Nancy Holt and Michael Kienzer share a fundamental interest in space, perception, and the relationship to nature. In the exhibition, their works enter into a dialogical exchange—each from distinct geographical, temporal, and material perspectives—while probing ecological and sculptural systems.

The American artist Nancy Holt (1938 –2014) was a member of the earth, land, and conceptual art movements. An innovator of site-specific installation and the moving image, Holt recalibrated the limits of art. She expanded the places where art could be found and embraced the new media of her time. Across five decades she asked questions about how we might understand our place in the world, investigating perception, systems, and place.

Michael Kienzer is an artist who makes careful material choices. Over the last four decades, he has persistently deployed aluminium pipes, panes of glass, threaded rods, carpet, plywood, mechanical parts, metal grids, foam, webbing, and magnets, comprised of simple forms—circles, cylinders, planes, lines, and grids. Kienzer perverts the utilitarian value of these standardized consumer materials by orchestrating them into autonomous bodies, thereby asserting their right to exist. They hold their ground. They confront us and radiate self-confidence in their identity as sculptures. (cf. 2017, Lisa Le Feuvre, Executive Director of the Holt/Smithson Foundation)

In collaboration with Sustainable Mountain Arts Association Tirol (SMAAT), on the occasion of the Tage der Klimakultur Tirol and Premierentage Innsbruck.

Saturday, Nov 08, 13:00: Lecture Kunst und Ökologie by Robert Fleck