© BMUKK / Piero Codato
(V.l.n.r.) Eva Schlegel, Arno Ritter, Claudia Schmied

54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia
F.l.t.r.: Eva Schlegel, Commissioner
Markus Schinwald, Artist
Claudia Schmied, Federal Minister for Education, The Arts and Culture
Photo: Anna Blau / la Biennale 2011 Austria

54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia
F.l.t.r.: Carl Pruscha, Architect
Eva Schlegel, Commissioner
Photo: Anna Blau / la Biennale 2011 Austria

54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia
F.l.t.r.: Sabine Haag, General Director, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
Marianne and Karl Stöhr, Brauerei Schloss Eggenberg
Photo: Anna Blau / la Biennale 2011 Austria

54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia
F.l.t.r.: Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, designated Director,
MAK Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Vienna
Karin Thun-Hohenstein
Robert Menasse, Author
Photo: Anna Blau / la Biennale 2011 Austria

54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia
F.l.t.r.: Agnes Husslein, Director, Belvedere
Karola Kraus, Director, MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
Photo: Anna Blau / la Biennale 2011 Austria

54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia
Photo: Iris Ranzinger / la Biennale 2011 Austria

54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia
Photo: Iris Ranzinger / la Biennale 2011 Austria

Portrait
Artist of the Austrian Pavilion
54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia
Photo: Anna Blau / la Biennale 2011 Austria

54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia
F.l.t.r.: Eva Schlegel, Commissioner
Markus Schinwald, Artist
Claudia Schmied, Federal Minister for Education, The Arts and Culture

Installation View: Austrian Pavilion (exterior), 2011
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54th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia
Photo: Valerie Messini / la Biennale 2011 Austria

Installation View: Austrian Pavilion, 2011
© VBK, Wien 2011
54th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia
Photo: Andreas Balon / la Biennale 2011 Austria

Installation View: Austrian Pavilion, 2011
© VBK, Wien 2011
54th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia
Photo: Andreas Balon / la Biennale 2011 Austria

Installation View: Austrian Pavilion, 2011
© VBK, Wien 2011
54th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia
Photo: Andreas Balon / la Biennale 2011 Austria

Installation View: Austrian Pavilion, 2011
© VBK, Wien 2011
54th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia
Photo: Andreas Balon / la Biennale 2011 Austria

Installation View: Austrian Pavilion, 2011
© VBK, Wien 2011
54th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia
Photo: Andreas Balon / la Biennale 2011 Austria

Installation View: Austrian Pavilion, 2011
© VBK, Wien 2011
54th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia
Photo: Andreas Balon / la Biennale 2011 Austria

Installation View: Austrian Pavilion, 2011
© VBK, Wien 2011
54th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia
Photo: Andreas Balon / la Biennale 2011 Austria

Installation View: Austrian Pavilion, 2011
© VBK, Wien 2011
54th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia
Photo: Andreas Balon / la Biennale 2011 Austria

Installation View: Austrian Pavilion, 2011
© VBK, Wien 2011
54th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia
Photo: Andreas Balon / la Biennale 2011 Austria

Installation View: Austrian Pavilion, 2011
© VBK, Wien 2011
54th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia
Photo: Andreas Balon / la Biennale 2011 Austria

Installation View: Austrian Pavilion, 2011
© VBK, Wien 2011
54th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia
Photo: Andreas Balon / la Biennale 2011 Austria

Installation View: Austrian Pavilion, 2011
© VBK, Wien 2011
54th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia
Photo: Andreas Balon / la Biennale 2011 Austria

Installation View: Austrian Pavilion, 2011
© VBK, Wien 2011
54th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia
Photo: Andreas Balon / la Biennale 2011 Austria

Installation View: Austrian Pavilion, 2011
© VBK, Wien 2011
54th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia
Photo: Andreas Balon / la Biennale 2011 Austria

Untitled (legs) #19, 2011
© VBK, Wien 2011
Sculpture, wood
140 x 80 x 60 cm
Courtesy of the artist / la Biennale 2011 Austria

