EXHIBITION: 10 YEARS OF VIENNA DESIGN WEEK FEATURING THE CITY

The Austrian Cultural Forum New York is pleased to announce a ten year retrospec­tive of Vienna’s largest and most influential design event, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK. The multifaceted exhibition 10 Years of VIENNA DESIGN WEEK featuring the City will explore the history, structure, and impact of the non-profit event, which has brought renowned international designers to the city, provided a platform for the vanguard of Austria’s young designers, and pushed leading design out of Vienna’s galleries and into the streets of its outer districts. The exhibition will be accompanied by a 400-page publication, chronicling the first ten years of the festival.

Rather than a showcase of luxury goods, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK has served as a comprehensive forum for ideas, applications, and objects of design through its program structure since its inception in 2007. Founded under the principle and slogan “A City Full of Design,” VIENNA DESIGN WEEK operates with a rotating series of venues, and different headquarters for each edition, welcoming more than 36,000 annual visitors. The festival recalls and reinvigorates the city’s history as an international hub of design and architecture by pairing foreign designers with Aus­trian manufacturers under its Passionswege (“paths of passion”) events to rethink their potential and processes, while its Focus District looks within Vienna itself, spotlighting local designers. Its debut program pro­motes educational institutions in challenging new realms of design, while Stadtarbeit highlights the work of individual designers − selected by a juried panel of curators − exhibiting in repurposed spaces. Following this tradition, 10 Years of VIENNA DESIGN WEEK featuring the City will present, alongside a collection of noted designer objects, goods, and furniture from VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, a comprehensive history of the relationships the festival has built, and concepts it has revealed.

Main Gallery

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Bar Non-Lieu, 2015

Max Lamb, J. &. Lobmeyr
Blowing/Cutting/Engraving , 2009

Klemens Schillinger, A.E. Köchert, 2015

Matylda Krzykowski, Norbert Meier Bürsten- und Pinselerzeugung
Bristle & Horn, 2012 (l)

Adam Wehsely-Swiczinsky, Petz Hornmanufaktur 1862
Watussi, 2009 (r)

Charlotte Talbot, Wiener Silber Manufactur
Landscape, 2012

Julia Lohmann & Moya Hoke
Laboratory, 2012

Laureline Galliot, 2015

Julia Landsiedl, Erwin Perzy Original Wiener Schneekugeln
Snowglobe Curiosity Cabinet, 2010

Adrien Rovero, Ledermanufaktur Posenanski
Skinny, 2009 (l)

BIG-GAME, Wiener Silber Manufactur
Hammer-Lamp, 2014 (r)

Sebastian Pataki
Quilt, 2009

Tomas Alonso, Wiener Silber Manufactur
Tea Service, 2011

Mark Braun, J. & L. Lobmeyr
Riches, 2010

Marco Dessi, Wiener Porzellanmanufaktur Augarten
Caps, 2008

Studio Formafantasma, Ferd. Piatnik & Söhne
Wien Spielkarten

Bertille & Mathieu, J. & L. Lobmeyr
Candyland, 2013

Nicolas Le Moigne, A.E. Köchert
Doubling, Mutliplying, Magnifying, Reflecting, Tinting, 2010

Martino Gamper, J. & L. Lobmeyr,
Service, 2006 (l)

Oscar Wanless,
RIESS KELOmat, 2013 (r)

Director ACFNY: Christine Moser
Curators: Lilli Hollein, Director and Co-Founder, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK
Exhibition Design: Alexander KADA/Kadadesign
Exhibition Coordination: Leonie Bockelmann
Exhibition Assistants: Jakob Marboe, Edith Hoelzl, Klara Kostal
Head of Communications: Judith Brand
Photocredit: David Plakke

This exhibition is supported by the Bundeskanzleramt Österreich.