Festivals and Films
Vienna What's on
The Celebrity Factor. From Warhol to Madonna.
4 Nov 2005-22 Feb 2006. The Kunsthalle in Vienna, named by Italian magazine ARTE as one of the top six European contemporary art museums in 2002, is hosting an exhibition exploring the phenomenon of S...
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BLICKFANG Design Fair - Exhibition for Furniture, Jewellery and Fashion
14-16 Oct 2005.
Vienna's Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) once again hosts Blickfang, a year on from its successful premire. Young bright lights rub shoulders with established designers from Austria, Ge...
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Albert Watson Frozen A Retrospective.
29 September 2005 - 29 January 2006
This KunstHausWien retrospective features 130 works by Albert Watson, shown for the first time in Austria. Over the last 30 years, Watsons fashion and commercial i...
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Impressions from the Paris Muse dOrsay.
30 September 2005 - 30 January 2006. French Impressionists broke new ground with light effects, atmosphere, and transience in the late 19th century. Now, in a new exhibition, the Leopold Museum is sho...
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Picasso. Painting Against Time.
22 Sept 2006-7 Jan 2007. Viennas Albertina Museum presents an exhibition of around 200 artworks from the last 12 years of Pablo Picassos life. In 1961, at the age of 80, the Spanish artist acquired a...
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The Art of Portraying a Giraffe
Until 3 October 2005. This exhibition features a wide range of paintings, graphics and sculptures of animals from the Leopold Collection. Key works by Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel and Oskar Laske are am...
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Physiognomy of the Second Republic: From Julius Raab to Bruno Kreisky
7 Sept 2005 - 29 Jan 2006. On the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Austrian State Treaty, this exhibition features paintings and sculptures, photos and posters, drawings and caricatures, focusin...
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Until 28 August 2005. The New 2 exhibition features the most recently acquired contemporary art at the sterreichische Galerie Belvedere, worth a visit just for its stunning baroque architecture and ex...
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Until 25 September 2005. Just one of the events celebrating the 50th anniversary of Austrian independence, this exhibition focuses on food, drink and consumerism post-1945. The exhibition in fact take...
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8 Sept2 Oct 2005. The celebrated photographers competition, World Press Photo, is as much a historical snapshot of the past year as a gallery of the worlds best press photos. Award-winning photographs...
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Inward - Seismograph of the body soul
Until 5 November, 2006. This special exhibition, a tribute to the works of artist Rudi Wach, was designed to fit into and complement the exhibition grounds. For example, the abbey entrance features la...
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13 May22 August 2005. Not afraid to push the boundaries in the early 20th century, Austrian artists dealt with taboos like power and sexuality, homoeroticism and gender struggles. In so doing they wer...
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Nordic Dawn. Modernism's Awakening in Finland 1890-1920
15 June-2 October 2005. This exhibition is a unique opportunity to see 100 masterpieces of Finnish painting, a less well known branch of European art, from the early part of the twentieth century. Wit...
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Discovery and Ownership - Insights into Austrian Private Collections
7 Oct-27 Nov 2005.
Private art collecting in Austria is under the spotlight in Discovery and Ownership. Highlighting the ever growing community of collectors in Austria, now putting itself on the int...
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Superstars - from Warhol to Madonna
3 Nov 2005-22 Feb 2006.
What do Picasso, Warhol, Koons, and Leibovitz have in common? Together they give us insights into celebrity cult and logo mania, and "Superstars" tells it all. A relatively re...
