What makes people happy? Yesterday VIENNAFAIR TV tried to find out. I accompanied the film crew during the shooting of a new video series, which will be published soon on our blog. The weather was just as perfect as the locations. A swimming pool in Vienna’s city center, a museum in Sigmund Freud’s former flat, … Continue reading
This year the Generali Foundation celebrates its 25th anniversary! Congratulations from The New Contemporary Blog Team. What makes contemporary art so popular? Primarily its visual power. Hence, it is not so common that a corporate foundation focuses on a niche, as it can be seen as an intentional counterpart to the mainstream. Conceptual art and … Continue reading
“Vienna has definitely more to offer than Jugendstil and Wiener Werkstätte,” knows Tulga Beyerle. She is one of THE design experts in Vienna and published a lot of specialist literature on this topic. As the director of the Vienna Design Week she provides a platform for design at different places all over the city – … Continue reading
Last Friday the MUMOK (Museum Of Modern Art) in Vienna opened its doors to the big Franz West retrospective “Where Is My Eight?” – a tribute to one of the most important Austrian contemporary artists, who unfortunately passed away last summer. Friends, colleagues, fans, and a lot of VIPs came to the event. Continue reading
Christoph Thun-Hohenstein is without question a big player in the Austrian art scene. From 1999 to 2007 he was well known as director of the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York. Later he came back to Austria to push the local creative industry as director of departure – the creative agency of Vienna. Since 2011 … Continue reading
