Vienna

 Emanuel Layr, Henrikke Nielsen, Sophie Tappeiner; Photo by Katharina Gossow

Emanuel Layr, Henrikke Nielsen, Sophie Tappeiner; Photo by Katharina Gossow

With the country still in lockdown, three Vienna galleries – Emanuel Layr, Croy Nielsen, and Sophie Tappeiner – came up with a new format for an art fair set in the conference halls of a popular hotel in the Austrian capital.

 Whitney Claflin, Writer’s Block , 2023, vinyl on plexiglass, stretchfoil; four panels, each 119 x 119 cm. Courtesy: the artist and DREI, Cologne

Whitney Claflin, Writer’s Block, 2023, vinyl on plexiglass and stretchfoil. Installation view, Galerie Layr, Vienna, 2023. Courtesy: the artist and Drei, Cologne

Ringing out the summer, the Viennese art world’s own Philip Marlowe, Max Henry, sleuthed across the hardboiled city, looking for the traces of the evasive Neutral.

 Anna-Sophie Berger,  Untitled, Alexander Berger 1979 , 2023, C-print, 162.6 x 106.6. cm. Courtesy: Anna-Sophie Berger and Emanuel Layr, Vienna. Photo: Kunstdokumentation

Anna-Sophie Berger, Untitled, Alexander Berger 1979, 2023, c-print, 162.5 x 106.5 cm. All images courtesy: the artist and Emanuel Layr, Vienna. Photos: Kunstdokumentation

Is legibility in art a violent demand? During her latest solo show at Emanuel Layr, Vienna, Anna-Sophie Berger spoke about bad faith, harmful language, and fashion’s rapport with death.

 Portrait of Milo Rau

Portrait of Milo Rau. Photo: Daniel Seiffert

Wiener Festwochen’s new artistic director unpacks Vienna’s relationship with being provoked, making grotesque demands onstage, and the theater as a total democracy.

 All images: Marina Otero, FUCK ME , 2020

All images: Marina Otero, FUCK ME, 2020

Between performances at Vienna’s ImPulsTanz, the Argentinian choreographer of several confrontational autofictions recounts bringing diaries into her dramaturgy and learning to work within the limits of her own body.

 Doris Uhlich,  more than naked , 2013 © Bernhard Müller

Doris Uhlich, more than naked, 2013 © Bernhard Müller

On 6 July, ImPulsTanz opens with a free, 10th-anniversary performance of Doris Uhlich’s more than naked. Ahead of the opening, the Austrian choreographer speaks about the aesthetics and politics of nudity and trying to be faster than the beat.

 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.

 Nilbar Güreş, Mayzu , 2022. Courtesy: the artist and mumok, Vienna. Photo: Oliver Ottenschläger

Nilbar Güreş, Mayzu, 2022. Courtesy: the artist and mumok, Vienna. Photo: Oliver Ottenschläger

A group exhibtition at mumok, Vienna invited artists to pair their work with objects from the museum collection, briefly reversing the flows of power at the heart of modernism.

Views of Sanja Iveković, “Works of Heart (1974–2022),” Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, 2022. All images courtesy: the artist and Kunsthalle Wien. Photos: Boris Cvjetanović

Tea Hacic-Vlahovic takes in 50 years of Sanja Iveković’s irreverent polymathy at Kunsthalle Wien, from fake-masturbating above Tito’s motorcade to publishing her mother’s poems.

 View of “Love Language,” Croy Nielsen, Vienna, 2023. All images courtesy: the artist and Croy Nielsen, Vienna. Photos: Kunst-dokumentation.com

View of “Love Language,” Croy Nielsen, Vienna, 2023. All images courtesy: the artist and Croy Nielsen, Vienna. Photos: Kunst-dokumentation.com

5☆ is back! Maximilian Geymüller drops by Croy Nielsen, Vienna to see Sandra Mujinga’s follow-up to her Preis-der-Nationalgalerie exhibition.

 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.

