Patricia Grzonka is an art critic, writer and architectural historian based in Vienna.
A Vienna retrospective of Rodin’s anarchistic “little brother” sites his tilted figure as a watershed moment in modern sculpture.
Opening to the Austrian far right’s national election victory, the Graz art festival’s many folk grotesqueries distill the brokenness of social modernity.
Opening her first-ever museum show at OK Linz, Pussy Riot’s founder sex dolls, fighting Putin over the uses of religion, and sublimating pain through artistic violence.
Curated by Cecilia Alemani, a retrospective of the late Estonian artist’s sculptures in jute, epoxy, and other materials once considered “non-artistic” buzzes with the erotic violence of autopsy.
In Linz, a playground of inflatables, wearables, and other whimsical inventions refresh the art and architecture group’s utopianism for our gloomy present.