Eyes on the Object: The Spallart Collection Presents Selected Works From Its Rich Collection
For the fifth time the Spallart Collection presents selected works from it‘s rich collection. The exhibition Das Objekt im Fokus (Eyes on the Object) taking place between August 2020 and May 2022 is focusing on the subject of object photography including works by, among others, Alfred Ehrhardt, Walker Evans, Candida Höfer, Stephan Reusse, Michael Wesely, Elias Wessel, Edward Weston, Erwin Wurm and Josef Sudek.
Elias Wessel, Die Summe meiner Daten – Off Series, No. 20, 2017, Edition #2/3 (image © Elias Wessel and VG Bild-Kunst Bonn; text with courtesy of the Spallart Colletion, 2019)
The private art collection Spallart initially evolved from the enthusiasm for the diversity of possibilities that photography uses to obstruct, to deny and to challenge our perception. The art collector Andra Spallart acquired first contemporary photographic works in the mid 1980s – after its move to Vienna in 1995, the constantly growing collection got a clear orientation and emphasis: contemporary photography from Austria – certainly with reference to the European context. Video works of various photo artists were added later. From 2010 on, the advisory artist and curator Dr. Fritz Simak helped to supplement the private collection with the very important fundament of classical American and European photo works. Today, the collection includes numerous works from artists such as Bernd & Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Candida Höfer, Pablo Picasso, Gerhard Richter, Cindy Sherman, Aaron Siskind, Thomas Struth, Ai Weiwei, Elias Wessel and many others.