What life has in store: Prints by Jim Dine

Jim Dine's oeuvre is extensive – both technically and thematically. The American artist (*1935) created paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs and prints in various techniques; in his younger years, he also produced assemblages and organized happenings. Thematically, he was influenced by the totality of life: his life experience, everyday observations, books he read, discoveries in souvenir stores... Everything inspired him to create works of art. In the exhibition of the same name, the ALBERTINA Museum in Vienna is now showing highlights from its Jim Dine collection, which came about thanks to a generous donation from the artist. The focus is on Dine's use and further development of various printing processes. The exhibits can be seen from November 8, 2024 to March 23, 2025.

Jim Dine's first exhibition took place in 1960 at the Reuben Gallery in New York, where he staged his performance Car Crash, in which he dealt with a trauma resulting from a car accident. Dine's examination of everyday objects often includes personal items that are integrated into works of art. The artist is considered the main representative of Pop Art, but defies any categorization: » I'm not a pop artist. [...] Pop is concerned with exteriors. I'm concerned with interiors. When I use objects, I see them as a vocabulary of feelings.« A well-known example of this approach are the bathrobes that Dine has used as a motif since 1964 and which function as self-portraits. Dine is one of the best-known artists of the 20th century. Major retrospectives have been organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (1970), the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1978), the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (1984/84) and the Museum Folkwang in Essen (2015/16), among others.