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Very soon after the war and for the following decades, National Socialism and the atrocities of tyranny and war were frequent topics in the work of Austrian artists. Watch our CastYourArt film #3 from the ALBERTINAmodern opening exhibition "THE BEGINNING. Art in Austria, 1945-1980" with curator Brigitte Borchhardt-Birbaumer about how austrian artists adressed the Nazi Era in their works.

Among the contemporary art movements that developed after the Second World War in Austria, Viennese Actionism and its protagonists are the most prominent and most recognized internationally. In our video #5 from the ALBERTINAmodern opening exhibition, CastYourArt interviewed curator Brigitte Borchhardt-Bierbaumer about this art movement.

In the first film of the new Albertina museum series TOURS & TALKS chief-curator Christof Metzger leads us to the german artist Wilhelm Leibl.

In post-war Austria, Art Brut is especially associated with one place and one name: The former mental hospital Gugging and the psychiatrist Leo Navratil who worked there. In #8 of the CastYourArt series about the opening exhibition "The Beginning" at ALBERTINAmodern curator Brigitte Borchhardt-Bierbaumer highlights the austrian outsider-art. 

STRABAG Artaward International promotes and supports young artists working in the media of painting and dreawing. In 2020, it will be awarded for the twenty-fith time. CastYourArt visited the group exhibition of the prize winners at STRABAG Kunstforum and filmed an exhibition view.

The Jablonka Collection is one of the most important collections of American and German art of the 1980s, with works by artists whom Rafael Jablonka promoted, introduced and collected. CastYourArt interviewed collector Rafael Jablonka and Albertina director Klaus Albrecht Schröder at the Albertina exhibition "My Generation. The Jablonka Collection" and produced an exhibition-portrait.

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

Under the title "Gerhard Richter. Landscape", the Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien is bringing Gerhard Richter to Vienna with a landscape retrospective – the largest exhibition up to date devoted exclusively to Gerhard Richter's landscapes. CastYourArt interviewed Lisa Ortner-Kreil and Hubertus Butin, the two curators of the exhibition and produced an exhibition-portrait.

Angela Stief, chief curator of ALBERTINA MODERN, gives us an insight into the work of Kiki Kogelnik and her time, based on Kogelnik's work "OUTER SPACE".

In our film clip from the Albertina Museum in Vienna artist Gottfried Helnwein reviews Max Beckmann's work "Self-Portrait in a Hotel".

"Evening Landscape" and "Song in the Twilight" are two works by Austrian artist Franz Sedlacek, who belonged to the tradition of magical realism. In our film from the Albertina museum the painter Gottfried Helnwein discusses the artist's two works.

In our film from the Albertina series "All Eyes On", the painter Gottfried Helnwein tells us how the painting "Winter Landscape" by Franz Sedlacek affects him.

In the film clip "Woman in a Green Hat" from the series "All Eyes On" from the Albertina Museum, director Klaus Albrecht Schröder tells us more about Picasso's choice of color and motif for this painting.

We focus All Eyes On "The Sleeping Drinker" by Pablo Picasso in this picture review with Albertina director Klaus Albrecht Schröder. The focus is on a woman, absorbed in herself sitting at a cafe table, the whole scene is shrouded in a nocturnal blue.

Ambivalent stagings, concrete and yet intangible: Xenia Hausner's mysterious characters are ready to return the viewer's gaze at the Albertina. In our opening film of the exhibition Albertina Director Klaus Albrecht Schröder and curator Elsy Lahner guide us through the oeuvre of the artist and we will also hear what fascinates Austrian President Alexander van der Bellen about her work.

In our film from the Albertina series "Tours & Talks" Albertina director Klaus Albrecht Schröder meets the artist Jakob Gasteiger in his Atelier in Vienna and talks with him about his artistic development, what influenced him and about characteristica of his art.

"Wonderland" - Fascinating confrontations and contrasts of outstanding artistic positions are on view at the Albertina Modern in Vienna until September 19. 2021. In our exhibition-portrait Albertina Director Klaus Albrecht Schröder and Angela Stief, chief-curator at the Albertina Modern, guide us through the exhibition.

Amedeo Modigliani, born in Livorno, is today considered one of the most expensive modern artists. On the occasion of the upcoming exhibition "Modigliani. Revolution of Primitivism" at the Albertina Museum in Vienna, General Director Klaus Albrecht Schröder will introduce the artist and the main features of his art using the work "Female Semi-Nude" (1918) from the Batliner Collection.

