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General

Meet Photographer Sepp Dreissinger – the Coffeehouse is His Studio

"When I don't feel at home, I go to the coffeehouse"

Janima Nam - December 23, 2020

Culture & Language

The Polish Figures in Vienna’s Art Scene

Polish artists bring Vienna’s streets, stages and dance floors to life

Anna Huemer - November 22, 2020

Art

The Newly Opened Albertina Modern Boasts Austrian Art From Fantastic Realism to Viennese Actionism

After delays and controversy, Albertina Modern opens with an extensive review of Austrian art from 1945-1980.

Katharina Groeblinger - October 28, 2020

Culture & Language

Meet the Hungarian Voices on Viennese Stages

Founded in 1741, the Burgtheater always had a strong link between language and national identity, but today it stages an international ensemble of artists. Just like the Volkstheater, Vienna’s stages are opening up to Europe and beyond.

Borbála Csete - October 26, 2020

Fall 2020

How Austrian Designer Carolin Holzhuber is Sculpting the Future of Footwear

The shoe designer is blending the line between fashion and art with sculptural footwear.

Philipp Rossmann - October 22, 2020

General

Christo in Vienna

A chance encounter with Christo and Jeanne Claude, the artists who once planned to wrap up one of Vienna’s Flakturm in a giant gauze.

Dardis McNamee - June 7, 2020

Online

Klimt Portrait Passes the Test

The famed Austrian painter’s recently recovered “Portrait of a Woman” is confirmed as the one stolen from an Italian museum over two decades ago.

Dardis McNamee - February 5, 2020

General

Wien Modern III | Anything That Moves

I guess human beings will always pay attention to anything that moves. Or makes noise. In fact, I paid attention to people doing both for more than an...

Cynthia Peck - November 7, 2019

Online

Wien Modern Erupts

The opening concert of Vienna’s festival of new music kicks off five weeks of contemporary sounds.

Cynthia Peck - November 4, 2019

Art

Cultural Whale or Fish out of Water?

You couldn’t miss it if you tried. After the vast vineyards, golden sunflower fields, apricot trees heavy with fruit and century-old farmhouse...

Katharina Groeblinger - September 29, 2019

How To

How To… Become an Art Collector

The scene may feel like an impenetrable world from the outside. In truth, it’s within any art lover’s reach. The trick is knowing where to look – and how.

Aline Lara Rezende - September 26, 2019

Out of Town

A Charming Tour of Krems | Wine, Music & Art

Sleepy little town on the Danube – or hotbed of political intrigue and architecture? Surrounded by vineyards and just an hour from Vienna, Krems is both.

Simon Ballam - July 15, 2019

Culture

Popular Movement

Ever since its inception, Impulstanz has grown in reach and output while welcoming all ages, all levels, all bodies. The expansive world of contem...

Sam Jackson - July 2, 2019

Culture

Performing Private Parts

Thiasus’ production of The Vagina Monologues brings real-life stories about the joys and sorrows of femininity to Vienna. When The Vagina Monologue...

Sam Jackson - May 13, 2019

Culture

A Hello to Arms | Rojava at the Volkstheater

Rojava offers lessons on love, life and death from the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria Rojava, the self-described autonomous admi...

Naomi Hunt - April 24, 2019

Culture

Challenging Conservatism

Christophe Slagmuylder, the new artistic director of the Wiener Festwochen, presents his first program.

Bart de Vries - February 26, 2019

Culture

Quotable Quotes | Architecture

Every month, we list up a bunch of quotes that we like. Here are our best quotes about architecture:

The Editors - August 24, 2018

Art

Must-See Art Events This Month

Take a closer look at Claude Monet's impressive collections at the Albertina, and celebrate up-and-coming local and international art at the Vienna De...

The Editors - August 24, 2018

Culture

Local Finds | Architecture

Whether it’s with handmade leather crafts, a hot new fashion emporium or tiny houses for everyone, this month’s local finds make it easy to express yo...

The Editors - August 24, 2018

Art

Revealing Spaces

At the Architekturzentrum Wien, the exhibits are just the tip of the iceberg. If you can’t make it to Kannikegården this month to see Lundgaard &...