Untitled (legs) #20, 2011
© VBK, Wien 2011
Sculpture, wood
90 x 50 x 60 cm
Courtesy of the artist / la Biennale 2011 Austria

Untitled (legs) #21, 2011
© VBK, Wien 2011
Sculpture, wood
100 x 25 x 40 cm
Courtesy of the artist / la Biennale 2011 Austria

Untitled (legs) #22, 2011
© VBK, Wien 2011
Sculpture, wood
90 x 30 x 30 cm
Courtesy of the artist / la Biennale 2011 Austria

Untitled (legs) #23, 2011
© VBK, Wien 2011
Sculpture, wood
90 x 30 x 60 cm
Courtesy of the artist / la Biennale 2011 Austria

Orient, 2011
© VBK, Wien 2011
HD 9min, Loop
Filmstill: Courtesy of the artist / la Biennale 2011 Austria

Orient, 2011
© VBK, Wien 2011
HD 9min, Loop
Filmstill: Courtesy of the artist / la Biennale 2011 Austria

Orient, 2011
© VBK, Wien 2011
HD 9min, Loop
Filmstill: Courtesy of the artist / la Biennale 2011 Austria

Orient, 2011
© VBK, Wien 2011
HD 9min, Loop
Filmstill: Courtesy of the artist / la Biennale 2011 Austria

Orient, 2011
© VBK, Wien 2011
HD 9min, Loop
Filmstill: Courtesy of the artist / la Biennale 2011 Austria

Orient, 2011
© VBK, Wien 2011
HD 9min, Loop
Filmstill: Courtesy of the artist / la Biennale 2011 Austria

Orient, 2011
© VBK, Wien 2011
HD 9min, Loop
Filmstill: Courtesy of the artist / la Biennale 2011 Austria

Orient, 2011
© VBK, Wien 2011
HD 9min, Loop
Filmstill: Courtesy of the artist / la Biennale 2011 Austria

Ciryl, 2011
© VBK, Wien 2011
Oil on canvas
40 x 45 x 5 cm
Courtesy of the artist / la Biennale 2011 Austria

Jancica, 2009
© VBK, Wien 2011
Oil on wood
46 x 67 x 5 cm
Courtesy of the artist / la Biennale 2011 Austria

Winston, 2011
© VBK, Wien 2011
Oil on canvas
54 x 61 x 5 cm
Courtesy of the artist / la Biennale 2011 Austria

Fanny, 2011
© VBK, Wien 2011
Oil on canvas
45 x 53 x 5 cm
Courtesy of the artist / la Biennale 2011 Austria

Marion, 2011
© VBK, Wien 2011
Oil on canvas
55 x 60 x 5 cm
Courtesy of the artist / la Biennale 2011 Austria

Abigail, 2011
© VBK, Wien 2011
Oil on canvas
61 x 71 x 5 cm
Courtesy of the artist / la Biennale 2011 Austria

Gallagher, 2011
© VBK, Wien 2011
Oil on canvas
66 x 78 x 5 cm
Courtesy of the artist / la Biennale 2011 Austria

Nell, 2011
© VBK, Wien 2011
Oil on canvas
71 x 99 x 5 cm
Courtesy of the artist / la Biennale 2011 Austria

Portrait
© Markus Schinwald / la Biennale 2011 Austria
Artist of the Austrian contribution to the 54th Biennale di Venezia 2011

1st Part Conditional, 2004
© VBK, Vienna 2011
35 mm film, color, sound, 3 min.
Filmstill: Courtesy of the artist

Ten in Love, 2006
© VBK, Wien 2011
35 mm film, color, sound, 4,43 min.
Filmstill: Courtesy of the artist

dictio pii, 2001
© VBK, Wien 2011
35 mm film, color, sound, 16 min.
Filmstill: Courtesy of the artist

Children’s Crusade, 2004
© VBK, Wien 2011
35 mm film, color, sound, 2,34 min.
Filmstill: Courtesy of the artist