Hubert Scheibl currently has a solo exhibition dedicated to him in the Albertina's Basteihalle. Under the title "Seeds of Time," earlier works are exhibited together with entirely new series and - for the first time in Austria - objects. In our Film Albertina director Klaus Albrecht Schröder and curator Antonia Hoerschelmann guide us through the exhibition and afterwards we follow a talk of Klaus Albrecht Schröder with the artist in his studio.

Starting with 21 self-portraits by Egon Schiele the current Albertina Modern exhibition "Schiele and his Legacy" asks for the impact of Schiele's oeuvre on contemporary art. Curated by Elisabeth Dutz we will find aspects of Schiele's art in the work of Arnulf Rainer and the Vienna Actionism as well as in the drawings of Maria Lassnig or artworks of Baselitz, Sherman and many more.

The Albertina museum dedicates its new exhibition to Amadeo Modigliani, the mysterious loner among the avant-gardists of the early 20th century. Not only great artworks by Modigliani and his colleagues Picasso, Brancusi, Derain and others are shown in this exhibition but the exhibition also follows the idea that archaic and non-european art had a big impact on the avant-gard artists of this time.  The exhibition was curated by Marc Restellini and Gunhild Bauer.

The images of women by Titian and his Venetian contemporaries of the sixteenth century take center stage at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in its anniversary show on the occasion of its 130th anniversary. Not only magnificent works by Titian, Tintoretto, Giorgione, and many others are on view, also the reasons for the emergence of a new image of women at the beginning of the sixteenth century will be made tangible.

After conceptual art and other theory-heavy art movements of the 1960s and 70s, the 1980s are usually regarded in art history as the decade of the rediscovery of painting. Now the Albertina Modern presents in its show "THE 80s" which is curated by Angela Stief the art of this decade and while visiting you will not only see works of all the major artists but also realize how much this decade and its artistic inventions influenced our time.

A short interview with the STRABAG Artaward International 2021 recognition prize winner Samuel Paučo, at the STRABAG Kunstforum introducing the artist and his work.

Albertina Curator Antonia Hoerschelmann and the artist Hubert Scheibl guide us through his exhibition "Seeds of Time" at the Albertina Museum in Vienna.

The œuvre of Martin Noël is the focus of a retrospective that has just opened in the Basteihalle of Vienna's Albertina. A CastYourArt exhibition portrait.

In our film Albertina general-director Klaus Albrecht Schröder and curator Antonia Hoerschelmann accompany us through the exhibition and the impressive oeuvre of artist Michela Ghisetti.

A short interview with the STRABAG Artaward International 2021 recognition prize winner Marcin Zawicki, at the STRABAG Kunstforum introducing the artist and his work.

On the occasion of the upcoming Albertina exhibition "Edvard Munch. In dialogue" curator Antonia Hoerschelmann gives us insight to the contemporaries who were influenced or inspired by Munch and his phantastic art.

A short interview with the STRABAG Artaward International 2021 recognition prize winner Natália Šimonová, at the STRABAG Kunstforum introducing the artist and his work.

Works of the famous artist David Hockney are on display at the Bank Austria Kunstforum in Vienna. We asked curator Bettina M. Busse to give us an insight into the show of this exceptional artist.

At the Albertina museum in Vienna the main spring-exhibition is dedicated to Edvard Munch and his impact on contemporary artists like Georg Baselitz, Andy Warhol, Miriam Cahn, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Tracey Emin and Jasper Johns. The show presents main works of all the artists and makes us once more aware of the importance of this exceptional Norwegian artist Munch.

A short Film with curator Bettina M. Busse about David Hockney's major portrait works at the Bank Austria Kunstforum in Vienna.

Through his entire work Ben Willikens follows the traces of men although you will never see a person in his pictures - there are mainly chambers, cold chambers mirroring the human being. In the exhibition "BEN WILLIKENS. Cold –Chambers" the Albertina museum in Vienna puts the early and late works of the artist on display and augments them with works by Eduard Angeli, Robert Longo and Gottfried Helnwein.

A short interview with the STRABAG Artaward International 2021 main-prize winner Anouk Lamm Anouk, at the STRABAG Kunstforum introducing the artist and his work.

Italian-American artist Francesco Clemente's dramatic imagery is unsettling, ambiguous, grotesque, and erotic. An exhibition portrait with the artist from the Albertina Museum in Vienna.

