»Safety Curtain« is an exhibition series conceived by museum in progress in cooperation with the Vienna State Opera, which transforms the safety curtain into a temporary exhibition space for contemporary art since 1998.
For the 26th »Safety Curtain« project at the Wiener Staatsoper, the jury – Daniel Birnbaum, Bice Curiger and Hans Ulrich Obrist – selected Anselm Kiefer.
Kiefer's work »Solaris« refers to a science fiction novel of the same name by the Polish writer Stanisław Lem from 1961, which tells of a distant alien planet and the planet-encompassing entity that inhabits it.
Kiefer's work can be seen by the audience from 8 November 2023 until the end of June 2024 before the start of the performances, during the intermissions and at the end of the performances.
Main Image :Anselm Kiefer, Solaris
Anna Melnykova, "Palace of Labor (palats praci), architector I. Pretro, 1916", shot with analog Canon camera, 35 mm Fuji film in March 2022.
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