Maria Lassnig. Ways of Being

Exhibitions Maria Lassnig. Ways of Being

Maria Lassnig.
Ways of Being

Until 1 December 2019

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The Albertina Museum is marking what would have been the hundredth birthday of Maria Lassnig (1919–2014) with a comprehensive look back upon her career, thus showing impressive key works and masterpieces by one of the most important woman artists of the 20th century.

Among the multitude of themes to which Maria Lassnig devoted herself over the course of her life (including self-portraits, science fiction, relationships with people, animals, and technology, and how we relate to violence and war), a dominant golden thread running throughout her oeuvre’s content is the act of rendering her body-consciousness visible. As early as the late 1940s, Lassnig placed her own body at the center of her work—long before physical feeling, body language, and gender relations became central themes of the international avant-garde. She thus marked an important turning point in the history of modern art whose echoes can still be heard today. It was humorously and seriously, wistfully and mercilessly that the artist placed her perceptions of her own self on the painting surface. In this, it was not what she saw, but what she felt became the image.

Exhibition organised by The Albertina Museum, Vienna in collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

We thank the Wiener Städtischen Versicherungsverein for the support.

In cooperation with viennacontemporary

Maria Lassnig: Potato press (Kartoffelpresse), 1989 — **Image Gallery** – 11 Images

Show Photos — **Image Gallery** – 11 Images

**In der Ausstellung | Photos © Robert Bodnar** – 7 Images

Maria Lassnig | Double Self-Portrait with Lobster (Krebsangst), 1979 | The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – Permanent loan, private collection © Maria Lassnig Foundation

Maria Lassnig | Sleeping with a tiger (Mit einem Tiger schlafen), 1975 | The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – Permanent loan from the Oesterreichische Nationalbank © Maria Lassnig Foundation

**Video:** About the exhibition | Maria Lassnig

Show Video — **Video:** About the exhibition | Maria Lassnig

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Maria Lassnig. Ways of Being

Maria Lassnig (1919-2014) made her own body the center of her art long before body awareness, body language, and the relationship between man and woman became central themes of the international avant-garde. The catalogue for her hundredth birthday, produced in collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, contains the impressive key works of one of the most important female artists of the 20th century.

In English.

Maria Lassnig. Ways of Being (in English)
Hrsg. Beatrice von Bormann, Antonia Hoerschelmann und Klaus Albrecht Schröder
2019
208 Seiten
30 x 23 cm
English EUR 29,90

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Cooperation with the Film Museum

Visitors to the Maria Lassnig film program who can present a valid Albertina admission ticket purchased during the exhibition will receive a reduction on the regular full-price ticket at the Filmmuseum.

Zusatzvorstellungen: Filme von Maria Lassnig im Österreichischen Filmmuseum
Sonntags, 1. Dezember
16.30 Uhr | Reservierung beim Österreichischen Filmmuseum

Unter dem Titel Maria Lassnig. Filme 1970 bis 1992 zeigt das Österreichische Filmmuseum das gesamte zu Lebzeiten Lassnigs veröffentlichte filmische Schaffen der Künstlerin in restaurierten 16mm-Filmkopien.