ikono is proud to present the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere in Vienna as part of our series Museums of the World. Notable highlights of the collection are the artists of the Viennese Modern Age – among them Gustav Klimt, whose most famous masterpieces The Kiss and… Read More
Clouds fascinate – yet, surprisingly, they have rarely featured as the main subject of an exhibition. The Leopold Museum is the first museum to present a comprehensive exhibition dedicated to cloud depictions from 1800 to the present. Featuring more than 300 works, including top-quality loans… Read More
“The sea life had created new images. It’s very cool, they almost look like Polaroids,” says Austrian Artist Andreas Franke. With his project “The Sinking World“ he brings a strange, forgotten underwater world back to life and stages realms of an unprecedented kind. The pictures… Read More
Austrian artist Erwin Wurm became known in the early 1990s for his One-Minute-Sculptures, for which his models posed in relation to everyday objects, holding their position for a minute and thus becoming, however briefly, sculptures. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Pantin is pleased to present a… Read More
The era of Maria Theresa is widely seen to epitomize the magnificent Baroque style and luxurious splendor. The many abbeys, monasteries, and palaces dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries – including Prince Eugene’s former summer residence, the sumptuous Belvedere – have shaped the image… Read More
The Kunst- und Wunderkammern (arts and natural wonders rooms) of the Renaissance and Baroque periods were encyclopaedic, universal collections that attempted to reflect the entire knowledge of the day. Particularly desirable were rare, curious and unusual objects. Thus princes and kings collected exotic and uncommon… Read More
For his exhibition Expanded Anxiety in the Secession’s Galerie space, Czech artist Dominik Lang developed a series of works in which he reinterprets elements of Cubist sculpture and architecture. For the title installation in the back room, he reconstructs the famous statue Ùzkost [Anxiety] (1911/12)… Read More
Franz West was one of the most important Austrians in the international art world. The artist, who died in July 2012, achieved worldwide fame with his “Passstücke” [adaptives], his furniture and his sculptures for interior and exterior spaces. It is now sixteen years ago that… Read More
The designers Stefan Sagmeister and Jessica Walsh are known for their experimental typography and striking visual imagery. Six Things: Sagmeister & Walsh, on view at The Jewish Museum from March 15 through August 4, 2013, marks the first exhibition of their newly minted design firm… Read More
Here’s a film portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt (Malkovich) whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century. It was written and directed by Raoul Ruiz, with an English screenplay adaptation by Gilbert Adair…. Read More
