sybille.! internationale art brut

With sybille.! museum gugging presented in 2008 the most comprehensive exhibition of international Art Brut in Austria up to that time.  Sybille, a work by the Swiss Art Brut artist Louis Soutter, symbolizes at the same time the whole of Art Brut: untamed, unbeautified, and uninfluenced.  As was the presentation of the classics of this genre at museum gugging: from Adolf Wölfli through Aloïse Corbaz to Willem van Genk, from Martin Ramirez to Rosemarie Koczÿ. The selection of over twenty of the most important Art Brut artists provided an arresting insight into very individual pictorial worlds. What Jean Dubuffet defined and collected as “brut” was on view in this new presentation.

The majority of the loans came from private colections: many works were presented to the public for the first time. Following the exhibitions blug.! and liebling.! the museum dedicated sybille.! to its second exhibiting focus, namely Art Brut in an international context.

Artists: Aloïse Corbaz, Anselme Bois-Vives, Ilija Bašičević Bosilj, Gaston Chaissac, Paul Duhem, Minnie Evans, Emerik Feješ, Willem van Genk, Magde Gill, Martha Grünenwaldt, Rosmarie Koczÿ, Hans Krüsi, Emanuel Navratil, Michael Nedjar, Martin Ramirez, Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern, Sava Sekulić, Gérard Sendrey, Louis Soutter, Theo, Pellegrino Vignali, Scottie Wilson, Josef Wittlich, Adolf Wölfli, Carlo Zinelli, Edmund Monsiel, Vladimir Veličković, Ignacio Carles-Tolrà, Jakob Greuter.
122 works were on show.