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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.

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

"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.

Dancer, poet, chef, director, ethnologist, collector and curator, choreographer and performer - his works can be found in the world's great museums. A comprehensive retrospective is currently dedicated to the 91-year-old Swiss artist Daniel Spoerri at the Bank Austria Kunstforum.

With 170 works from its own holdings, the Albertina presents a grandiose panorama of five centuries of city and landscape views; some of the works have not been on public view for decades. In our exhibition-opening film Albertina director Klaus Albrecht Schröder, chief-curator Christof Metzger and exhibition curator Eva Michel walk with us through the exhibition and talk about the excellent artworks.  Andrea Mayer, state secretary for art and culture opens the exhibition.

Helmut Newton's photographs are provocative, daring, bold, feminine, sensual, sexual, seductive, powerful, glamorous, controversial and fetishistic. The Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien is now celebrating the 100th birthday of Helmut Newton. An exhibition-portrait from the Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Raphael Renaud has devoted his art to the big cities and the forests of this world. Tumult and Silence is therefore not only the title of our CastYourArt artist portrait of the Berlin-based Frenchman, but also of the exhibition of the artist, which takes place at C.A. Contemporary in Vienna from May 4. 2021.

Until January 27, the Albertina Museum in Vienna dedicates a retrospective to one of the exponents of street photography and chronicler of New York street life,

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

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

At the age of 24 Lee Miller moved from New York to Paris. She learned photography of Man Ray, she was his muse but soon she was his partner and a respected

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.

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.

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.

Object and image, true and false, natural and artificial, credible and incredible – Evan Penny’s figures are all of the above. An exhibition-portrait on

Fernando Botero: „In my paintings, there are improbable, not impossible things. “Fernando Boteros work is on view at Bank Austria Kunstforum in Vienna.

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.

„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.

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

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.

Art can be critical of media and media criticism can be fun—that’s the message anyway from “dream manufacturer” Götz Bury’s art. In his Traumfabrik