Mirror Rooms by Yayoi Kusama @ Tate Modern, London

The Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama presented her show Mirror Rooms at Tate Modern in London, United Kingdom in the new wing of the gallery.

In her especially designed mirror rooms you could nearly loose yourself and since my review of her little mirror room in Heli Onstadt Museum in Oslo her installations have grown in the setting of Tate Modern Gallery on Bankside in the former power plant. 

Upon entering the space, you were welcomed by giant squids in the so called Turbine Hall in this building, formerly used to produce electricity.

In this sense the artist presenting the squids that floated up and down the enourmous entrance hall dragged us towards Kusama’s presentation in the upstairs galleries in the newly created wing of the adjacent building, added a few years ago for solo displays.

Kusamas’ works as always kept their promise of a mesmerizing experience, making us understand how her own psychological state, viewing dots everywhere feels like in the sligthest.

Even though we can not grasp, how it must be to constantly be surrounded by dots, never being confronted by the white sheet you might scream for after a while, we still are grateful that she shares her obsession and visual craze in such a poetic manner making us feel part of her world.

Here a small video to allow the experience to be shared here on my Art Consultancy website

Looking forward to your reactions please leave them in the comments!

With special thanks to Tate Modern for the press access and permission to photograph and film.

All my best,

Daniela Haberz, M.A.

Wealth Adviser & Independent Art Critic

AØH Art Consultancy Haberz Limited (by Guarantee)

Photo & Video Credits: Daniela Haberz, M.A. for AØH Art Consultancy Haberz Limited (by Guarantee).

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What Do We Need Art For? Between Austria & Great Britain

What Do We Need Art For, 2021 by AØH Art Consultancy Haberz Limited (by Guarantee)

Coinciding with the opening of AØH Consultancy Finchley Road Gallery, the first exhibition titled What Do We Need Art For? Between Austria and the United Kingdom is opening on Friday, 12th of November from 4.00 until 7.00 p.m. and invited four visual artist, a musician & a gallerist producing multiple art

Niki Passath, Elizabeth Pfniess from Austria and Reiner Langer based in Germany, Rob Ritchie from Scottland as well as British musician RCH, invited Curator of the Music & Film Programm and James Pidcock, Curator & Head of Grey Art Multiples, Paris, France.

The exhibition tackles an important topic as denoted in its title and often reflected upon and is inspired by the book with the same title documenting Jean-Luc Nancy’s lecture at State Academy for Fine Arts in Karlsruhe haven taken  place in the series Riemschneider Lectures published by State Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe and Walther & Franz Koenig Books.

Why do we need art? Is it bringing us joy alone or simply distraction when engaging in art previews and parties, that are inherent or do we need it to feel more at home? When I travel, the first thing I do is put up art in my hotel room.

The above-mentioned book, documenting a talk by Jean-Luc Nancy came into my book collection, when wandering around Frieze Art Fair in Regents Park just recently and was ready for a break, deciding to get a book, fitting into my handbag to read over lunch.

This was the ultimate necessity I had at this moment and I purchased two books at my favourite book store Walther Koenig Books at the artfair.

In my role as a Wealth Adviser for Art, I hear all sorts of requests from: It should fit on a wall of three metres by two or have a certain colour. For me these wishes are not unusual and I understand that clients have their own approach to what they want.

Some might say, that clients with requirements like these, are not worthy to be followed up on, but I see it differently.

In the framework of the exhibitions a music programme for my Visiting AØH Balcony Series is created and the musician RCH has been invited to curate this part of the gallery programme. It is planned to take place regularly once a month or bi-monthly.

The art space AØH Consultancy Finchley Road Gallery is non-for-profit and is located in Finchley Road, London, United Kingdom.

Looking forward to hearing from you and all my best,

Daniela Haberz, M.A.

Curator & Wealth Adviser for Art as Investment

AØH Art Consultancy Haberz Limited (by Guarantee)

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Kunst & Handwerk/ Art & Craft – Is it Real?

London Rowing Club in Putney at the River Thames

London Rowing Club in Putney at the River Thames

In a world that is dominated by certificates of authenticity and evaluators and professional assessers making a living from providing their appraisals, we need to call upon our senses and ask ourselves if the art is in the foreground or the provenance.

My mother most recently said, when I gifted my parents a Banksy: I don’t care if it is real or not I like the work!

I guess we should all take ourselves back a little and consider that it is about the artwork itself and the artist no matter who she or he is that matters.

Showcasing a young, Austrian leather bag designer Margarethe Breisach with her label Maggie B. Good in interview with myself as curator of the exhibition to be found below. Her website: http://www.maggiebgood.com

Furthermore we are currently in the middle of building a boat and present our current bi-lateral country endeavour to build a wooden rowing five boat in the framework of my new London project London Rowing Club in Putney at the River Thame Ladies & Gentlemen Club, which invites marginalised and socially excluded groups like homeless or mentally strained, to get together and build this Austrian-British boat, planned in Putney at the River Thames in my rowing club there.

The final location will be sent to those who are part of the team, later this year after signing up per Email or phone under my private contact details as below.

Those who are interested to join please sign up under: dhaberz@artconsultancyhaberz.org or call me under my British mobile phone: +44 759 265 7030

The exhibition Art & Craft – Is it Real in the Bell Tower Graz, will present results from past workshops in the series Art Ark/ Bridging by means of Art from 2019 and 2020 created into graffitis splattered around the towers corners and walls, certainly keeping the heritage in mind leaving no trace behind when we leave.

We look forward to welcome my favourite class 4.C which I teach since the second grade in workshops every year and look forward to welcoming the Akademische Gymnasium secondary school again this year.

