White Cube/Black Box

This volume on the exhibition of the same name with film and video programs and a series of lectures publishes essays by renowned authors in which the concept of contemporary sculpture and the changing orientation of the Generali Foundation Collection are discussed. Models such as the conceptual notion of sculpture and the inclusion of media such as photography, film, video and television as well as performative forms of art are negitiated. While Austrian sculpture after 1945 was initially collected, the then director Sabine Breitwieser shifted time-based and cross-media works to the center of the collection’s activities. Sculptures and installations by Bruno Gironcoli, Franz West or Heimo Zobernig, the films by VALIE EXPORT and Gordon Matta-Clark as well as the growing video collection, presented in the New Design for Showing Videos by Dan Graham, formed important anchor points for the further development of this now well-known collection.