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

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.

 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

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

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

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

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

 Marlie Mul,  You Look So Tired , 2021

Marlie Mul, You Look So Tired, 2021.

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.

 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

Margaux Williamson at White Cube, London

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

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

By Max Henry

Installation view "Porous Feedback"

 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

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.

 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

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.