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. . . all over the place . . . in motion . . . I tumble . . .
A symposium on the works of Rosemarie Castoro, Lee Lozano, and Howardena Pindell
Saturday, January 31, 2026, 10am – 6pm
mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna
“It’s not linear thinking but more like cosmic storms which are all over the place.” (Lee Lozano, 1971) – “I also used vectors to imply motion, since the cosmos is in motion and constantly expanding.” (Howardena Pindell, 2004) – “My ocean is made of graphite in front of which I tumble, chase, flop over.“ (Rosemarie Castoro, 1970)
Drawing on the collection of the Austrian Ludwig Foundation and beyond, this one-day symposium focusses on New York art practices of the 1960s and 70s by engaging with the works of Rosemarie Castoro (1939–2015), Lee Lozano (1930–1999), and Howardena Pindell (*1943). Intersecting in various ways with notions of abstraction, Minimalism and Postminimalism, the three artists’ works were also formed against the backdrop of their respective relationship to and involvement with political movements of that period such as the Art Workers’ Coalition, burgeoning feminism as well as the Black Power movement.
The symposium takes US scholar Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s notion of “beside” as a starting point in order to make meaningful connections between the artists’ practices that resist a linear logic and allow for a complex and contradictory range of spatial, temporal, and aesthetic relations. Through a series of talks, conversations, and a roundtable discussion with a number of international speakers, the symposium positions the three artists’ practices not only within the cultural, social, and political contexts of the US in the 1960s and 70s. It also seeks to engage with them from a contemporary curatorial perspective through which institutional exhibitions and the global art market are connected with art historical discourses and artists’ more recent works.
The symposium will be in English.
Participation is free of charge, please register as seating is limited.
speakers and moderators (morning)
Manuela Ammer, curator, mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
Martin Beck, artist, Vienna and New York
Julia Bryan-Wilson, Professor of Art History, Columbia, NY
Sophie Cras, Assistant Professor of Art History, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
David Getsy, Professor of Art History, UVA, Charlottesville, VA
Christian Liclair, art historian and art critic, former Editor-in-Chief Texte zur Kunst, Berlin
Anna Lovatt, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Helena Vilalta, Pathway Leader, MRes Art: Exhibition Studies, Central Saint Martins, London
PROGRAM MORNING 10 – 13.30
10am
Welcome
Introduction Christian Liclair
10.30am
SCREENING
Hollis Frampton, Manual of Arms, 1966, 17 mins.
10.45am
Setting the Scene: Art, Labor, Politics, and Refusal
A conversation between Julia Bryan-Wilson and Anna Lovatt
11.30am
David Getsy
Postminimalism’s Polymorphous Sexuality
Part 1: LEE LOZANO
12pm
Helena Vilalta
Waving at the Whitney: Lee Lozano’s Erotics of Information
12.30pm
"A good score"
A conversation on Lee Lozano with Manuela Ammer, Martin Beck, and Sophie Cras
1pm
Audience questions
PROGRAM AFTERNOON
2.30pm
Welcome
Introduction Alena Williams
Part 2: HOWARDENA PINDELL
2.45pm
SCREENING
Howardena Pindell, Free, White and 21, 1980, 12 mins.
3pm
Sarah Louise Cowan
Title tbc
Part 3: ROSEMARIE CASTORO
3.30pm
Anna Lovatt
Eruptions: Writing in the Work of Rosemarie Castoro
4pm
“Time = the space between the appointment and the meeting”
A conversation on Rosemarie Castoro with Sabeth Buchmann and Werner Pichler
4.30pm
Concluding round table with Manuela Ammer, Helena Vilalta, Bärbel Vischer and others, moderated by Barbara Reisinger
5.30pm
Audience questions
The symposium was conceived by Bettina Brunner, Managing Director, Austrian Ludwig Foundation in collaboration with the Advisory Group of the Foundation’s 2025/26 research season “Beside, not infinite”: Jo Applin, Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the History of Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London // Ana Gonçalves Magalhães, Professor of Art History, University of São Paulo // Christian Liclair, former Editor-in-Chief, Texte zur Kunst, Berlin // Tina Post, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Chicago // Barbara Reisinger, Research Fellow, Department of Art History, University of Vienna // Mike Sperlinger, Professor of Writing & Theory, Oslo Academy of Fine Art // Alena Williams, Professor for Theory and Mediation of Contemporary Art, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.
David Getsy was invited in conjunction with the 2026 Study Day Program “New Approaches to Performance Art”, organized by the Department of Art History, University of Vienna.
Lee Lozano’s painting Untitled (1967) was acquired by the Austrian Ludwig Foundation in 2016 and is on permanent loan to mumok. Rosemarie Castoro’s sculptural works Land of Lads (1975) and Land of Lashes (1976) were acquired by the Foundation in 2021 and are on permanent loan to MAK.
