Opening on Thursday, November 24, 2022, 6 p.m. in the context of the Vienna Art Week
A
cooperation between the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation
Frederick Kiesler, visionary architect, designer and set designer, founded his holistic Laboratory for Design Correlation
at the School of Architecture of Columbia University in New York in 1937. In experimental teaching formats, he tested his
theory of Correalism, a transdisciplinary basic research on design and architecture, together with students from various disciplines.
In this, Kiesler assumes that the human being forms the center of interacting forces and at the same time names a tool in
his theory formation that was not only intended to counteract the social problems of his time, but has lost none of its relevance
in the context of sustainability to this day.
How would
such artistic education play out in our present day and what solutions could be generated by Kiesler's methods? The Austrian
Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation houses Kiesler's estate in its archive. In a research collaboration with
the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Doris Krüger and Gerd Zillner are exploring these questions and investigating in the
Applied Correlation Laboratory how the historical material can be activated for a young generation
of students and artists. Perceptual experiments, theatrical moments, sculptural and cinematic references are linked together
through a space-consuming display in the exhibition.
The Applied Correlation Laboratory
is an institutional collaboration; it is a tool for artistic and scientific research, a workshop setting for hands-on experimentation,
a platform for education, and a place for shared learning. It is an artwork, a lecture series, a research project, an exhibition
and a publication.
Featuring works by Francesca
Centonze, Ganaël Dumreicher, Kirils Ēcis, Aleksandar Gabrovski, Jai Yun Lee, Jona Lingitz, Isolar Mesec, Michi Schmidl, Marlene
Stahl and Bofan Zhou.
Exhibition display by: Jasmy Chieh-Hsuan Chen
A research
project by Doris Krüger/Krüger & Pardeller, Senior Artist at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and Gerd
Zillner, Director of the Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation.
Exhibition
opening:
Thursday, November 24, 2022, 6 p.m. as part of Vienna Art Week.
Finissage
and book presentation:
Wednesday, January 25, 2023, 6 p.m.
Exhibition
duration:
November 25, 2022 - January 25, 2023
Exhibition venue:
Austrian
Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation.
Mariahilfer Strasse 1b/Top 1, 1060 Vienna
Opening
Hours:
Tuesday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (excluding holidays) and by appointment, free
admission.
