The Golden Boys. Caricature in Anna Boghiguian's work

Anna Boghiguian became noted by the public through her works at large exhibitions such as dOCUMENTA 13 or the Armenian pavillion at the 56th Venice Biennal. As with many female artists, it is significant that her work was dicovered rather late, when she was already in her sixties. To look at it differently, you can tell from her biography that only invitations to exhibit in larger contexts motivated her to create space filling works, or rather, that those made her success even possible. From statements by the artist we gather that she was rather reserved towards the exhibition concept in the beginning. When she lost her suitcase full of artworks while travelling former Yugoslawia she decided to rather “lose her work to the public” and to exhibit it. Those who have had the pleasure of working with Anna Boghiguian, like Sabine Breitwieser in a monographical exhibition in 2018 at Museum der Moderne Salzburg are aware of the dry sense of humour of the artist. For this reason, the lecture will not focus on the well-known topics of placement of colonialism and globalization in the present in Boghiguian’s work, but instead deals with moments of caricature in the pieces of Boghiguian.      

Sabine Breitwieser is a curator and writer based in Vienna. Until recently she was a 2020/2021 Getty Scholar at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. From 2013 until 2018 she held the position of the Director of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg. Previously, from 2010 until 2013 she served as Chief Curator of Media and Performance Art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. From 1988 until 2007 she was the Founding Director and Chief Curator of the Generali Foundation in Vienna. She has organized and directed more than 150 monographic and thematic exhibitions throughout Europe and the United States and has also edited and published about 100 catalogs and books as well as numerous essays. In 2012 Sabine Breitwieser received the Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts in New York.

Sabine Breitwieser will speak at the museum’s lecture hall. Entry free of charge. No prior registration needed. Access only possible with proof of negative test result, vaccine or recovery. Limited amount of participants. The talk will be recorded and the video provided afterwards.

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