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With the country still in lockdown, three Vienna galleries – Emanuel Layr, Croy Nielsen, and Sophie Tappeiner – came up with a new format for an art fair set in the conference halls of a popular hotel in the Austrian capital.
Whitney Claflin, Writer’s Block, 2023, vinyl on plexiglass and stretchfoil. Installation view, Galerie Layr, Vienna, 2023. Courtesy: the artist and Drei, Cologne
Ringing out the summer, the Viennese art world’s own Philip Marlowe, Max Henry, sleuthed across the hardboiled city, looking for the traces of the evasive Neutral.
Anna-Sophie Berger, Untitled, Alexander Berger 1979, 2023, c-print, 162.5 x 106.5 cm. All images courtesy: the artist and Emanuel Layr, Vienna. Photos: Kunstdokumentation
Is legibility in art a violent demand? During her latest solo show at Emanuel Layr, Vienna, Anna-Sophie Berger spoke about bad faith, harmful language, and fashion’s rapport with death.
Wiener Festwochen’s new artistic director unpacks Vienna’s relationship with being provoked, making grotesque demands onstage, and the theater as a total democracy.
Between performances at Vienna’s ImPulsTanz, the Argentinian choreographer of several confrontational autofictions recounts bringing diaries into her dramaturgy and learning to work within the limits of her own body.
On 6 July, ImPulsTanz opens with a free, 10th-anniversary performance of Doris Uhlich’s more than naked. Ahead of the opening, the Austrian choreographer speaks about the aesthetics and politics of nudity and trying to be faster than the beat.
View of “dellbrück,” Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, 2023. All images courtesy of Manfred Pernice and Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna. Photos: Markus Wörgötter
At Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Manfred Pernice is sculpting with a new name but a familiar hardware reptoire, heaping up double entendres from scraps during a new war in Europe.
A group exhibtition at mumok, Vienna invited artists to pair their work with objects from the museum collection, briefly reversing the flows of power at the heart of modernism.
Views of Sanja Iveković, “Works of Heart (1974–2022),” Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, 2022. All images courtesy: the artist and Kunsthalle Wien. Photos: Boris Cvjetanović
Tea Hacic-Vlahovic takes in 50 years of Sanja Iveković’s irreverent polymathy at Kunsthalle Wien, from fake-masturbating above Tito’s motorcade to publishing her mother’s poems.
Robert Lettner, Untitled (from the series “Kalte Strahlung”), 1972, acrylic on canvas, 160 × 188 cm; Courtesy Wonnerth Dejaco and Archiv Robert Lettner; Photo: Peter Mochi
Performance artist Deborah Hazler elevates grumbling – about everything from cruel politicians to cat videos – to the level of fine art at ImPulsTanz 2021.
The theme and participants for curated by_vienna 2016 have been announced. The 8th edition of the gallery festival starts on September 8 and invited Diedrich Diederichsen to write the essay that gives the project its title.
No art without alcohol. The artists' bar has a rich history in Vienna, more than perhaps anywhere else. Why do artists not only build but also go so far as to run bars themselves? Why do we give in again and again to the dubious charms of bars? With an introduction by Thomas Miessgang.
This years "curated_by vienna" addresses artistic strategies for a post capitalist era of perpetual crisis. From Bitcoin, to backroom selling, our writer explores what "Tomorrow is now" has to offer.
The first Vienna Biennale aims to combine art, design, and architecture to generate creative ideas and artistic projects that help improve the world's problems. Maybe it wants too much. Our author puzzles over the problems of the event itself.
The idiosyncratic, low-budget productions of Austrian filmmaker Daniel Hoesl narrate exemplary disruptions and upheavals with mischievous and post-heroic defiance of standardized milieus. Following eight shorts, Soldate Jeannette is the media arts graduate’s first feature-length film. The film, which has won international awards, revolves around two women, each running away from something, who meet at a countryside bowling alley: Fanni, who hails from the upper middle class, is broke and seeks to escape the strictures of a life ruled by money; Anna, the younger woman, can no longer bear the machismo on the farm.
