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Július Koller│One Man Anti Show│mumok

November 25 2016 – April 17 2017, Start and end dates


One Man Anti Show at the mumok documents the artists independent contribution to the neo-avantgarde. Koller‘s work developed in critical distance to the communist authorities and their official art, and it also questioned traditions in modernism and the conventions of the Western art business. 
​Július Koller (1939–2007) is one of the most important Eastern European artists working since the 1960s, whose art had and has considerable international significance. The most comprehensive exhibition of the Slovak artist’s work to date is documenting his independent contribution to the neo-avantgarde and based on painstaking research into his art and archives.
Since the mid-1960s he designed Antihappenings and Antipictures, creating a playfully ironic oeuvre that combined a Dadaist spirit with radical-skeptical stance. Koller painted object-images in white latex and pictures of question marks that became the universal symbol of his critical view of everyday life and reality.
Koller saw tennis and table tennis as participatory art forms and here too he combined sport with political statement by demanding that the rules of the game and fair play be adhered to—as the basis of all social action. After the Prague Spring was put down, Koller began his U.F.O.naut series that challenged reality with “cultural situations” and utopias of a new, cosmohumanistic culture and future.

Curated by Daniel Grúň, Kathrin Rhomberg, and Georg Schöllhammer, Exhibition architecture by Hermann Czech. Artistic design of the archive room by Johannes Porsch. 
mumok, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien.

A thematic selection from the retrospective was on display from September 25, 2015, to January 11, 2016, at the Warsaw Museum of Modern Art.

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