Crosswise - x projects by arbeitsgruppe 4 The curators of the Architekturzentrums Wien, Sonja Pisarik and Ute Waditschatka, make an expedition through the world of post-war architecture in Austria. A retrospective of the projects of the “arbeitsgruppe 4“.

Constantin Luser - Music soothes the savage beast… Constantin Luser challenges us to enter the maze of his imagination: he corners us against the wall of our indifference and confronts us with the unavoidable question whether we will ever be able to escape. But escape what?

Prince Eugen - General, Philosopher and Art Lover An exhibition on the statesman and art patron Prince Eugene of Savoy-Carignan is currently open at Vienna’s Belvedere gallery.

A Feast for the Eyes - Food in Still Life When one feasts with the eyes, does one realize that one is consuming more than just food? An episode on the Augenschmaus exhibition at Bank Austria Kunstforum in Vienna.

Esra Ersen- Interview with the artist at the tanzimat Exhibition Esra Ersen is interested in the formation of identity and its transformation in different contexts or power structures. Her work "Carousel" was produced with high school students from Cologne.

Gulsun Karamustafa - Interview with the artist at the tanzimat Exhibition Gulsun Karamustafa is a contemporary artist and film maker from Turkey. In 2009 she was invited for an art residency by Augarten Contemporary.

Franz Kapfer - Interview with the artist at the tanzimat Exhibition Franz Kapfer is an artist from Austria. His interest lies in patterns of representation. In his work "Trophies" in exhibition tanzimat (Augarten Contemporary 21.1.2010 - 16.5.2010) he examines cliché representations of Turkish motives in Austrian architecture.

tanzimat - History is in the making Developed in parallel to the major Prince Eugen of Savoy exhibition at the Lower Belvedere, tanzimat examines the continual reorganization of historical constructs and devices that underscore the neverending project of modernity.

Christian Eisenberger - Estrangement and engagement Christian Eisenberger’s art work and performances often smack of insouciance, but, like a child and even more like an artist, his desire to engage is very real.

Open Space - Boundary Signal The boundary signal as a conceptual starting point for an interdisciplinary exhibition at Open Space in Vienna. An interview with Fatih Aydogdu.

Fiene Scharp - Hair out of place Fiene Scharp’s references to hair and skin confront us with our own corporeality and challenge us to place such normally mundane materials in a new context, not only in art, but in life as well.

Irene Andessner - Portraits of the Self Irene Andessner’s self-dramatizations are revivals of historical personalities that utilize memory as a source of reactivation.

Bawag P.S.K. Culture Sponsoring - Eyes on the Prize Timing is everything, and the Viennese Jazz Club, Porgy & Bess, could not have asked for better timing when BAWAG PSK stepped up as their newest cultural sponsor. A look at a mutually beneficial partnership

Parastou Forouhar - Solidarity We want to express our solidarity with Parastou Forouhar.

Uwe Dreysel - Takeaway Concert a Takeaway concert of Uwe Dreysel by CastYourArt.

Mirabilia, Furies and Curiosa - The Chamber of Curiosities at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna The chamber of curiosities at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, one of the most important chambers worldwide, will reopen in 2012.

Edgar Lissel - On the rise and fall of images Whoever leaves behind an image of oneself chronicles his/her existence, reflecting him/herself in this gesture. Photography and biography: the imagemaking art of Edgar Lissel.

New Viennese Violins - A Virtuoso Craft The virtuoso handicraft of violin-making nearly four hundred years after Stradivari. A view of the "New Viennese Violins" workshops.

Herbert Boeckl - Capturing the Essential Herbert Boeckl experimented to figure out which new possibilities on offer would preserve that which was essential. A portrait of the advocate of the Austrian Modern.

Restless Glance - Highlights of the Unicredit Group Collection. “Every work of art in the moment it is created is contemporary”, says Walter Guadagnini, curator of the exhibition “PastPresentFuture”, at the Bank Austria Kunstforum.

Warhol, Newman, Wool - 'Barney is now at another party' Kunsthaus Graz explores parallels between Warhol, Wool, and Newman and presents work that confirms the influence of American abstract expressionism on pop art.

