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VERBUND COLLECTION
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VERBUND COLLECTION
can be found on our new website.
VERBUND COLLECTION: The art collection of VERBUND
The VERBUND COLLECTION was created in 2004 by VERBUND AG, Austria’s leading power company and one of Europe’s leading producers of electricity from hydropower. It is a first-class company collection with a contemporary, international focus.
Aspiration of the art collection
We want to discover artistic positions that were previously hidden, make them visible, and leave a trace in the cultural memory and in art history.In the early days of the VERBUND COLLECTION, it placed the art of the 1970s in dialog with contemporary positions. At this time, many artists broke away from painting and created completely new forms of expression. They began to discover their own bodies as a medium. Photography, video, film and performance established themselves as independent art forms.
In the meantime, the spectrum has expanded. In addition to works of art from the “Feminist Avant-Garde”, the VERBUND COLLECTION also focuses on the “Perception of Spaces and Places” and works on the subject of “gender, identity and diversity”.
MAXIM
In accordance with the maxim “Depth not breadth”, entire groups of works of artists are collected in order to facilitate a deeper discussion of the creative phases. In line with this maxim, we publish monographs on the collection’s female artists: Birgit Jürgenssen, Cindy Sherman, Francesca Woodman, ORLAN, Renate Bertlmann and Louise Lawler.
