Special Guest Heidi Horten Collection

About the exhibition

With the Picasso • Warhol • Baselitz exhibition, the kärnten.museum is hosting a selection of top-class works of art from the Heidi Horten Collection in Vienna. Over several decades, Heidi Goëss-Horten (1941–2022) collected paintings and sculptures from classical modernism to contemporary art for her collection. The spectrum of works ranges from Pablo Picasso, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, via Andy Warhol, a representative of US pop art, to Erwin Wurm, one of the most successful Austrian artists today. The Carinthian artists Theres Cassini, Helga Druml and Gudrun Kampl represent independent positions. A selection of handicraft objects and valuables from the 18th to the early 20th century, which Heidi Goëss-Horten also collected, are a special feature of the exhibition. In addition to outstanding individual pieces, the focus here is on sewing equipment, also with a view to the haute couture dresses on display from the Parisian fashion houses Christian Dior, Jean Patou and Jean-Louis Scherrer. Heidi Goëss-Horten made an initial selection of her dresses based on figurines and fabric samples that had been sent to her by the fashion houses and that can also be seen in the exhibition. The dresses were made in Paris, where Heidi Goëss-Horten also traveled for fittings.

Agnes Husslein-Arco                                                                                                                         Wolfgang Muchitsch