Helmut Grill - Suspension of Belief As an artist, Helmut Grill pushes the complicit engagement of imagemaker and viewer to the limit. A portrait of the artist.

Utopia and Monument - On the validity of art between privatisation and the public sphere. What kind of validity can art attain between privatisation and the public sphere? An exhibition project curated by Sabine Breitwieser for the contemporary art festival "Steirischer Herbst".

Viennese Model Rooms - Can art create a livable space? Can art create a livable space? A podcast on the exhibition “Viennese Model Rooms” at the Orangerie, Lower Belvedere in Vienna.

art albertina - The Art of Drawing Austria’s newest international art fair, “art albertina - Drawings International Art Fair“, presents master drawings from every period.

Götz Valien - Undisguised Seduction As a “picture-maker”, Götz Valien is interested in the efficiency of pictures. He uses this effectiveness and at the same time exposes it—that is the agenda behind his picture-making art.

Deborah Sengl - A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing Deborah Sengl’s hermaphroditic cross-breeds between humans and animals arise from the unstable intermediate realm of fragile identities and precarious subordinate positions.

Michael Braunsteiner - Outsider Art. The Prinzhorn Collection Through the creation of a unique collection of works done by psychiatric patients, the art historian and doctor Hans Prinzhorn gave new value to "outsider art" and its creators.

Julius von Bismarck - Everything and nothing His inventions are not only exceptional on a technical level, they are also imaginative, confrontational, and critical of society--and unexpected at the same time. A portrait of Julius von Bismarck.

Wilhelm Scherübl - Transform His work measures the coexistence of the natural and the artificial and creates a classification of personal experiences of time and nature.

Michael Kienzer - "inter/medium" His view is one of pragmatic irony, the work of art without the narrative. A portrait of the artist Michael Kienzer.

Artspace - Shanghai In preparation for the upcoming EXPO 2010 in Shanghai, the city is now positioning itself in the artistic regard. An interview with the Galeristin Anne-Laure Fournier of Galerie 1918 Shanghai ArtSPACE.

Douglas Henderson - Visible Sound Douglas Henderson compares his work more with abstract painting than with composing. A portrait of the New York performer and composer.

Gertraud and Dieter Bogner - Collecting art, making ideas usable.  Achievements of the past made accessible so that one can develop the future. A portrait of the collectors Gertraud and Dieter Bogner.

Ariel Schlesinger - Poetic Destruction The magic of enchantment exists in transformation. A portrait of the Israeli artist Ariel Schlesinger.

Johannes Deutsch - The Invisible Garden How reality constructs itself when we forego that sense which determines our medial world in such a predominating way. A discussion with the media artist Johannes Deutsch over the Invisible Garden in the Museum Stift Admont.

The Bruce High Quality Foundation - Con Artists A young art collective characterized by highbrow hijinks. An interview with the Bruce High Quality Foundation.

Jan Peter E.R. Sonntag - The acoustic perspective of space and the nature of electricity. The artist Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag conducts science by way of art. A podcast on the tonal experience of space and raw electricity as the essential form of the media age.

Nadine Rennert - Nowhere to Hide Nadine Rennert’s early abstract work explores the formal possibilities of its material. A deep look into the soul.

Oswald Oberhuber - The Passions of Prince Eugen Oswald Oberhuber has created a site-specific installation which includes drawings, paintings, and sculptures thematically related to Prince Eugen of Savoy. A discussion about the exhibition with the artist.

Maria Lassnig - The Ninth Decade Portrait Maria Lassnig: “Soft as marmalade, marmalade out of blood. I’m batted and left locked out from the world of painting.”

Liselot van der Heijden - The Eyes Have It In Liselot van der Heijden’s installations, the viewer always plays an integral part in the set-up and passivity is not an option. A portrait of the artist.

Maria Teresa Ponce - The Present Absence Her search for certain areas and her willingness to expose herself to them is one of the strengths of Maria Teresa Ponce's work.