Juraj Florek likes to call himself a "100% urban plein-air painter": fascinated by cities, he walks through them to capture fragments of landscapes that he depicts on the spot and in the moment. A CastYourArt artist-portrait, filmed on the occasion of his exhibition at C.A. Contemporary in Vienna.

A short interview with the STRABAG Artaward International 2022 recognition prize winner Ákos Ezer, at the STRABAG Kunstforum introducing the artist and his work.

Basquiat was the youngest participant ever who exhibited at the documenta, an artist, who criticized discrimination, social injustice, rassism and consumerism with his expressional power he inspired many artists of our times. The Albertina museum now opened the first museum show in Austria dedicated to the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat. CastYourArt produced an exhibition-portrait which gives an insight into this famous artists live and work.

Insights into a turning point in art history after the Second World War provides "Ways of Freedom", the new show of abstract painting at the Albertina Modern. We asked Albertina Modern director Angela Stief for an introduction into the theme and exhibition.

Contemporary Art from the Ukraine, dealing with the war in the country and its effects, is presented at the "tresor" of Bank Austria Kunstforum in Vienna. A CastYourArt exhibition-portrait.

Insights into a turning point in art history after the Second World War provides "Ways of Freedom", the new show of abstract painting at the Albertina Modern. In part two of our film we asked Albertina general director Klaus Albrecht Schröder for an introduction into the theme and exhibition.

“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.

A short interview with the STRABAG Artaward International 2022 recognition prize winner Marcin Jasik, at the STRABAG Kunstforum introducing the artist and his work.

A short interview with the STRABAG Artaward International 2022 recognition prize winner Dániel Bernáth, at the STRABAG Kunstforum introducing the artist and his work.

One of the reasons that Alex Katz (*1927 in New York) continues to be so modern more than half a century after the beginning of his career - and without any major stylistic changes - lies in his complete rejection of nostalgia. On the occasion of Albertina museums' new Alex Katz exhibition Albertina general director Klaus Albrecht Schröder introduces in our film, what needs to be known, to immerse yourself deeper within the work of this contemporary artist.

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death, the Albertina is dedicating an exhibition to Pablo Picasso, the genius of the century, which allows visitors to experience the artist in all his diversity. In our short film, Albertina General Director Klaus Albrecht Schröder outlines what makes this artist so special.

Painting or sculpture? In the case of Czech artist Pavel Dušek it is both at the same time. The materials of his works come from sculpture, but his way of thinking is that of a painter. A CastYourArt artist portrait on the occasion of the exhibition "In the Velvet House" at C.A. Contemporary.

A short interview with the STRABAG Artaward International 2023 recognition prize winner Peter Cvik, at the STRABAG Kunstforum introducing the artist and his work.

Few figures in contemporary art are surrounded by as much controversy as Gottfried Helnwein. Now the Albertina is dedicating a retrospective to him on the occasion of his 75th birthday. A CastYourArt exhibition portrait.

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

Her paintings take us on an exploration of the psychological depths of the soul, embodied in almost life-size (self-)portraits. Take the opportunity to get to know the artist better as we produced a film portrait on the occasion of her exhibition "I sing the body electric" at C.A. Contemporary.

In the ART IN THE MAKING series, the Albertina invites artists to talk about their working methods. This time Eva Glück, Chief Conservator of the Albertina, talks to Ofer Lellouche not only about the subtleties of his prints, but also about what print can do for him that other art techniques cannot.

To mark Gottfried Helnwein's 75th birthday, the Albertina is showing works by the artist from the last three decades in the exhibition "Reality and Fiction". On behalf of the Albertina, we visited the artist in his castle in Ireland and created this portrait of the artist.

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

With its new location in the former Essl Museum in Klosterneuburg, the Albertina expands by an entire museum. Part 1 of the opening exhibition focuses on Pop Art and the bright side of life. A CastYourArt exhibition portrait.

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.

In conversation with the curator of the exhibition, Albertina modern Director Angela Stief, the artist Eva Beresin not only guides us through her exhibition but also highlights how much her turbulent family history and social media have influenced what she is today as an artist.

An interview with Alexandre Diop, recognition-award winner of the STRABAG Artaward International 2024, on the occasion of the award ceremony at the STRABAG Art Forum.

The artist Miroslav Pelák showcases the reality of life as experienced by people in the Slovak small town of Bardejov. His focus is on false dreams and beautified memories, yet he manages to capture the everyday life that lies beneath them. An artist-portrait on the ocassion of his new exhibition at CA Contemporary.