We would like to thank our long-term sponsor Real Estate Department of the City of Graz and the Tourism Association for their funding support.

We are open Thursday & Fridays from 2.00 until 6.00 p.m. and Saturday from 11.00 a.m. until 2.00 p.m.

Last but not least I would like to welcome our new Head of IT George Kettele as well represented in the exhibition with a sound sculpture which was exhibited in London in August/ September 2021 this year.

For guided tours please get in touch under: dhaberz@artconsultancyhaberz.org or my British mobile +44 759 265 7030

Looking forward to seeing you all there soon,

Daniela Haberz, M.A.

Curator & Wealth Adviser for Art as Investment

Image Credit: by George Kettele for AØH Art Consultancy Haberz e.U.

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Multiple Art in Reykjavik, Iceland – In conversation with Multis Gallery Heads Ásdis Spanó & Helga Óskarsdóttir

Ásdis & Helga, Heads of Multis Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
Ásdis Spanó & Helga Óskarsdóttir – Heads of Multis Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland

Interview with Multis Gallery’s power duo Ásdis Spanó & Helga Óskarsdóttir in the framework of the series AØH TV in conversation with Daniela Haberz, M.A. for AØH Art Consultancy Haberz, Graz, Austria/ London, United Kingdom about Icelandic artists and announcing our collaboration to exchange Icelandic, Austrian and British artists between our spaces in Reykjavik, Iceland; Graz, Austria and London, United Kingdom.

Ásdis Spanó & Helga Óskarsdóttir – Heads of Multis Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland in conversation with Daniela Haberz, M.A. Head of AØH Art Consultancy Haberz, Graz, Austria/ London, United Kingdom

For further information aboutr Multis please check out their website under: http://www.multis.is

Looking forward to a long-lasting and fruitful collaboration with Multis and an exchange programme between Iceland, Austria and the United Kingdom between our art institutions.

All my best from Iceland,

Daniela Haberz, M.A.
Wealth Adviser for Art as Investment & Curator for Contemporary Art
AØH Art Consultancy Haberz, Graz, Austria/ London, United Kingdom

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Austria versus Great Britain – An Art Discourse with Musical Influences

In Tune, 2021 by Made by a Machine

In Tune, 2021 by Made by a Machine

Exhibition opening/ Eröffnung: Friday/ Freitag, 27th of August 2021 at 3.00 until 4.00 p.m./ 15:00 – 16:00 Uhr
Duration/ Dauer: 27th of August until 20st of September 2021
Location/ Ort: AØH Art Consultancy Haberz Limited (by Guarantee), 43-45 Milford Road, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 8LG, United Kingdom

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A conversation starts with an empty void, evolving into a discussion by means of two people communicating resulting in a work of art by a discourse with theoretical information or the seen.

Depicting the intention of the artist and creative process leading to a train of thought, building up the structure of a critical concept or an art review of the presented.
A description of what we see, expecting to understand what lies behind. Our personal experience at that point in time, put into words. 

Writing about what we are not familiar with, something we can barely grasp from an outside perspective, other times being educated and familiar with the field, an expertise built on for decades, versus to being the newbie in the field, putting into words what we can not fully describe or comprehend. Lack of termini or simply too little insight into the subject yet, still ready to learn, finding words to describe our experience, becoming a fresh view from the outside.

Giuilio Paolini, an Italian representative of Arte Povera seems a good starting point for my discourse about art and music, the start of a conversation, at the beginning often solely with the artwork itself. Empty frames, the naked wall to see, first experienced at Lisson Gallery in 1999, heavy golden frames, known from a more classical way of display, taken out of context, the previously displayed gone, the nothingness of the white wall presented, now becoming something, we see the frames displayed in seriality and focus on what is usually a by-product of the displayed, to put into perspective and shift its importance for us to look at.

The empty frame attracts the focus of our gaze, the emptiness of importance, the subject we view. The discarded in focus, like conceptually based in the art movement Arte Povera, putting the discarded into the centre of our attention. Understood as garbage or of less significance by the general public, becoming important to the artist, creating something new.

This emptiness already expressed in my exhibition title in the word Discourse allows us to start from zero, a group of at least two people has to gather to start a discussion about what might have started with the interaction of one person looking and silently engaging with an artwork whilst viewing it, at home or in a museal context.

The discourse however, needs two people and a topic, in this case the artwork or in general terms a field of interest.

For it to become clearer, I refer to my newly intensified private endeavour rowing and my cover of the rowing race in Graz on the River Mur. New to the field but ready to learn and my journalistic instinct made me take pictures and videos, in conversation with professional rowers, the seen becoming meaningful, background stories to comprehend the new. 

The oars, the parts of the boat, the technique we use, the turn over land, getting ready to step onto the boat, fix the oars after putting the boat into the water, follow rules and commands, becoming a number on a seat located in a row of five. Number three ready and off we go, moving a boat forwards by the correct use of oars and our hands, arms and legs, a communication of our body and in sync with a team of five to move ahead, which is towards our back. The turning of the oars to get ready of entering into the water, a musical experience when placed in correctly, from a canon to a single sound resulting in speed, parting the water to move ahead.

The moving backwards but at the same time forwards, only possible in a joint effort. The front, the end, the start the finish, perpetual moving back and forth on the river over four kilometres in a loop. My first goal, participating in a race in one year of time, my more realistic goal, to learn something new and improve every week.

In the art world it is the same, we find an angle, a story that the artwork includes, we are told about it or can read it in a curatorial text or a press release and make up our own story out of it, never copying something without quoting, which would be fraud or plagiarism and is thereby to be opposed. Still the beginning seems more difficult than it really is, ask a question, start a communication becoming a discourse.

