What are the reasons for unhappiness 100 years ago and now? What is Sigmund Freud’s relationship with sexuality? Why does the patient have to lay on the couch and the analyst sits behind? All those questions and more were discussed during the interview with Vita Zaman, the artistic director of VIENNAFAIR, and Bettina Reiter, a … Continue reading
“I layer one image on another,” says Przemek Matecki – and that’s precisely what he does. The adoption of the simplest of methods to juxtapose two seemingly incongruous languages, meanings, histories, or images leads to an astonishing and compelling conclusion.Can two opposing things be reconciled into a whole to create a new meaning? Continue reading
A few years ago scientists discovered that looking at art induces the same feelings of pleasure as being in love. In search for this feeling, I visited openings at the Secession and TBA21–Augarten. And I found it, as the exhibitions of Robert Irwin and Thomas Locher at the Secession and Cerith Wyn Evans at TBA21 were great. The guests … Continue reading
I was extremely excited to visit the headquarters of Lomography in Vienna. All my expectations were met: enthusiastic people, creative atmosphere, and lots of analog cameras and photos on the walls. While I was wandering around, our photographer Alexander Schwarzinger captured everything he saw, so enjoy our tour through the Lomography Society International’s office. They say … Continue reading
What makes people happy? Yesterday VIENNAFAIR TV tried to find out. I accompanied the film crew during the shooting of a new video series, which will be published soon on our blog. The weather was just as perfect as the locations. A swimming pool in Vienna’s city center, a museum in Sigmund Freud’s former flat, … Continue reading
The dresscode was NOIZ at this crazy and nois(z)y party at the legendary Viennese artist coffeeshop Café Korb. What fun! Check out the loud, flashy, and colorful party crowd … Continue reading
VIENNAFAIR 2013 turns its curatorial focus toward Austria, to its rich traditions and histories and its contemporary Zeitgeist. A series of research activities, talks, specially commissioned artworks, and performances will attempt to capture – and then rip apart once again – the elusive relationship between art and the psychological and even ethical state known as … Continue reading
If you ever felt the urge to visit a museum naked, this would have been your chance to do it – together with 300 other art lovers. It happened in the Leopold Museum in Vienna. Continue reading
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