Patricia Grzonka is an art critic, writer and architectural historian based in Vienna.
Opening to the Austrian far right’s national election victory, the Graz art festival’s many folk grotesqueries distill the brokenness of social modernity.
Opening her first-ever museum show at OK Linz, Pussy Riot’s founder sex dolls, fighting Putin over the uses of religion, and sublimating pain through artistic violence.
Curated by Cecilia Alemani, a retrospective of the late Estonian artist’s sculptures in jute, epoxy, and other materials once considered “non-artistic” buzzes with the erotic violence of autopsy.
In Linz, a playground of inflatables, wearables, and other whimsical inventions refresh the art and architecture group’s utopianism for our gloomy present.