Discover how Paul Gauguin’s revolutionary use of color and culture reshaped the course of modern art. A film featuring Bank Austria Kunstforum Vienna curator Evelyn Benesch on the occasion of the Paul Gauguin exhibition.

Join Klaus Albrecht Schröder, the director general of the Albertina, on an exploration of the artistic works of Marc Chagall on the occasion of the new exhibition.

A one-hour artist portrait of Eduard Angeli that focuses on his quiet, introspective portrayal of Venice and reflects his unique artistic vision of stillness.

At the beginning of art in Austria after the Nazi tyranny and the war there was the „Vienna School of Fantastic Realism“. Friedensreich Hunderwasser on the other hand can be considered as the one Austrian post-war artist who gained international recognition and success early on. Our CastYourArt exhibition-portrait #2 from the ALBERTINAmodern opening exhibition is dedicated to Fantastic Realism and Friedensreich Hundertwasser.

In the years between 1906 and 1936 an art-loving Swiss couple, ophthalmologist Arthur Hahnloser and his wife Hedy, gathered one of the largest private art collections of 20th century art and French modernism with works of Van Gogh, Cézanne, Matisse, Hodler, Bonnard, Vuillard and many others. Parts of the collection are now on display at the Albertina museum in Vienna.

On September 8th, Maria Lassnig, regarded as Austria’s most eminent female painter, would have celebrated her 100th birthday. On the occasion the Albertina shows a comprehensive retrospective, in cooperation with the Stedlijk Museum Amsterdam. CastYourArt interviewed Antonia Hoerschelmann, curator of the Lassnig show at the Albertina Museum.

Per Kirkeby is considered one of contemporary painting’s great mavericks. Consistently worked on since the late 1960s, his paintings always include landscapes

In his current exhibition in the vaultroom of the Bank Austria Kunstforum in Vienna, Thean Chien Chan explores the human face.

Between digital art, drawing and painting – pop artist Peter Zolly’s creativity crosses boundaries when he conceives his iconic visual vocabulary. As

The ephemeral, the ever transforming, the changes of light, of atmosphere and of the seasons: Claude Monet (1840 – 1926) succeeded like almost no other artist to capture the perception of fleeting moments on the canvas.

Stretched picture formats, asymmetrical compositions, bird’s eye perspectives, empty sections with only abstract lines and shapes, vibrant color fields, ornamental

Claude Monet discovered Giverny by chance in 1883. He fell i love with the place, first rented, later on bought a house there and built his famous garden.

The abstract artist Ahmet Oran shows new works in the C.A. Contemporary gallery in Vienna. To a large part, the pictures were made in Istanbul, the hometown

Collector Hubert Looser states, that he has few living artists in his collection. One of them is Fabienne Verdier who had a very special career. The relationship

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

For the first time, the Albertina dedicates a solo retrospective to the Viennese painter Martha Jungwirth (born 1940), with key works and series arranged according

"Just No Painting" is the title of the exhibition by installation-, object-, videoartist, performer, painter, watercolorist, draughtsman and - painter  Johannes Heuer.

„Unconcerned but not indifferent“: the epitaph on Man Ray’s grave at the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris reflects his complex and multilayered artistic attitude.

„Raphael was a very economical draughtsman who was able to convey great emotions with just a few outlines“ says Achim Gnann, art historian and expert for Italian art between the 15th and 19th century who curated the new exhibition in the Albertina, working on the preparations for five years.

Material, form, repetition and alteration are fundamental for the abstract works of the Vienna based artist Suse Krawagna. On the occasion of the reopening

As an artist, Jakob Gasteiger has dedicated himself entirely to abstraction. His primary and working material is paint, not colour.

