We postpone out of solidarity! We postpone the VIENNA ART TALK “The Opportunities of the Crisis - Art World after Corona”, which was announced for tonight at 6 pm CET, by one week to ne…

Rituals might seem anachronistic nowadays – like messengers from other times and places, as though they were born of religious rites past, of the spiritual practices of foreign, perhaps indi…

Artists working in Vienna tell us what drives them, what they are currently working on and how they proceed. Exclusively for MEET THE ARTIST, they show their latest works while they are still …

Vienna's artists talk about what drives them, what they are currently working on and how they are doing it. Exclusively for MEET THE ARTIST, they show their latest works while they are still i…

VIENNA ART WEEK: How do you describe what you do to someone who doesn't know your art at all? Béatrice Dreux: It's painting. Neither objects, nor people, …

INTERVIEW with artist Christine Schlegel about her exhibition “Korrespondenzen: Bosch & Schlegel – Christine Schlegel: Reservat…

In MEET THE ARTIST, we are proud to present some of the artists, whose studios could be discovered during the Open Studio Days of VIENNA ART WEEK. Today, we’ll introduce you to Max Freund. …

In a big "SHOW OFF", the Viennese MAK transforms itself into a catwalk for revolutionary fashion designers linked to Austria. The works of 60 designers and 30 photographers offer an impres…

Vibrant, inspiring, creative like the city: that was Vienna Art Week 2019! https://youtu.be/lqk5uRzRhtU  …

Norbert Kettner, Managing Director Vienna Tourist Board, visited Lukas Pusch in his studio. Find out what Mozart, China and a cheap plastic violin have in common. You will also learn why the c…

As time goes by. The 15th Vienna Art Week is history – but what kind of history: with two days of Open Studio Days, more guided tours than ever before, sophisticated discussion panels, studi…

VIDEO: Studio Visit at Claudia Märzendorfer (Open Studio Day Exhibition Parcours)   https://youtu.be/cMv-i8jkE6g…

VIDEO: Studio Visit at Lois Renner (Open Studio Day Exhibition Parcours)   https://youtu.be/rB_bffnCsnQ…

Vienna was home to an elaborate forgery ring in the 19th century. Its mechanisms were not unlike those we see today. Authenticity is a key criterion in art valuation, but w…

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They haul bowels around by the bucket-load and allow blood to be poured over their bodies: scores of performers turn Hermann Nitsch’s actions into world-famous spectacl…

The Open Studio Days on Saturday, NOV 16 and Sunday, NOV 17 offer art lovers the unique opportunity to take a look behind the scenes of artistic creation and to have informal conversations wit…

Ron Nagle is known for his intimately scaled sculptures that combine traditional materials such as ceramic and porcelain with other materials, including epoxy resin an…

Architekturzentrum Wien (Az W) has devoted its major fall exhibition to Austria’s role in the Cold War. In an interview, curator Monika Platzer explains what architecture has to do w…

Highlight of the Vienna Art Week is the MAKING TRUTH Exhibition Parcours: 14 selected studios spread across the city will be connected to the rooms of an exhibition. The Exhibition Parcours Ta…

MAKING TRUTH is an exhibition designed as a circuit running through the Vienna studios of 16 selected artists. It is, in other words, an exhibition platform at v…

Unlike sculpture, which Eva Hesse (1936–1970) only started working with shortly before her death, drawing was a mainstay of the artist’s practice from the beginning. The Jewish artist of G…

Truth is made when existing historical and institutional conditions inscribe themselves in the order of bodies. The same can be said of that which is considered “true art” and is placed in…

“What [...] is truth? Worn-out metaphors which have become powerless to affect the senses; coins which have their obverse effaced and now are no longer of account as coins but merely as meta…

Großartig an bildender Kunst ist, dass nichts eindeutig ist. Ein hochkarätiges Kunstwerk wie das Porträt von Rudolf dem Stifter (1360–1365) oder die „Vierge Ouvrante“ (1420–1430) au…

Besonders in Zeiten der schnellen Verbreitung und schweren Einordenbarkeit von Nachrichten, ist die Suche nach der Wahrheit für viele Menschen allgegenwärtig. Dass Wahrheit und Lüge oft …