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

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.

"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.

From Pablo Picasso to Andy Warhol, from Oskar Kokoschka to Arnulf Rainer, the photographer Franz Hubmann took portraits of them all. Recently the collector and former gallerist Helmut Klewan donated more than hundred works by Franz Hubmann to the Albertina Museum in Vienna. Now they are on view in the current exhibition "Franz Hubmann. Artist portraits. The Helmut Klewan donation."

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.

Presenting about 200 works from the 1930s up to 2000 the Albertina Museum in Vienna has one of the biggest exhibition of american photography on display in Europe. The show, curated by Walter Moser and co-curator Anna Hanreich, presents with its extraordinary works a divers and also contradictorily country.

The paperworks of Egon Schiele were a challenge not only for his contemporaries but also for the conservators of our days as these works on paper are highly fragile. On the ocassion of the upcoming exhibition "Schiele and his legacy" at the Albertina Modern we visited Karine Bovagnet, conservator at the Albertina, to give us an insight into the process of conservating a Schiele drawing.

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.

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

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.

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.

Loneliness is a phenomenon of our time, as individualization and the demands of a modern lifestyle drive us further and further apart. In our latest CastYourArt film feature from the Albertina Modern Yoshitomo Nara tells us what loneliness as an artistic driving force is all about.

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.

The Albertina’s exhibition about Austrian photographer Michael Horowitz has his works from two decades on display. CastYourArt visited the exhibition and interviewed the artist and exhibition curator Anna Hanreich.

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

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 in Austria, OstLicht Gallery presents Julian Schnabel’s photographic work. The American painter, sculptor and filmmaker has been taking

In his short but intensive creative life, Egon Schiele repeatedly focused on the human figure as his central subject. He did not only question roles and displays of lifestyles, he also used to assign roles in his pictures.

Egon Schiele’s preferred way of expression was drawing with its immediacy. In his short, 10 year-long career, he produced about 3000 of them. His paintings

Egon Schiele’s nudes are often the center of discussions that place him between depiction and pornography. The exhibition „Egon Schiele“ in the Albertina

Twins, even when they look identical, are always distinguished and recognized as two different persons, even if sometimes confounded because of their perceived alikeness.

For Jim Dine - who we interviewed at his current exhibition at Albertina Museum in Vienne - the self-portrait is a meditation about the way an artist recognizes

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.

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

To be and to do are one and the same thing for Gunter Damisch – in every one of his works there is not only a formal, but also an inner imperative becoming manifest.

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.

It is often said that every portrait is a self-portrait of the painter in a sense and every painter is painting himself – Peter Baldingers portraits show

Irene Andessner resuscitates the Tableau vivant with “Art Protectors” in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. The exhibition 'The Gold Age. Dutch Group