DHC/ART - Private Art Funding in Canada Private art funding. An interview with John Zeppetelli, curator of the DHC Art Foundation in Montreal.

Monica Reyes - Frühbar, takeaway concert An improvised mini-takeaway-concert featuring the vocalist Monica Reyes from CastYourArt

William Anthony - Comedy of Errors In William Anthony’s world, no artist is too high to be sent up. A portrait of the artist.

Nature - Creation is not finished! The border between nature and culture is a tectonic faultline of human self-understanding. A peek into the exhibition "Nature - The Creation is not finished!" the Museum at the Monastery of Admont.

Tomak - There is no pessimistic art There is no pessimistic art. Art affirms. Job affirms. A portrait of the Viennese artist Tomak.

Edek Bartz - Taking a Museum Director by the Hand. Sales are important, as well as investigation, orientation, discussion, and, in particular, building up good contacts. A discussion with Edek Bartz, the artistic director of Vienna Fair.

BAWAG - Young Meets New This concert series makes new interpretations of classical music accessible and introduces the kind of artistic interaction which transcends the borders of institutions, generations, and cultures.

Carlos Sandoval - Setting in Motion Sound design, sound speculation, improvisation, classical composition, and a combination of all of the above. A view into artist Carlos Sandoval’s world of sound.

Carsten Nicolai - Spaces in Between Overcoming the segregation of forms of sensory perception. A portrait of artist Carsten Nicolai.

MUSA - Museum on Demand We keep things on hand because they are important to us e.g. birthdays of friends, important telephone numbers, and sometimes, works of art. A visit to the Museum on Demand of the city of Vienna.

Shary Boyle - Heartburnt Porcelain With her porcelain figures, the artist Shary Boyle uses delicate ornamentation in the representation of contradiction and hybridity. A view into the manufactory of the fragile.

Francisca Benitez - Ephemeral City In an ephemeral city, Francisca Benitez discovers the human element of public space. A portrait of the artist.

Michael Braunsteiner - "Totally relaxed and somehow cooler..." Michael Braunsteiner is the curator of the art collection at the Privatmuseum Stift Admont. CastYourArt spoke with him about the museum's years of development and its contemporary art collection.

Karine Giboulo - 3D Comic Book Karine Giboulo’s artworks are miniature worlds, three-dimensional comics, fascinating documentations against the social production of moral invisibility.

Miguel Alvear - Tableaux popular Ecuadorian artist Miguel Alvear's photography and films originate from South American pop culture worlds and unearth buried layers of the collective. A Portrait.

Sam Auinger - A Hearing Perspective The sound artist Sam Auinger, in search of a new language of hearing.

Sense and Sentiment - Mistakes are closely followed by Effects When art moves people. Augarten Contemporary, which specializes in young art, highlights the power of sensation in an exhibition.

The Sanchez Brothers - Exposures of the Dark One can find among their works, that which one turns a blind eye to in life. Canadian photographers Carlos and Jason Sanchez reveal the dark side.

The Power of Ornament - An exhibition at the Orangery, Lower Belvedere Wherein lies "The Power of Ornaments"? The curator Sabine B. Vogel and the artist Parastou Forouhar answer at the Orangery, Lower Belvedere.

Robert Lucander - Picturing the Moment The Finnish painter Robert Lucander does not try to insert his own meaning, opinion, or views into his work. He is picturing the moment.

The Leopold Collection - Vienna 1900 The challenge of presenting an era of artistic development. An interview with Diethard Leopold about the permanent exhibition "Vienna circa 1900" at the Leopold Museum in Vienna.

Russian Video Art on the Fly Who are the players in Russian video art? An update by Antonio Geusa, curator and recognized authority in all things regarding contemporary video art in Russia.

Christian Niccoli - Lost in Perception Lonesomeness is what we share but does not bring us together. Photography and video works of the Italien artist Cristian Niccoli reveal the urban consciousness of young adults of our time.

Neue Galerie New York - Serving Memory Art and history can never be separated, and the Neue Galerie came into its own in the US based on this principle. A conversation with Scott Gutterman, deputy director of the Neue Galerie.

