City of Images

EXHIBITION REVIEW: For the third year in a row, the small town of Baden near Vienna has become an outdoor photography gallery. Billed as the largest European photography festival, the exhibitions are spread all across downtown Baden´s streets and parks. In times of the Covid-19 pandemic, there could not be a more ideal setting for a “museum visit” than to stroll around in the open air, enjoying the outstanding photography and the greenery, stopping in between for coffee and cake in one of Baden´s many coffee houses. I visited on a warm September afternoon, when people were still lounging about on picnic blankets and in outdoor cafes. The exhibition runs until 26 October 2020.

A hymn to the earth in Baden

For the second year now, the city of Baden near Vienna is hosting the photo festival La Gacilly-Baden, and all over downtown you can feast your eyes on outstanding photo-art.  Huge photographs by acclaimed photographers from around the world grace building walls, line walking paths and frame baroque palaces.  If the charms of Baden aloneContinue reading “A hymn to the earth in Baden”

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 partContinue reading “Back to Krems for more”

A musical romance somewhere over the rainbow

At least once a year I visit the summer music festival in Grafenegg, Weinviertel, just an hour from Vienna.  This year I am visiting twice, because on Saturday I had the opportunity to participate in an instawalk to this great location.  Together with our Instagramers Austria host Oliver Oth an a group of fellow instagramers,Continue reading “A musical romance somewhere over the rainbow”