3.30 pm 

Talk Fashion and Time 

The starting point for the talk is the The Years exhibition of Anna-Sophie Berger, who deals explicitly with the subject of fashion and time. According to Walter Benjamin, whose theories served the artist as a reference point for her exhibition, fashion is characterized not only by its relationship with the zeitgeist and thus with the now, but primarily also by its connection with the past. In the talk with the artist Anna-Sophie Berger, the author of Benjamin on Fashion, Philipp Ekardt (employee of the NOMIS research project Traveling Forms, University of Constance), and Stefanie Kitzberger (Senior Scientist at Collection and Archive, Director of Collection Fashion and Textiles, University of Applied Arts Vienna), we look at the boundaries of fashion and art, discuss the moment at which fashion becomes unmodern, and question its revolutionary potential.

 

5 pm

Performance Don't Smoke

in the garden of the Geymüllerschlössel

 

 

 

Sat, 13.5. 

Geymüllerschlössel open until 8 pm

Park open until 9 pm 
Admission: € 7
Free admission after 5 pm
 

Sun, 14.5. 

Geymüllerschlössel and park: 10 am-6 pm
Admission: € 7

 

Address

Pötzleinsdorferstrasse 102, 1180 Vienna
 

(CON)TEMPORARY FASHION SHOWCASE: Anna-Sophie Berger. The Years

13.5.–20.8.2023 

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. 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.