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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.

Kontakt is the Erste Bank group’s collection of contemporary Eastern European art. But there is more to it… Interview with Georg Schöllhammer, curator, author, editor of Springerin.

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The art collection of the Erste Bank group focuses on contemporary art of Central and Eastern Europe, at which media like film and video were included from the beginning. Due to a lack of structures to back up production and networking, in the post-socialist states there was less exchange between the artists than there was with the international art world. more »

Toronto might be one of the most exciting art centres in North America but the city has not yet been able to find its own identity and its place in the international Contemporary Art scene. All the ingredients are there… It is all about finding the right mix.

Part 1. What does the city need?

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Part 2. Interview with David Liss, artistic director of MOCCA.

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Part 3. Interview with Olga Korper and Fela Grunwald.

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Part 4. Interview with Ben Portis.

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Part 5. Interview with Jessica Bradley.

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There has been much debate over whether a national style, philosophical outlook, or unified and cohesive culture exists or ever has existed within Canada. The country is large geographically, with many distinct regions, and its population is diverse and made up of varying national and ethnic backgrounds. 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 »

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 »

The curators of the Architekturzentrum Wien, Sonja Pisarik and Ute Waditschatka, make an expedition through the world of post-war architecture in Austria. A retrospective covering 20 years of the projects of the “arbeitsgruppe 4“.

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”We never wanted to overthrow tradition, but rather build on it”. In retrospect, when Wilhelm Holzbauer emphasizes the idea of building on tradition as a central aspect of arbeitsgruppe 4, one becomes aware of the timeframe and circumstances of their development. The post-war period, characterized by financial hardship and the reconstruction of the country, more »

An exhibition on the statesman and art patron Prince Eugene of Savoy-Carignan is currently open at Vienna’s Orangerie and Lower Belvedere.


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Prinz Eugen, as he is known in Austria, was a renowned lover and collector of art and left a vast collection of paintings, copper engravings, books and hand writings. He became one of the most influential Austrians of his time when he moved to the country after being rejected by Louis XIV for service in the French army.

As a commander he was a daredevil, willing to sacrifice human lives by the thousands more »