The aim of the exhibition in my role as curator is to start a discourse on art and music, to convey something I grew up with and engage with professionally since nearly three decades and something I am new to, just started. To convey the known to those who are new, to learn from those knowledgable in their field. The title of the exhibition furthermore refers to the in between two countries, operating internationally in Austria and the United Kingdom, the gaps to close the people to keep close. Austria versus Great Britain a dialogue, a counter-position.

The art discourse with musical influences, a conversation silently engaged with at first, put into words, becoming audible and ready to be communicated, a discussion furthering the discourse, at first alone, but then in a group, a team effort to get the art world moving ahead.

In the framework of the exhibition an artwork titled In tune, 2021 by relating to the musical perspective has been newly created and will be exhibited for the first time to the audience. An audio cassette tape presented in a vintage tape player by made by machine, transfers the sound of the river Mur recorded as documentation of the river onto a cassette tape to be played on a vintage tape player, previously used for playing sounds from nature.

Artist statement by Made by a Machine:

Made by a Machine follows a research-based approach in the digital art production by the exploration of its borders in a laboratory situation.

The working process always consists of translations from analog to digital an vice versa. The digital and mechanically assisted accuracy of devices developed in the laboratory is often exposed to analog randomness.

Each individual work is methodically searching for the breakeven performance and the limits of the digital machine. Minimal changes in the algorithm already cause drastically different, yet non-predictable outputs.

About the audio installation In Tune~, 2021
 
An endless cassette is running in a small tape recorder. On the cassette is a recording of the river sound of the Mur in Graz from the year 2018. The sound resembles the noise of an incorrectly tuned transmitter. Due to the opening in 2019 of the hydroelectric power plant in the outskirts of Graz, the white noise of the river was silenced and replaced by cutted trees and concrete areas on the riverbank.

 

While the number of mobile apps, that play river sounds as a sleep aid achieve record sales, real natural spaces are destroyed by greed and profit-oriented political decisions and celebrated by investors as sustainable solutions.

The recording was originally made for the sculpture Mur~.  

The participating artists in the exhibition Austria versus Great Britain – An Art Discourse with Musical Influences in London are Kathrin Weber, Made by a Machine, Walter Köstenbauer, Elisabeth Pfniss, Susanne Wolte & Tonino Gotarelli in collaboration with Fondazione Tonino Gottarelli, curated by Daniela Haberz, M.A for AØH Art Consultancy Haberz Limited (by Guarantee), in London in August/ September 2021 and travelling to the Bell Tower Graz in October 2021 in the framework of the exhibition Art & Craft being this year’s exhibition in the series Visiting Schlossberg Mountain 2021 opening on Friday, 8th of October at 4.00 until 7.00 p.m.

We would like to thank our long-term sponsor Real Estate Department of the City of Graz for their continuing support.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have further queries under my Austrian mobile: +43 664 182 8678 or my British mobile: +44 759 265 7030 or my personal email address: dhaberz@artconsultancyhaberz.org

Looking forward to your reviews and visit of the exhibitions in London, United Kingdom in August/ September and Graz, Austria in October/ November 2021.

All my best wishes,

Daniela Haberz, M.A.
Curator & Wealth Adviser for Art as Investment

AØH Art Consultancy Haberz Limited, London, United Kingdom &
AØH Art Consultancy Haberz E.u., Graz, Austria

 

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Eine Konversation beginnt mit einem leeren Raum, durch das Kommunizieren von zwei Personen in eine Diskussion verwandelt, resultierend in einem Kunstwerk durch Diskurs mit theoretischen Inhalten oder dem Zu Sehenden.

Abbildend die Intention der oder des Künstler_in und den kreativen Prozess, zu einem Gedankengespinst führend, die Struktur eines kritischen Konzeptes entwickelnd, oder resultierend in einer Kunstkritik zum Präsentierten.

Eine Beschreibung über das was wir sehen, in Erwartung des Verständnisses der Hintergründe. Unsere persönliche Erfahrung zu diesem Zeitpunkt, in Worte gefasst.

Über das zu schreiben mit dem wir vertraut sind, etwas das wir kaum erfassen können vom Standpunkt eines Außenstehenden, in anderen Fällen, in dieser Materie ausgebildet und damit vertraut, eine Expertise, aufgebaut über Jahrzehnte, im Gegensatz dazu ein Neuling in diesem Bereich zu sein, in Worte fassend, was wir nicht vollständig beschreiben oder erfassen können. Fehlen der Termini oder einfach bisher zu wenig Einblick in das Themenfeld, dennoch bereit zu lernen, die Worte zu finden unsere Erfahrung zu beschreiben, in einem frischen Blickpunkt von Außen resultierend.

Giulio Paolini, Italienischer Vertreter der Arte Povera erscheint ein guter Ausgangspunkt für meinen Diskurs über Kunst und Musik, der Beginn einer Konversation, ausgehend oft von einer reinen Auseinandersetzung mit dem Kunstwerk selbst. Leere Bilderrahmen, die nackte Wand zu sehen, erstmalig erfahren in der Lisson Gallery im Jahr 1999, schwere goldene Bilderrahmen, bekannt aus einer klassischeren Präsentationsweise, aus dem Kontext genommen, das vormalig ausgestellte verschwunden, das Nichts der weißen Wand präsentiert, nun zum Etwas werdend, wir sehen die Rahmen in Serialität präsentiert und fokussieren auf das normalerweise Nebensächliche des Vorgestellten, in Zusammenhang gebracht und der Wandel des Wesentlichen unserer Betrachtung.