Kunsthalle Krems has reopened after a year of refurbishment, showing young art by Tobias Pils in the skylight hall of the museum. Pils shows a painting installation

Gottfried Helnwein is doubtlessly one of the most prominent and controversial hyperrealist painters of our time. . Hyperrealist painting stands in contrast

After one year of overall refurbishment, Kunsthalle Krems celebrated its reopening under the new director Florian Steininger. The first exhibition, Abstract

Eduard Angeli's art is on display at Albertina Museum in Vienna. His work defies categorizations. The works seem to be structured either by complementary or

Eduard Angeli’s paintings pose a big problem for art lovers. His work can not be duly appreciated when not seen live « in the flesh ». Of course it is generally

Egon Schiele has a special significance for the artist Gottfried Helnwein, because he is the first artist in the modern sense, i.e. an artist who is not firmly

A retrospective of the french painter Mireille Binoux is upcoming at C.A. Contemporary in Vienna. Get inspired by our short portrait with the collector Simon

I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move. An unparalleled retrospective of Georgia O’Keeffe, one oft he founders

The work of Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, when he still lived in The Netherlands, was of a dark, often brown color. But when van Gogh went to France and got

KOMET, he is a star and one of the most renowned turkish artists of his generation. His oeuvre is multifaceted. He examines the possibilities of language, he

Proportions, levels, materials, colour, backgrounds –the phenomenological characteristics of Val Wecerka’s works refer to the conditions of our perception of reality. No statical vision is possible there – we see dynamic fields that require the participation of the viewer.

At Gallery CA Contemporary in Vienna the Munich based artist Florian Suessmayr is on display exhibiting his pictures of night scenarios.

"One of the most beautiful and touching pictures of our collection" - that is how Albertina-Director Klaus Albrecht Schröder values LANDSCAPE WITH LANTERNS

On the occasion of the presentation of new works by Ahmet Oran we visited the gallery CA Contemporary and produced an exhibition portrait. The artworks

Aylin Tektas, an Istanbul born painter, studied in Vienna at the Academy of fine arts. First influenced by the artworks of her mother - a painter as well - she started painting portraits of people.

"What can painting do?" More than 40 years, Artist Erwin Bohatsch explores the possibilities of painting in his artistic work and doing so, he moved from figurative

Klaus Albrecht Schröder, Albertina museum director and curator of the exhibition "Chagall to Malevich - The Russian Avant-Gardes" leads us through the  developments

"The Green Bridge I" is an artwork, which can be considered as prototypical for the works of the artist Lyonel Feininger. Ulrich Luckhardt, curator of the Albertina

„My dear brother Kubin“ - the friendship between Alfred Kubin and Lyonel Feininger is on show in the Albertina, with more than 100 pictures by both artists.

MUSA, Vienna’s „Start gallery“, artothek and collection of the municipal culture department, chose 100 items from about 4000 works of the very heterogeneous

Curated by Florian Steininger, the Bank Austria Kunstforum exhibits a comprehensive overview on the work of Hubert Schmalix. About fifty of the paintings were

In the choice of works made for the Albertina exhibition "Degas, Cezanne, Seurat. The Dream Archive from the Musée d'Orsay, important art movements of the 19th century are represented, like historicism, realism, impressionism and neo-impressionism, symbolism as well as cartoons and salon painting.

The choice of works as well as the title of the exhibition "The Dream Archive from the Musée d'Orsay" at the museum Albertina was made by Werner Spies, the

Until May 3rd, a selection of 130 works from the archives of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris is on show in the Albertina in Vienna. Besides well known masterpieces, “The Dream Archive” shows works less known to the Austrian public, thus offering an insight into the wealth of France’s art history.

The art of Manfred Hebenstreit is an ongoing open experiment, into which the artist puts everything: body and soul, sensations and emotions, irony and restlessness.

On the occasion of the 150th birthday of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, this pioneer of modernism, Bank Austria Kunstforum shows the artists first comprehensive retrospective in Austria. For our CastYourArt exhibition portrait we interviewed Evelyn Benesch, curator oft the exhibition.

At present, Zeitkunst Niederösterreich has the first comprehensive retrospective of the art group K.U.SCH on display, in the Shedhalle St. Pölten, curated

The pictures of Mireille Binoux draw the observer into distorted landscapes; puzzling him and making him feel at home at the same time. Although abandoning

The focus of the exhibition in the Bank Austria Kunstforum, curated by Florian Steininger, is mainly on the pictures made in distemper -especially for this show- during the years 2012 and 2013.

The exhibition "Yelena Popova" at Knoll Galleries Vienna continues an ongoing conversation between the artist Yelena Popova and the curator Lina Džuverović, in search of potency and power in painting today. A CastYourArt exhibition portrait.

At the Bank Austria Kunstforum in Vienna the artist Jürgen Messensee shows quintessences of his artistic work from the past ten years. CastYourArt visited his atelier and the exhibition and produced an artist-portrait.

