On the occasion of upcoming panel discussion “Is There a Future for Museums?”, September 20 at MQ, Vienna, museum expert Paul Alezraa from Avesta Group talks about how to stay relevant for digital natives, embracing new technologies and forgetting about visitor numbers. Continue reading
Karola Kraus about collecting tradition in her family, her goals and mumok (Vienna’s Museum of Modern Art). Continue reading
In January 2014, the Venice-born art historian and internationally renowned curator Mario Codognato has headed the curatorial team of the 21er Haus assisted by Luisa Ziaja and Severin Dünser and now in charge of the Belvedere’s collection of contemporary art. We asked Mario about his plans and first impression of the Austrian art scene. Continue reading
Two of the most prominent solo exhibition spaces for contemporary art in Hungary: Ernst Museum in Pest and Kiscelli Museum in Buda. One of them is currently presenting its last-ever exhibition and the other has been in the focus of interest because of censorship issues. The two exhibitors, Eszter Csurka and Kriszta Nagy x-T, are … Continue reading
On Monday July 1, Vladimir Medinsky, Russia’s culture minister, announced that Irina Antonova, who was the director of the major museum of fine arts in Russia – Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts – for the last 52 years (from 1961 to 2013), would be leaving her post. Continue reading
“Incomprehensible!”, “Fantastic!”, “Boring!” Some were a bit confused, some amused, most people were curious about how the Kunsthalle’s director Schafhausen would start the new era of this institution with the festival What Would Thomas Bernhard Do (WWTBD) in Vienna’s Museumsquartier. See who was there and what happened at the opening… 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
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