As long as art has existed, there has been an inherent striving for beauty within it. But there has been resistance to it, rebellions against it, and struggles and breaks with it for just as long. The one conditions the other. Like every ideal, the ideal of beauty also proves itself in contradiction. Aversion grows out of devotion: unconditional acceptance is followed by categorical rejection, and vice versa. It is precisely this eternal tension between the affirmation and the negation of beauty that the works in Versuch über die Schönheit address.
Galerie Crone Wien
Founded in 1982, Galerie Crone is one of the most traditional galleries for contemporary art in the German-speaking world.
In the 1980s and early 1990s, Crone showed young German artists such as Martin Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen and Rosemarie Trockel, as well as representatives of Minimal and Conceptual Art. This was followed by young German artists such as Kai Althoff, Cosima von Bonin and Daniel Richter.
In the 2010s, a second location was opened in Vienna, and in Berlin, the headquarters moved to a new location in the fall of 2018. In addition to established artists, the program was expanded to include new artists to be discovered, e.g. Peter Miller (Biennale di Venezia, 2017), Ashley Hans Scheirl (documenta 2017).
On Beauty: An Attempt
20 Jan 2023 - 25 Feb 2023
Galerie Crone Wien
Galerie Crone, Getreidemarkt, Wien, Österreich
Galerie Crone