His paintings are states of suspense, images of atmospheres, extreme in their expressivity and consistent in their treatment, the material of his objects are

Until May 12th, 2013 a retrospective of the artist Rudolf Goessl is presented at ZEITKUNST Niederösterreich in the Lower Austria Contemporary gallery St.

In the Shedhall planned by Hans Hollein, ZEITKUNST Niederösterreich exhibits the ample single show REFLECTIONS about the multifaceted artist Hans Kupelwieser

Lone houses, ruins, wrecks, walls. The backyards of the hustle and bustle, the moments when the party has moved on are what attracts Angeli. The silence of his paintings touches us in our existence. A CastYourArt portrait of the painter Eduard Angeli on the occasion of his 70th birthday.

In the exhibition “PHANTOMAK” in the Vienna University of Technology, sculptures by the artist Tomak are presented to the public for the first time.

The building of the Vienna Secession is regarded as the structural manifestation of the ideas of artist union around Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser, Carl Moll

On the occasion of the “Botero” exhibition in the Bank Austria Kunstforum, curator Dr. Evelyn benesch will speak about the artist’s Abu Ghraib series.

Together with Maria Lassnig he is considered the originator of Informal Art in Austria. His works are on display in the key museums all over the world.

Rather than expressing something directly, the force of artistic expressivity lies within manifesting the getting-to-talk within the work itself.

„The 1960ies: a fantastic modern“ in the MUSA Vienna reveals the spirit of a decade marked by radical upheaval, along the way the entire who’s who of

Aivazovsky is regarded as the master of seascapes. In his lifetime he dedicated himself to this motif as a metaphor for life, of desire as well as the struggle between nature and culture.

Fritz Panzer relieves objects of his immediate reality of their significations and shows them in their half present - half absent nature. The chair and the

"The First Hit of PHANTOMAK: The Ear Problem. No Problem." Masquerade, demasquerade, illusion, delusion, covering, decovering, position, superposition, appearance,

Edgar Honetschläger tests the boundaries of the possible, always along the limit in order to question the existing standard, the process being as important

Esra Ersen is interested in the formation of identity and its transformation in different contexts or power structures. Her work "Carousel" shown in the exhibition

Christian Eisenberger’s art work and performances often smack of insouciance, but, like a child and even more like an artist, his desire to engage is very real.

Irene Andessner’s self-dramatizations are revivals of historical personalities that utilize memory as a source of reactivation. Irene Andessner began her

Warhol, Newman, Wool “Barney is now at another party.“ When exhibitions show artistic developments in a larger context, it is a good thing for every visitor.

Götz Valien calls himself a “picture-maker”. The term seems to refer to someone who produces a handicraft rather than a work of art. However, when one

It was animals that were created first, only thereafter, human beings. Seniority, the privilege of age, was compensated by the privilege of designation, the

There has been substantial evidence for the theory, according to the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk, that it is far less important for humans to know who

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

Oil on canvas, drawings, texts, performances: one must work hard on compiling the techniques of artistic expression, says the Vienna-based artist Tomak.

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

For a long time, contemporary art was strictly a national phenomenon in Turkey and was therefore, to a large extent, ignored internationally. This has changed.

In the view from above, the earth appears as an unpopulated globe. Zoom in, and a view appears of regions and cities, houses and roadways, playgrounds and parks, cafes and stores, all populated by humans who appear tiny, like ants, occupied, engaged in a multiplicity of movements.

Picture for yourself reality. Is that reality immediate, direct, unexpected? Should we attribute this power of reality to something within the medium or to

In 2007, he was the winner of the Cologne Art Award, one year later, he is nominated for the Strabag Art Award in Vienna. Bernhard Buhmann was born in 1979 in Vorarlberg.

The production of “living pictures” has a tradition. They could already be found in the royal victory processions of antiquity and they appeared again in

Sometimes, he feels physically compelled. But if force is necessary in order to be able to begin, his painting is still not—as one would be inclined to believe—self-t

Intensity can be fascinating. However, levity also holds a certain charm. The artist’s name, ILA — which stands for the sentence in German: einen “Immens

As opposed to other media like film or music, in principle, painting does not lend itself to as many possibilities, explains the painter, Thomas Reinhold.

She produces films every year. She stands before the camera. She directs—in recent years, together with Chris Haring. It was a blessing that she met Chris

On the occasion of his exhibition "İz" in Istanbul starting on 12 October 2011 6.30 pm at Artgalerim Nişantaşı we replay from our archives the artist portrait