The theme of the exhibition are the crossings between music and visual art, experimental work involving various musical and sound elements, which had throughout the 20th century largely expanded the concept of new music, as well as the limits of what was regulary understood as visual art. It displays works by 38 artists: the spectrum ranges from contemplative installations to sound sculptures and video installations, to works of art that deal with sound and music.

Exhibited artists

Richard Artschwager, Joseph Beuys, John Cage, Henning Christiansen, Martin Creed, Jeremy Deller, Federico Díaz, Stan Douglas, Daniel Egg, Angus Fairhurst, Jochen Gerz, Douglas Gordon, Franz Graf, Dan Graham, Milan Grygar, Henrik Hakansson, Russell Haswell, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Dick Higgins, Gary Hill, Lee Jaffe, Jon Kessler, Milan Knížák, Bernhard Leitner, Alvin Lucier, Christian Marclay, Bruce Nauman, Max Neuhaus, Flora Neuwirth, Olga Neuwirth, Nicolas Jasmin (N.I.C.J.O.B.), Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Stephen Prina, Alan Rath, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Lawrence Weiner

The exhibition of the Galerie Rudolfinum and Kunsthalle Wien
The Crossings exhibition was accompanied by a programme of concerts, performances and other events. The programme introduced various possibilities of connection of art and music; it was also designed to give an opportunity to young, yet less known musicians representing especially the alternative scene.

Curator: Cathrin Pichler