Georges Braque - Cubism at Picasso's Side A retrospective of Georges Braque, the Cubist who stood by Picasso, is now on display at the Bank Austria Kunstforum in Vienna. A curators view.

Josef Kleindienst - Become a Member "Become a Member" is an audio picture of a relationship that is formed due to an unexpected event. Text and direction, Josef Kleindienst.

Michel de Broin - Matters of Circulation When progress and efficiency holds back the world. A portrait of the Canadian artist, Michel de Broin.

Roy Kortick - al fresco Roy Kortick, the New York-based artist who brings the fresco, as well as other artistic crafts, into the new millennium, is inspired by both the cuddly and the profane.

Ahmet Ögüt - In Front of Your Eyes Art as a reminder of that which we already know, but have forgotten to notice. A portrait of the turkish artist Ahmet Ögüt.

Noah Fischer - State of the Art The artist Noah Fischer turns the ubiquitous monitor on its head, evoking a decidedly modernist, Duchamp-ian gesture. A portrait.

Eugen Lendl - Gallery owners come in many shapes and sizes … There's always a few good crazy ones, who dedicate themselves to empowering the commodity of art. An audio portrait.

The Nature Theater of Oklahoma A Portrait of the New York theater group, Nature Theater of Oklahoma, led by Kelly Copper und Pavol Liska.

Thomas Baumann – The Language of Movement Technology's original function, says Thomas Baumann, was to please humans and enhance their existence-a purpose which he attaches to his artistic work.

SIGNA – The Northern Complex Method SIGNA installs parallel worlds, replicas of the original, which have lost their historical and geographical attribute - habitable cartographies.

Stylianos Schicho - ... it's cold out here The pictures of the painter Stylianos Schicho reveal such instants of immobilization in which time stops, but at the same time, everything overwhelms.

Gordan Savicic - Lat 54.136696 Long 13.771362 The art of translation between virtual and real space. A portrait of RealGamer Gordon Savicic.

Füsun Onur - Silent Music "I never look back. When it's done, it's done." Her work is about realization. Approaching things without consideration. A portrait of the Istanbul artist, Füsun Onur.

Petra Eibel – On Art Insurance and the Liability of Art The art insurance expert Petra Eibel from Uniqa on the art of insurance in a changing world of art.

The Fotografis Collection- A History of Photography A glimpse of the Fotografis Collection of Bank Austria Kunstforum in Vienna and an overview of 150 years of the art of phtography.

Steirischer Herbst – A Festival in Search of Strategies of Avoiding Misfortune Misfortune comes in various forms, as well as the possibilities for avoiding misfortune. An interview with Florian Malzacher, program director of the festival Steirischer Herbst.

Franziska Maderthaner - shaken, not stirred Instead of reduction, construction, de- and re-construction, and bricolage prevail. Instead of strict exclusion, surplus of meaning. Franziska Maderthaner - a portrait.

Sweat – The Workshop "Sweat - The Movie", directed at the Impulstanz Festival in Vienna. A portrait on the workshop and movie.

Markus Wilfling – A Sculpture Is Something That Is Here. The transference of the spatial into the visual and vice versa opens up possibilities of the sculptural. Markus Wilfling, a portrait.

Thomas Hirschhorn - The Eye "The Eye" sees red, exclusively, at least in the exhibition of the Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn.

Panta rhei – On Transition and a Museum in Serbia’s Novi Sad. An interview with Slavko Bogdanovic and Ljubica Milovic of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Vojvodina, Serbia.

Bernhard Buhmann - Characters, Roles, Spaces His paintings display subjects which are, according to him, amusing themselves. A new phase begins, in which the figures recede, and space is not only relational.

Ulrike Truger – In the Way The sculptress, Ulrike Truger, has always positioned herself in the public with her art, in fact, she has often placed herself "in the way".

Götz Bury - Illusions Art can be critical of media and media criticism can be fun - hat's the message from "dream manufacturer" Götz Bury's. We visited him at his dream factory.

