TERRA INCOGNITA - Art Expedition to an Unknown Neighbouring Country Czechoslovak Art between 1948 and 1989 in Dialogue with the Liaunig Collection

The main exhibition TERRA INCOGNITA - Art Expedition to an Unknown Neighbouring Country, curated by Miroslav Haľák, presents Czechoslovak art in dialogue with works from the Liaunig Collection. The curator limits himself to the years 1948 to 1989, which represent the phase of the division of Europe, in which Austria and Czechoslovakia found themselves in two different spheres of influence and the mutual exchange in the previously so organically grown socio-cultural neighbourhood was radically interrupted. 

Since the parameters of art development in the two countries were shaped according to very different criteria and the artists had to work with sometimes completely different socio-political challenges, but were always located in a historically compact geographical sphere, the exhibition is divided into so-called "territories" that correspond to the variability and individual specifics of art production in these decades. Based on the tendencies towards figuration, abstraction, geometrisation and pluralisation typical of postmodernism, the respective artists from Austria and Czechoslovakia come together in a staged dialogue in which the concrete phenomena that developed in the four decades of the Cold War are presented.

The extensive exhibition project was made possible in co-operation with Czech and Slovakian institutions and private collections.

The exhibition features works by the following artists: Milan Adamčiak, Marc Adrian, Jiří Balcar, Juraj Bartusz, Mária Bartuszová, Josef Bauer, Štefan Belohradský, Jiří Bielecki, Hans Bischoffshausen, Vladimír Boudník, Hellmut Bruch, Miloslav Chlupáč, Miloslav Cicvárek, Jarmila Čihánková, Miroslav Cipár, Jiří David, Hugo Demartini, Milan Dobeš, Jiří Georg Dokoupil, Otto Eder, Libor Fára, Rudolf Fila, Stano Filko, Emil Filla, Herbert Flois, František Foltýn, Johann Fruhmann, Michal Gabriel, Roland Goeschl, Franz Grabmayr, Mira Haberernová-Trančíková, Josef Hampl, Jiří Hilmar, Rudolf Hoflehner, Wolfgang Hollegha, František Hudeček, Friedensreich Hundertwasser (Friedrich Stowasser), Josef Istler, Othmar Jaindl, Jozef Jankovič, Čestmír Janošek, Jiří John, H+H Joos (Harold Joos, Hildegard Joos), Martha Jungwirth, Zdeněk Kirchner, Alojz Klimo, Tamara Klimová, Alfred Klinkan, Eva Kmentová, Milan Knížák, Jan Koblasa, Peter Kogler, Jiří Kolář, Stanislav Kolíbal, Július Koller, Jan Kotík, Jiří Kovanda, Viera Krajcová, Radoslav Kratina, Matej Krén, Richard Kriesche, Rudolf Krivoš, Jan Kubíček, Jaroslava Kurandová, Bohdan Lacina, Aleš Lamr, Maria Lassnig, Mariane Maderna, Gottfried Mairwöger, Antonín Málek, Karel Malich, Pavel Maňka, Mikuláš Medek, Juraj Meliš, Jürgen Messensee, Anastázia Miertušová, Josef Mikl, Vladislav Mirvald, Alexander Mlynárčik, Gerhardt Moswitzer, Jiří Načeradský, Rudolf Němec, Karel Nepraš, Pavel Nešleha, Hermann Nitsch, Franz Xaver Ölzant, Peter Oriešek, Marek Ormandík, Hermann J. Painitz, Milan Paštéka, Helga Philipp, Robert Piesen, Josef Pillhofer, Peter Pongratz, Markus Prachensky, Drago j. Prelog, Hannes Priesch, Arnulf Rainer, Erwin Reiter, Franz Ringel, Michael Rittstein, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Hubert Schmalix, Christian Schwarzwald, Zbyněk Sekal, Miloš Ševčík, Agneša Sigetová, Rudolf Sikora, Natálie Šimanová, Adriena Šimotová, Paulína Skavová, Otakar Slavík, Miroslav Šnajdr st., Soshana (Susanne Schüller), Jiří Sozanský, Jakub Špaňhel, Hans Staudacher, František Štorek, Jan Švankmajer, Ján Švec, Zdeněk Sýkora, Laco Teren, Erwin Thorn, Margita Titlová-Ylovsky, Jorrit Tornquist, Miloš Urbásek, Andreas Urteil, Jiří Valenta, Jitka Válová, Aleš Veselý, Jaroslav Vožniak, Max Weiler, Hana Wichterlová, Jan Wojnar, Erwin Wurm, Jana Želibská, Kamila Ženatá und Olbram Zoubek.