Der leere Bilderrahmen rückt den Mittelpunkt unseres Blickes auf sich, die Leere wichtig, der Inhalt unseres Betrachtens. Das Weggeworfene im Fokus, zum Betrachtenden resultierend, wie konzeptuell in der Kunstbewegung Arte Povera verankert, das Ausrangierte zum Mittelpunkt unserer Aufmerksamkeit machend. Vom allgemeinen Publikum als Abfall oder von geringerer Bedeutung angesehen, für die oder den Künstler_in von Wichtigkeit, etwas Neues kreierend.

Die Leere, bereits ausgedrückt in meinem Ausstellungstitel im Wort Diskurs, erlaubt uns von Null zu beginnen, eine Gruppe von zumindest zwei Personen muss zusammenfinden  um eine Diskussion zu beginnen, über das was vorerst mit dem Interagieren einer Person während des Betrachtens und stillem Auseinandersetzen mit dem Kunstwerk begonnen hat, zu Hause oder im musealen Kontext.

Der Diskurs jedoch benötigt zwei Personen und ein Themenfeld, in diesem Falle das Kunstwerk oder allgemein gesehen, ein Interessenbereich.

Um es klarer darzustellen verweise ich auf mein aktuell intensiviertes Privatvorhaben den Rudersport und meinen Artikel über das Ruderrennen auf dem Fluss Mur. Neu in diesem Bereich, aber bereit zu lernen und mein journalistischer Instinkt hat mich dazu veranlasst Fotos und Videos zu machen, welche im Gespräch mit professionellen Ruderern inhaltlich erfassbar wurden, Hintergrundgeschichten um das Neue zu verstehen.

Die Ruder, die Bootsteile, die Technik, die wir verwenden, das Umdrehen über Land, ins Boot steigen, die Ruder befestigen, nach dem Zu Wasser Lassen des Bootes Regeln und Kommandos befolgen, zu einer Zahl auf einem Sitz werden, in einer Reihe von fünf. Drei bereit und wir fahren los, ein Boot vorwärts bewegen durch die korrekte Nutzung von Rudern, unserer Hände, Arme und Beine, eine Kommunikation unseres Körpers, synchron mit einem Team von fünf um nach Vorne zu kommen, das hinter uns liegt. Eine musikalische Erfahrung, wenn korrekt hinein geführt, von einem Kanon zu einem einzelnen Klang, resultierend in Schnelligkeit, das Wasser teilend um voran zu kommen.

Das rückwärts bewegen, zur gleichen Zeit vorwärts, nur durch gemeinsame Anstrengung möglich. Das Vorne das Hinten, der Beginn das Ende, zyklisch vorwärts und rückwärts auf dem Fluß über vier Kilometer in einer Endlosschleife. Mein erstes Ziel, in einem Jahr an einem Rennen teilzunehmen, mein realistischeres Ziel, jede Woche etwas Neues zu lernen und mich zu verbessern.

In der Kunstwelt ist es das gleiche, wir finden einen Ansatzpunkt, eine Geschichte, welche das Kunstwerk beinhaltet, sie wird uns mitgeteilt oder wir lesen nach in einem kuratorischen Konzept oder einer Pressemitteilung und erfinden unsere eigene Geschichte, niemals kopieren ohne zu zitieren, was Betrug oder Plagiat wäre und dadurch abzulehnen. Der Anfang scheint diffiziler als er wirklich ist, stelle eine Frage, beginne eine Kommunikation, die zum Diskurs wird.

Das Ziel der Ausstellung in meiner Rolle als Kuratorin ist es einen Diskurs über Kunst und Musik zu initiieren, etwas zu vermitteln mit dem ich aufgewachsen bin und seit fast drei Jahrzehnten beruflich auseinandersetze und etwas, das mir neu ist, gerade begonnen habe. Das mir Bekannte den Neulingen zu vermitteln, von den Erfahrenen in ihrem Feld zu lernen. Der Titel der Ausstellung verweist weiters auf das Dazwischen in zwei Ländern, international operieren in Österreich und Großbritannien, ein Dialog, eine Gegenüberstellung.

Der Kunstdiskurs mit musikalischen Einflüssen, eine vorerst stille Konversation, in Worte gefasst, hörbar werdend und bereit kommuniziert zu werden, eine Diskussion die den Diskurs hervorbringt, zuerst alleine, aber danach in einer Gruppe, eine Teamleistung um die Kunstwelt voran zu bringen.

Im Rahmen der Ausstellung entsteht ein Kunstwerk im Bezug auf den musikalischen Aspekt neu. Eine Kassette in einem Vintage Kassettenrecorder von Georg Kettele, der den Klang des Flusses Mur, der zur Dokumentation des Flusses aufgenommen wurde, auf Kassette transferiert und auf diesem, früher dazu verwendet Naturklänge wiederzugeben, abgespielt wird.

Die teilnehmenden Künstlerinnen und Künstler der Ausstellung Österreich versus Großbritannien – Ein Kunst Diskurs mit Musikalischen Einflüssen sind Kathrin Weber, Georg Kettele, Walter Köstenbauer, Elisabeth Pfniss, Susanne Wolte & Tonino Gotarelli in Kollaboration mit der Fondazione Tonino Gottarelli, kuratiert von Daniela Haberz, M.A für die AØH Art Consultancy Haberz Limited (by Guarantee), in London im August/ September 2021 und als Wanderausstellung im Grazer Glockenturm im Oktober 2021 im Rahmen der Ausstellung Kunst & Handwerk, die diesjährige Ausstellung im Rahmen von Zu Gast am Schlossberg zu sehen, mit Eröffnung am Freitag, 8. Oktober von 16:00 – 19:00 Uhr

Wir möchten unserem langjährigen Sponsor Immobilienabteilung der Stadt Graz für Ihre anhaltende Unterstützung danken.

