Photo of Hannes Koch of rAndom International in his Rain Room at MoMA in July 2013. See what the artist collective rAndom International is up to next: Continue reading
Category Archives: Elsewhere
Welcome Andrea Hazen!
Andrea Hazen is a New York and Paris based art advisor with nearly twenty years of work experience in building private and corporate collections. She has also been a consultant for major brands on special projects relating to art. As a natural extension to her work as an art advisor, she shares her journeys through … Continue reading
Wim Delvoye: Artful Maverick
Art world prankster, art entrepreneur, and Belgian conceptual artist Wim Delvoye has redefined what it means to be an enfant terrible in the art world, which if you consider contemporary art these days is a pretty hard feat to master. Continue reading
Welcome Diana d’Arenberg!
Welcome Diana, an art and fashion writer and curator based in Hong Kong. She is a regular contributor to Asia Tatler and has also written for Harper’s Bazaar Singapore, South China Morning Post, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, High Magazine, The Art Newspaper, and Ocula.com, and has worked with clients such as On Pedder, Kotur, La Mouche Joaillerie, and … Continue reading
A Russian Look Around Venice
We can’t get enough of Venice! Every second year at the beginning of summer the art community from all over the world gathers in Venice to see the very best – and maybe also the worst – of art at the biennale. And so do I. Here is an insight into the national pavilions of … Continue reading
Christina Steinbrecher Visits Georgia
Following last year’s VIENNAFAIR The New Contemporary kick-off with a curated section of the VIENNA Quintet program in which Georgia played an important role and many artists came to Vienna, we promised to visit Tibilisi. By the end of May everything was set up for the visit! Continue reading
Vita Zaman Visits Venice. Part II
I stayed behind in rainy Venice to see the most talked about pavilion. Lithuania, of course (shared with Cyprus)! I say Olympic gold once more. The project is commissioned by Aurimė Aleksandravičiūtė and Jonas Žakaitis ( ex-Tulips and Roses gallery, currently Federal magazine) Continue reading
Imitation Of Life – We Visite Venice
Every two years we gather in Venice to be charmed and fooled by contemporary art once again. Vita Zaman and Antje Mayer found themselves among intimate strangers: art crowd insiders, curators, gallerists, politicians, oligarchs, hang alongs, gigolos… Continue reading
Vita Zaman Visits Art Basel Hong Kong
I travel to the land of shiny steel and glass and 0% tax. Instead I feel curiously melancholic about the inevitable globalization of the culture industry and finally encounter a real peasant within me. I can’t sleep and rediscover Jueju – the ancient agricultural poetry… Continue reading
Happy & Sad – Vienna Stories in New York’s Spring II
I met the Viennese ‘architectural society’ at an opening at the Austrian Culture Forum in New York and had a Schnitzel in the Austrian in-restaurant Edi & Wolf, where Hollywood star Diane Kruger and Ralph Lauren have been spotted. Read about a private party at Nin Brudermann’s (AT) artist loft in Williamsburg, NY in memory … Continue reading
How We Found Vienna & Happiness In New York’s Spring – Part I
Sigmund Freud, Winona Ryder, Erwin Wurm, Renée Price, Adrian Ghenie and Stefan Sagmeister in the Big Apple … A Sigmund Freud’s Fruit & Nut Bar – no, a Professor (!) Sigmund Freud’s Fruit & Nut Bar (see photos down under) – on a bench in blossoming Central Park loosens up my subconscious in the search … Continue reading
Vita Zaman Visits Prague
Under the kind invitation of Czech Centre Vienna and the director Martin Krafl, I travel to Prague, a fairytale setting par excellence, a sophisticated city where time does not seem to matter, but tourism does. I am trying to read The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (a native Czech writer) so I can be forgiven for confusing the memories of the trip … Continue reading
Vita Zaman Visits Iran
On the long flight to the presently lonely country, which venerates poetry as the supreme human faculty, I re-read my favorite childhood book “Laili and Majnun“ by Ganjavi Nizami: Love came and ransacked the house / And raised the sword of recklessness / It gave them sorrow and stole their hearts / Giving their hearts … Continue reading
Vita Zaman Visits Tirana
I landed in Tirana, the capital city of Albania with 433,000 inhabitants, and was spellbound by its hospitality, pride, and positive attitude. There was ample sunshine, and groups of men were in long conversations about serious issues while standing by their newly acquired luxury cars. Continue reading
Vita Zaman Visits Her Childhood City Kaunas In Lithuania
Kaunas is the second largest city in Lithuania and has historically been a leading center of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. If you go there you must visit the “M.K. Čiurlionis Paintings and Prints Exhibition” at the Čiurlionis Art Museum. Continue reading
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