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How did Renaissance artists prepare their paper, and what role did colored grounds play in their drawings? Eva Glück, Head of the Conservation Department at the Albertina, provides fascinating insights into this technique—clearly explained and illustrated with stunning original works from the current exhibition “Leonardo – Dürer. Renaissance Master Drawings on Colored Ground.”

In conversation, Albertina Director General Ralph Gleis and Chief Curator Christof Metzger explore the fascinating technique of Renaissance drawings on colored ground. Through impressive examples from the exhibition “Leonardo – Dürer. Renaissance Master Drawings on Colored Ground”, they reveal how drawing evolved from mere sketching to an autonomous art form, blending science, painting, and a quest to capture the world.

Albertina Director General Ralph Gleis and curator Achim Gnann discuss Leonardo da Vinci’s masterful use of colored paper. In the exhibition “Leonardo – Dürer. Renaissance Master Drawings on Colored Ground”, they show how Leonardo experimented with materials, colors, and techniques to achieve emotional depth and expressive power.

Anton Corbijn’s photographic work focuses less on stardom and more on the creative essence of the people he portrays. Favourite Darkness, the exhibition at the Bank Austria Kunstforum, brings this approach to light. Immerse yourself in Corbijn’s world of photography with our exhibition film, where music, painting, and film seamlessly intertwine to create iconic imagery.

An interview with Tina Dobrajc, recognition-award winner of the STRABAG Artaward International 2024, on the occasion of the award ceremony at the STRABAG Art Forum.

Join Klaus Albrecht Schröder, the director general of the Albertina, on an exploration of the artistic works of Marc Chagall on the occasion of the new exhibition.

Discover how Paul Gauguin’s revolutionary use of color and culture reshaped the course of modern art. A film featuring Bank Austria Kunstforum Vienna curator Evelyn Benesch on the occasion of the Paul Gauguin exhibition.

With over 110 works, Albertina Modern - Director Angela Stief presents in the spring exhibition 'Beauty of Diversity' an aesthetics of diversity, indebted to the attention to women and LGBTQIA+ artists, People of Color, aboriginal positions, and autodidacts in the collections of the Albertina.

A short interview with the STRABAG Artaward International 2023 recognition prize winner Peter Cvik, at the STRABAG Kunstforum introducing the artist and his work.

A short interview with the STRABAG Artaward International 2022 recognition prize winner Dániel Bernáth, at the STRABAG Kunstforum introducing the artist and his work.

Insights into a turning point in art history after the Second World War provides "Ways of Freedom", the new show of abstract painting at the Albertina Modern. In part two of our film we asked Albertina general director Klaus Albrecht Schröder for an introduction into the theme and exhibition.

Insights into a turning point in art history after the Second World War provides "Ways of Freedom", the new show of abstract painting at the Albertina Modern. We asked Albertina Modern director Angela Stief for an introduction into the theme and exhibition.

Helmut Newton's photographs are provocative, daring, bold, feminine, sensual, sexual, seductive, powerful, glamorous, controversial and fetishistic. The Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien is now celebrating the 100th birthday of Helmut Newton. An exhibition-portrait from the Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien.

Italian-American artist Francesco Clemente's dramatic imagery is unsettling, ambiguous, grotesque, and erotic. An exhibition portrait with the artist from the Albertina Museum in Vienna.

In our film Albertina general-director Klaus Albrecht Schröder and curator Antonia Hoerschelmann accompany us through the exhibition and the impressive oeuvre of artist Michela Ghisetti.

Hubert Scheibl currently has a solo exhibition dedicated to him in the Albertina's Basteihalle. Under the title "Seeds of Time," earlier works are exhibited together with entirely new series and - for the first time in Austria - objects. In our Film Albertina director Klaus Albrecht Schröder and curator Antonia Hoerschelmann guide us through the exhibition and afterwards we follow a talk of Klaus Albrecht Schröder with the artist in his studio.

Presenting about 200 works from the 1930s up to 2000 the Albertina Museum in Vienna has one of the biggest exhibition of american photography on display in Europe. The show, curated by Walter Moser and co-curator Anna Hanreich, presents with its extraordinary works a divers and also contradictorily country.

In our film from the Albertina series "Tours & Talks" Albertina director Klaus Albrecht Schröder meets the artist Jakob Gasteiger in his Atelier in Vienna and talks with him about his artistic development, what influenced him and about characteristica of his art.

With 170 works from its own holdings, the Albertina presents a grandiose panorama of five centuries of city and landscape views; some of the works have not been on public view for decades. In our exhibition-opening film Albertina director Klaus Albrecht Schröder, chief-curator Christof Metzger and exhibition curator Eva Michel walk with us through the exhibition and talk about the excellent artworks.  Andrea Mayer, state secretary for art and culture opens the exhibition.

Although Jakob Gasteiger startet his career when the Austrian  "Neue Wilde" painters like Brandl, Damisch, Anzinger, Bohatsch, Mosbacher, Reinhold, Scheibl, Schmalix got famous, his work is completely different - abstract, not expressive, minimalistic. In his work Gasteiger experiments with paint, with the material not the color. Now the Albertina museum in Vienna has a retrospective of his work on display and we asked Albertina Direktor Klaus Albrecht Schröder to introduce us to his work and the exhibition.

Raphael Renaud has devoted his art to the big cities and the forests of this world. Tumult and Silence is therefore not only the title of our CastYourArt artist portrait of the Berlin-based Frenchman, but also of the exhibition of the artist, which takes place at C.A. Contemporary in Vienna from May 4. 2021.

Until January 27, the Albertina Museum in Vienna dedicates a retrospective to one of the exponents of street photography and chronicler of New York street life,

Until October 7th, a comprehensive retrospective in the Albertina is dedicated to Austrian photographer Alfred Seiland. Curator Anna Hanreich selected 65 photographs

Besides Maria Lassnig and VALIE EXPORT, she is one of the most important feminist artists in Austria: In cooperation with the Sprengel Museum Hannover, the

Displaying the property, the journeys or the family: The art of the Viennese watercolor had its heyday in the 18th and 19th centuries before it was finally

Material, form, repetition and alteration are fundamental for the abstract works of the Vienna based artist Suse Krawagna. On the occasion of the reopening

I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move. An unparalleled retrospective of Georgia O’Keeffe, one oft he founders

The art of Manfred Hebenstreit is an ongoing open experiment, into which the artist puts everything: body and soul, sensations and emotions, irony and restlessness.

The current exhibition „From Dürer to Napoleon - The Origins of the Albertina” shows masterpieces of the Albertina’s collection in the context of the exciting biographies of its founders – prince Albert of Saxony, duke of Teschen and his wife the archduchess Marie Christine, daughter of empress Maria Theresia.

Until May 12th, 2013 a retrospective of the artist Rudolf Goessl is presented at ZEITKUNST Niederösterreich in the Lower Austria Contemporary gallery St.

There has been substantial evidence for the theory, according to the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk, that it is far less important for humans to know who

Picture for yourself reality. Is that reality immediate, direct, unexpected? Should we attribute this power of reality to something within the medium or to