Vienna Complex

Curated by Cosima Rainer, the international group exhibition Vienna Complex is on view at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York from February 27 to May 26, 2014, as part of the Vienna: City of Dreams Festival. The exhibition takes the transformative psychoanalytic momentum of Vienna in 1900, and the resulting entwinement and fascination of the proponents of modernist abstraction with this therapeutic revolution as a point of departure. Based on the hypothesis that the culture of self-improvement that permeates all spheres of society today is also a result of the artistic dissemination of therapeutic ideas into the mainstream, the exhibition presents contemporary artistic reflections on the phenomenon of our modern meritocracy. Artists: Ei Arakawa & Shimon Minamikawa, Josef Dabernig, Verena Dengler, Anke Dyes & Niklas Lichti, Harun Farocki, Tonio Kröner, Ulla Rossek, Astrid Wagner, Franz West, Heimo Zobernig