Panem et circenses – alongside Euro2012
The European Football Championship EURO 2012, which has just come to an end in Poland and the Ukraine, has been an event of special importance not only for the sport fans, but for the whole population of these two Eastern European countries. It showed how important play is for social life as well as for...
UNINHABITED VISIONS – two exhibitions on photography and architecture in Vienna
Before photography was discovered, buildings were mediated through painting – famous museums, unable to collect monuments, had collected paintings of them. One of the oldest museums in Europe, The Teylers Museum in Netherlands, whose display has been unchanged for the last 200 years, has paintings of churches exhibited next to fossils, rocks, ancient prints and...
Unnatural History Museum – Jan Švankmajer in gallery Kerstin Engholm, Vienna
This show came as a surprise. Jan Švankmajer, worldwide renowned filmmaker, is exhibiting in a commercial Viennese gallery. And he is not exhibiting props or film stills, he isn’t screening a film either. He is showing a whole oeuvre of artworks, a whole parallel artistic universe that kept growing behind the backdrop of his films‘...
