Tag: museum photography
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Gregor Sailer: Unseen Places
Gregor Sailer´s photos of empty places are sensational, but not sensationalist. In a major exhibition at Kunsthaus Wien (at Hundertwasserhaus) you can still view the exhibition until next weekend. Gregor Sailer lives in Tirol, his “quiet zone”, where he plans the often very complex and difficult photo tours to remote and hard to visit places…
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Ernst Haas – The Art of Seeing
Here is something not to be missed for photography lovers: Ernst Haas – The Art of Seeing at WestLicht Gallery in Vienna. I actually went to the exhibition opening last year, but am only now getting around to processing my photos from the event and writing about this great master photographer. But I wanted to…
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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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