A talk with the former director of the Belvedere museum, Agnes Husslein, about collecting art and the first-ever public exhibition of The Heidi Horten Collection at the Leopold Museum. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Gustav Klimt
Empty Museum | Leopold Museum
This summer I started a new series of posts for which I teamed up with the most active instagrammers and contemporary art institutions of Vienna. Explore the magic of the empty museum and see how it looks like when no one is around. Continue reading
Artists and Poets | Ugo Rondinone | John Giorno
Watch exclusive video interviews with artist Ugo Rondinone, who curated exhibition ‘Artists and Poets’ at the Vienna Secession and poet John Giorno, whose legendary Dial-A-Poem is part of the show. Continue reading
“It is Very Interesting to Look at a Space Where Artists are Chosen by Artists” – Sylvie Liska
Today, the Secession is one of the world’s oldest independent artist associations devoted entirely to exhibitions of contemporary art. I met Sylvie Liska, who is the president of the “Friends of the Secession” for 25 years to find out how the institution functions and asked her opinion on the contemporary art scene in Vienna, collecting … Continue reading