{"id":67235,"date":"2024-01-17T09:32:55","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T08:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/?p=67235"},"modified":"2024-10-24T15:00:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T14:00:02","slug":"beauty-of-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/beauty-of-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beauty of Diversity"},"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\/2024\/02\/diversitysmallA.jpg\" alt=\"Exhibition poster\" class=\"wp-image-68458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/diversitysmallA.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/diversitysmallA-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Sometimes the title of an exhibition says it all. <em>The Beauty of Diversity<\/em> provides an eclectic mix of works by the kind of artists you rarely find in older museum collections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Art from historically underrepresented groups\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>e.g. women &amp; people of colour<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Also includes famous names who challenged the status quo\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u2026like Basquiat &amp; Sherman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Runs Feb 16 &#8211; Aug 18, 2024<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See also:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/albertina-modern\/\">Albertina Modern overview<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/events\/exhibitions\/\">Art exhibitions<\/a> in Vienna<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Not Old Masters<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/diversity2.jpg\" alt=\"Painting by Cecily Brown\" class=\"wp-image-67231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/diversity2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/diversity2-300x279.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Cecily Brown, Cherries and Pearls, 2020; ALBERTINA, Vienna &#8211; On Loan from the Dames Collection, Berlin \u00a9 Cecily Brown. Courtesy of Paula Cooper Gallery, New York)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inevitably, most museum art in western Europe has drawn on the work of white males and Europeans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When an exhibition pointedly seeks to offer a more diverse range of artists, this is not to diminish the achievements of the past. Albrecht D\u00fcrer&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/durer-hare\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"7083\">Young Hare<\/a> is still Albrecht D\u00fcrer&#8217;s Young Hare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, more diverse approaches to collections and exhibitions are a chance to widen the wellspring of creativity, better represent the full spectrum of humanity, and avoid the biases of less enlightened times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By tapping into underrepresented artistic realms, a diversity of sources of art inevitably means a diversity of art itself: more styles, techniques, media, motifs and perspectives to explore, consider and compare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Beauty of Diversity<\/em> at the Albertina Modern aptly demonstrates the point.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"286\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/diversity1.jpg\" alt=\"3d artwork by the Gelitin collective\" class=\"wp-image-67230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/diversity1.jpg 286w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/diversity1-191x300.jpg 191w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Gelitin (previously Gelatin), MONA LISA (2184), 2020; plasticine, paraffin, beeswax and pigments on wood; ALBERTINA, Wien \u2013 Familiensammlung Haselsteiner \u00a9 Gelitin &amp; Bildrecht, Wien 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibition draws on the richness of the in-house collection, giving attention to those artists who have stood outside what local museal society traditionally defined as the standard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Women artists, artists of colour, indigenous artists, LGBTQIA+ artists, the marginalised, artists from beyond North America and Europe, and those who never sat in an art class all gather under a unifying spotlight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By combining these different sources and perspectives, we benefit from a multilayered experience. Not through an explicit rejection of the past, but through a repositioning, remix and rejuvenation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, the benefits and validity of diversity have now become embedded in modern museum thinking, as evidenced by some of the names in <em>The Beauty of Diversity<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/basquiat-exhibition\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"49565\">Jean-Michel Basquiat<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/cindy-sherman-exhibition\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"21887\">Cindy Sherman<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/maria-lassnig-exhibition\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"6298\">Maria Lassnig<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/valie-export-exhibition\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"61405\">VALIE EXPORT<\/a> all have works featured and all had major exhibitions in Vienna in recent times.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"385\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/diversity3.jpg\" alt=\"Painting by Amoako Boafo\" class=\"wp-image-67232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/diversity3.jpg 385w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/diversity3-275x300.jpg 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Amoako Boafo, Ivy Off Shoulder Dress, 2023, oil on canvas; ALBERTINA, Wien \u2013 Familiensammlung Haselsteiner \u00a9 Bildrecht, Wien 2024; photo \u00a9 Sandro E. E. Zanzinger)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A walk around the eclectic mix of paintings, puppet dioramas, sculptures, fabrics, installations etc. in the exhibition certainly emphasises the increase in diversity you can get by, well, increasing diversity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a personal front, I&#8217;ll never tire of seeing the Gelitin group&#8217;s plasticine Mona Lisas (yes, plural). Other works that made a notable impression on me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Grayson Perry&#8217;s monumental 2011 tapestry <em>Maps of Truths and Beliefs<\/em>: as much to explore as on any actual map<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Tal R&#8217;s radial 2005-2008 collage <em>Adieu Interessant (Green)<\/em>: like an explosion of green in 2D<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Basil Kincaid&#8217;s <em>The River<\/em>: a huge dream landscape in colourful textile<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Iris Sageder&#8217;s 2023 <em>BUDDHAMINDERS, N-O-W<\/em> bronze sculpture: an orang-utan that already draws the eye from the preceding gallery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Daniel Lezama&#8217;s paintings that prove the need for the premise of the exhibition: the style leads the biased European eye to expect white Europeans to feature. Spoiler: they don&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Sungi Mlengeya&#8217;s black figures in white clothing on a white background.: remarkably impactful<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"tickets\">Dates, tickets &amp; tips<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Discover a wider picture of human artistic endeavour from February 16th to August 18th, 2024. An entrance ticket from or for the Albertina Modern includes the exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A number of artists featured in <em>The Beauty of Diversity<\/em> can be found in special exhibitions elsewhere during 2024. For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If you also enjoy Gelitin&#8217;s take on the Mona Lisa, then pop across to the MAK museum and their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/hard-soft-exhibition\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"66276\">HARD\/SOFT exhibition<\/a>. Gelitin covers an entire wall with a collage of ceramic faces.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/albertina\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2995\">Albertina<\/a> has a solo exhibition for Eva Beresin scheduled across the summer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The end of the year sees Amoako Boafo enjoy a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/belvedere-sites\/amoako-boafo-exhibition\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"76717\">solo exhibition at Lower Belvedere<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to get to Diversity<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A question society and politics continue to ponder. But in a travel sense, the Albertina Modern is central and well served by public transport options. 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