In the exhibition “PHANTOMAK” in the Vienna University of Technology, sculptures by the artist Tomak are presented to the public for the first time. The sculpture series PHANTOMAK consists of eleven individual busts of the artist, produced in a complex technical procedure – Wood Jackson, Rotpeter, Height, Headquarters…

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„Thus my work completes itself by the sculpture.“ (TOMAK)
The sculpture series PHANTOMAK was produced in the course of the past one and a half years. The works were manufactured in close cooperation with the Vienna University of Technology (institute of art and design – spatial development and modelling), the German company Rampf Tooling and an Austrian foundation. CastYourArt is responsible for the organisation of the project. more »

On the occasion of the “Botero” exhibition in the Bank Austria Kunstforum, curator Dr. Evelyn benesch will speak about the artist’s Abu Ghraib series.

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In the years 2004-2005, Columbian painter Fernando Botero worked on a series of paintings named Abu Ghraib. Ever since the photographs of the Abu Ghraib prison were published in 2004, this name came to symbolize a policy that endorses abuse and torture in the name of justice. The hypocrisies around the events in Abu Ghraib prompted the artist to paint this cycle. US museums simply disregarded these works during Botero exhibitions. When liberal Berkeley University finally showed this cycle, Botero donated the entire series to the university in gratitude. In the exhibition “Botero”, in Bank Austria Kunstforum, “Abu Ghraib”, the outraged artist’s cycle on human brutality, will be on display until January 15, 2012. (wh/ca)

Between mythical creatures and human forms, between dream and nightmare, we find ourselves in a world where life crawls and insects swarm: Welcome to the land of the Blue Hour. A selection of works by Jan Fabre in the Picture Gallery of Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna can be seen from 4 May till 28 August 2011. This podcast was realised with the kind support of UNIQUA ArtCercles.

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Interview with Jasper Sharp, the curator of “The Hour Blue” exhibition of Jan Fabre at Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna

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Jan Fabre is an artist we can safely describe as a multidisciplinary all-rounder. He is a painter, graphic artist, stage director, choreographer, lighting designer, author and editor – drawing from all fields of creativity: Arts, sciences, philosophy, literature, religion…nothing escapes him. more »

Jürgenssen explores the scope of female identity constructions and the gender roles within her sociocultural environment of the 1970ies. By means of drawings and photography she develops surreal and subversive counter-concepts and demonstrates that humor and poetry can very well go along with feminist strategies.

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In cooperation with Verbund Collection, the Bank Austria Kunstforum has the first posthumous retrospective of Birgit Jürgenssen on display, with 250 works of art of different media. In drawings, watercolors, Polaroids, photograms, objects, performances and videos, Jürgenssen explores the scope of female identity constructions and the gender roles in her immediate sociocultural environment. more »

Fritz Panzer relieves objects of his immediate reality of their significations and shows them in their half present - half absent nature.

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The chair and the chair: If you place a wire object by Fritz Panzer next to its „real“ model it seems to be from a different world. What ? The wire object or its model? That is very hard to say at the moment of viewing. We have two objects in front of us, which do not complete nor exclude each other, who are „no more or not yet the Other“ (Roland Barthes) more »

CastYourArt presents

Artists: TOMAK and Alek Kawka.

Monday, September 13, 2010 the exhibition opening of “The First Hit of PHANTOMAK: The Ear Problem. No Problem.” takes place at CastYourArt Gumpendorfer Straße 55, Vienna. We are going to show artworks by TOMAK and photographs by Alek Kawka.

Twenty pictures, in which TOMAK dissects the project PHANTOMAK and literally shows us cutouts - heads, sculptures, identities, masquerade are the themes this pictures call into question. The artist Alek Kawka accompanies the project PHANTOMAK with her photography works.

Exhibition opening: Monday, September 13, 2010 at 6p.m., the artists will be present
Exhibition: September 14 until October 8, 2010 | Mo-Fr | 12p.m. – 5p.m.
Address: Gumpendorfer Str. 55, 1060 Vienna

Edgar Honetschläger tests the boundaries of the possible, always along the limit in order to question the existing standard, the process being as important as the results.

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Vain is the attempt to classify this corpus of ideas into orderly progressions, straight lines, fixed positions, separate stages. Edgar Honetschläger’s work and life do not allow for that. He moves between cultures and working techniques and operates with the diversity and inconsistency of a globalized world. more »

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? A portrait.

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In any case, it tames the wildness of our thinking, which means that when it happens –ever so rarely- the hegemony of the concept is erased and for a moment we are cured of our illness separating us from time – our rationality. more »

Austria’s newest international art fair offering, the “art albertina“, is specifically dedicated to a medium which has, until now, often played a subordinate role in the art market—drawing. From September 23rd to the 27th, several prestigious art dealers and galleries will be presenting master drawings from every period in the Propter-Homines-Halle of the Albertina Museum. This podcast was realised with the kind support of UNIQUA ArtCercles.

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Klaus Albrecht Schröder, director of the Albertina Museum, hopes to be able to establish a second major fair for the art of drawing with “art albertina“, alongside the renowned springtime fair, the Salon du Dessin in Paris, and is aiming for a new positioning at the same time. Classic modern and national contemporary art works predominate, followed by representative nineteenth-century pieces. more »