Artist Talk: Raffaela Bielesch im Gespräch mit Georg Hoffmann & Stephanie Damianitsch | Vienna Art Week 2026

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

The conversation takes place on the occasion of the project presentation “Red Herring” at the Museum of Military History. The artist Raffaela Bielesch and director Georg Hoffmann discuss different forms of addressing the past. To what extent does contemporary art have the potential to capture collective experiences of the past, while also renegotiating and “setting them in motion” from a current perspective? How is history preserved in a museum, and perhaps also rewritten? The curator Stephanie Damianitsch moderates the conversation, bringing her perspective influenced by psychoanalytic art theory into the discussion.

Further program:

Performance Lecture Raffaela Bielesch

15.11.2024, 3 pm

Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna

ART SPACE

Arsenal, Objekt 1, Ghegastraße, 1030 Wien

www.hgm.at

Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Wien

The Museum of Military History in Vienna has been undergoing a process of further development since 2023, while also facing the need for essential structural renovations.

The museum sees itself as a place where historical experience is brought into dialogue with contemporary issues. As an inclusive forum for discussion on military history, it places particular emphasis on people as actors in history, the role of the military in society across different historical periods, and the relationship between war and society.

The Museum of Military History currently preserves more than one million unique objects. As part of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Defence, it is one of the oldest and largest history museums in Europe.