Andrew Standen-Raz - August 23, 2018

Art

Buying Art for the First Time | An Essential Guide to Viennese Etiquette

Metropole and viennacontemporary join forces to help new buyers navigate the local art scene in style When you visit the sauna for the first time...

Lisanne Brouwer - July 16, 2018

Culture

A Tale of Two Sisters

Follow big and little sister on a break-in! The destination: Artist Hannes Mlenik’s Arch in the Vienna Prater Ateliers. Once inside, the sisters con...

Lana Sharp - July 6, 2018

Art

A Golden Age for Gentle Radicals | Josef Hoffmann & Koloman Moser

The cruelest punishment imaginable,” said the Viennese modernist architect Adolf Loos, “would be to be locked up in a prison cell decorated by Josef H...

Simon Ballam - June 30, 2018

Culture

“Supersaturated with Electricity” | Anticipation for Arnold Schönberg Anniversary Exhibi...

Twenty years of the Arnold Schönberg Center and an exhibit on Jung-Wien, Vienna’s fin-de-siècle creative wave “New music is never beautiful on fi...

Cynthia Peck - May 28, 2018

June 2018

The Female Gaze | Florentina Pakosta’s Retrospective at the Albertina

The combative artist gets a large retrospective There is no denying that throughout the history of art, the bulk of works has come from men who p...

Lisanne Brouwer - May 28, 2018

Art

Wow! Or Never | The Heidi Horten Collection

The Heidi Horten Collection at the Leopold Museum spins recent art history into an aesthetic narrative. Imagine a greatest hits collection of 20t...

Gautam Babbar - May 17, 2018

Art

Elina Brotherus Is Coming to the Kunst Haus Wien

The noted contemporary photographer Elina Brotherus blends formality with playfulness. Autobiographical and perfectionistic, Elina Brotherus’ m...

Mahnoor Jalal - March 2, 2018

Art

The Albertina is Paying Tribute to Keith Haring in a Retrospective until June 24th

A tribute to the artist,  from graffiti to the Guggenheim. One of the most recognized artists of the 1980s, Keith Haring channeled ancient cave...

Leonie Binder - March 2, 2018

Art

Klimt in Virtual Reality | See Frederick Baker’s Klimt’s Magic Garden at the MAK

Frederick Baker’s tour de force Klimt’s Magic Garden premiers a work and a technology. This is not the Klimt that launched a thousand place mat...

Simon Ballam - March 2, 2018

City Life

How the Akademie der Bildenen Künste has Turned Generations of Students Into Masters of the Visual A...

The Akademie der bildenden Künste has helped turn generations of students from all over the world into masters of the visual arts. Behind the h...

Susanne Gottlieb - March 2, 2018

Science & Technology

Art Ex Machina | When AI Enters the Studio

As robots and AI pervade our living rooms and workplaces, will they also hold the mirror up to our lives?

Andrew Standen-Raz - March 1, 2018

Cover Stories

The Birth of Modernism | 100 Years of Artistic Excellence and Revolution

On this centennial of the deaths of four Viennese masters, the city looks back on the birth of modernism and a vision of the “total work of art,” an e...

The Editors - March 1, 2018

News

Stats | Art in Austria | March 2018

The Editors - March 1, 2018

Opinion

Opinion | Moralism & the Arts

Just as we should not condemn a work of art because of the artist’s private behavior, we should also be careful about applying norms of social respect...

Ian Buruma - March 1, 2018

Blog

Editors Letter | To Every Art its Freedom | March 2018

Art is always of its time, and the best of it, timeless. From classical portraiture to contemporary installations, visual art recreate...

Margaret Childs - March 1, 2018

Vienna Legal

Vienna Legal | The Lady in Gold

Great art has the power of legend. So it’s perhaps not surprising that one of the most spectacular legal disputes in post-war Austria was over the “Th...

Christoph Krones - February 27, 2018

Art

The Westlicht Explores Polaroids in What Might Be Their Final Exhibit

Predating Instagram by several decades, Polaroid’s instant photographs were a hit from the mid-20th century up to the digital revolution, fitt...

Claudia Paccosi - December 1, 2017

Art

The University of Applied Arts Celebrates its 150th Birthday

A spawning ground for many venerable creators, the Universität für Angewandte Kunst (University of Applied Arts) – or Angewandte for short – i...

