2 May 2022

Fashion & art at Vienna's new museum! Fashion designer Arthur Arbesser stages works by artists like Andy Warhol or Sylvie Fleury together with haute couture from the private collection of the founder of the new museum 'Heidi Horten Collection'

On 3 June, Vienna's newest museum, the 'Heidi Horten Collection' will open with the exhibition 'OPEN' with artworks like sculptures, light works, or installations that will interplay with the building's architecture. The next ENTERprise architects Marie Therese Harnoncourt and Ernst J. Fuchs turned the former administrative building (built 1914) in two years of construction work into a contemporary art museum and meeting place with sculpture garden and spaces on 1.500 square meters such as a studio with terrace for creative educational activities or The Tearoom designed by the artists Markus Schinwald and Hans Kupelwieser for visitors to relax after touring the museum.

"By building her museum, Heidi Goëss-Horten has launched her collection toward a cultural future in which it will help define the canon of the history of public art. Its unveiling constitutes a significant contribution to the museum landscape of her hometown of Vienna and, moreover, provides an entirely new opportunity for this exquisite collection to develop. With it, Heidi Horten has joined a long line of women collectors whose vision led them to create forums for public engagement with art," is Agnes Husslein-Arco, Director of the Heidi Horten Collection, cited at the media release.

The first themed exhibition will be contributed to the founder of the museum and one of the focuses of Heidi Horten's art collection. The preview of the exhibition 'LOOK - The Heidi Horten Collection. Representations of women and aspects of femininity' is already published at hortencollection.com with the announcement that Austrian fashion designer Arthur Arbesser will set the works by artists like Andy Warhol, Sylvie Fleury, Birgit Jürgenssen,... into relation with haute couture pieces by couturiers like Yves Saint-Laurent or Givenchy from Heidi Goëss-Horten's private collection.

Images, from left: The founder of the museum 'Heidi Horten Collection' in Vienna and art collector Heidi Goëss-Horten, portrait in evening dress from the 1960ies. Right: Director of the Heidi Horten Collection Agnes Husslein-Arco (in the middle) with the next ENTERprise architects Marie Therese Harnoncourt and Ernst J. Fuchs. Photos: © Heidi Horten Collection.