The curator Kathrin Rhomberg will take charge of the Erste Group art collection as the new chairman of the association “Kontakt” for a period of three years with possibilities of prolongation. Rhomberg was born in 1963 in Bludenz. She studied art history, classical archeology and journalism in Salzburg. From 1990 – 2001, she was the […]
The aim of the Paul Celan Fellowship Programme is to overcome deficits and asymmetries in the exchange of ideas and the reception of scholarly literature which result from the division of Europe in the 20th century. Therefore, the program supports translations of canonical texts and contemporary key works in the humanities, social sciences and cultural […]
This year’s International Accordion festival opens on Saturday, 22nd February with a double act: Klaus Paier & Asja Valcic duo and the Viennese newcomers Donauwellenreiter. and closes a month later with a gala concert by Das Ziehharmonische Orchester Wien at the Metropol. The 15th Edition of the festival includes big names like Bratsch ( 16.3. […]
The Prix Ars Electronica – which is staged jointly by Ars Electronica Linz GmbH and the ORF – Austrian Broadcasting Company’s Upper Austria Regional Studio in cooperation with the OK Center for Contemporary Art and Brucknerhaus Linz – introduces a new Golden Nica for Visionary Pioneers of Media Art.This mix of annual and biennial categories […]
One of the founding fathers of Industrial and electronic music Gary Numan, who is – four months after the release of his twentieth solo album “Splinter ( Songs From A Broken Mind ) ” – currently on his European tour, performs in the WUK on February 22nd. Many artists and bands refer to Numan’s music, from […]
In front of the Austrian Parliament Building Dr. Karl Renner Ring 3, 1017 Vienna 2014-02-14 05:00 pm ONE BILLION RISING FOR JUSTICE is a global call to women survivors of violence and those who love them to gather safely in community outside places where they are entitled to justice – courthouses, police stations, government offices, school […]
Experienced journalists from Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia are eligible to apply for the eighth annual Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence. For the first time this year journalists from Greece are also invited to apply and participate in the Fellowship programme. Each year, ten journalists are chosen through open competition […]
Collaborations and individual works by Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat are shown at the exhibition in Vienna-based Kunstforum until February, 2nd.
Although Jukka Isotalo and Jan Torstensson have chosen different manufacturing techniques, they both have something in common – the choice of recycled glass as their favourite material. While Torstensson leans on the classical glassblowing tradition, warming-up or …
