On the occasion of Adolf Frohner's 90th birthday, Forum Frohner is presenting a two-part exhibition series focusing on the circle of influence of the "teacher" Frohner. From the late 1970s to the 2000s, Frohner held various positions at the University of Applied Arts, where he directed the master class for painting from 1985 on.
Art need not be beautiful but it must be truthful.
"Confrontations" focuses on Frohner's students from the late 1990s and early 2000s, who work in the fields of conceptual, concrete, and montage art. They reflect the shift in artistic discourse. Diversity in all artistic media and the dawn of the digital age, combined with openly negotiated questions about politics, the environment, and gender, lead to a new vocabulary for the emerging generation.
"Confrontations" is the second part of the exhibition series. The first part, "Dialogues," took up positions from the 1980s and early 1990s that focused on the gesture of painting and made the reference to Frohner palpable.
In contrast, Frohner's works are juxtaposed with approaches from the late 1990s and early 2000s. The exhibition shows his actionist beginnings and programmatic drawings from the early 1960s, which are characterized by the spirit of optimism of the post-war years. Art is formulated as a personal expression.
Artists: Ruth Brauner, Adolf Frohner, Bernhard Frue, Bernhard Hosa, Christian Hutzinger, Moussa Kone, Ulrike Königshofer, Martin Krenn, Karl Kriebel, Marko Lulić, Oliver Ressler and Paul Ritter
Curator: Elisabeth Voggeneder