Max Henry

View of “dellbrück,” Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, 2023. All images courtesy of Manfred Pernice and Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna. Photos: Markus Wörgötter

View of “dellbrück,” Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, 2023. All images courtesy of Manfred Pernice and Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna. Photos: Markus Wörgötter

The Hermit of Domgasse

At Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Manfred Pernice is sculpting with a new name but a familiar hardware reptoire, heaping up double entendres from scraps during a new war in Europe.

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Wait till the sun shines , 2022, oil on linen, 100 x 205 cm. Installation view, Belvedere 21, Vienna, 2022. All photos: Johannes Stoll

Wait till the sun shines, 2022, oil on linen, 100 x 205 cm. Installation view, Belvedere 21, Vienna, 2022. All photos: Johannes Stoll

Tell Me the Truth About Love

At Belvedere, Vienna, androgynous nudes lay around Stanislava Kovalcikova’s art-history-rich paintings as though in erotic limbo.

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View of “Sam Falls”, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Vienna, 2022

View of “Sam Falls”, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Vienna, 2022. All photos: Jorit Aust

High Plains Drifter

At Galerie Eva Presenhuber in Vienna, Sam Falls sows photographic exposures with plant and soil matter in lurid depictions of growth and decay.

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Robert Lettner Untitled (from the series “Kalte Strahlung”),  1972, acrylic on canvas, 160 × 188 cm.    Courtesy Wonnerth Dejaco and Archiv Robert Lettner  Photo: Peter Mochi

Robert Lettner, Untitled (from the series “Kalte Strahlung”), 1972, acrylic on canvas, 160 × 188 cm; Courtesy Wonnerth Dejaco and Archiv Robert Lettner; Photo: Peter Mochi

Days End

The recent Spark Art Fair and several new exhibition spaces in Vienna are generating buzz as the winds of change blow in the city.

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Installation view, "Franz Josef Altenburg: Block, House, Tower, Scaffold, Frame" (2021), MAK Vienna. Photo: Georg Mayer

Franz Josef Altenburg (1941-2021)

Remembering a landmark Austrian sculptor who shaped modern aesthetics with his own two hands.

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Marlie Mul, You Look So Tired, 2021.

Leda and the Swan

Liquid silk, pearl jam, primordial soup ... whatever your euphemism of choice, it's undeniable that we all come from it – so might as well make light of it, like Marlie Mul.

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Fire , 2021, Oil on canvas, 177 x 213 cm All images courtesy White Cube

Fire, 2021, Oil on canvas, 177 x 213 cm

All images courtesy White Cube

The Comfort of Strangers

Margaux Williamson at White Cube, London

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VIEWS VIENNA

Andy Warhol at Mumok, Hervé Guibert at Felix Gaudlitz, Lewis Stein at Vin Vin

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Summer Moon , 2020, oil on linen 170 x 140 cm

Jongsuk Yoon, Summer Moon, 2020, oil on linen 170 x 140 cm

VIEWS VIENNA

Michael E. Smith at Secession, Jongsuk Yoon at Galerie Nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder

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View of “... of bread, wine, cars, security and peace”

View of “... of bread, wine, cars, security and peace”

”... of bread, wine, cars, security and peace“ at Kunsthalle Wien

By Max Henry

Discourse

Installation view "KAYA V," Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna 2014 Courtesy Galerie Meyer Kainer Photo: Uli Holz

Installation view
Kerstin Brätsch and Debo Eilers, KAYA V, curated_by N.O.Madski, Vienna 2015
Courtesy Galerie Meyer Kainer
Photo: Uli Holz

Art and Money at the curated_by vienna

This years "curated_by vienna" addresses artistic strategies for a post capitalist era of perpetual crisis. From Bitcoin, to backroom selling, our writer explores what "Tomorrow is now" has to offer.

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Exhibition View Future Light: Escaping Transparency, MAK Exhibition Hall in the front: Bik Van der Pol, How Does a Straight Line Feel?, 2015 © Peter Kainz /MAK

Exhibition View
Future Light: Escaping Transparency, MAK Exhibition Hall
in the front: Bik Van der Pol, How Does a Straight Line Feel?, 2015
© Peter Kainz /MAK

Mission Failed: The Vienna Biennale 2015

The first Vienna Biennale aims to combine art, design, and architecture to generate creative ideas and artistic projects that help improve the world's problems. Maybe it wants too much. Our author puzzles over the problems of the event itself.