A Stage Matrix II, 2006
© VBK, Wien 2011
Performance with Oleg Soulimenko, Protections, Kunsthaus Graz
Photo: Pilar Alcalá

A Stage Matrix II, 2006
© VBK, Wien 2011
Performance with Oleg Soulimenko, Protections, Kunsthaus Graz
Photo: Pilar Alcalá

A Stage Matrix II, 2006
© VBK, Wien 2011
Performance with Oleg Soulimenko, Protections, Kunsthaus Graz
Photo: Pilar Alcalá

Coco, 2007
© VBK, Wien 2011
Pigmentprint, 100 x 140 cm
Private Collection
Photo: Courtesy of the artist

Lavinia, 2007
© VBK, Wien 2011
Oil on board, 29 x 37 cm
Photo: Pilar Alcalá / Courtesy of the artist

Meron, 2008
© VBK, Wien 2011
Oil on canvas, 57 x 72 cm
Private Collection
Photo: Courtesy of the artist

Bertram, 2007
© VBK, Wien 2011
Pigmentprint, 100 x 70 cm
Private Collection
Photo: Courtesy of the artist

Ian, 2006
© VBK, Wien 2011
Pigmentprint, 100 x 70 cm
Private Collection
Photo: Courtesy of the artist

Lyndon, 2007
© VBK, Wien 2011
Pigmentprint, 100 x 70 cm
Private Collection
Photo: Courtesy of the artist

Untitled (dolls), 2007
© VBK, Wien 2011
Curtain, 3,45 x 5,80 m
Private Collection
Exhibition view: Timer 01 — La Triennale di Milano, Milan 2007
Photo: Paolo Vandrash / Courtesy of Triennale di Milano

Vanishing Lessons, 2009
© VBK, Wien 2011
Set Photo
Photo: Markus Tretter / Courtesy of Kunsthaus, Bregenz

Markus Schinwald: Pocket History
© VBK, Wien 2011
Műcsarnok Kunsthalle Budapest, Budapest 2009
Photo: Miklós Surányi / Műcsarnok Kunsthalle Budapest

Markus Schinwald, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich 2008
© VBK, Wien 2011
Photo: Markus Schinwald / Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst

Markus Schinwald, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich 2008
© VBK, Wien 2011
Photo: Markus Schinwald / Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst

Markus Schinwald, Augarten Contemporary, Vienna 2007
© VBK, Wien 2011
Photo: Margherita Spiluttini / Augarten Contemporary

Markus Schinwald, Augarten Contemporary, Vienna 2007
© VBK, Wien 2011
Photo: Margherita Spiluttini / Augarten Contemporary

Markus Schinwald, MAMbo — Museo Palazzo Poggi, Bologna 2006
© VBK, Wien 2011
Photo: Elsa Bialowska / MAMbo — Museo Palazzo Poggi

Magic Hour, Arario Gallery Seoul, Seoul 2006
© VBK, Wien 2011
Photo: Arario Gallery Seoul

Portrait
© Udo Titz / la Biennale 2011 Austria
Commissioner of the Austrian Pavilion at the 54th Biennale di Venezia 2011

Interview Yilmaz Dziewior, Director Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria
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Born in Bonn, Dr. Yilmaz Dziewior studied art history and archaeology in Bonn and London. He graduated in Berlin with a doctoral thesis on Mies van der Rohe. He is an art historian, curator, and critic whose texts have been published regularly in Artforum, Camera Austria, and Texte zur Kunst. From 2001 to 2008 he served as director of the Kunstverein in Hamburg, also teaching art theory at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts (HFBK) from 2003 to 2009. Yilmaz Dziewior has been a member of the acquisition committee for the Art Collection of the Federal Republic of Germany since 2007 and director of the Kunsthaus Bregenz since October 2009.