Bei Rückfragen zögern Sie bitte nicht mich unter meiner Österreichischen Mobilnummer: +43 664 182 8678 oder meiner Britischen: +44 759 265 7030 oder meiner persönlichen E-mail-Adresse: dhaberz@artconsultancyhaberz.org zu kontaktieren.

Beste Grüße

Daniela Haberz, M.A.
Kuratorin & Vermögensberaterin für Kunst als Investition

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AØH Art Consultancy Haberz E.u., Graz, Österreich

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City Graz Race July 2021 & the connection to Music

Rowing Club Graz / Ruderclub Graz Team

Rowing Club Graz / Ruderclub Graz Team

LIA Rowing Club Vienna

LIA Rowing Club Vienna

LIA Rowing Club Vienna

Becoming a member of the Rowing Club Graz most recently has brought me to covering the City Graz Race last Saturday on the River Mur.

One of the still hidden secrets of the City of Graz when you talk to people is the fact that you can actually row on our River Mur and that the Rowing Club Graz provides the possibility to attend courses to learn how to row if you engage with locals in a discussion.

So far still a newbie in the rowing world I decided to document the recent Race on the River Mur that brought several rowing clubs together to compete in the discipline eight boat racing for people unfamiliar to rowing, meaning that eighth people row in one boat, not as usual three to five like in normal rowing boats and that you do not have two oars each but simply one per person that are distributed to both sides equally  by means of every second rower having one oar pointing in the same direction, boats mainly used for professional racing.

One of the greatest misconceptions by the general public is the distinction between paddling and rowing as they simply did not grow up with it like me, not being priviledged  enough to be sitting in a rowing boat from early childhood onwards.

Rowing for me has a lot to do with music as well as you hear and feel the progress of being in a team in a boat yourself whilst rowing up and down the stream when everyone is pulling in the same direction and the team becomes one, perfectly rowing together, moving a boat across the river with a fine sizzling sound when the oars are moved backwards in the right manner.

When documenting the race I was early and took a photograph of the participating rowing club LIA, who are the first existing rowing club in Vienna, who went up to the starting point where the race began. The moment they passed I heard their tact when the oars hit into the water and gently swirled across the surface of the river backwards and that moment I knew we had no chance to win.

You might ask yourself why the sound is so important and looking at the live pictures I took several times to analyse why our team from Rowing Club Graz did not make it in the end,  I realised that we had a similar technique but simply weren’t in the same tact entirely. Not a single additional rowing stroke audible, no clacking of the oar against the one behind, simply a perfect brief cut into the water and a fast follow up stroke afterwards.

Nonetheless retrospectively it can be said that it is a great success to win against a team of that caliber once, with rowers participating, who took part in olympic games before and make it their sole discipline to row in the eighth boat all over the year and I look forward to our progress for the next year to compete again when we perfected our technique, maybe I am as far at that point to join the team myself.

For the moment I enjoy the club evening rowing training still as a newbie training and learning from those in my club Rowing Club Graz, that won a race against olympic games rowers from our friends in Vienna Rowing Club LIA at the beginning of the tournament.

The finals were a close head to head race between Vienna University and LIA Rowing Club Vienna resulting in a win of the tournament by LIA Rowing Club Vienna.

The extended living room of the City of Graz I called the River Mur banks in my concept for the Sculpture Garden on the River Mur and it indeed is extended to the Rowing Club Graz which can be reached by foot from the centre of Graz in 6,5 kilometres taking about 1,5 hours to engage in a truly royal sport with people who have the same interest, to excel and make the river their own for two hours of rowing in the club evenings every week.

How to become part of the rowing community if you do not yet have heard of it get in touch with the rowing club Graz and subscribe to their newsletter on their website: http://www.ruderclub-graz.at

One hint for those taking part in the rowing classes, wear a T-shirt covering your back entirely, it is called rowing shirt but every rower knows, that the back has to be covered to prevent yourself from sun burns if rowing during the day especially the lunch time hours.

I hope you enjoyed my first cover of a sports event that had nothing to do with my work as a curator for contemporary art and Wealth Adviser for Art as Investment. In the boat, I take the commands given by the boats woman or man, like the entire team in the boat, allowing for a team effort resulting in something that is both physically demanding and keeps people engaging in a singular goal, to move a boat across the river.

Someone once asked me once what my hobbies are, I did not know the answer as my life consisted of work alone but now I can say my hobby is rowing and  I try to excel as best as I can to be part of the rowing community in the City of Graz and train after work to keep a perfect balance between work and private life. As I won every possible medal in walking challenges already in the past month, I take on a new challenge to master something I so far did not engage in the best I can guided by professionals in this field.

All my best and have a lovely summer,

Daniela Haberz, M.A.
Curator & Wealth Adviser for Art as Investment & Rowing newbie

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AØH Recommendation Shirazeh Houshiary @ Lisson Gallery, London, Cork Street

Exhibition Pneuma by Shirazeh Houshiary, Installation View at Lisson Gallery, Cork Street until 31st of July 2021

When I saw the new ouvre by British artist, with Iranian roots, Shirazeh Houshiary, I realised that she was strongly connected to nature, the cosmos and nature phenomenons such as the Nordic lights or Milky ways. From my research on Nordic countries, I subsequently travelled to as well, I knew of the phenomenon Nordic lights, which is clearly referenced in Houshiary’s work Enigma, 2020 on view in the UK for the first time.

