The Austrian artist Adolf Frohner (1934-2007) traveled to Paris several times in the 1960s, where he first encountered Nouveau Réalisme. Behind this movement was a group of thirteen artists around the art critic Pierre Restany, who engaged in a lively exchange between 1960 and 1970.

The approaches of the Nouveaux Réalistes were diverse and ranged from an interest in the materiality of objects to an ironic reinterpretation of form and a performative conception of the artwork.

The exhibition Answers to Reality. Adolf Frohner's Encounter with Nouveau Réalisme traces the connection between Adolf Frohner and the Nouveaux Réalistes with selected objects. Frohner's material paintings, objects and assemblages from the 1960s in particular show clear references to Nouveau Réalisme. This opens up a new perspective on Frohner's work from this period, but also on his iconography of the figurative from the late 1960s and 1970s.

Key works from the collection of the mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, César, Raymond Hains and Daniel Spoerri will be on display. On the occasion of Spoerri's 90th birthday, his position is a focal point of the show, which is being organized in cooperation with the mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien.

Artists (selection): César, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Adolf Frohner, Raymond Hains, Daniel Spoerri

Curators: Susanne Neuburger, Elisabeth Voggeneder