Muntean / Rosenblum
Nemesims
Galerienfrühstück in der Schleifmühlgasse
Samstag, 12. Mai 2012 von 10.00 - 19.00.
Künstlergespräch Muntean/Rosenblum 15.00
In Will Wright’s famous computer game “The Sims”, which has become one of the world’s best selling titles, the player is presented with a bird’s eye view into a standard American detached family house and the simulated people living therein. This synoptic perspective turns the player into an omnipotent god with the power to watch his beings and interfere with their simulated lives from above. Many facets of the game resemble those of a training simulator for contemporary consumer culture, since its goal, namely to keep the Sims happy, can only be reached by organising them in such a way that they earn increasing amounts of money which, in turn, has to be spent on consumable goods, from furniture and decoration to clothes, electric household appliances to books and even fine art. The consequential relation between happiness and the never-ending stream of novel items, services and goods, that has become a backbone of contemporary capitalist society, could not be expressed more bluntly. Furthermore, contrary to the Baudrillardian view of the suspension of ideology in the age of simulation, it could be argued that game simulations are hyper-ideological phenomena since all possible actions are literally embedded into the world. In other words, the player has no choice but to base actions on one belief system or another since his or her actions as well as their consequences are already entirely prescribed by the code.
Muntean/Rosenblum have chosen “The Sims” as a model for their installation in the entire space of Georg Kargl Fine Arts. Design elements – such as the particular rounded shape of interior walls that emerge from the specific point of view in the game, plants from the exterior front lawn as well as parts of the digital furniture – are turned into sculptural elements which form a coherent whole.
By actualising the virtual game space and positioning it as a display for contemporary art Muntean/Rosenblum are returning to a decisive practice within their artistic career. During the 1990s they realised a series of environments, ranging from a desert setting, via a stage for video productions to a sculpture resembling the viewing apparatus of a submarine, which worked as exhibition spaces for the artworks they had curated specifically for the respective settings. This approach allows them to reflect the historical implications of exhibition spaces and enables a highly complex and finely tuned control over the web of relations set in motion by their thematic and architectural choices.
In combination with the title Nemesims, which relates to the Greek godess of revenge responsible for the punishment of human hubris, this environment, takes a very precise critical stance. What makes the Sims game so compelling is that its narrative delivers instant omnipotence in a universe defined by (illusory) consumer choices and the never-ending update of surface elements. The adaptation of this cultural signifier not only enables Muntean/Rosenblum to position the precise commentary one has come to expect from their paintings and film pieces, it also extends to a recontextualisation of the function of the exhibition space, thereby affecting all the other artworks displayed within.
Included artists: CARTER | 1970 | US, Konrad Friedel | 1981 | AT, Michael Gumhold | 1978 | AT, Herbert Hinteregger | 1970 | AT, Peter Jecza | 1932 – 2009 | RO, Hildegard Joos | 1909 -2005 | AT, Josef Pillhofer | 1921 - 2010 | AT, Gerwald Rockenschaub | 1954 | AT/DE, Axel Stockburger | 1974 | AT/GB, Manfred Wakolbinger| 1952 | AT
Biography
born 1970, lives and works in Kirchberg/AT
2024
Herbert Hinteregger, Zeitkunst Galerie, Kitzbühel
Herbert Hinteregger, Galerie Johann Widauer, Innsbruck
2022
How to (Untitled), Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
TODAY (Untitled), kunsthaus meurz, Mürzzuschlag
Herbert Hinteregger and Anna Kolodziejska, Galerie am Polylog, Wörgl
2021
Herbert Hinteregger, Galerie Johann Widauer, Innsbruck
2020
White overpainted view (Show IV. Waldboden, Forest Floor), Zeitkunstgalerie Kitzbühel, Kitzbühel
Silver Paris Drawings (Show III. Waldboden, Forest Floor), Zeitkunstgalerie Kitzbühel, Kitzbühel
Space one painting (Show II. Waldboden, Forest Floor), Zeitkunstgalerie Kitzbühel, Kitzbühel
Galerie Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt-Main
2019
All over over all (Show I. Waldboden, Forest Floor), Zeitkunstgalerie Kitzbühel, Kitzbühel
Untitled (Kunstschnee), Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna
Kunstverein Rosenheim
performance by appointment, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
2017
Untitled (Flow), Kunstverein Heilbronn, Heilbronn
Untitled (Flow), Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck
2016
Untitled (Value), RLB Atelier, Lienz
Now on Display, Sammlung Ivo Moser, Innsbruck
2014
Franz Graf/Herbert Hinteregger, Halle Otrans, Kitzbühel
2013
Eve-Level of my Art Dealer, Artissima, Torino
Herbert Hinteregger & Michael Sailstorfer, Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna
2012
Halle Otrans, Kitzbühel
was, wann, warum, Galeria Antonia Ferrara, Regio Emilia
2010
A sense of disquietude concerning the existing order of things, Herbert Hinteregger and Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
2008
Gasthof Schwarzer Adler, Jochberg
part 2, Galleria Antonio Ferrara, Reggio Emilia
2007
Neue Gemälde, Galerie Bernhard Knaus, Mannheim
Galerie Bernd Kugler (with Lisa Endriss), Innsbruck
2006
all over – store, Georg Kargl permanent, Vienna
2005
Private View, Antonio Ferrara, Reggio Emilia
all over, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
2004
Gegenstände, Kunstraum Innsbruck/Project Space, Innsbruck
Get the picture, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
2003
