Vienna Time

A painter appears in Vienna with a film degree, a restless curiosity, and no plan to become a painter at all, then ends up building a body of work that stares straight into the canon and talks back. Sitting in her studio, I speak with Barbara Moura about how a self-taught artist finds a voice in a city loaded with art history, and why her canvases feel so charged with story, staging, and emotion....

Vienna’s contemporary art scene often feels like a meeting point for biographies that do not fit neat national labels, and our conversation with artist, curator, and researcher Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair makes that friction visible. From her studio in Vienna, she traces how being born in Moscow, migrating through Germany, and building a life in Austria produces layered identity rather than a singl...

A painting can look like a celebration and still hold a private storm. We meet Vienna-based visual artist Alfred Bow in his flat-studio, surrounded by huge canvases, tulle, and colour that refuses to behave. He tells us why he doesn’t identify as a “painter” and how moving between painting, sculpture, textile, performance art, and music helps him stay honest to the work. We follow the thread of my...

Who watches whom when the trees stare back? We sit down with visual artist Elena Kristofor to trace how a childhood between sea and steppe collides with the dense, watchful woods of Austria, and how that tension fuels a practice that blends analogue photography, sculpture, and site-responsive installation. Elena shares the visceral experience of moving through the forest at walking speed, camera a...

What if the future feels dangerous and tender at the same time? We sit with visual artist Beáta Hechtová to wander through her post‑collapse worlds, where faceless figures grow thorns, bodies melt beyond gender, and cultures are rebuilt through ritual and care. These scenes are not about escape; they are about returning to empathy, crafting belief systems from scraps, and finding a way to belong a...

portraits and interviews, generational storytelling, photography as performance, photography and stage design  A photograph that appears in a dark room, breathes for a minute, then vanishes when the lights come up. That’s the tension at the heart of our conversation with photographer and multimedia artist Franzi Kreis, whose practice merges portraiture, sound, stagecraft, and drawing to explore ho...

Baroque monsters, porcelain sculpture, queer bodies, migrant identities  What If The Holiest Body Is A Monster? A monster at the altar changes how you see the sacred. We sit down with Vienna-based sculptor Julia Belova to trace how porcelain, silicone, latex, and candy-bright surfaces grow into new bodies that are at once inviting and unsettling. Rooted in a lifelong fascination with Baroque inten...

Sculpture, memory and materiality, street theater as a political act, migrant identities 

Sculpture in digital context, storytelling across digital worlds, translation and mistranslation as medium, digital spaces as magic spaces

New Materialism, sculpture, poetic materiality, storytelling of posthumanism 

drawing, pattern, rational and irrational, automatism and mistake    https://annikaeschmann.com/

realistic painting, self-portraits, relationship between American blackness and whiteness, black women in art history   https://brittanytucker.net/

video installation, migrant experience, everyday rituals, new modalities of belonging  https://miaeson.com/

sculpture, religion in contemporary culture, sacrality and digital space, art exhibitions in churches    https://studiomariabelova.com/

performance, migrant experience, self-identity, South Korean traditional crafts https://www.instagram.com/seung_yeon_jung/  

Otto Muehlethaler https://www.ottomuehlethaler.com/ 

Nazanin Mehraein https://nazaninmehraein.com/ 

Kristina Cyan https://kristinacyan.com/ 

Thean Chie Chan https://www.instagram.com/theanchiechan/

Nazira Karimi https://www.instagram.com/nazirakar/

Barbara Maria Neu https://www.barbaramarianeu.at/

Sofia Cruz Rocha https://www.sofiacruzrocha.com/ 

Lauren Nickou https://nickou.net/

Huda Takriti https://hudatakriti.com/

Mariya Vasilyeva https://www.mariyavasilyeva.com/