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Putting a focus on patriarchal society and its constraints the so called austrian feminist avant-garde was in search for new visual and gestural language. In our CastYourArt exhibition-portrait, ALBERTINAmodern chief curator Angela Stief provides insights into the works and characteristic features of the feminist avant garde and its members

VALIE EXPORT is one of the most famous Austrian artists of post-war history. In our film feature, ALBERTINA MODERN chief curator Angela Stief outlines the art of VALIE EXPORT, based on her painting "Body Sign Action".

Guns spitting blood; wailing voices from a field of rubble, little hammers hacking at their own image; feathers slowly turning, a mercury flow forming ever new shapes: Rebecca Horn is one of the most versatile conceptual artists of her generation. The Bank Austria Kunstforum in Vienna is dedicating her the first comprehensive exhibition of her work in Austria in 30 years.

“Now Is the Time": The exhibition title is actually the title of a painting by Kiki Kogelnik from 1972, showing a dancing woman in a miniskirt. Now is also the time for a comprehensive show on the Austrian artist’s oeuvre in the Bank Austria Kunstforum in Vienna. A CastYourArt exhibition-portrait.

In its retrospective, the Albertina in Vienna presents the artist VALIE EXPORT in her performative quality as well as in her conceptual depth. A CastYourArt exhibition portrait with the curator of the exhibition and head of the Albertina photography department Walter Moser.

"Action Pants: Genital Panic": The VALIE EXPORT - Retrospective at the Albertina welcomes visitors right away with one of the most famous and controversial works of the Austrian artist. In the 1969 photograph, she carries a submachine gun and provocatively shows the viewer her exposed pubic area.

A short interview with the STRABAG Artaward International 2023 recognition prize winner Jósefina Alanko, at the STRABAG Kunstforum introducing the artist and her work.

"20 years of the VERBUND COLLECTION", the anniversary show in the Propter Homines Hall of the Albertina in Vienna, presents a selection of works that the founding director of the collection has acquired since 2004. 

Part 2 of the Albertina Klosterneuburg opening exhibition revolves around the art movement of abstraction after World War II and the return of figuration in the confrontation with the shadows of the past. A CastYourArt exhibition portrait.

The artist Zula Tuvshinbat intertwines in her tapestry objects what touches her – often unconsciously – and these works carry wit, humor, and a hint of provocation within them. On the occasion of her exhibition at C.A. Contemporary in Vienna, we spent a day in her studio and produced this CastYourArt artist portrait for you.

Screaming or grinning faces, grotesque heads with bird’s beaks, a fist punching out of a mouth – in her partly hyper-realistic drawings, Florentina Pakosta

Besides Maria Lassnig and VALIE EXPORT, she is one of the most important feminist artists in Austria: In cooperation with the Sprengel Museum Hannover, the

Irony as an active agent in order to continually reformulate problems of art, of the creative subject and of the presence of the viewer-subject, in a subjective world permanently being subjectivated: 25 years after their first appearance, the art group DIE DAMEN arranged an historic and documentary exhibition at ZEITKUNST Niederösterreich in the Lower Austria Contemporary Gallery St. Pölten, offering an insight into their multifaceted oeuvre and into an entire era of Austrian art life.

Shaman of the archetypes – the bizarre, humorous, erotic and poetic oeuvre of Meret Oppenheim is on display in the Bank Austria Kunstforum in Vienna till 14 July 2013. An exhibition portrait produced by CastYourArt.

It is almost impossible to breathe and move within the linguistical system in which we are embedded. Art brings new movement into our consciousness. An artist

Jürgenssen explores the scope of female identity constructions and the gender roles within her sociocultural environment of the 1970ies. By means of drawings

Maria Lassnig: “Soft as marmalade, marmalade out of blood I’m batted and feel hindered and left locked out from the world of painting.” “There was

For a long time, porcelain was imported into Europe from Asia, obtaining values on the market comparable to gold. In 1708, alchemist Johann Friedrich Böttger

The openness of her parents — to both traditional Islamic positions as well as the value system of the recent secularly oriented republic — was passed on