This Thursday, a retrovirus will be born in a cozy atmosphere of the SAMSTAG shop in the 5th district of Vienna. Her name is INFLUENCA and she will infect this town before spreading to the... Read on
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Ewa Stern
Founder and Editor in Chief
Film maker and globetrotter, whose home is everywhere she happens to be. Passionate about politics, art and society she looks at the world through her quirky glasses.
Photo: Helmut Prochart, collage: Barbis Ruder. © barbisruder.com
On a sunny September afternoon, I met Bastian Petz and Johannes Lernpeiss in Simmering Sonnenland to talk about their project at the WienWoche. Sonnenland is a 5000 m2 green areal... Read on
Gender Crash poster, Detail, photo: Julia Fuchs 2016
There was a time when Viennese and international artists met both on the stage and dance floor of brut, mixing performance, live music, drag and good old shake-that-booty party under... Read on
Sue Philis Baker © Ewa Stern
It was an amazing experience to witness the Club HØD Calendar shooting preparations. The hours spent in front of mirrors. Never mind the time preparing all the costumes and props. Here you can... Read on
Juergen Christian HOERL © JCHOER
On a sunny December afternoon I enter the atelier of Juergen Christian Hoerl (JCHOERL) in Vienna’s 6th district. I’m greeted by a delicious smell coming out of the kitchen and a chihuahua that really... Read on
Dutzi Ijsenhower Photo: Julia Fuchs © Club H.Ø.D.
When the end of the year drew near and the Christmas madness fell upon us with its kitschy markets, parties and shopping we thought about original and useful Christmas gifts and came up with... Read on
Anonymous, Graffiti on the outer wall of Marx Halle, 2015
This Autumn Vienna hosts two international art fairs within a space of two weeks. The old team of Vienna Fair, under the artistic direction of Christina Steinbrecher-Pfandt, changed the name to... Read on
Christina Steinbrecher-Pfandt Photo: Henk Jan Kamerneek
The first contemporary art fair in Vienna began in the spring of 2005. For the next 10 years it took place at different time in spring and autumn at the Messe Prater in Vienna's 2nd district.... Read on
Rio Rutzinger - Artistic Director Workshops & Research ImPulsTanz - Vienna International Dance Festival © Michael Duerr
As the Artistic Director of Workshops and Research ImPulsTanz, for the past 25 years, Rio Rutzinger has been involved with Vienna’s annual international dance festival, the largest of its kind in... Read on
The Albertina has long been renowned for housing one of the largest and most important collections of graphic arts in the world, with about 900,000 graphic art works, including around 50,000 drawings... Read on
photography: Helena Wimmer © 2015
On a sunny Friday afternoon in May, I’m sitting with Nicolaus Schafhausen in his office overlooking the Museumsquartier and the magnificent building of the Kunsthistorisches Museum. I hand him a self... Read on
Wiener Beschwerdechor © Oliver Hangl I Performing Public Art / Angewandte
The Vienna Biennale 2015 is the first event of its kind to combine art, design, and architecture. With cross-institutional co-operation, numerous exhibitions and projects, interventions and... Read on
Tracey Emin I Egon Schiele "Where I Want To Go" exhibition view Leopold Museum. Photo: Ewa Stern © Leopold Museum
In April this year a first comprehensive show of the works by Tracy Emin, one of the leading figures of the “Young British Artists,” opened at the Leopold Museum. Emin, whose work was greatly... Read on
Anna Vasof is a mulimedia artist based in Vienna. Vasof’s projects often unfold simultaneously as sculptures; performance in which the sculpture is the principle character, and then a video of... Read on
In the further reaches of Vienna's hip 7th district, a little workshop offers sewing and screen printing courses and much more for those who like to be creative with their hands. Those who already... Read on
Karim cooks photo by Franck Doyen
Karim Blanc moved to Vienna three-and-a-half years ago. He finds it difficult to tell where he is from. Born in Tehran to French parents, he lived in many different places during his childhood. From... Read on