ball-pen-ink, Remise Bludenz, Bludenz (curated by Axel Jablonski)
Secrets and dangers, Galerie Bernhard Knaus, Mannheim
2002
Schwamm drüber, kunsthaus muerz, Mürzzuschlag
Antonio Ferrara, Reggio Emilia
2001
Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
2000
Antonio Ferrara, Reggio Emilia
1999
Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
Dekoration einer Langeweile, AM&E, Vienna
1997
App.Bxl; App.Bxl, Brussels
1995
Repeat, Trabant, Vienna
Triple Stripe Mural, Depot, Vienna
1994
10 x 10, Galerie Theuretzbacher, Vienna
1993
Wintersaison, Bad Habits, Kirchberg
1992
Kitzbühelerstr. 8, Arena, Kirchberg
Graffiti, Moustache, Kirchberg
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
Anna Kolodziejska und Herbert Hinteregger, Galerie am POLYGOL, kunst.raum.wörgl, Wörgl
2021
KUNSTBÜHEL, Museum Kitzbühel | Sammlung Alfons Walde, Kitzbühel
2020
Attempt at Rapprochement, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
Intermezzo II, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck
2019
Konkrete Gegenwart, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich
Auf der Kippe. Eine Konfliktgeschichtedes Tabaks, Tiroler Volkskunstmuseum, Innsbruck
2018
Transformation of Geometry, Collections of Siegfried Grauwinkel, Berlin and Miroslav Velfl, Prague, G HMP Prague City Gallery, Prague
20 Jahre RLB Kunstbrücke, RLB Kunstbrücke, Innsbruck
Sammlung der Raiffeisenbank Kitzbühel – St. Johann, Raiffeisen Haus, Kitzbühel
Kunstankäufe der Stadt Innsbruck 2018, Fördergalerie der Stadt Innsbruck, Innsbruck
PIN.Party, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
CONCENTRATION - a tribute, Gesellschaft für projektive Ästhetik, Georg Kargl, Vienna
Recollection, Galeria Poyectos Monclova, Mexico City
20 Jahre, RLB-Kunstbrücke, Innsbruck
La Collection BIC, Le CentQuatre Paris
Reduction, Gesellschaft für projektive Ästhetik, Georg Kargl, Vienna
2017
Remastered - Die Kunst der Aneignung, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems
2016
Abstrakt - Spatial, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems
2015
Transparency, Georg Kargl Fine Arts & BOX, Vienna
Stadt Kunst Innsbruck, Die Sammlung der Stadt Innsbruck, Alte Stadtsäle, Innsbruck
a likeness has blisters, it has that and teeth, Semperdepot, Vienna
Schneesalon, Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna
2014
Bildwelten der Reduktion, RLB Kunstbrücke, Innsbruck
Endoscopia, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck
Konkret – Abstrakt, Parlament, Vienna
Sammlung RLB, RLB Atelier, Lienz
2013
Siehe was dich sieht, Franz Graf, 21er Haus, Vienna
Additive Abstraktion, curated by _Martin Prinzhorn, curated by_vienna 2013, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
Sammlung Grauwinkel - 30 Jahre Konkrete Kunst (1882-2012), Vasarély Museum, Budapest
2012
Immer Bunter – Aktuelle Malerei aus Österreich, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck
Nemesims, by Muntean/Rosenblum, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
Sammlung Sigrid und Franz Wojda, MMKK, Klagenfurt
2011
Nemesims, by Muntean/Rosenblum, Frieze Art Fair, London
Killing the system softly, Galleria Antonio Ferrara, Region Emilia Italy
Darling, you sent me, B19, Vienna
2010
Fine Line, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
Sammlung der RaiffeisenBank Kitzbühel, Oberndorf
Kunstpreis 2010 der RLB Tirol, RLB Kunstbrücke, Innsbruck
2009
31. Österreichischer Graphikwettbewerb 2009, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck
Alpen-Adria-Galerie, Klagenfurt; Südtiroler Kulturinstitut, Bolzano
Fairly Abstract, Galerie Zink, Munich
THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE, BUT THE SHOW MUST GO ON, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck
2008
Vom Schnee, Museum Kitzbühel, Kitzbühel
warum so wenig, Kunstverein, Murau
12 works on paper, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck
Ankäufe, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck
2007
...und immer fehlt mir was, und das quält mich, Atelier Färbergasse, Vienna
Statement, Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt am Main
White Painting and Curtain, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna
2006
Ca. 1000 m2Tiroler Kunst, ehem. Kaufhaus Tyrol, Innsbruck
Erwin Bohatsch und Student/innen, Investkredit Bank AG, Vienna
2005
Nach Rokytník, die Sammlung der EVN, MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
Lines and Traces, Galerie Bernhard Knaus, Mannheim
Good Timing, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
The Red Thread, Howard House Gallery, Seattle, Educational Alliance Gallery, New York
2004
From Above, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
Vienna Coffee Table, Galerie Bernhard Knaus, Mannheim
2003
Summer Holidays, Galerie Bernhard Knaus, Mannheim
Außer Atem. Fokus österreichische Malerei, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
Re-Production 2, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
2002
Collector’s Choice – Sammlung Ploil, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
Variable Stücke, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck
Blobs, wiggles and dots…, The Work Space, New York
steirischer herbst 2002, steirischer herbst, Graz
2001
Pittura austriae I/III, Kunstforum beim Rathaus, Hallein
Zusammenhänge im Biotop Kunst, kunsthaus muerz, Mürzzuschlag
steirischer herbst 2001, steirischer herbst, Graz
2000
Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
New Austrian Spotlight, Universität Marmara, Istanbul
Focus on…, Venetia Kapernekas Fine Arts, New York
1999
Weg aus dem Bild, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
Prepared, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
1998
Malerei, Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna
Notas al Margen, Corp Balmaceda 1215, Santiago de Chile
1997
Bücherraum (Franz Graf), kunsthaus muerz, Mürzzuschlag
Träbanta, Trabant, Vienna
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