Corinna Berger - December 1, 2017

Art

In Heimat:Machen, the Volkskundemuseum Confronts its own Role in Shaping National Identity

The past is only foreign if you deny its powerful impact on the present Thanks to fresh research by curators Birgit Johle...

Andrew Standen-Raz - November 30, 2017

Art

Vienna’s New Weltmuseum Takes You Around the World in 14 Rooms

The Weltmuseum revises our approach to ethnology while celebrating our diversity As the world changes, so do our perspect...

Christopher Puhm - September 28, 2017

International

Visiting Adele Bloch-Bauer at the Neue Galerie in NYC

The Old World has no claim to great European art. A magnificent gallery showcases Vienna’s treasures in the Big Apple Europeans like to believe t...

Simon Ballam - August 30, 2017

Art

Rediscovering Raphael: The Italian Master Returns to the Albertina

A new show on the Renaissance polymath demonstrates the creative process of a genius Mentioned in the same breath as Leonardo and Michelangelo, R...

Robert Tunn - August 30, 2017

Melange

Christoph Thun-Hohenstein on Design for the Neo-Biedermeier age

MAK director Christoph Thun-Hohenstein on the resonance of objects, digital humanism and how we can design our way out of the singularity Every...

Margaret Childs - August 30, 2017

Cover Stories

The Turbulent Times of Viennese Design

In Vienna, with so much arts and culture, design may seem like an afterthought. In fact, it's all around us, shaping how we live, eat and dress T...

Aline Lara Rezende - August 30, 2017

Art

Express Yourself! Unsung Austrian Expressionist Anton Kolig at the Leopold Museum

One of Austria’s finest expressionists receives his first major show in over 50 years With a dynamic and dazzling figural style marked by a fierc...

Magdalena Schwarz - August 30, 2017

Art

The Startling Rise of Viennacontemporary in the European art Scene

No longer in its infancy, Viennacontemporary asserts itself as the leading art marketplace in Austria The best art fairs offer a little something...

Genevieve Doyle - August 30, 2017

City Life

Why you Should go to Vienna Design Week

Vienna's Design Week is a feast of ideas that reveal the many ways design enhances our lives Given any traveler’s willingness to pay for charm, i...

Andrew Standen-Raz - August 30, 2017

Art

Raw art From Crazy and Untrained Minds at Museum Gugging

Art brut and its origins are laid bare at Museum Gugging. Amongst the many startling visions on display at the Museum Gugging is an unassuming pe...

David Mathews - June 1, 2017

Art

Edward Burtynsky’s Stunning Photography Shows our Impact on the Planet at the Kunst Haus Wien

Mankind’s effect on the mother nature captured by the renowned Canadian photographer In a journey of seven years that spanned five continents and...

Nejra Rizvanović - April 29, 2017

Stage

How the Wiener Festwochen are Breaking all the Rules in 2017

The Wiener Festwochen push the envelope with a new co-director setting the tone Being voted “most-livable” city can be a double-edged sword. Ever...

Andrew Standen-Raz - April 29, 2017

Art

Anoka Faruqee’s art Seems to Capture Time Itself at the Vienna Secession

Faruqee’s pulsating compositions make their solo debut in Europe Most revolutions turn stuffy with time. But the Secession certainly tries to cul...

Tristan Bath - April 29, 2017

Art

Albertina Exhibition Proves That Egon Schiele’s Drawings are as Good as his Paintings

The Albertina displays a different view of Egon Schiele's oeuvre. The cultural landscape of Vienna is indelibly marked by the work of Egon Schiel...

David Mathews - March 31, 2017

Art

Spanish Photographer Christina Garcia Rodero on View at Insituto Cervantes

Her unreleased masterpieces presented at new exhibition. One of Spain’s most renowned artists, Cristina Garcia Rodero approaches photography wi...

Nicolas Kristen - March 31, 2017

Art

Was Painter Carl Spitzweg the Erwin Wurm of the Biedermeier era?

A Leopold Museum exhibition juxtaposes the past and present with two artists famous for their satirical takes on everyday social norms. Somewhat ...

Nicolas Kristen - March 31, 2017

Music

Celebrating 200 Years of Teaching Music and Performing Arts

The University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (MDW) celebrates its 200th anniversary with a cascade of events Friends of mine used to live a...

