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21/kunstakt - Seeing reality and still being able to dream (Agnes Denes)

12/09/2020

It is for a remarkable 16th time that fwp hosts its traditional ‘kunstakt’ vernissage. In this extraordinary year, our exhibition had adopted a new, but no less excellent, format.

For the first time ever, the successful art project organised jointly by fwp and the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts invites art lovers to immerse themselves in a virtual world and walk through a digital exhibition, enjoying a short film and a 3D 360 degree panoramic tour. “We are very proud that we have been able to provide an opportunity for young artists to exhibit and sell their works exclusively at fwp’s offices over the course of one year”, says Markus Fellner, fwp partner. “Once again, our goal is to support the young artists by offering them a space to exhibit their works. Moving kunstakt to the virtual space provides an opportunity for an even larger audience to engage in this dialogue”, adds Markus Fellner.

Keynote speaker Angela Stief, Chief Curator of Albertina modern, is just as enthusiastic about the initiative presented by the renowned business law firm. “Giving young talent a platform is crucial for the art scene in Vienna. We cannot thank fwp enough for this unique and commendable cooperation, which deserves all our support.”

Agnes Denes’s quote “Seeing reality and still being able to dream” is the motto of this year’s kunstakt, a motto from which nine young artists have drawn their inspiration in preparing highly personal and individual artwork for a fascinating and thought-provoking exhibition tailor-made for fwp. Our trust that freedom, health and our “society” can be taken for granted has been shaken and challenged in the year 2020, with negative effects also for the freedom and ease of artistic production. “To dream” means to stand up to this uncertainty, continue to think ahead, to experiment, to play, to perceive and adopt, as well as to exchange views. Art as the essential force driving interpersonal existence, the search for reality, the quest for a basis in reality.

Once again, the students managed to create individual artworks intended to inspire insights, discovery and discussion among onlookers and to reflect the philosophical aspects of our times, all amid the interplay between fwp as a law firm, art and society as a whole.

“The students particularly appreciate that they can realise their artistic ideas freely in this environment and present their works to a high-profile audience while gaining their first experience in staging an exhibition. fwp shows exemplary best practice here as the artists also receive a remuneration and their work is appropriately appreciated”, Veronika Dirnhofer, exhibition curator from the Academy of Fine Arts, is pleased to point out, expressing her gratitude for this type of commitment and the long-standing cooperation with fwp.

The following artists contributed to the project: Joachim Bøgedal, Sophia Davislim, Alexandra Feusi, Julia Goodman/Gabriele Edlbauer, Valerie Ludwig, Max Mucha, Philipp Mürling, Dmitrij Ritter, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

The works of art will be exhibited on fwp's premises for one year and can be purchased.