Albertina Museum acquires the Jablonka Collection

This week, well before the ALBERTINA Museum’s second location—“ALBERTINA modern” at Karlsplatz—opens in March of next year, the museum’s Director General Klaus Albrecht Schröder was able to announce the latest major addition to the museum’s holdings: the Jablonka Collection. The Jablonka Collection, with its more than 400 works, is one of the most prominent collections of American and German art from the 1980s. It includes works by Mike Kelley, Sherrie Levine, Michael Heizer, Eric Fischl, Philip Taaffe, Roni Horn, Francesco Clemente, Richard Deacon, Damien Hirst, Richard Avedon, Andreas Slominski, and other important figures with whom Rafael Jablonka spent years working, figures whose works he also exhibited and collected. A strong emphasis within this collection is on the oeuvre of Nobuyoshi Araki, who is represented by 240 works. Since the German art dealer, gallerist, and exhibition curator Ra