{"id":57612,"date":"2023-03-03T08:51:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T07:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/?p=57612"},"modified":"2026-03-17T12:26:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:26:25","slug":"carlone-contemporary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/carlone-contemporary\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlone Contemporary series"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/carloneapolloaurora.jpg\" alt=\"Apollo and Aurora painting\" class=\"wp-image-57611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/carloneapolloaurora.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/carloneapolloaurora-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>A resplendently baroque room at Upper Belvedere plays regular host to an art installation in the Carlone Contemporary exhibition series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>New installation every six months or so<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Access included in an entrance ticket<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Often intriguing pieces<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cleverly juxtaposed with the surrounds<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Current installation:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>herman de vries (Mar 26 &#8211; Sept 13, 2026)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Book <a rel=\"sponsored\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiqets.com\/en\/belvedere-palace-tickets-l145892\/?partner=visitingvienna&amp;tq_campaign=LG_BelVenue\">Upper Belvedere tickets<\/a>* online<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See also:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/upper-belvedere-palace\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3521\">Upper Belvedere overview<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/events\/exhibitions\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"37363\">Art exhibitions<\/a> in Vienna<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contemporary art, old Gods<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/carlonepondick.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/carlonepondick.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/carlonepondick-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Exhibition view &#8220;CARLONE CONTEMPORARY: Rona Pondick&#8221;; press photo by and \u00a9 Johannes Stoll \/ Belvedere, Wien)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Prince Eugene put in a small room just off the back garden entrance to Upper Belvedere palace in the early 18th century, he resisted the temptation to leave the d\u00e9cor as a bit of plaster, a coat rack and a shoe stand (shame &#8211; imagine the shoes).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, Eugene commissioned one Carlo Innocenzo Carlone (1686\u20131775) to decorate the ceiling with a fresco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carlone&#8217;s rendition of Apollo and Aurora combines with other frescoes and wall paintings to create something quite contrary to the whitewashed walls of modern art galleries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, you have a blaze of Greek mythology and colour in what is now known as the Carlone Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The room itself remains entirely empty, but for an art installation in the form of a single work that changes every six months or so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This Carlone Contemporary exhibition series features contemporary art specifically chosen to create a dialogue or intriguing juxtaposition with its historical baroque surrounds or the narrative on the ceiling. The old and the new. The mythological and the modern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Current\/next installation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>108 pounds of lavender<\/em> (March 26th to September 13th, 2026) by herman de vries: a conceptual work involving an arrangement of lavender blossoms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recent artists &amp; works<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/carlonedara.jpg\" alt=\"Art installation at Upper Belvedere\" class=\"wp-image-71186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/carlonedara.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/carlonedara-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(The Birnbaum installation; press photo by and \u00a9 Johannes Stoll \/ Belvedere, Wien)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>WVZ 183<\/em> by Elmar Trenkwalder. The artist&#8217;s monumental sculpture shared a certain opulence with its baroque surroundings (ended March 14th, 2026)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>DIABOLUS (PROTECTOR)<\/em> by Sarah Ortmeyer. The artist&#8217;s diabolical sculptures cast their aura over the historical location (ended October 19th, 2025)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>arched landscape<\/em> by Ugo Rondinone. One of the Swiss artist&#8217;s minimalist architectural sculptures (ended March 16th, 2025)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 in B-Dur<\/em> by Dara Birnbaum. The installation coincided with the composer&#8217;s 200th birthday (ended September 29th, 2024)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Dust to Dust<\/em> by Michail Michailov: coloured pencil drawings used an illusionist approach, just as the surrounding frescoes do (ended April 14th, 2024)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>ambulant # 05<\/em> by Marina Faust: a sculpture built out of parts of a chandelier within a mobile metal frame. An object of elegant and wry contrast (ended October 2023)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/pondicks-monkeys\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"51033\">Rona Pondick<\/a>: a metal hybrid of sculpted monkeys and Pondick&#8217;s own form that invited a closer look, played with our perceptions, and reflected a conceptual and physical duality at different levels (ended January, 2023)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/lena-henke-installation\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"41194\">Lena Henke<\/a>: the <em>Aldo Rossi\u2019s Sleeping Elephant<\/em> installation offered an ambiguous view. Are we observing an abstract yellow elephant or a set of horizontal arches? Perhaps both (ended August, 2022)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/volkmar-klien-installation\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"37193\">Volkmar Klien<\/a>: an installation that merged sound, colour, and movement in one through a remarkable pendulum clock and peacock feather installation (ended February, 2022)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/hohenbuechler-exhibition\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"29963\">Irene and Christine Hohenb\u00fcchler<\/a>: sculptural objects created by the twins (ended September, 2021)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/bertlmann-exhibition\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"23113\">Renate Bertlmann<\/a>: an adaptation of her <em>Discordo Ergo Sum<\/em> installation, featuring dozens of glass roses (ended January, 2021)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/walter-pichler-exhibition\/\">Walter Pichler. Alte Figur<\/a>: Pichler&#8217;s abstract metal female sculpture protruding from a mattress (ended February, 2020)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/uli-aigner-exhibition\/\">Uli Aigner<\/a>: a giant multi-coloured porcelain vase (ended November, 2019)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tickets and tips<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Access to the Carlone Hall is included in any entrance ticket for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/upper-belvedere-palace\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3521\">Upper Belvedere<\/a>. The room itself marks the start of the tract hosting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/medieval-masterpieces\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3525\">medieval masterpieces<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to get to the art<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/gettingthere3\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3402\">directions for Upper Belvedere<\/a>. Once past the ticket check, go immediately right to enter the Carlone Hall and view the installation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Address: Prinz Eugen-Stra\u00dfe 27, 1030 Vienna<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">(Article icon courtesy of the Met Museum.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/embed?mid=1ksawXWFMVD9bljA48Gi7_VvWSfI\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A resplendently baroque room at Upper Belvedere plays regular host to an art installation in the Carlone Contemporary exhibition series. 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