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Susan Philipsz
Opening: Wed, June 26, 7 PM // Exhibition until Sept. 15, 2024
With her site-specific sound installations on themes such as displacement, loss and memory, Scottish artist Susan Philipsz (*1965 in Glasgow) is one of the outstanding artists of our time. For Vienna, she adapts her most recent sound and film installation "Sokol Terezín", as well as earlier sound installations, thus creating an atmospheric space of remembrance.
"Sokol Terezín" refers to the Czech-Jewish composer Pavel Haas, who was forced to compose the "Study for String Orchestra" for a Nazi propaganda film in the Theresienstadt concentration camp before he was murdered in Auschwitz. While Philipsz leads us through the buildings of his imprisonment on a visual level, the sounds of the cello and viola of the piece, which has only survived in fragments, reveal the sculptural and psychological intensity of sound.
"My work deals with the spatial properties of sound and with the relationships between sound and architecture. I am particularly interested in the emotive and psychological properties of sound and how it can be used as a device to alter individual consciousness."
Susan Philipsz, born in Glasgow in 1965, currently lives and works in Berlin. In 2010 she received the Turner Prize and was awarded the OBE for her services to British art in 2014. Since the mid-1990s, her sound installations have been presented in many prestigious institutions and public venues around the world, including solo exhibitions at the Brandts Art Museum (2023) in Odense, ARoS (2023) in Aarhus, Kunstmuseum Bonn (2021), Castello di Rivoli (2019), Turin, Tate Modern (2018) and Tate Britain (2015) in London, Bonniers Konsthall (2017) in Stockholm, Kunsthaus Bregenz (2016) in Austria, Hamburger Bahnhof (2014) in Berlin, Carnegie Museum of Art (2013) in Pittsburgh, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (2013) in Düsseldorf, Museum of Contemporary Art (2011) in Chicago, Aspen Art Museum (2011) in Colorado, Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State (2010) in Columbus, Museum Ludwig (2009) in Cologne, and Institute of Contemporary Art (2008) in London. Installations by Philipsz were on view at Skulptur Projekte Münster in 2007, the 55th Carnegie International in 2008 and the National Gallery of Victoria Triennial in 2020.
"Sokol Terezín" refers to the Czech-Jewish composer Pavel Haas, who was forced to compose the "Study for String Orchestra" for a Nazi propaganda film in the Theresienstadt concentration camp before he was murdered in Auschwitz. While Philipsz leads us through the buildings of his imprisonment on a visual level, the sounds of the cello and viola of the piece, which has only survived in fragments, reveal the sculptural and psychological intensity of sound.
"My work deals with the spatial properties of sound and with the relationships between sound and architecture. I am particularly interested in the emotive and psychological properties of sound and how it can be used as a device to alter individual consciousness."
Susan Philipsz, born in Glasgow in 1965, currently lives and works in Berlin. In 2010 she received the Turner Prize and was awarded the OBE for her services to British art in 2014. Since the mid-1990s, her sound installations have been presented in many prestigious institutions and public venues around the world, including solo exhibitions at the Brandts Art Museum (2023) in Odense, ARoS (2023) in Aarhus, Kunstmuseum Bonn (2021), Castello di Rivoli (2019), Turin, Tate Modern (2018) and Tate Britain (2015) in London, Bonniers Konsthall (2017) in Stockholm, Kunsthaus Bregenz (2016) in Austria, Hamburger Bahnhof (2014) in Berlin, Carnegie Museum of Art (2013) in Pittsburgh, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (2013) in Düsseldorf, Museum of Contemporary Art (2011) in Chicago, Aspen Art Museum (2011) in Colorado, Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State (2010) in Columbus, Museum Ludwig (2009) in Cologne, and Institute of Contemporary Art (2008) in London. Installations by Philipsz were on view at Skulptur Projekte Münster in 2007, the 55th Carnegie International in 2008 and the National Gallery of Victoria Triennial in 2020.