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Liudmila Kirsanova interviews artists who are currently active in Vienna. This podcast explores the local vibrating scene and renders a collage portrait of artistic Vienna right now. Here you’ll meet artists of different generations and at different stages of their career, who work with various mediums spanning from painting to performance.
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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 at her belly, layering multiple exposures onto a single negative to compress an entire path into o...
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 amid uncertainty. Beáta introduces the idea of “futuristic folklore,” a living myth that fuses sa...
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 how personal stories become collective memory. We start with Generation Beta, an evolving a...
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 intensity, Julia uses excess, ornament, and movement to question who gets to decide what is hol...
Sculpture, memory and materiality, street theater as a political act, migrant identities
Sculpture in digital context, storytelling on traveling 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/
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