Ornament & Information
Chicago Cultural Center•Apr 10, 2026 — Jul 19, 2026
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Ornament & Information presents a group of artists who have lived and worked in either Chicago or Vienna. Across divergent and intersecting practices, the exhibition acts as the set for an ensemble posing the question of ornamentation’s value and existence today, along with the architectural, economic, and social concerns that attend to it.
Traceable to the late nineteenth century and continuing to this day, there has been a largely unremarked upon reciprocating influence between Chicago and Vienna. This ideational pipeline has never been of a one-to-one nature; rather, it is a product of certain intellectual developments from one city being then synthesized and transcended by the other.
During his three-year stay in the United States, Viennese architect Adolf Loos absorbed many of the ideas that would later emerge in his 1913 treatise “Ornament and Crime,” which called for architects to reject decorative motifs while focusing on a building’s structure and spatial experience instead.…
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Ornament & Information
Chicago Cultural Center•Apr 10, 2026 — Jul 19, 2026
Press Release
Ornament & Information presents a group of artists who have lived and worked in either Chicago or Vienna. Across divergent and intersecting practices, the exhibition acts as the set for an ensemble posing the question of ornamentation’s value and existence today, along with the architectural, economic, and social concerns that attend to it.
Traceable to the late nineteenth century and continuing to this day, there has been a largely unremarked upon reciprocating influence between Chicago and Vienna. This ideational pipeline has never been of a one-to-one nature; rather, it is a product of certain intellectual developments from one city being then synthesized and transcended by the other.
During his three-year stay in the United States, Viennese architect Adolf Loos absorbed many of the ideas that would later emerge in his 1913 treatise “Ornament and Crime,” which called for architects to reject decorative motifs while focusing on a building’s structure and spatial experience instead.…
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