Belvedere presents an exhibition devoted to modernist painter Broncia Koller-Pinell

From 15 March to 8 September 2024, the Belvedere presents the exhibition “Broncia Koller-Pinell: An Artist and Her Network”

Source: Belvedere · Image: Broncia Koller-Pinell, “Die Ernte”, 1908

Broncia Koller-Pinell was one of the few women artists to have a presence in the international exhibitions of Viennese Modernism. By the age of twenty-seven, she was already exhibiting at the Vienna Künstlerhaus. Her greatest successes came later with the Kunstschau group founded by Gustav Klimt. Now, the Belvedere is dedicating an exhibition to Broncia Koller-Pinell featuring not only her major works but also delving into the painter’s network and her activities to promote art. By including Broncia Koller-Pinell’s artistic milieu, we can trace her stylistic development from the late nineteenth-century Impressionism of the Munich School to New Objectivity in the 1920s. Interactions and influences will be demonstrated in the paintings and graphic art by artists such as Robin Christian Andersen, Anton Faistauer, Albert Paris Gütersloh, Carl Hofer, Koller-Pinell’s daughter Silvia Koller, Koloman Moser, Egon Schiele, Heinrich Schröder, and Franz von Zülow. The exhibition will also explore the role of Broncia Koller-Pinell and her husband Hugo Koller as patrons of the arts.

In addition to “Broncia Koller-Pinell: An Artist and Her Network”, the Belvedere will also present the first institutional solo exhibition featuring the art of Tamuna Sirbiladze (1971–2016). On view from 22 March 2024 tp 18 August 2024, the exhibition encompasses painting, drawing, film, and installation. Born in Tbilisi, Sirbiladze developed her signature style in Vienna, distinguished by its highly expressive approach and anthropomorphic visual language. Recurring themes in Sirbiladze’s paintings include the human body, sexuality, and vulnerability, which she initially captured in a boldly figurative manner using a consummate formal vocabulary before increasingly turning to abstraction.