VIENNAFAIR is considered as the most important art fair for contemporary art in Austria. Hanna Nitsch, Aaron-Block (2009) The sixth edition of VIENNAFAIR (May 6-9, 2010) was aiming to strengthen Vienna's posit...

VIENNA ART WEEK 09

2009.11.27　 Text: Daniel Kalt from AUSTRIANFASHION.NET

A notable art initiative celebrates its fifth anniversary in the Austrian capital. In a way, the art world is a creative business just like any other – we can think of design, film, theatre, fashion etc. –, at leas...

CULTURAL CAPITAL LINZ09

2009.9.10　 Text: Daniel Kalt

In 2009, Linz will be a capital of culture and a host within Europe. A motto frequently associated with Linz, the capital of the province of Upper Austria and the country's third largest city, is the short rhyme In...

VIENNAFAIR 2009

2009.5.13　

As capitals and "second cities" all over the globe struggle for recognition as creative hubs, Vienna has one very important asset to count on. Situated at the heart of Central Europe, the Austrian capital does well in...

DIAGONALE 2009

2009.3.12　

The festival of Austrian film takes place in Graz from March 17 – 22. Now in its eleventh year, Diagonale is the festival of Austrian film and attracts everybody who is somebody in Austrian film-making to the the c...

VIENNA ART WEEK 08

2008.11.22　

Audacious art venture in Austria. Excuse us, but has anybody ever given the pitiable flock of art lovers, fashionistas and design aficionados a caring thought? With fashion, art and design weeks popping up like mushr...

VIENNA FORUM

2008.3.11　

Vienna Forum to Fight Human Trafficking There’s increasing political talk about “sex workers”. Front-page articles deal with prostitution, sexual violence and even murder. But while listening to our politicians and ...

BLICKFANG WIEN 2007

2008.1.25　

A few fresh and funny ideas caught my eye. Food-Bowl by Pulpo Design freaks like myself gathered at the opening of the fourth Blickfang, an international furniture fair in the Vienna MAK, in October. ...

LUXURY PLEASE

2007.12.14　

Luxury and beauty shows are en vogue. There are the ones for “the bold and the beauty”, such as Luxury please in Vienna’s Hofburg Imperial Palace; and there are the ones for the “mainstream”, such as La Donna in Vienn...

YOUNG ART AUCTION

2007.8.27　

A Symbiosis of Art and Industry Cristina Fiorenza - Grottole A handful of industrial Austrian players are trying to find new forms of art sponsoring to promote young and talented artists. And they seem to be truly ...

VIENNA JAZZ FESTIVAL

2006.7.5　

RAUL MIDON © EMI After a few extremely hot and muggy weeks Vienna still won't cool down. Thought it's been raining all day Viennese jazz fans can feel the heat again tonight at the opening of the 16th edition o...

CSI OTTAKRING

2006.6.5　

When Super Special Agent Uzgur, a dutiful civil servant whose ambitious goal in life is to fight against racism, sex and crime in Vienna's district of Ottakring and whose grim day-to-day adventures include broken co...

SHOPPERS MEET POTTERS

2006.4.5　

PC-game "World Snooker Championship 2005", SEGA Europe "Nice pots!" If you come to notice shoppers who seem utterly delighted at the sight of "pots" in the newly opened EUROPARK shopping centre in the lovely city of...

CHILDREN AND DIGITAL MEDIA

2005.11.4　

Do you have children aged between 0 and, say, 10? Are they into 'traditional', i.e. offline, games? Do they still draw on paper and read books or do they prefer to play with their electronic toys and interactive dev...

WE FEED THE WORLD

2005.10.4　

'Because food is something close to everyone, that everyone has to eat every day', says Austrian filmmaker Erwin Wagenhofer when asked about the topic of his latest documentary "We Feed the World". In Brittany, a...

CROSSING EUROPE 2005

2005.5.4　

Good news for film freaks: An exciting selection of innovative and multi-faceted European films is presented at the Crossing Europe film festival, which for the second time takes place in the Upper Austrian capital ...

WILLEM DE KOONING EXHIBITION

2005.3.4　

Willem de Kooning: Der Glaser Der Glaser, 1940, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Collection Thomas B. Hess, 1984; © The Willem de Kooning Foundation, ARS, New York, VBK, Wien, 2005 So there I was, walk...