Dialogue Tour Anna-Sophie Berger. The Years

with Anna-Sophie Berger and Lara Steinhäußer

The relationship of fashion and time is at the heart of the site-specific The Years exhibition of Anna-Sophie Berger (* 1989), which is tailored to the Geymüllerschlössel and provides the starting point for the (Con)temporary Fashion Showcase series.

Sun, 14.5.2023 2 pm — 3 pm

MAK Geymüllerschlössel

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4 mannequins dressed in the Fashion is Fast collection by Anna-Sophie Berger sit around a table.

Frontal view of a room, a colorful carpet and pieces of furniture

Four models, you can see only the torso, one yellow, one green, one blue and one red outfit.

Four models in long shot, one model wears a yellow outfit, another a green one, yet another a blue one and one a red one.

Two models, you can see only the torso, one wears a blue outfit, the other a red one.

With Anna-Sophie Berger, the MAK branch showcases an artist working across different media. A concern with fashion theory has been integral to her work for years. Her engagement with the subject of fashion and time draws from Walter Benjamin’s concept of history, which is founded on his observations of contemporary fashion, as well as from Elizabeth Wilson’s examination of fashion and modernity in Adorned with Dreams (1985). In the Biedermeier ensemble, Berger stages garment pieces from the Fashion is Fast collection, with which she concluded her fashion studies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, her artistic works, and pieces from the MAK Collection and the Theatermuseum, thereby probing the genre boundaries of art and design.

CURATOR
Lara Steinhäußer, Curator, MAK Textiles and Carpets Collection

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