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Oswald Oberhuber is the sort of artist who doesn’t just apply ideas and action to his own practice; he transfers them to other social spheres. In the early 1970s, he began directing Vienna’s Galerie nächst St. Stephan. Later he became Head of the University of Applied Arts and designed furniture and posters. His public statements about political topics regularly caused a stir. Andreas Reiter Raabe met up with the artist, whose work goes in all imaginable directions. With an introduction by Robert Fleck
The British artist, who is currently showing at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, is known for her series of film portraits of famous men, including Merce Cunningham, Mario Merz, Michael Hamburger and Giorgio Morandi. Andreas Reiter Raabe talks to her about painterly qualities, light, colour and affection.
