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Magali Reus: Tenant
Magali Reus's first Austrian solo show: vessel-like sculptures mixing casting, forging, wicker and embroidery with machine processes. At MuseumsQuartier.
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Preview: written before the show opened
The jam jars hang on the wall, scaled up and cast in clear resin that passes for glass, under the gingham lid of a Bonne Maman jar. That is Magali Reus's method: take a jar, a sardine tin or a pizza box and remake it, by hand and by machine, until it stops being useful. If there's an old jam jar in your cupboard now full of screws, you already own the starter kit.
Tenant, her first show in Austria, gathers more than 80 works from 2014 to 2026 in an architecture built for them across the Museumsquartier's first floor. You also walk among remade bits of street: modular seating, windows, road signs, lampposts and drainpipes. Some new pieces borrow from Vienna's architecture and its confectionery.
Reus talks with Frieze editor Andrew Durbin on 26 November at 18:00, before the opening. Tickets are €14, free under 19, pay what you can on Thursdays 17:00 to 20:00, and free on 29 November and 27 December.
Editor's pick
Bonne Maman-style jam jars blown up in resin, a giant fish tin in forged steel and wicker, street furniture remade: more than 80 works from 2014 on, in Magali Reus's first Austrian solo show.
Look for
The Clementine jars
Look on the walls for oversized jam jars in epoxy resin made to look like glass, under gingham-printed lids.
Merlin (Wish You Were)
A fish can enlarged to sculpture size, built from forged and powder-coated steel and aluminium, with hand-woven wicker worked in.
Good for
- Evening Visits
- Nerding Out
With kids
Under-19s go free.
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Image credits
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- Magali Reus: TenantCourtesy the artist & Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, photo: Eva Herzog
- Herbert Boeckl – Hans Josephsohn: Figural ArchetypesHerbert Boeckl Nachlass, Vienna; Josephsohn Estate / Kesselhaus Josephsohn, St. Gallen
- Tolia Astakhishvili: Figure of the Childmumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
- Terminal Piecemumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
- Kunsthalle WienStephan Wyckoff / PresseKunsthalleWien, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Leopold MuseumPeter Gugerell / Wikimedia Commons, CC0
- mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig WienAndrzej Otrębski / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Architekturzentrum Wien (Az W)Spock1801 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Kunsthistorisches Museum WienManfred Werner (Tsui), Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0