Tag: Vienna

  • Tess Jaray: Thinking on Paper by Tess Jaray – book review

    With work from 1960 to 2000 reproduced as found, with rubbings and calculations, Jaray’s book offers a rare insight into the creative act

  • Klimt/Schiele: Drawings from the Albertina Museum, Vienna

    Commemorating the centenary of the deaths of two of Austria’s great modernist artists, this exhibition showcases 100 drawings on loan from the Albertina Museum and proves them to be far more than just erotic sketches

  • Photo/Politics/Austria

    Vienna’s museum of modern art presents a photographic journey through the past 100 years of Austrian history that reveals how images can change the way we remember events and eras

  • Bruegel

    Marking 450 years since Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s death, this staggering survey reunites a vast amount of work from the greatest Flemish painter of the 16th century

  • Make Me Look Beautiful, Madame D’Ora

    The Leopold’s breathtaking retrospective of pioneering Viennese photographer Dora Kallmus’s work provides a glorious, if melancholic, perspective on the turbulent times in which she lived

  • Gustav Klimt: Artist of the Century and Egon Schiele: The Jubilee Show

    The Leopold Museum in Vienna celebrates the work of two of its greatest painters, Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, with concurrent exhibitions that underline their enduring relevance

  • Cécile B Evans: Amos’ World: Episode One

    Cecile B Evans’s video transports us into the surreal world of an architect who believes he can build both a housing complex and a social structure. And by forcing viewers to watch from a dark cubbyhole, she draws us visually…

  • Klimt and Antiquity: Erotic Encounters

    Bringing together works by Gustav Klimt with pottery, sculptures and texts from late classical antiquity, this insightful exhibition charts the influence of the ancient Attic artists on the Austrian secessionist, in particular in providing material for the development of his…

  • Sleepless: The Bed in History and Contemporary Art

    This tightly curated and fascinating exhibition brings together nearly 200 pieces featuring beds used in birth, sex, illness and death, from a first-century advert for a brothel in Pompeii to a Tracey Emin four-poster

  • Carsten Höller: LEBEN

    Carsten Höller’s show Leben allows visitors to do more than just view the exhibits. From staying overnight in his robotically operated bed to immersing themselves in a flotation tank, the artist invites them to engage all their senses