Enigma, 2020 by Shirazeh Houshiary

Upon a closer look, as well small marks with pencil become visible, showing a succession like on a star map indicating points by means of little crosses on a distorted line drawn across the painting. The gallery director Louise Hayward told me, that Shirazeh Houshiary is inspired by physics, namely the string theory, for me the crosses symbolised stars on a star map and the painted distorted planes can be seen as green and blue coloured milky ways and the marked crosses indications of where stars are located in the universe.

Enigma, 2020 (Detail) by Shirazeh Houshiary

When the work was hung, as well the connection between the works become evident as if the painted wave-like shapes across the canvas became alive and floating as well in-between the canvas’

Pieta, 2021 by Shirazeh Houshiary

Loci, 2021 by Shirazeh Houshiary

The new body of work in Shirazeh Houshiary’s exhibition Pneuma, whom I mainly knew as a sculptor from past works I was familiar with, show this three-dimensional aspect in a painterly manner when looking closely from different angles standing in front of the canvas’ As if the nebulas in the cosmos take form and are prolongued into the exhibition space, the empty space being integral part in her carefully placed artworks on specific locations in the gallery space in Cork Street in London.

Pneuma, 2021 by Shirazeh Houshiary

The artworks when acquired from my point of view should definitely been seen as dyptichon and tryptichon or even a series of the entire display as only then they reveal this phenomenon of creation of a nebula within the space in-between the canvas’ allowing us to temporarily stand in the cosmos ourselves.

From my point of view, a clear reference can be seen to the Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, depicting Nordic lights by means of using the colour green in a very intense way throughout his artistic work over the years whilst Houshiary creates an additional layer of placing the lights in a cosmic surrounding relating it to stars and milky ways by means of small interventions with pencil.

Loci, 2021 (Detail) by Shirazeh Houshiary

By means of positioning them towards each other she creates a space that encapsulates us in her world whilst standing in front of the paintings, draws us into her world, dissolving it upon leaving the exhibition space.

Like Foucault said,  a space always has a certain notion in relation to it’s whereabouts and history, partly man-given over the course of time, further defined by our current immediate use of it. Shirazeh Houshiary creates and transforms the exhibition space herself in a very intense manner, giving us the opportunity to dive into her world and allow us to become calm yet agitated by means of creating these as well negative versus positive in-between spaces invisible at first but engaging our eye when spending time with her oeuvre in a more detailed and intense engagement.

The exhibition can be highly recommended and is on view at Lisson Gallery in Cork Street until 31st of July during opening hours Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 6pm and upon appointment. Prices upon request to the gallery.

Lisson Gallery
22 Cork Street
London W1S 3NA
+44 (0)20 7724 2739
E-mail contact@lissongallery.com
Web: http://www.lissongallery.com

All my best wishes and I am looking forward for you to experience and engage with Shirazeh Houshiary’s work,

Daniela Haberz, M.A.
Curator & Wealth Adviser for Art as Investment
AØH Art Consultancy Haberz Limited

Photo Credits: Daniela Haberz, M.A. for AØH Art Consultancy Haberz Limited

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AØH Recommendation: Christopher Le Brun

British painter and printmaker Christopher Le Brun exhibited in a very private exhibition setting over the course of two days on 15th and 16th of June 2021 in Lisson Gallery’s London Cork Street dependance and showcased new work by the artist.

Between musical influences and the process involved in the making of his work the exhibition was an unmissable showcasing of Christopher Le Brun’s work for a selected few people invited.

The artist talked about the negative and positive shape of his monotype prints on paper by means of layers becoming three-dimensional and hung floating on the wall casting a slight shadow that added to the three-dimensionality.

Upon my question if Mark Rothko is an influence on him as a painter he affirmed it as when filming the artist talk I could see the colour fields emerge. In conversation with the senior director Louise Hayward and the artist the influence of Claude Monet became evident, as she mentioned the nearly waterly flowing of the colour in the lower bottom panels that reminded me of the water surface of the pond in Monet’s water lily paintings in his home in Giverny, France.

Below the artist talk at Lisson Gallery, London in the series AØH TV:

Christopher Le Brun is represented by Lisson Gallery, London: https://www.lissongallery.com

Looking forward to hear more from the artist and his practise over the coming years.

All my best wishes,

Daniela Haberz, M.A.
Wealth Adviser for Art as Investment & Curator
AØH Art Consultancy Haberz e.U.

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Image Credits: Installation View Lisson Gallery 22 Cork Street, London © Daniela Haberz, M.A. for AØH Art Consultancy Haberz e.U.

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YACA (Young Austrian Contemporary Art) & Counterparts Worldwide – Going London June 2021

Under Construction, London June 2021

Under Construction, London June 2021 © AØH Art Consultancy Haberz Limited 

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The exhibition YACA (Young Austrian Contemporary Art) & Counterparts worldwide – Going London 2021 showcases Austrian art in counterposition with selected international artists in London in June 2021 in our Baker Street office.

Elisabeth Pfniss, an Austrian painter from the region Styrian, is most prominent for her use of special Japanese paper, that she reworks and in the process creates a three-dimensional fiche, slightly translucent when leaned against the window upon the sunlight falling in. The artist is in the early stages of her career which she started after a career as a doctor and in her work the meticulous process of development of her work, the patience of a surgeon, applying layers and layers of paint to the paper ordered mainly from Japan directly and in the case of the displayed work Woman in Rosé, 2020 creates these unique works, consisting of six parts, numbered and signed. Elisabeth Pfniss was chosen, when I discovered her last year and being part of an exhibition at the Bell Tower Graz, curated by myself after being familiar with her work for several years. The figurative language in her early work has become more and more abstract in her recent works and are influenced by her medical career.

