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"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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

He has embraced tradition in order to „forget it again“: wood as a challenge and possibility of failure. An artist-portrait of the sculptor Aron Demetz.

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

In his dream scenarios, Gürkan Coşkun aka Komet has the role of the stage director. Who are these strange creatures inhabiting that world, these chimeras