EXHIBITION
November 25, 2022 – January 25, 2023
Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation
6., Mariahilfer Straße 1B/1
Friedrich Kiesler, visionary architect, designer and stage designer, founded his holistic Laboratory for Design Correlation at the School of Architecture of Columbia University in New York in 1937. In experimental teaching formats, he tested his theory of Correalism, a transdisciplinary basic research on design in architecture and design, together with students from various disciplines. In this, Kiesler assumes that the human being forms the center of interacting forces and at the same time names a tool in his theory formation that was not only intended to counteract the social problems of his time, but has lost none of its relevance in the context of sustainability to this day.
How would such a doctrine play out in our present day and what solutions could be generated by Kiesler’s methods? The Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation houses Kiesler’s estate in its archive. In a research collaboration with the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Doris Krüger and Gerd Zillner are exploring these questions and investigating in the Applied Correlation Laboratory how the historical material can be activated for a young generation of students and artists. Perceptual experiments, theatrical moments, sculptural and cinematic references are linked together through a space-consuming display in the exhibition.
The Applied Correlation Laboratory is an institutional collaboration; it is a tool for artistic and scientific research, a workshop setting for hands-on experimentation, a platform for education, and a place for shared learning. It is an artwork, a lecture series, a research project, an exhibition and a publication.
Closing Event and Book Presentation:
Wednesday, January 25, 2023, 6 p.m.
Duration of the Exhibition:
November 25, 2022 – January 25, 2023
A research project by Doris Krüger/Krüger & Pardeller, Senior Artist at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and Gerd Zillner, Director of the Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation
A cooperation between the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the Frederick Kiesler Foundation
With works by Francesca Centonze, Ganaël Dumreicher, Kirils Ēcis, Aleksandar Gabrovski, Jaiyun Lee, Jona Lingitz, Isolar Mesec, Michi Schmidl, Marlene Stahl and Bofan Zhou
Display by Jasmy Chieh-Hsuan Chen
Partners and Supporters:
INTRA. Funding for Inter- and Transdisciplinary Projects University of Applied Arts Vienna
University of Applied Arts Vienna
City of Vienna – Department for Cultural Affairs
Federal Ministry Republic of Austria of Arts and Culture, Civil Service and Sport
Federal Ministry Republic of Austria Education, Science and Research
VIENNA ART WEEK
Dorotheum
Wittmann Möbelwerkstätten
Photo credit: Applied Correlation Laboratory, exhibition view, Frederick Kiesler Foundation, Vienna 2022, Photo: Michael Nagl