Woman in Rosé, 2020 by Elisabeth Pfniss

Woman in Rosé, 2020 by Elisabeth Pfniss Installation view AØH Art Consultancy Haberz e.U. April 2021

Woman in Rosé, 2020 has been chosen as a title in conversation with the artist, upon a studio visit in Graz, Austria and the particular aspect is that the figurines depicted are headless. The head seems cut off, only the neck remaining, stretching out of the depicted body. Rose in colour in a very delicate shade, mainly associated with little blossoms on wild rose bushes, reminding of a secret garden not the cruel outcome of a beheaded figurine which makes us ponder about the deeper meaning of her work and clearly relates to taking apart the human body in medical training, when dissecting to study the anatomy of humans. Pointing out, that the head remains the most important part in humankind, making us who we are, not only shaping our personality but being centre of the functioning of our whole body, creating our identity. The lacking of such thereby questions our existence but could as well incur psychoanalysis, when confronted with new ways to adapt to life’s circumstances like in today’s times.

The science fiction novel O-Zone by American author Paul Theroux, written in 1987 describes a New York, that is sealed off from the rest of the world, where babies are brought up in retort and people have to pass gates in town only by using their personal fingerprint. In the 1980s still very futuristic, today part of our daily routine, even in using our phones with facial recognition or finger print access, securing and protecting our personal life. Like I said to my friend, working in a small café in Graz in Austria the other day, I would have never thought that one day I would need to provide a test result to sit down for cake and coffee, nowadays an integral part of our life to stay healthy. Futuristic sounding at first, but today’s reality around the world.

The counter-position with the internationally renowned American artist Dan Graham, selected for the exhibition with his limited edition work Sketch for Two Way Mirror/ Hedge Arabesque dating from 2013 created this sketch bearing in mind, a future sculptural outcome as a commission work and is signed with his name three times Dan Graham, with Dan Graham, signed Dan Graham, which led me to write about the ‘Me’ versus ‘Us’ in 2019, on the occasion of his exhibition Dan GrahamContemplation curated by myself in the AØH Art Consultancy Haberz.

In his performances Graham engages with the audience, the public is asked to define himself, he defines the audience. It’s a ’Me’ versus ’We’ resulting in creating a better understanding of Graham’s personality by himself, mirrored in the eyes of the audience.

His creation of this sketch, affirmed by signing it a third time. This process shows his presence as an artist as well as being by himself in his studio when creating the work as well as the master imprinting on the final drawing with his signature. On a conceptual level integrating us as spectators, a major part in Dan Graham’s artistic practice in his art performances. Dan Graham is represented by Lisson Gallery in London.

Sketch for Two Way Mirror/ Hedge Arabesque, 2017 by Dan Graham

Sketch for Two Way Mirror/ Hedge Arabesque, 2017 by Dan Graham Installation view AØH Art Consultancy Haberz e.U. 2019 – Collection Miles’ Christie Trust 

The works by Austrian artists Rene Berghold, Max Kulich and Walter Koestenbauer as well as German painter Kathrin Weber and Italian painter Tonino Gottarelli in collaboration with the Fondazione Tonino Gottarelli from Imola, Italy conclude the curatorial selection for the exhibition, scheduled for June 2021 in our London office soon to be accessible upon appointment only to the public, concomitant with the current Health and Safety regulations by the UK Government.

The The Colour of Words, 1999 by Tonino Gottarelli- Installation view Bell Tower Graz, October 2020

The Colour of Words, 1999 by Tonino Gottarelli- Installation view Bell Tower Graz, October 2020

Erased, 2020 by Rene Berghold

Ausradiert/ Erased, 2020 by Rene Berghold – Installationsansicht AØH Art Consultancy Haberz Limited Nov 2021 – Private Collection Daniela Haberz, M.A.

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Die Ausstellung YACA (Young Austrian Contemporary Art) & Counterparts worldwide – Going London 2021 zeigt Österreichische Kunst in Gegenüberstellung mit ausgewählten internationalen Künstler_innen in London im Juni 2021 in unserem Büro in der Baker Street.

Die Steirische Malerin Elisabeth Pfniss, die am bekanntesten für ihre Nutzung von speziellem Japanischen Papier ist, das sie weiterbearbeitet und dreidimensionale Fiche kreiert, wie man im Französischen sagt, zu Deutsch kartenförmige Blätter, leicht durchscheinend wenn sie gegen das, Fenster, mit einfallendem Sonnenlicht, gelehnt sind. Die Künstlerin ist am Beginn ihrer künstlerischen Karriere, welche sie nach ihrem Beruf als Ärztin begonnen hat und in ihrer Arbeit wird die genaue Herangehensweise im Entstehungsprozess, mit Geduld einer Chirurgin, durch Schicht um Schicht von Farbe auf hauptsächlich direkt aus Japan bestelltem Papier aufgetragen und im Falle des gezeigten Werkes Frau in Rosé, 2020, kreiert sie Unikate, die aus sechs Teilen bestehen, nummeriert und signiert. Elisabeth Pfniss wurde ausgewählt, nachdem ich sie im letzten Jahr entdeckt habe, als Teilnehmerin einer von mir kuratierten Ausstellung im Grazer Glockenturm, nachdem ich mit ihrer Arbeit bereits einige Jahre vertraut war. Die figurative Formensprache in ihrem frühen Werk wurde immer abstrakter in ihren aktuelleren Arbeiten und sind von ihrer medizinischen Karriere beeinflusst.

