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Oliver Laric’s threshold beings exist between worlds, identities, and eras — neither fully human, divine, nor fixed in form. In our film, the artist and KHM Director General Jonathan Fine guide us through an exhibition where classical art, digital technologies, and contemporary sculpture converge.

How do we see cities – and who shapes that gaze? The images of Canaletto and Bernardo Bellotto appear precise, almost objective. And yet they are stagings: constructions of order, society, and identity. The film accompanying the exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien opens up a new perspective on their iconic city views of Venice, London, Dresden, and Vienna.

“In the expanded space,” art transforms into spatial, relational experiences—in which images are not only seen but experienced. In this exhibition portrait, artists and curators reflect on dialogue, perception, and the power of art to expand our experiential space.

An interview with Haakon Neubert, main-price winner of the STRABAG Art Award International 2025, on the occasion of the award ceremony at the STRABAG ART Site.

"20 years of the VERBUND COLLECTION", the anniversary show in the Propter Homines Hall of the Albertina in Vienna, presents a selection of works that the founding director of the collection has acquired since 2004. 

A short interview with the STRABAG Artaward International 2021 recognition prize winner Robert Gabris, at the STRABAG Kunstforum introducing the artist and his work.

In his current exhibition in the vaultroom of the Bank Austria Kunstforum in Vienna, Thean Chien Chan explores the human face.

40 years after the legendary Drawing Now exhibition, organized in cooperation with the MoMA in New York, the Albertina shows another overview of the current

Irony as an active agent in order to continually reformulate problems of art, of the creative subject and of the presence of the viewer-subject, in a subjective world permanently being subjectivated: 25 years after their first appearance, the art group DIE DAMEN arranged an historic and documentary exhibition at ZEITKUNST Niederösterreich in the Lower Austria Contemporary Gallery St. Pölten, offering an insight into their multifaceted oeuvre and into an entire era of Austrian art life.

From September 19th to November 18th, the Bank Austria Kunstforum in Vienna dedicates an exhibition in its vault room to the artist Özlem Sulak, born in Turkey in 1979.

Jürgenssen explores the scope of female identity constructions and the gender roles within her sociocultural environment of the 1970ies. By means of drawings

It is often said that every portrait is a self-portrait of the painter in a sense and every painter is painting himself – Peter Baldingers portraits show the presence of the absent. A CastYourArt film of the artist.

Irene Andessner resuscitates the Tableau vivant with “Art Protectors” in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. The exhibition 'The Gold Age. Dutch Group

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,

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

It was animals that were created first, only thereafter, human beings. Seniority, the privilege of age, was compensated by the privilege of designation, the

In our age, identity has become something of an obsession. Andy Warhol predicted the perennial pursuit of one’s “15 minutes of fame”, and celebrity status

She produces films every year. She stands before the camera. She directs—in recent years, together with Chris Haring. It was a blessing that she met Chris