 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

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

 Deborah Hazler,  That Rant and Rave,  2020. Photo: Franzi Kreis

Deborah Hazler, That Rant and Rave, 2020. Photo: Franzi Kreis

Performance artist Deborah Hazler elevates grumbling – about everything from cruel politicians to cat videos – to the level of fine art at ImPulsTanz 2021.

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

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

 Photo: Didi Sattmann

Photo: Didi Sattmann

A conversation between Matthias Lilienthal and Anselm Franke about Christoph Schlingensief's "Please Love Austria!" (2002)

 Franz West Tragbild Franz  (1970)

Franz West
Tragbild Franz (1970)

Julie Ryan reports from the opening

"Schreibtischuhr" (installation view, 2017)
Photo: Marcel Koehler; Courtesy Meyer Kainer, Wien
curated by John Rajchman, artists selected by Liam Gillick, Galerie Meyer Kainer

Ahmet Öğüt
The Swinging Doors, Turkey Edition (2009)

"Schreibtischuhr" curated by John Rajchman, artists selected by Liam Gillick, Galerie Meyer Kainer

Left to right:

Pilar Quinteros
Janus ́Fortress (2017)
James Webb
31 Visions of the Afterlife (2015) 
James Webb
Entitled (Vienna) (2017)

"Home is so fucking complicated" curated by Samuel Leuenberger, Galerie Nathalie Halgand

A review by Max L. Feldman

 Laura Windhager and Oliver Croy

Laura Windhager and Oliver Croy

From a gallerist's perspective: Laura Windhager and Oliver Croy discuss the new Viennese art scene

Artists Joey Holder, Merike Estner, curator Maria Arusoo, artists Kolbeinn Hugi, Kris Lemsalu, and Georg Kargl Fine Arts' Fiona Liewehr

Georg Kargl Fine Arts curated by Maria Arusoo

Photo: eSeL

Artwork by Elías Adasme

Kerstin Engholm Gallery curated by Heike Munder

Photo: eSeL

Installing HH Lim's work Lao Tzu said, 2016

Christine König Galerie curated by Giulia Ferracci

Photo: eSeL

 Portrait Cory Scozzari

Cory Scozzari

Some recommendations from Jupiter Woods’s Cory Scozzari

 Vincenzo Della Corte

Vincenzo Della Corte

Vin Vin in Vienna

The theme and participants for curated by_vienna 2016 have been announced. The 8th edition of the gallery festival starts on September 8 and invited Diedrich Diederichsen to write the essay that gives the project its title.

 Photo: Lisa Ruyter

Photo: Lisa Ruyter

An obituary for Tamuna Sirbiladze, the widow of the late Franz West, who has now also passed away.

 Untitled , 1997, Franz West & Heimo Zobernig Installation view Fundação de Serralves, Porto Photo: Archiv HZ

Untitled, 1997, Franz West & Heimo Zobernig
Installation view Fundação de Serralves, Porto
Photo: Archiv HZ

No art without alcohol. The artists' bar has a rich history in Vienna, more than perhaps anywhere else. Why do artists not only build but also go so far as to run bars themselves? Why do we give in again and again to the dubious charms of bars? With an introduction by Thomas Miessgang.

 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.

 Calanque de Sugiton

Calanque de Sugiton

The Swiss artist on temporary studio situations and swimming

The Vienna-based artist talks about Wilhelm Busch and home improvement

 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.

 "There and Back“, Skånes Konstförening, Malmö 2010

"There and Back“, Skånes Konstförening, Malmö 2010

Portrait Christian Falsnaes

 In the crater in Görlitzer park

In the crater in Görlitzer park

And the city that saved his life

Wherein lies the happiness of wage labour?

 Daniel Hoesl

Daniel Hoesl

The idiosyncratic, low-budget productions of Austrian filmmaker Daniel Hoesl narrate exemplary disruptions and upheavals with mischievous and post-heroic defiance of standardized milieus. Following eight shorts, Soldate Jeannette is the media arts graduate’s first feature-length film. The film, which has won international awards, revolves around two women, each running away from something, who meet at a countryside bowling alley: Fanni, who hails from the upper middle class, is broke and seeks to escape the strictures of a life ruled by money; Anna, the younger woman, can no longer bear the machismo on the farm.