Exhibition and book launch on the occasion of award-winning multi media artist and photographer Bastienne Schmidt’s latest publication “Typology of Women”.

The book comprises a series of hand-painted silhouette cutouts depicting female imagery across cultures and throughout history. Schmidt deliberately uses the term and concept of “typology”—the systematic classification of things according to shared characteristics—as a formal means to explore the symbolic and sociological dimensions of the “type,” thereby offering sharp insights into the complex processes by which female identity is constructed. Schmidt’s silhouettes (rendered in luminous orange as an ironic parallel to a reading of Simone de Beauvoir’s “The Second Sex” and Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own”) portray nuances while unfixing received ideas.

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In the global discussion of new strategies for the design and implementation of future-oriented forms of housing, the city of Vienna has consistently been at the vanguard with its innovative ideas, especially in the realm of social housing. The increasing privatization of housing and the rapid densification of German and other European cities, accelerated by the current influx of refugees, forces architects, urban planners, and city administrators to address alternative models of housing and of urban life both creatively and politically. The exhibition “The Vienna Model – Housing for the 21st Century City” focuses on housing projects erected across the city over the last century. Not only does it examine new buildings with their urban connectivity, but also neighborhood revitalization projects and entirely new quarters. With this presentation of the design and planning methods – which have been continuously refined over the years – the curators Wolfgang Förster and William Menking hope to give those who are involved in this process around the world impulses on how to develop approaches to housing based on the “Vienna Model”.

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Opening:
Sunday, 12 June 2016, 11.00 am

Speaking at the opening:
Dr. h.c. Kristin Feireiss, Aedes Berlin
Dr. Michael Ludwig, City Councilor for Housing, Housing Construction, and Urban Renewal, Vienna
Dr. Wolfgang Förster, Curator, Coordinator of IBA_Wien
William Menking, Curator, Editor in Chief of “The Architect’s Newspaper”, New York

From 21 May to 17 July 2016 the exhibition project ”U-BAHNHOF BUNDESTAG BERLIN 2016 | EUROPA” is on view, curated by the swiss artist duo Francine Eggs and Andreas Bitschin for the central venue of the underground station Bundestag between the Kanzleramt, the Reichstag, and the Swiss Embassy. It features installations, sound works, interventions, photographs, and performances by 15 Swiss and Berlin artists, presenting criticism and utopias with regard to present-day Europe, which continues to negotiate its borders and identities as geographical, historical, political, economic, or cultural units.