2000s Bye-bye Confidence

With the reopening of the Wien Museum at Karlsplatz, the musa returns as an exhibition venue for contemporary art. The first show continues the successful series that has probed the City of Vienna’s contemporary art collection. After exhibitions on the decades of the 1950s to the 1990s, this time the focus lies on contributions from the 2000s.

Bye-bye Confidence - the first decade of the new century: the sense of a new beginning after the millennium was abruptly shattered by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Artists dealt with themes such as migration, global warming, monuments and memory, and aesthetics and economics. The observation of one's own body was prominent as well, encouraged by the rise of smartphones along with the consequent selfie cult. Photographers trained their lenses on urban non-sites, while painters pulled off yet another decade of formal diversity.

Curators 2000s-Exhibition Robert Adrian X, Irene Andessner, Anna Artaker, Peter Baldinger, Alfredo Barsuglia, Josef Bauer, Walter Berger, Renate Bertlmann, Linda Bilda, Hubert Blanz, Catrin Bolt, Tanja Boukal, Heribert Corn, Josef Dabernig and Isabella Hollauf, Canan Dagdelen, Ramesch Daha, Carola Dertnig, Regula Dettwiler, Deutschbauer/Spring, Ines Doujak, Gottfried Ecker, Christian Eisenberger, Maria Elisabeth Prigge, Michael Endlicher, Lorenz Estermann, Sissi Farassat, Gerda Fassel, Judith Fegerl, Thomas Feuerstein, Karin Frank, Ingrid Frauenberger, Padhi Frieberger, Dwora Fried, Peter Friedl, G.R.A.M., Heinz Gappmayr, Gelitin, Stefan Glettler, Dorothee Golz, Marianne Greber und Steven Cohen, Nilbar Güreş, Markus Guschelbauer, Marlene Haring, Lone Haugaard Madsen, Lotte Hendrich-Hassmann, Matthias Herrmann, Siggi Hofer, Edgar Honetschläger, Michael Horsky, Ursula Hübner, Nicolas Jasmin (= N.I.C.J.O.B.), Anna Jermolaewa, Susanne Jirkuff, Johanna Kandl, Franz Kapfer, Leopold Kessler, Martin Kitzler, Moussa Kone und Erwin Uhrmann, Angelika Krinzinger, Elke Krystufek, Tatiana Lecomte, Jakob Lena Knebl, Ulrike Lienbacher, Ernst Logar, Marko Lulić, Reinhard Mandl, Claudia Märzendorfer, Mara Mattuschka und Chris Haring, Ursula Mayer, Anna Meyer, Michail Michailov, Alois Mosbacher, Muntean/Rosenblum, Barbara Musil, Michael Nitsche, Iris Nitzl, Katherina Olschbaur, Bettina Onderka, Max Peintner, Georg Petermichl, Lisl Ponger, Prinzgau/Podgorschek, Markus Proschek, Lois Renner, Frenzi Rigling, Christoph Rodler, Station Rose, Isa Rosenberger, Gabriele Rothemann, Maruša Sagadin, Stefan Sandner, Didi Sattmann, Hans Schabus, Jürgen Schiefer, Katarina Schmidl, Werner Schrödl, Veronika Schubert, Susanne Schuda, Deborah Sengl, Tim Sharp, Fritz Simak, Julia Sophie Maurer, Margherita Spiluttini, Edith Spira, Kamen Stoyanov, Ingeborg Strobl, Gabriele Sturm, Magda Tothova, Walter Vopava, Maja Vukoje, Peter Wechsler, Sebastian Weissenbacher, Franz West, Rachel Whiteread, Heliane Wiesauer-Reiterer, Julia Willms, Robert Zahornicky, Gregor Zivic

Curators Brigitte Borchhardt-Birbaumer, Berthold Ecker
Curatorial Assistance Gerd Sulzenbacher and Vincent Weisl
Graphic Design Niko Manikas

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