Peter Friedl. Teatro

Opening in the presence of the artist
+ farewell party for director Nicolaus Schafhausen

Peter Friedl is an Austrian artist based in Berlin. In addition to numerous international exhibitions he has participated in documenta X, 12, and 14 (1997, 2007, 2017) and the 48th and 56th Venice Biennale (1999, 2015).
The exhibition "Teatro" at Kunsthalle Wien focuses on a series of recurrent themes in Friedl’s œuvre: model, language, history, translation, theatricality. Video pieces such as "Report" (2016), a film inspired by Franz Kafka’s "Report for an Academy" that premiered at documenta 14 (2017), appear side by side with the series "Rehousing" (2012–2018), in which architectural models serve as case studies for a mental geography of different forms and modalities of modernism.