Vienna and the 1873 World Exhibition Photos: Wien Museum After “The struggle for the city”, a major exhibition on politics, art and everyday life around 1930, Wien Museum presents another panoramic view of an era. This time, the spotlight is trained on the years around 1870, a crucial transformative phase in Vienna’s development towards becoming […]
Konstantin Grcic
Panorama, Vitra Design Museum, 22. 03. – 14. 09. 2014 Photos: Vitra, AndreaF ábián Konstantin Grcic is one of the most influential designers of our time. Serious and functional, unwieldy and occasionally disconcerting, his works combine an industrial aesthetic with experimental, artistic elements. Many of Grcic’s creations, such as »Chair_One« (2004) or the »Mayday« lamp […]
Egy szakma arcképe
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Contemporary Architecture in Rome
Tra/Between Art and Architecture, Rome, MAXXI, 17 April 2014 – 21 September 2014 Two exhibitions in one: Roma Interrotta and Piero Sartogo and the Artists, united by a common title that sums up the sprit both shows: TRA/BETWEEN ART AND ARCHITECTURE. The exhibition opens at the MAXXI on 17 April (through 21 September 2014), in […]
Renewed Historic Monuments with a Fresh Eye
Contest for Architectural Photos, MÉSZ-Cabinet Text: Péter Tímár In cooperation with the Cabinet, MÉSZ (the Association of Hungarian Architects) published a contest for architectural photos titled „Renewed Historic Monuments with a Fresh Eye”. Participants of this contest had to present the following sites viewing them with a novelty approach: the Main Square of the Nation […]
Vienna–Berlin
The Art of Two Metropolises from Schiele to Grosz, Vienna, Belvedere, 2014 Spring Text: György Szegő After 1945 Paris launched a series of comparative exhibitions of painters from New York which is continued by the 2007 Wien–Paris exhibition of the Belvedere. This time it was an act of free will, as by now the first […]
Hollein Memorial Exhibition
MAK, Vienna, 24 June – 5 October 2014 Text: György Szegő Photos: MAK So far, Hans Hollein is the sole Austrian architect who has been awarded the Pritzker Prize. Besides, he was also a designer, an autonomous artist, a curator, a researcher of the future, a culture anthropologist and a teacher. A genuine polyhistor, whose […]
Egy korszak építészetének tisztelete
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And yet there was art! Austria 1914–1918
Leopold Museum, Vienna, 9th of May to 15th of September 2014 The assassination of the Austrian heir to the throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, on the 28th of June 1914 in Sarajevo was the fatal trigger of World War I. One hundred years on, the Leopold Museum is dedicating a comprehensive exhibition to the fate of […]
Descovering Design
Designmonat Graz has been chosen as one of the world’s 20 most interesting design festivals for 2014. The programme of Designmonat Graz in 2014 met these expectations in every way. Once again, the UNESCO City of Design Graz brought top designers from all Styrian creative disciplines into the spotlight from 30 April to 1 June […]
Farkasdy Zoltán (1923-1989) emlékkiállítása
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Andreas H. Bitesnich
Kunst Haus Wien, 27 February to 9 June 2014 The Austrian star photographer Andreas H. Bitesnich was celebrating his 50th birthday in 2014 and looked back on 25 years of photography. In a major retrospective at KUNST HAUS WIEN, he provided unprecedented insights into his personal photographic universe. Andreas H. Bitesnich has succeeded in developing […]