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The First Hit of PHANTOMAK
Opening, September 13 6 p.m., Gumpendorfer Straße 55, Vienna

Frida Kahlo’s work oscillates between self stylizing and radical authenticity, relentlessly facing the question of her female identity and at the same time touching the search for identity of an entire nation.

Kahlo’s Retrospektive can be seen at the Bank Austria Kunstforum from 9.09.2010 till 5.12.2010.

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When André Breton, during a visit to Mexico in 1938, thought having discovered the surrealist counterpart to the European avant-garde of his time in Frida Kahlo’s work, she briskly deemed her own painting anything but an escape. “I never painted dreams. What I painted was my reality.” To this, the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes stated in one of his essays: “Frida Kahlo reminds us permanently that the matter used by the French surrealists to make a system was always everyday reality in Latin America, part of the cultural stream, a spontaneous fusion of myth and actuality, dream and waking, reason and fantasy.” more »

Dealing with art institutions as well as private collectors requires the insurer to secure value, promote culture, and bring people together.

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Among its many branches within the insurance field, UNIQA is active within the the art insurance sector. Dealing with art institutions as well as private collectors requires the insurer to secure value, promote culture, and bring people together. The enterprise is therefore not just limited to providing insurance benefits, it also offers knowledge, contacts, and support, in order to make it possible for art and the art world to develop. We at CastYourArt have found in UNIQA a business partner whose commitment has made a number of our podcast episodes possible. In the following episode, we spoke with Konstantin Klien, CEO of UNIQA, and Petra Eibel, the director of art insurance department at UNIQA, two important representatives of the UNIQA art sector, in order to get their views on their company’s position, philosophy, services, and identity.

In the exhibition Now I See, the MUMOK in Vienna shows yet another retrospective of an internationally renowned Austrian artist. On display there is an overview of Brigitte Kowanz’ oeuvre, with a focus on recent years. This podcast was possible thanks to UNIQA Art Cercle’s friendly support.

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„We are in a constant process of translation“ ascertains Kowanz. “Perception is translation. Language is translation.” Kowanz concerns herself with phenomena eluding conscious perception. In this respect she was influenced by Paul Virilio, who dealt with The Aesthetics of Disappearance of “stable” images. more »

Artist portrait Hermann Nitsch. The fact that the world exists is primary for me. The art of celebrating existence.

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“I like not your festivals: I have found there too many actors, and the spectators also often behaved like actors” (Nietzsche, Zarathustra)

As social beings we are forced to restrain ourselves and to civilize our behaviour. Education means for the most part to accustom ourselves to the social space designed to optimize productivity. During this individual and collective effort to adapt, parts of us that are not suitable for everyday life are being pushed into the background. We establish ethical, moral and aesthetic taboos and channel our tamed wildness through idealized passion. Psychoanalysis calls this process projection. more »

The collection of the city of Vienna shows an enormous variety of approaches to the human figure. In other words: the sculpture steps off its pedestal – or not.

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The Museum on Demand MUSA houses much of the artwork purchased by the City of Vienna through the years and is currently displaying them in the exhibition “re_figuring spaces”. The collection that owes its existence mostly to sponsorship initiatives of the municipality provides a glimpse of the different positions on sculpture and their evolution in the last half-century, as well as a who’s who of the Austrian postwar art scene. more »

The Slow Fashion Award 2010 is awarded for the third time. We spoke with participating designers about their view on sustainable fashion.

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Choosing the organic eggs off the shelf, eating locally grown apples, drinking fair trade coffee, going without strawberries in December—by now, these are things we take for granted. Is it due to our awareness of climate change? Perhaps. Or maybe we are looking to shift gears - to slow down and live more sustainably. more »

To Bollywood background music, the blonde sucks on her partners erect prick with relish, then we see how he generously lathers her hairy fanny with soap…a porn movie? No, silly – an art video by Thomas Draschan.

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Why do we constantly need images and want to reflect, recreate ourselves in them? Certainly they allow us to to enjoy insights unattainable to us by ourselves alone. They help us to escape, to distract and to intoxicate ourselves more »

Every work of art has its own time structure, and Miki Eleta invites us to a dialogue about the transformation of time into space and vice versa.

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“The infinite is in the finite of every instant” (quote from a fortune cookie)

Time passes, irreversibly. Man can do nothing about it; at best he can feel it and regrettably, only be able to realize it. He learned to interpret natural phenomena, he created tools which allowed him to measure it, more »

Swinger’s club in the Secession, blue sperm, and “Bar Rectum” in the Museumsquartier! Sexplosion in the city? Going Artsy - We get our art criticism off the street.

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The Swiss artist, Christoph Büchel, is presenting a swinger’s club in the basement of the Secession. The “Bar Rectum”, the dark blue sperm, “Darwin”, and the “Bikini Bar” from the Dutch studio van Lieshout, more »