20.4.2023 – 24.1.2024
The focus of the large-scale international group exhibition No Feeling Is Final. The Skopje Solidarity Collection presents the remarkable collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, its genesis and the historical and political context in which such an unusual project was possible.
After Skopje (then in Yugoslavia) was devastated by a severe earthquake in 1963, a massive reconstruction program began, with large-scale participation from other countries as a gesture of solidarity. As part of the reconstruction, it was decided to create a museum for contemporary art. In response to a call for donations spread by the United Nations, artists from all over the world sent thousands of works to Skopje. The museum building itself was donated by Poland.
The MoCA Skopje collection is like a time capsule in which international art from the heyday of modernism has been preserved. It brings together works by important (predominantly male) figures such as Alexander Calder, Georg Baselitz, Christo & Jeanne Claude, Ion Grigorescu, David Hockney, Alex Katz, Sol LeWitt, Meret Oppenheim, Pablo Picasso, Bridget Riley and Niki de Saint Phalle, as well as less well-known ones , but often fascinating works by artists from the former East and the Global South.
No Feeling Is Final. The Skopje Solidarity Collection seeks to debunk unconscious notions of what western modern art can be, while offering a surprising perspective on both well-known names and artists unknown to the modern canon.
Artists: Brook Andrew • Yane Calovski & Hristina Ivanoska • Siniša Ilić • Iman Issa • Gülsün Karamustafa • Barbi Marković • Elfie Semotan.
No Feeling is Final. The Skopje Solidarity Collection
20.4.2023 – 24.1.2024
Kunsthalle Wien
Museumsquartier
Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna
kunsthallewien.at
