Interview with the Contemporary Art experts Astrid Pfeiffer and Timea Pinter about the Phantastic Realists – Hutter, Hausner & Co.
Category Archive: Art & Culture
In the category Art & Culture you will find exciting stories and works by great artists and young shooting stars of the art scene. But also interesting articles about exhibitions around the world. You can also find book- and music recommendations, fancy videos as well as essays by Austrian writer Franzobel.
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This year, the award for the promotion of young artists, endowed with 10,000 euros, will be presented for the 5th time.
The exhibition of this year’s award winner Hugo Canoilas can be seen at the mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna until April 5, 2021 …
Have you been asking yourself this question more often recently? Could it be that, since the coronavirus, we’ve been paying closer attention to what really means something to us, what we want to keep in our lives and what we can let go of?
Big City. That’s the name of the latest and biggest piece of work by Austrian artist Alessandro Painsi, who has installed Denmark’s largest indoor artwork in an apartment building in Aalborg …
Mario Pricken knows what’s valuable, and most importantly, he knows why. The Stylemate spoke to him about the value of objects, good stories and how the value compass has changed as a result of the coronavirus …
The newly built art depot of the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam can be considered a work of art in its own right. The architects at MVRDV have designed a massive, mirrored “bowl” with trees growing out of its “lid”. This new building can be admired already – even before the art objects have been installed …
Just like the hydrangeas in Olga Wisinger-Florian’s work that went under the hammer in the most recent auction at the im Kinsky, the art market is blooming even in this period of crisis. We cast a glance behind the scenes of the Viennese auction house …
The materialization of colors is the origin of every work by Anna Virnich. On display are fine fabrics made of mustard-yellow crepe, silky taffeta in lavender shades and rectangles of wrinkled, coarse-pored nettle. In its radiance, a royal blue attracts all the attention of the moment, salmon-colored silk slides between crepe de chine and ultramarine …
Therefore I Am by Billie Eilish (Official Music Video)
Billie Eilish’s fourth single since the release of her Grammy-winning debut album WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? presents a play on the famous philosophical quote, “I think, therefore I am.” …
Although we live in a materialistic world, “things” have a surprisingly bad reputation: they are seen as dead and soulless, and inferior to the organic world of plants, animals and humans in every respect. Anyone devoting themselves too enthusiastically to “things” is quickly suspected of being superficial. You might find that somewhat hypocritical considering we all invest a lot of energy in the quest for beautiful and valuable things, and in order to buy them we have to earn that thing called money…
Kruder und Dorfmeister: new studio album “1995”
“Johnson” is the opener of the new studio album “1995” by Kruder and Dorfmeister – named after a sample by blues master Robert Johnson …
Perfection is fleeting, so we need to see the beauty in the imperfect – that’s how the Japanese live with their philosophy of wabi-sabi, according to which all things are charming, even those with flaws. But it hasn’t been possible to carry this idea over to people, because in the land of the rising sun, it’s still business as usual: pressure, perfectionism, success …
Catnapp – Down in the Basement
Capturing the jaw-dropping urge of her live shows as well as further refining her characteristic blend of rap and heavyweight electronic beats, Catnapp also challenged herself with exploring more complex emotions and subjects for this album …
Artist Martin Grandits is known as the “King of Irony”, and gives things like food, logos and beer garden benches a whole new meaning. We talk to him about value and being valued in life and in art.
Django Django – Spirals (Official Music Video)
“Spirals” is the name of Django Django’s new dynamic song. The new single is accompanied by a music video by Maxim Kelly, which takes the audience into a universe of psychedelic mandalas …
Michael Kovacek is one of the founders of the Viennese auction house im Kinsky and, as he will tell you himself, has dedicated himself “body and soul” to art. We discuss the thrill of the auctions, the passion for collecting and why record prices are always worthy of making the headlines …