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Purchases in 2025
In accordance with its purchasing and funding policy, the Austrian Ludwig Foundation purchases works of art for the collections of the Republic of Austria. By making these purchases, the Foundation fulfils its task of enhancing the collections of the federal museums in substantive terms, supplementing its statutory mission, i.e. also regarding an aesthetically complex and socially relevant concept of art.
In 2025 the Austrian Ludwig Foundation purchased works by the following artists as permanent loans for the museums:
For Albertina: Isabella Ducrot
For Belvedere: Lynn Hershman Leeson
For MAK: Hito Steyerl, Magdalena Abakanowicz
For mumok: Park McArthur, Anna Zemánková
For more detailed information on the works purchased historically, see the Art and Culture Reports published by the Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of the Republic of Austria.
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Research Season “Beside, not infinite”
2025/26
“Beside, not infinite” is a collection-related research season, conceived by the Austrian Ludwig Foundation for 2025/26. Within the framework of a series of events, a travel and research grant, and a concluding publication, “Besides, not infinite” takes seven works from the collection as its starting point. Over the past ten years, the Foundation purchased these works at the suggestion of four Austrian national museums—the Albertina, Belvedere, MAK, and mumok—and made them available as permanent loans to these museums’ public collections.
The works by Yto Barrada, Rosemarie Castoro, Sonia Gomes, Jann Haworth, Lee Lozano, Julie Mehretu, and Ingrid Wiener which have been selected for this project can be seen as material and discursive nodes, situating the collective and academic conversations that “Beside, not infinite” wishes to initiate within the context of the collection. Read more under Research
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Purchases in 2024
In accordance with its purchasing and funding policy, the Austrian Ludwig Foundation purchases works of art for the collections of the Republic of Austria. By making these purchases, the Foundation fulfils its task of enhancing the collections of the federal museums in substantive terms, supplementing its statutory mission, i.e. also regarding an aesthetically complex and socially relevant concept of art.
n 2024 the Austrian Ludwig Foundation purchased works by the following artists as permanent loans for the museums:
For Albertina: Jo Ractliffe, Toni Schmale
For Belvedere: Ursula Pürrer & Ashley Hans Scheirl
For MAK: Ranti Bam, Hana Miletić
For mumok: Radcliffe Bailey, Yto Barrada, Serge Attukwei Clottey, Robert Gabris, Iman Issa, Fahamu Pecou, Maud Sulter, Moffat Takadiwa
For more detailed information on the works purchased historically, see the Art and Culture Reports published by the Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of the Republic of Austria.
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Research and Travel Grant 2025 goes to Mariama de Brito Henn
The Austrian Ludwig Foundation is pleased to announce that the Research and Travel Grant 2025 of €10,000—part of the Foundation’s Research Season 2025/26 “Beside, not infinite”—will be awarded to Mariama de Brito Henn. Chosen from over seventy applications, her project Memory of the Material – Textile and Memory Practices of the Diaspora convinced the selection jury, consisting of Ana Gonçalves Magalhães (Universidade de São Paulo), Seamus Kealy (Oakville Galleries, Ontario), and Alena Williams (University of California, San Diego).
In her submitted project, Mariama de Brito Henn, a PhD-Candidate at the Cultural Heritage Chair at the University of Vienna, relates her research to the artistic practice of Brazilian artist Sonia Gomes, whose works are part of the Foundation’s collection. The grant from the Austrian Ludwig Foundation will enable Mariama de Brito Henn to travel to Brazil and Cuba in order to develop her project further, which she describes as follows:
“Memory of the Material – Textile and Memory Practices of the Diaspora explores how the rich costume and textile practices and traditions of afro-spiritual religions such as Candomblé in Brazil and Santería in Cuba can function as an alternative archive of the cultural memory of the African diaspora, formed by the transatlantic slave trade. The research thus embeds the works of Sonia Gomes, whose artistic expression and understanding is deeply rooted in the traditions of Candomblé, in a broader historical and cultural context of an often-overlooked part of the Black Atlantic.”
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Call for Applications: Travel and Research Grant 2025
Deadline: December 15, 2024
As part of the collection-related research season 2025/26 “Beside, not infinite,” the Austrian Ludwig Foundation is offering a grant in 2025 to support research for academic as well as artistic and curatorial projects in the field of visual arts by funding a research trip outside of Austria. The Foundation invites scholars, curators, and artists living in Austria to apply.
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The application documents must be sent as a single PDF to office@ludwig-stiftung.at by December 15, 2024 with the subject “Grant Submission.” Due to the international jury, only submissions in English can be considered.
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