Frau in Rosé, 2020 wurde m Gespräch mit der Künstlerin, bei einem Atelierbesuch, als Titel ausgewählt und ihr besonderer Aspekt sind die fehlenden Köpfe der abgebildeten Figuren. Der Kopf scheint abgeschnitten, nur der Hals verbleibend, hervor gestreckt aus dem abgebildeten Körper. Rosa in Farbe in einem sehr leichten Ton, hauptsächlich mit kleinen Knospen auf wilden Rosenbüschen assoziiert, an einen geheimen Garten erinnernd, nicht das grausame Resultat einer geköpften Figur, was uns über die tiefere Bedeutung ihrer Werke nachdenken lässt und klar auf das Auseinandernehmen des Körpers in der medizinischen Ausbildung Bezug nimmt, wenn ein Körper seziert wird, um die Anatomie der Menschen zu studieren. Hervorhebend, dass der Kopf der wichtigste Teil der Menschheit bleibt, uns zu dem macht, wer wir sind, nicht nur unsere Persönlichkeit formt, sondern das Zentrum der Funktionalität unseres gesamten Körpers ist, unsere Identität kreiert. Das Fehlen desselben stellt dabei unsere Existenz in Frage aber könnte ebenfalls Psychoanalyse implizieren, wenn wir mit neuen Wegen konfrontiert sind, uns an die Lebensumstände der heutigen Zeit anzupassen.

Der Science Fiction Roman O-Zone des Amerikanischen Autors Paul Theroux, verfasst im Jahr 1987, beschreibt ein New York, das vom Rest der Welt abgeschnitten ist, in dem Babies in der Retorte aufgezogen werden und Menschen Absperrungen in der Stadt passieren müssen, nur durch Nutzung ihres persönlichen Fingerabdruckes. In den 1980er Jahren noch futuristisch, heute Teil unserer täglichen Routine, beispielsweise in Nutzung unserer Telefone mit Gesichtserkennung oder Zugang mit Fingerabdruck, unser persönliches Leben sichernd. Wie ich zu einem Freund, der in einem kleinen Café in Graz arbeitet kürzlich gesagt habe, ich hätte nie gedacht, dass ich eines Tages einen Test benötigen würde um mich zu Kuchen und Kaffee hinzusetzen, heutzutage ein integraler Teil in unserem Leben um gesund zu bleiben. Zu Beginn futuristisch klingend, aber heutzutage Realität rund um die Welt.

Die Gegenüberstellung mit dem international anerkannten, Amerikanischen Künstler Dan Graham, für die Ausstellung ausgewählt mit seiner limitierten Edition Sketch for Two Way Mirror/ Hedge Arabesque, datierend aus dem Jahr 2013, kreierte diese Skizze mit dem Vorsatz einer zukünftig skulpturalen Umsetzung, als Auftragsarbeit und ist dreimal mit seinem Namen signiert, Dan Graham, mit Dan Graham, signiert Dan Graham, was mich 2019 dazu gebracht hat über das ‘Ich’ versus ‘Uns’ zu schreiben, anlässlich seiner Ausstellung Dan GrahamContemplation, von mir für die AØH Art Consultancy Haberz kuratiert.

In seinen Performances interagiert Graham mit dem Publikum, die Zuschauer sind aufgefordert ihn zu definieren. Es ist ein ‘Ich’ versus ‘Wir’, resultierend in einem besseren Verständnis Graham’s Persönlichkeit durch ihn selbst, gespiegelt in den Augen der Zuschauer.

Seine Kreation dieser Skizze, zugestimmt, indem er sie ein drittes Mal signiert. Der Prozess zeigt seine Präsenz als Künstler, zugleich das Alleinsein in seinem Atelier, als er das Werk geschaffen hat, sowie die Prägung der finalen Zeichnung durch den Meister, mit seiner Unterschrift. Auf konzeptueller Ebene, uns als Beobachter_innen integrierend, ein wesentlicher Teil in Dan Graham’s künstlerischer Herangehensweise in seiner Performance Kunst. Dan Graham ist von der Lisson Gallery in London repräsentiert.

Die Arbeiten der Österreichischen Künstler Rene Berghold, Max Kulich und Walter Köstenbauer sowie der Deutschen Malerin Kathrin Weber und dem Italienischen Künstler Tonino Gottarelli in Kollaboration mit der Fondazione Tonino Gottarelli von Imola, Italien vervollständigt die kuratorische Auswahl der Ausstellung, geplant für Juni 2021 in unserem Büro in London, einhergehend mit den aktuellen Gesundheits- und Sicherheitsbestimmungen der Britischen Regierung nur auf Anfrage geöffnet.

Bei weiteren Fragen oder um einen Besuch der Ausstellung zu vereinbaren, zögern Sie bitte nicht mich unter meiner Englischen Mobilnummer +44 759 265 7030 oder meiner privaten E-mailadresse: dhaberz@artconsultancyhaberz.org zu kontaktieren.

Beste Grüße aus London

Daniela Haberz, M.A.

Kuratorin & Vermögensberaterin für Kunst als Investition
AØH Art Consultancy Haberz e.U. & AØH Art Consultancy Haberz Limited (By Guarantee)

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Bildverweis: Installationsansicht Grazer Glockenturm am Schlossberg Oktober 2020 & Baker Street Büro London November 2020 © Daniela Haberz, M.A. for AØH Art Consultancy Haberz e.U.

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