LUMIAR CITÉ
Aglaia Konrad
FRAUENZIMMERSTUNDE
18.11.2017 - 14.01.2018
The word Frauenzimmerstunde is a typical German combination of more than two words, namely Frauen, Zimmer and Stunde, as well as Frauenzimmer and Zimmerstunde. The first three words mean ‘women’, ‘room’ and ‘hour’, while the last two are combinations themselves; Frauenzimmer is a term that literally means ‘women’s room’. It was used in Scandinavian and Germanic countries in the fifteenth century for the actual chambers in a queen’s household, and including all people who worked within them. From the seventeenth century onwards the term was also used in relation to individual women, but after the suffragette movement around the turn of the twentieth century Frauenzimmer became a pejorative term. Zimmerstunde in turn is an old Austrian-German term for the daily hour during which a hotel chambermaid could retire to her own room in the attic.
Aglaia Konrad’s first solo exhibition in Portugal transforms the Lumiar Cité space into a Frauenzimmer, which engages with the gallery’s history of architectural interventions by Konrad’s predominantly male artist colleagues. Frauenzimmer constitutes a backdrop for her photography work that captures man-made spaces – from quarries to the urban intensities of architecture and constructions, with their inherent materiality as well as notions of the monumental in architecture and in photography itself. Having developed an idiosyncratic style that allows the artist to trigger subtle psychological resonances through her juxtaposition of images and the social and the political in the situations encountered, Konrad undermines the formal, iconographic photography of architecture.
To coincide with her exhibition, and in collaboration with Roma Publications in Amsterdam, Aglaia Konrad will be launching her artist’s book SCHAUBUCH: Skulptur, in which she presents photographs taken between 2010 and 2017 in museums throughout Europe, featuring sculptures from different times and contexts within their museological presentations.
Aglaia Konrad (Austria, 1960) lives and works in Brussels. She teaches at the LUCA School of Arts, Brussels. Her work has been presented widely around the world at museums and biennials among them ‘The Brutalism Appreciation Society’, Hardware Medienkunstverein (Dortmund, 2017), ‘EMINENT DOMAINS (proper names)’, Robert Miller Gallery (New York, 2015), ‘Hollein’, MAK (Vienna, 2014), ‘In the First Circle’, Antoni Tàpies Foundation (Barcelona, 2011), ‘Gazes of Architecture on the Body’, Tokyo Wonder Site and Museum of Contemporary Art (Kumamoto, 2010), Shanghai Biennale (2000), ‘Cities on the Move’ (Bordeaux, New York, London, Helsinki, Vienna, 1998/99) and documenta X (Kassel, 1997). Notable solo exhibitions include ‘From A to K’, M-Museum Leuven (2016), ‘Das Haus (ausgestellt)’, Fotohof (Salzburg, 2014), ‘Apparent Positions – Aglaia Konrad: Concrete and Samples’, Sainsbury Gallery (Norwich, 2012), ‘Concrete and Samples’, with Armin Linke, Museum für Gegenwartskunst (Siegen, 2009). Her artist’s books include ‘SCHAUBUCH: Skulptur’ (2017), ‘Aglaia Konrad: From A to K’ (2016), ‘Zweimal Belichtet’ (2013), ‘Carrara’ (2011), ‘Desert Cities’ (2008), ‘Iconocity’ (2005) and ‘Elasticity’ (2002).
Maumaus
Avenida António Augusto de Aguiar, 148 - 3º C
1050-021 Lisboa, Portugal
Monday to Friday, 10h00 to 13h00,
14h30 to 19h00
Tel: + 351 21 352 11 55
maumaus@maumaus.org
Current:
Independent Study Programme
Call 2023
Until 04.09.2022
Upcoming:
Manthia Diawara
AI: African Intelligence
Cinema Palace
28.11.2022
19h30
Commissioned by Serpentine, MUBI and PCAI Polygreen Culture & Art Initiative, as part of Serpentine's Back to Earth project.
Manthia Diawara
Angela Davis: A World of Greater Freedom
Sharjah Biennial 15
07.02. – 11.06.2023
Manthia Diawara
A Letter from Yene
Batalha Centro de Cinema, Porto
14.03.2023
Current:
Seminar
Amanda Boetzkes
Realism Without Authority
01.04, 04.04.2022
10h–13h, 14h–17h
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Registration is free but limited to the number of seats available. Please send an email with a short CV to admin@maumaus.org by 24.03.2022. Confirmation of registration will be sent by email. The seminar will be in English.
Lumiar Cité
Rua Tomás del Negro, 8A
1750-105 Lisboa, Portugal
Wednesday to Sunday, 15h00 to 19h00
or by appointment.
Tel: + 351 21 755 15 70
lumiar.cite@maumaus.org
Loretta Fahrenholz
Circle Navel Nil
24.04. – 27.06.2021
24.06 | 18h00 Online conversation with Sabeth
Buchmann, Loretta Fahrenholz and Jürgen Bock
Current:
Anna Schachinger
Allover
08.10. – 11.12.2022
07.10 | 18h00 Circulating Salt, Ayami Awazuhara
08.10 | 16h00 Opening of the exhibition
Current:
Willem Oorebeek
Obstakles
17.12.2022 – 19.03.2023
extended until 26.03.2023
Upcoming:
Cosima von Bonin
Boy at Work
15.04. – 23.07.2023
15.04 | 17h00 Opening of the exhibition
20.07 | 19h00 Talk by Diedrich Diederichsen
Co-production:
Alejandro Cesarco
Other Recent Examples
Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz
24.03. – 24.09.2023
Collaboration:
The Educational Web
Kunstverein in Hamburg
01.04. – 06.08.2023
Closed 24, 25, 31 December and 1 January
Arne Kaiser and Jürgen Bock
In cooperation with Lumiar Cité:
Tiffany Chung
Thu Thiêm: an archaeological
project for future remembrance
08.06. - 08.09.2019
Johann Jacobs Museum
In co-production with Lumiar Cité:
Alejandro Cesarco
Other Recent Examples
24.03. - 24.09.2023
Artium Museum
The Educational Web
31.03. - 06.08.2023
Kunstverein in Hamburg
Maumaus/Lumiar Cité is funded by República Portuguesa – Cultura/Direção-Geral das Artes. With the support of Câmara Municipal de Lisboa and Junta de Freguesia do Lumiar