This year our VIP Lounge was designed by a talented Austrian interior designer Theresa Obermoser of TO Interior Design, an award-winning interior design agency based in London. We talked to her about her influences and asked for some go to tips for Design lovers. Let’s start from the beginning. What was your path to becoming an interior designer? … Continue reading
Our partners at Aesop just launched Aesop Book. To celebrate our collaboration and this occasion, we interviewed their creative director Marsha Meredith on her understanding of design, its relation to contemporary art and her future visions for Aesop. Continue reading
In Linz, the highlights of art, technology and society comes together every year during the Ars Electronica. Along with other contemporaries like the LENTOS Kunstmuseum and bb15, Linz is the perfect place for a contemporary art stopover. See our list of recommended places to visit in Linz over the summer. Continue reading
Graz is the perfect location for an immersive and unique contemporary art and design experience. From the alien-like Kunsthaus Graz to the historical elegance of Schloß Hollenegg for Design, you will meet eclectic art collections that are curated and designed for its spaces. Get a glimpse of the contemporary art discoveries in Graz by reading … Continue reading
We put together a selection of the top locations for discovering contemporary art in Salzburg. Along with our favourite art institutions and galleries, take the Walk of Modern Art and visit public artworks by renowned artists like Marina Abramović, James Turrell and Brigitte Kowanz in an immersive experience through the historical city. Find out more … Continue reading
Our selection of contemporary art sites to visit in and around Klagenfurt represents how artists, gallerists, collectors and architects have found ways to merge art with nature. For Forest by Klaus Littmann will bring a forest into Klagenfurt’s Wörthersee Stadium this September and October. Moreover, Kunstalm’s Sculpture Park showcases a private collection open to the public … Continue reading
Innsbruck presents a spectacular destination for discovering contemporary art with some of Austria’s top art institutions like Kunstraum Innsbruck and Taxis Palais Kunsthalle Tirol. Experience James Turrell’s “Skyspace Lech”, one from a series of light rooms by the artist, developed in direct response to the area, its climate and specificities. See more on Innsbruck’s contemporary … Continue reading
Vorarlberg is in no doubt famous for its architecture paired with contemporary art. In a symbiotic relationship between the two, Kunsthaus Bregenz designed by Peter Zumthor offers a unique art program in its light flooded exhibition spaces that is not to be missed. Additionally, Bosnian artist Azra Akzamija’s wood curtain at the Islamic Cemetery references … Continue reading
For the 58th Venice Biennale, 79 pavilion’s from all over the world examine what it means to be living in our times, inquiring on the course of human events in its utmost complexity. May You Live In Interesting Times, the title of the 2019 Art Exhibition, is a paradox in itself evoking the challenges we face that … Continue reading
Our curator for this years ZONE1, Victoria Dejaco, visits Cetate Arts Danube and shares her impressions on her extraordinary experience with art that speaks and references its environment. Continue reading
The Vienna Business Agency offers a two-week program taking place from September 25th – October 09th 2018. It intends to provide creative companies and startups from BEIJING, BERLIN, DUBAI, NEW YORK, LONDON, PARIS, SHANGHAI, TEL AVIV and WARSAW an insight into the Viennese creative and cultural industries scene and help them to explore business opportunities … Continue reading
Last weekend I visited the sixth Biennale Gherdëina in Ortisei, located in the heart of South Tirol. The exhibition under the title “Writing the Mountains” is curated by Adam Budak and features seventeen contemporary artists with new commissioned works spread across the beautiful mountain landscapes as well as in the center of the village. Continue reading
Ten emerging international curators, part of BLOCKFREI‘s annual curators-in-residence program Curators’ Agenda, visited viennacontemporary. Here’s what impressed them the most. Continue reading
Curator and artist Walter Seidl writes about collecting conceptual art from Eastern Europe presented at this year’s edition of viennacontemporary. Continue reading
Driving Radical Change – How Fast Are Startups Transforming the Arts? Open Austria and viennacontemporary host a panel discussion on the future of CultTech moderated by Nellie Bowles of The New York Times on Thursday, August 24 in San Francisco. Continue reading
