Austria News

The cinemas in Austria have more and more problems to survive.
Also in the past year the number of visitors decreased. The statistics for the whole country of Austria show a loss of 8 percent visitors.

The most popular movie in 2007 was the hollywood production “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” with [...]

A violent form of art critic happened in the Styrian capital of Graz last week.
Two sculptures of a sculpture park were destroyed. It is said sombody might be involved, who is not happy about the work of the artists.

One sculpture has the name “asocial daughter”, and was made by the artist Tobias Rehberger. The other [...]

The “Festival of Regions” in the Southern region of Upper Austria ended yesterday in the late afternoon.
The festival took place from the 23th June to 8th July along the Pyrhn road from Schlierbach in the north to Windischgarsten in the south.

On the last day the artists of the project “Kerbl Ges.m.b.H.’s” made a short walking [...]

Two years after the last festival in the Northern part of Upper Austria, the “Festival Of Regions 2007″ is going to start this weekend on the 23th June in the Southern part of the federal state Upper Austria.
This years festival has the title: “Exits and dead ends on location”.
The festival lasts from the 23th June [...]

The international spring fair of Austrian tradesfolk of art and antiques in Künstlerhaus in Vienna has begun.
More than 30 famous trades people are presenting their goods. On the top of the introduced furniture is a roughly gothic corner cupboard from 1480, a cupboard from Pinzgauer (province in Salzburg), a rare pair of French commodes from [...]

This spring the BA-CA Kunstforum in Vienna with the help of 200 masterpieces will challenge to analyze the question “What is Eros in the modern art?”.

Works of about 32 authors are presented, with such famous names as Francis Bacon, Salvador Dalí, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Gustav Klimt, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pablo Picasso, Auguste Renoir, Auguste [...]

“Elastic taboos” is called an exhibition about the Korean art of presence, opened this Thursday in the Art Gallery of Vienna (Kunsthalle Wien). Its curators are KIM Seung-duk and Franck Gautherot.
The exhibition deals to a lesser extent with a balanced, everything preconceiving survey, rather with the taboo zones of the Korean society, experiencing a lot [...]

For the 4th time the international film festival “Tricky Women” will be arranged from the 1st to the 5th March in Vienna.
162 movies from 30 countries show a wide view over the creative trick film work of women in the whole world.
The festival is organized by the association “culture2culture”, and the only one of this [...]

The 21st of February is the international Day of Guides. During this day the Viennese Guides offer excursions for free. This year the most attention is paid to the St. Stephan’s Cathedral, were three different tours will be offered.
In addition, even a guided tour will be organized for the blind people in Wien Museum (Museum [...]