Author Archives: jolanta

In the delicately beautiful cinema of Don Van Vliet’s canvases you might encounter a deer or rooster or a face coming out of the skies. You might see a word disappear into a blur as it catches onto another word or a devil caught in the sea. Sometimes there are wolves devouring flesh and crosses […]

During a conversation with the director of the Austrian Museum of Modern Art, or MUMOK, in Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier, we find out if one of the most prestigious art museums in Austria thinks its art is better defined by its place on the international stage or its place in the MQ. MUMOK – Larian Triers During […]

Born Friedrich Stowasser in 1928, the late Friedensreich Hundertwasser became the best-known Austrian contemporary artist by the end of the 20th century. The independent art museum KunsHausWien in Vienna’s third district has housed the museum of Hundertwasser’s work since its opening in 1991. Its flanking rooms alternate with exhibitions of international stature, perhaps gesturing that […]

For the last eight years, I have been working with sub-cultural phenomena as a theme with roots in my own experiences and engagements. I use portraiture as a method, often in more or less realistic, multi-layered painting, but I sometimes also employ photography, text and music in my work. I allow this theme to permeate […]

What conclusions can be made about placing the exhibition “Americans, Masterpieces of American Photography from 1940 until now” at the Kunsthalle Museum in the traditional heart of the Austrian capital? The staunchly raw view of America would instinctively seem ill displayed amongst the works of Schiele, Klimt and Die Blaue Reiter in the neighboring museums […]

I remember my first time online well. It was my first year living in the United States and an acquaintance who was ordered to keep me entertained for a couple of hours sat me in front of a library computer, opened a browser window for me and told me to look up something… anything? I […]

I've always been fascinated by how dreams and their repressions shape personal and social crises. My installation, photography and sculptural work is inspired by mythological narratives, present day imperialism, queer politics, lyric poetry and erased moments in South Asian history. Taking these stories and integrating them with my own mythic imagery, the hybrid world of […]

Helen Brough is a British painter, drawer, sculptor and installation artist whose work transforms light and its transparencies into ebullient abstractions, as well as sharp social commentaries. In May 2006, she installed Emulated Flora at 70 Washington Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn. Jane and David Walentas commissioned the work through the Triangle Arts Association, an organization that […]

Born January 23rd, 1956 in Brooklyn, New York, American-Italian Sante D’Orazio has captured the imagination of wide-ranging audiences. Glamorous fashion photographer and pioneer icon-maker, D’Orazio’s work is often listed as art, but why? “Photographs,” which ran at the independent art space Kunsthauswien in Vienna, highlighted what it called “a retrospective of the superstar” by exhibiting […]

Born Leah Borliawsky in the Ukraine in 1899, Nevelson emigrated with her family from the Ukraine to a Rockland, Maine, at the age of six. On being the only Jewish immigrants in their Maine town, Nevelson once said, “They needed immigrants like I need ten holes in my head.” Her father worked in the lumber […]