Interview Jacqueline Burckhardt, art historian and co-founder / editor of the art magazine Parkett
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Jacqueline Burckhardt is an art historian and art critic. Having trained as a restorer at the Istituto Centrale del Restauro in Rome, she went on to earn her doctorate degree in art history, archaeology and non-European art at the University of Zürich. In 1984 she co-founded the art magazine Parkett, which is published in direct collaboration with international artists, whose oeuvre is explored in rich and perceptive essays by leading writers and critics. Since 2006 she has served as a consultant to Novartis and curator of its collaboration with artists who create site-specific works on the Novartis Campus in Basel. Since 2008, she has also been the director of the Summer Academy at Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern.

Interview Ursula Krinzinger, Gallery Owner Vienna
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After studying art history and archaeology in Vienna, Paris, and London, Ursula Krinzinger opened her first gallery in Bregenz in 1971. The gallery in Innsbruck was founded in 1972, the gallery in Vienna in 1986. Since 2002, the experimental exhibition space Krinzinger Projects has been complementing the activities of Galerie Krinzinger. Ursula Krinzinger has drawn international acclaim with her presentations on Viennese Actionism and numerous group exhibitions curated by her, e.g. Zur Situation und Kreativität der Frau (1975), Zur Definition eines neuen Kunstbegriffs (1979), Neue Strategien NYC I (1986), Manierismus subjektiv (1987), Fluxus subjektiv (1990), LAX (1992), UK Maximum Diversity (1998), Berlin Binnendifferenz (2000), post_modellismus (2005), curated by_ (2009–2011). Since 2002, the committed gallery owner has organized the Krinzinger Residencies with studios in Austria, Hungary, and Sri Lanka.

Interview Hedwig Fijen, Director, Manifesta Foundation, Amsterdam
© la Biennale 2011 Austria
Hedwig Fijen is director of the Manifesta Foundation, which organizes the European Biennial of Contemporary Art Manifesta in different European cities every other year. Before the skilled historian and art historian began to work for the Manifesta Foundation in 1993, she had already realized several art projects in the former Soviet Union and Cuba before the fall of the Iron Curtain in the 1980s.

Interview Vito Acconci, Artist
© la Biennale 2011 Austria
Vito Acconci is one of the most celebrated pioneers of performance, video and installation art, and the exploration of architectural space. His work has contributed to expanding the boundaries of art beyond the gallery or museum into shared public space. The oeuvre of Vito Acconci is characterised by great artistic diversity. Where poems, photographs and performance played a central role in his early work, recent projects developed under the name of Acconci Studio have increasingly engaged with public space.

Interview Uli Sigg, Collector of contemporary Chinese art
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Having served as the Swiss ambassador to China in the mid to late 1990s, Uli Sigg is the largest collector of Chinese contemporary art. Such is his involvement in the country's art scene that he has become known as "Chinese contemporary art's ambassador to the World." Sigg sits on the board of several multinational companies, and in 1997 he established the Chinese Contemporary Art Award (CCAA) for artists living and working in the country. Its companion, the CCAA Art Critic Award, was founded in 2007. Sigg is a member of MoMA's International Council and Tate's International Advisory Council.

Interview Alanna Heiss, Director, AIR (Art International Radio)
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Alanna Heiss is the founder and former Director of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and current Director of AIR Art International Radio, an Internet-based radio station operating out of the legendary Clocktower Gallery. As a leader of the early 1970’s alternative space movement, Heiss organized over 700 exhibitions both at P.S.1 and in art venues around the world. She was Commissioner of the 1985 Paris Biennial, and of the American Pavilion at the 1986 Venice Biennale.

Interview Jörg Heiser, Art Critic
© la Biennale 2011 Austria
Jörg Heiser is co-editor of the international art magazine frieze. In addition he is currently a visiting professor at Universität für künstlerische und industrielle Gestaltung, Linz, Austria, and a regular contributor to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Heiser has curated various international exhibitions including 'Romantic Conceptualism' at the BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, in 2007, while his recent publications include: Contextualize (2003) and All of a Sudden: Things That Matter in Contemporary Art (2008).

Exterior view, 2008
© Thomas Kraetschmer / BMUKK
Built in 1934 according to plans by Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956).