Fuckhead – This Beautiful Song This beautiful song is disturbing, at least as long as the hardcore performance group, Fuckhead, celebrates its progressive deconstruction in a big way.

Sylvia Ferino – Pears as Tearducts, a Corncob for an Ear An interview with Sylvia Ferino, curator at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, about the Renaissance painter G. Arcimboldo.

Heidi Popovic - The Unspectacular Life. Through pop poster images and advertisement that promise us that "everything is OK", Christian Pölzler salvages forgotten images and maps a modern political apocalypse.

Rita Nowak - Tableaux Vivants The artist Rita Nowak, based in Vienna and London, is carrying on the tradition of Tableaux Vivants, which she interprets in a new light.

Mankind at the Donau Festival The duo Mankind lives up to its name. In their performances, the human condition is audiovisually sketched out, improvisatorially explored, broken down, and, every now and then, destroyed.

Michi Maier - Witch Kitchen Painting leads one across a threshold. When Michi Maier passes this, he finds himself in a kind of "witch kitchen", in which he brews his art concoctions and breaks down the borders of our world of values.

ILA - Wer suchet, der findet nicht. Intensity can be fascinating. However, levity also holds a certain charm. The artist's name, ILA, stands for the sentence in German: einen Immens Langen Atem zu haben (literally, "to be long of breath", i.e. "to have stamina or willpower"). A portrait.

Marten Spangberg - Slow Fall The tool for the Swedish performer Spangberg is the body in relation to the world and space. His performances attempt to disembody that which we embody.

Leo Peschta - Maschinoid His "maschinoid" objects are interfaces between media worlds. They change our perception of space and the aesthetics of functionality and they fascinate us with their unique lives.

Hans Knoll - Art as a Form of Mediation In the art world, one thing leads to another-this is the principle by which Hans Knoll began his career as an art dealer, which remains his guiding principle up until today.

Thomas Reinhold – Empirical Science His eventual path to painting was a reaction to Viennese Actionism, against which he consciously set out a counterpoint. Thomas Reinhold refers to his painting as an "empirical science".

4shrooms - Analog Synergy in a Digital World Cut-outs from pictures of bygone eras appear under pastry plates, shadows of hands form letters over 16-millimeter film loops which go up in flames - in other words, analog visuals.

Alfred Weidinger - Oskar Kokoschka’s Expressive Art He was expressive, as a painter and writer, as an aspiring artist as well as a lover. Alfred Weidinger, head curator of the Belvedere Museum, spoke with us about Kokoschka.

Mara Mattuschka – My Heart’s Vibrator Her work lives to the fullest, her characters are usually naked and psychologically open-hearted. A portrait of Mara Mattuschka, video and performance artist, as well as painter.

Juraj Carny – Slovakian Perspectives Juraj Carny, Slovakian gallery owner, curator, and art critic, has been running Gallery Space since the late '90s. CastYourArt visited him in Bratislava.

Eva Jiricka - If I Couldn’t Do This, I Wouldn’t Know What to Do. "If somebody would come and wash my car, it would be nice. It would be nice, it would be done, but I wouldn't pay for it. Sometimes I think that for many people, this is the same with art." An Interview with Eva Jiricka

nomadSPACE - Art en route When art hits the streets. An interview with Ivana Madariová, curator of Nomadspace and “gallery nomad” in the name of art.

Rudolf Budja – Business and Passion He owns pictures which are usually only available to most in the form of cheap reproductions. CastYourArt spoke with the art collector and owner of the Artmosphere Galleries.

Lastplak - At The End The Wall Is Covered. Lastplak, a Netherlands expression for the last “gang” and the ultimate pest, call themselves the Graffiti Collective and hail from the Dutch port city, Rotterdam.

Albertina – Art after 1970 We visited the exhibition and gathered opinions on the museum and its exhibited works on location. Did it meet the liking of the public? Listen for yourself. . .

Cemal Gürsel Soyel – A Kind of Way of Life CastYourArt visited the Cyprus-born painter, Cemal Gürsel Soyel, in Vienna, and accompanied him on his way to his studio. The walk we take with Soyel leads us down the path to his painting.