Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller
Museo d’Arte Contemporáneo de Roma (MACRO), Italy
22 June – 10 October 2021
For her first major solo exhibition in Italy, Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller was invited to present her work at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MACRO), Rome, by the museum’s director Luca Lo Pinto. The exhibition is part of the Museum of Preventative Imagination project, for which works by more established artists are displayed alongside those of a younger generation of contemporary artists, highlighting the creative impact of the older artist’s oeuvre. In this instance, Kubelka is presenting a series of portraits alongside works by Sophie Thun, Talia Chetrit, Seiichi Furuya and Philipp Fleischmann. This is the first collaboration between Phileas and the artist as well as MACRO.
Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller (b. 1946, London) is a hugely influential Austrian artist whose œuvre covers a wide range of practices; conceptual photography, experimental filmmaking, feminist art and Freudian psychoanalysis. Kubelka ties these diverse interests together in her central undertaking; an exploration of the psychological aspects of portraiture. Kubelka has won several prizes for her work, including the 1999 Austrian Art Prize for Artistic Photography, 2005 Grand Austrian State Prize for Artistic Photography, and 2016 Austrian Art Prize for Film. In 2020, the Museum der Moderne in Salzburg presented a large retrospective of her work.
