Tag: #exhibition
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Capturing a labour of love
On Sunday evening, the exhibition “Ehrensache – A Matter of Honour” by photographer Jutta Fischel opened at the Fine Art Galerie in Traismauer. This fine exhibition pays tribute to 42 female volunteers in photographs. Fischel´s pictures are a touching portrait of these women and their diverse activities. They show the pride and commitment with which…
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Gregory Crewdson’s Haunting Images of American Life at the Albertina
A recent visit to the Albertina Museum’s Gregory Crewdson retrospective with fellow photographers, organised by the Prager Fotoschule felt like stepping into a world I already knew. As a big fan of Edward Hopper’s paintings and moving pictures like David Lynch´s iconic “Twin Peaks” series, I was instantly drawn to Crewdson’s staged photographs. Their meticulous…
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Heavy metal fashion
Imagine being weighed down by a suit made of iron or steel. Actually, as I was told during a tour of the current exhibition at Vienna´s Kunsthistorisches Museum, KHM, men wearing these metal carapaces were able to walk, run and jump in it. That must have taken some muscle power, in addition to agility, but…
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Majolica Magic
Yesterday was International Museum Day, so I am one day late with a museum post, but actually, every day is museum day, right? On Monday the MAK – Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna had a very special evening: Notte della Maiolica Italiana – Night of Italian Majolica. Why Italian? Because for one, the Italian…
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Renaissance Women at the KHM
At the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien you can currently still visit a very beautiful exhibition of luminous portraits of women dating back to the Renaissance, with works from several collections around the world. Titian´s Vision of Women is on only until 30 January 2022. I was lucky enough to be invited to see it before it…
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I see you in black and white
One brand-new exhibition at the Albertina Museum is a must-see for photography lovers. (Actually there is another one that I also recommend at the Albertina Modern, part of the Essl Collection, but more on that another time.) The new photography exhibition Faces. The Power of the Human Visage showcases works by photographers from the 1920s…
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Big on drawing
One brand-new, one that I almost missed, but thankfully did not: two exhibitions in black and white (and grey) are currently on view at the Albertina Museum. And wow, are they worth seeing! Shortly after Vienna´s museums re-opened after lockdown, I took the opportunity to visit Black White & Grey, an exhibition of contemporary large-scale…
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An Ode to Joy: Beethoven Moves
It is never too late to be moved by Beethoven. Ludwig van Beethoven spent a good many years living in Vienna, where he died in 1827, and he was without a doubt one of the great representative of the First Viennese School of the Classical period. Beyond being a great composer, he was also a…
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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…
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This is important
The impressive portraits by the German-Italian photographer Luigi Toscano of surviving victims of Nazi atrocities on Vienna’s Ringstrasse were damaged three times during their showing in Vienna. In these pictures Luigi Toscano confronts us with large-scale versions of the faces of contemporary witnesses, survivors of the Holocaust, with eyes that look directly at you, serious…
