Oberes Belvedere

Louise Bourgeois

The painting shows a red chimney on a roof from which smoke rises, on it stands a gray female figure whose hair stands to the side like wings, in the background blue sky
Louise Bourgeois: Roof Song, 1947 / Foto: Eeva Inkeri © The Easton Foundation / Bildrecht, Wien 2023
The painting shows a red chimney on a roof from which smoke rises, on it stands a gray female figure whose hair stands to the side like wings, in the background blue sky

Persistent Antagonism

22 September 2023 - 28 January 2024

Discover Louise Bourgeois’s paintings as part of the Belvedere’s three-hundred-year jubilee. The Belvedere will dedicate a major solo exhibition to an artist who, like virtually no other, has shaped the art of today.

Presented in the Baroque galleries of the Lower Belvedere, Louise Bourgeois’s paintings from the 1940s will be placed in dialogue with a selection of sculptures, installations, drawings, and prints from all periods of her storied career. In an oeuvre which covered a wide range of formal and material experimentation, Bourgeois succeeded in expressing contradictory impulses and binary oppositions – figuration and abstraction, male and female, conscious and unconscious – within a single work. By the 1990s, she had won global renown for her artistic achievements, becoming famous for her monumental spider sculptures and room-sized Cells. But it was in her oil paintings made between 1938 and 1949 that the French-American artist first developed the formal vocabulary and defined the thematic concerns that she would continue to explore over the following seven decades.

The exhibition represents the first time these paintings will be exhibited as a body of work in Europe, and it is the first major exhibition of Bourgeois’s work in Vienna in a generation.

Venue

Lower Belvedere, Orangery

Rennweg 6
1030 Wien

Tickets & Info

Current Dates

  • Fri. 22 Sep 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  • Sat. 23 Sep 2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
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October

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