Cynthia Peck - March 6, 2017

Art

Everything you Wanted to Know About Biedermeier Glass but Were Afraid to ask

Glasses from the Empire and Biedermeier Period documents a rising middle class and its search for its own aesthetic There’s nothing new about con...

Simon Ballam - March 6, 2017

Art

Vulgar Fashion

The Belvedere’s Winterpalais takes a walk on fashion’s exquisite ugly side exploring vulgar fashion Plunging necklines, exposed straps, emblazone...

Lana Sharp - March 6, 2017

People

Acquainted with the Night

Nychos is a rising star of the Viennese and international graffiti scene. He gave us a look into his life as a street artist from a beach in Maui, bec...

Ali Rabbani - February 6, 2017

Art

Film Stills: Magical Moments

Film stills as drama suspended, art as advertisement: Even if you’ve never seen the movie, chances are you know the image They are the indelible ...

Simon Ballam - February 6, 2017

Art

Georgia O’Keeffe: The Reluctant Icon

Georgia O’Keeffe stars in her largest retrospective outside of her home country Most people first get to know Georgia O’Keeffe through her volupt...

Dardis McNamee - February 6, 2017

Art

Franz West at the 21er Haus

The prolific artist’s collaborations with other notables underline the significance of participation A firm believer in communication and partici...

Jennifer Cornick - December 5, 2016

Art

That Clinking Clanking Sound can Make the World go ‘Round

The Money Museum documents the country’s history with cold hard cash Money is ubiquitous; after all it makes the world go round. However, for a m...

Nina Prader - December 5, 2016

Art

Sarah Morris. Falls Never Breaks

Visual artist Sarah Morris’ solo exhibition focuses on her cinematographic work No stranger to the weird of the everyday, painter and filmmaker S...

Jennifer Cornick - December 5, 2016

Art

The Color Woodcut in Vienna Around 1900

How the Vienna Secession revived an archaic technique – in brilliant color Exploring a lesser-known chapter of the storied Secession, Vienna’s fi...

Jennifer Cornick - November 1, 2016

Art

Hubert Scheibl, Austrian Contemporary Artist, Between Abstract and Bold art

The prominent Austrian artist redecorates the Belvedere’s Orangerie Celebrated as one of Austria’s most prominent contemporary artists, Hubert Sc...

Catherine Lankes - November 1, 2016

Art

Home-Field Advantage at Viennacontemporary

Nina Prader brings you her impressions of the viennacontemporary art fair Last week, you read her account of how Austrian artists repre...

Nina Prader - October 1, 2016

Art

Artist Martin Kippenberger, Enjoying One Last Laugh

Germany’s jocular anti-traditionalist genius returns to Vienna posthumously. Widely regarded as one of the most talented German artists of the late...

Genevieve Doyle - October 1, 2016

Art

Spot-On Masterpieces

The Albertina pin-points Pointillism’s meticulously methodical mark-making. Georges Seurat once insisted that, although some saw poetry in his pa...

Genevieve Doyle - October 1, 2016

Film

Egon Schiele – Portrait of the Artist

Egon Schiele – Death and the Maiden paints a picture of flawed genius. It’s always challenging to portray a beloved historical figure. Striking a b...

Binu Starnegg - October 1, 2016

Art

Shunga: Erotic Art from Japan

One of the foremost collections of erotic art from the floating world makes waves in Vienna. Despite countless attempts by officials to prohibit ...

Genevieve Doyle - October 1, 2016

Art

World Press Photo ‘16

Photojournalism’s finest comes to Vienna With the dissemination of images today moving faster than the shutter speed of a camera, it’s easy to fe...

Genevieve Doyle - September 16, 2016

Art

Vienna Contemporary 2016

Austria’s leading contemporary art fair presents emerging talent, highlighting collaborative new work from around Central Europe Showcasing both ne...

Genevieve Doyle - September 1, 2016

Art

Foreign Gods at Leopold Museum

The Leopold Museum unveils a fine collection of tribal art Serving as inspiration from the turn of the last century onward, African and Oceanic art...

Genevieve Doyle - September 1, 2016

Art

Metamorphoses on Canvas

Painting 2.0 tracks the art form and its adaptation to the information age At the exhibition Painting 2.0, the state of the art begins with its dem...

Nina Prader - September 1, 2016

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