Category: museum
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Up! Art at vertiginous heights
Up above the clouds so high, like a diamond in the sky… — Well, admittedly the art installation and view tower of HÖHENRAUSCH – Das andere Ufer in Linz is not quite that far up, but high enough to give you impressive all-round views over Linz and a chance at refreshment on a hot day…
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Call of the wild: biodiversity days in Vienna
In a couple of days, it´s time to visit Lainzer Tiergarten. On 8 and 9 June this lovely forest park in Vienna´s West will be hosting the 17th Vienna Biodiversity Day. This event is co-organized by the Vienna Environmental Protection Department (MA 22) as a contribution to the “GEO Day of Biodiversity“. (Actually, they…
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Giant hat pins and other fantasy objects: Gironcoli
The other day I was finally able to visit the exhibition Shy at Work, an extensive selection of works by Bruno Gironcoli at the MUMOK. A couple of these objects are on display in the public space in front of the MUMOK – you can´t have missed them if you have passed through the Museumsquartier…
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Abstracting nature – variations on a photographic theme
Something a little different today. Last Saturday, in glaring sunshine, I participated in a thematic photo walk along the Donaukanal near Kunsthaus Wien – Museum Hundertwasser. From time to time the museum offers photo walks based on themes in their current exhibitions. “Some Plant Volatiles” by Hamburg-based photographer Jochen Lempert provided the foundation for Saturday´s…
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Our city! – The city without?
73 years. A lifetime. Just one lifetime. That is how long (or short) ago the liberation of the Austrian concentration camp at Mauthausen took place, on 6 May 1945 – one of several such death camps for people of Jewish heritage and other groups whom the terror regime of the National Socialists considered undesirables. So…
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Observing collectors of the exotic
Missionaries – mercenaries – ethnographers – tourists… One might say that collecting things is a basic human urge. Some people collect clocks, antique books, vintage clothing, rubber ducks, bottle tops, even umbrella sleeves (!) – you name it, somebody will surely be collecting it. (I personally admit to an out-of-control collection of (artificial) birds…
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Art in the aftermath of war – a special angle on two current exhibitions at the Belvedere
Last Friday I finally had the chance to attend an expert tour at the Belvedere again. The Belvedere has an outstanding programme of guided tours by curators and historians, and I try to go as often as I can (which, given my schedule lately, is less often than I would like). The excellent art history…
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Monstrous machines and biting dogs – Keith Haring´s Alphabet at the Albertina
Keith Haring is perhaps best known for his funky cartoons of happy babies with halos and line drawings of Mickey Mouse look-alikes. At first glance his use of garish colours and popping black silhouettes gives the impression of a happy cartoon world. What you can buy on buttons and T-shirts are often his happier motifs. …
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Going wild at the Leopold Museum
Wow! The Heidi Horten Collection exhibition at the Leopold Museum is aptly named. It really is superb. Last week @igersaustria.at organized a special photo tour of the exhibit. What an impressive private collection! One really has to be grateful to Heidi Goëss-Horten for making such masterpieces available for public viewing for the first time.…
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Tonight´s the night: LNF18 at Vienna´s Natural History Museum
A favourite of mine, the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien will open its doors to the public for free this evening. It is one of the many LNF18 venues presenting fascinating insights into the world of science and research this evening from 5 pm to 11 pm. Did you know that the NHM is more than a…
