Category: photography
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“Genusswandern” – hiking and wine at the Wiener Weinwandertage
“Genusswandern” is an Austrian word invention that does not really translate – it means something like “pleasure walking”. Instead of wining and dining, this weekend you can wine and hike in Vienna. The annual vineyard hike has become a traditional “must do” for me and my family. This is the 12th time the City of…
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Back to Krems for more
The city of Krems near Vienna is a veritable hotspot for art these days, pretty impressive for a town of this size. (Krems has just under 25000 inhabitants.) Last Sunday Instagramers Austria organized another fantastic instatrip (I would call it “Krems reloaded”, since in early September we also visited some art exhibitions that are part…
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A river runs through Vienna
Of course, in Vienna, there´s the Danube, and its various side arms. But there is also the Wienfluss, or simply Wien (“Vienna River”), which, for the most part, is less than impressive, imprisoned as it is in its concrete bed. Over the past week I went to explore (photographically) some of its more natural sections. …
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Instawalking through a Mile of Art in Krems
Last Sunday I made a special day trip to Krems, less than an hour from Vienna, thanks to an Instawalk opportunity with Instagramers Austria. We spent a great day exploring the various exhibition spaces of the Kunsthalle Krems and the Forum Frohner. Kunsthalle Krems The Kunsthalle Krems-Stein in Stein an der Donau (municipality of Krems)…
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Born in Stars We Live on Earth as Poets
When walking through the Museum Quarter (always an interesting experience), it is worth looking at the walls. What caught my eye last night was this quote, ascribed to the British poet William Blake, on the very yellow wall of the “meteorite passage way” (Meteoritenpassage), close to the Volkstheater entrance of the MQ. It was a…
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Double pleasure at the Albertina Museum
Last week I had a chance to join Instagramers Austria again for a tour of the Albertina Museum´s latest retrospective exhibitions of two great Austrian artists: Alfred Seiland and Florentina Pakosta. Alfred Seiland Alfred Seiland is a photographer, but really I would call him a camera artist. Seiland was born in Austria in 1952 and…
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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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I (never) promised you a rose garden
But here it is… Spring sprang fast this year. Before we knew it, the lilac bloom came and went. But there is compensation: an explosion of colorful roses all around Vienna. This merry month of May, which at times feels like summer, seemingly everywhere your eye roams it is met by exuberant red, pink, white…
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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…
