubuffet: Roter Hut, gesenkte Augen, 1954

Jean Dubuffet | Roter Hut, gesenkte Augen, 1954 | ALBERTINA, Wien - Sammlung Batliner

Paula Rego: Stiched and Bound from: Female Genital Mutilation, 2009

Paula Rego | Stiched and Bound from: Female Genital Mutilation, 2009 | ALBERTINA, Wien – Dauerleihgabe der Österreichischen Ludwig-Stiftung für Kunst und

Alexandre Diop: Il était une fois le Mouton Noir, 2021

Alexandre Diop | Il était une fois le Mouton Noir, 2021 | ALBERTINA, Wien | © Alexandre Diop

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