Chicken Shed, Rachel Whiteread Installation, Belvedere 21, Vienna: 2 February-29 July 2018

A negative concrete cast of a small chicken shed that originally stood in the English country of Norfolk, has been transported from the grounds of Tate Britain in London to Belvedere 21’s Peach Garden in Vienna, where you could say it looks somewhat out of place in comparison to the ostentatious museum building that looms behind it. The chicken shed is part of a series of huts and houses typically found in remote locations that Rachel Whiteread has been working on over the last few years. The cast concrete surface even contains recognisable details from the hand-sawn wood and nails used to build the hut. It serves as a precursor to the retrospective Rachel Whiteread exhibition which will be on display at Belvedere 21 later this year, from 7 March to 29 July 2018.

Rachel Whiteread, born in London in 1963, was the first woman to win the Turner Prize in 1993, and is one of Britain’s leading contemporary artists. She uses industrial materials such as plaster, concrete, resin, rubber and metal to cast anything from intimate everyday objects such as furniture, to architectural space, such as her 1993-94 work House, a life-sized cast of the interior of an entire condemned flat in London’s East End. Her art reflects the material culture that surrounds us, casting new light on familiar objects through the interplay between positive and negative.

Belvedere 21

Quartier Belvedere, Arsenalstraße 1, 1030 Vienna

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