Week 9 – no comment
Start of the 3rd & final period.
Posts tagged ‘Oesterreich’
Week 8 – no comment
I swapped capital cities.
Week 7 – no comment
A change of scenery.
My Vienna: Austrian artist Julia Bugram
Above/featured: The artist in their workspace in Vienna. Photo, 11 Jul 2025 (X70).
The sculpture provided the introduction in 2022.
Two clasped hands, each as tall as a person. Each hand made with 1-million 1-Eurocent coins.
Seen in 2022, next to St. Stephan’s Cathedral. Seen next in 2023, the sculpture moved near the big fountain at Schwarzenbergplatz. A wonderful crowdfunded project, created by Austrian artist Julia Bugram.
In spring 2025, I receive a kind invitation to visit her studio in Vienna; come July and I’m in the city’s 5th district. I make my way up to the 2nd floor of a renovated pre-war building, and arrive at a cozy working art-space shared between Julia and a second artist. I’m not surprised to find tall ceilings, big windows, a small kitchen, and just enough space and storage for two artists to share and split the rent.
In her practice, Julia explores themes surrounding community and society; and how art can create, enhance, and strengthen connections among people. Her artistic influences include: Hilma af Klimt, Mela Diamant, Renate Bertlmann, Margot Pilz, Jakob Lena Knebl, Martha Jungwirth. We spoke at some length about the economic and cultural challenges facing contemporary Austrian artists in the creation and distribution of their work, as well as the difficulty of commuting between Vienna and her home in Burgenland. I’m looking forward to seeing what she’ll create in the near future.
Vienna: “Yellow Fog” by Olafur Eliasson
Above/featured: “Aus eigener Kraft”. Photo, 16 Jul 2025 (X70).
Is that red-hot steam?
It’s a warm and breezy summer evening, the colour of the light is illusory, and the blanket of mist is cool on contact.
At the southwest corner of the Am Hof square in central Vienna is the corporate headquarters of Verbund. Installed outside the building is Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson‘s 2008 sculptural work “Yellow Fog“. The open public square becomes the arena to changing light, colour, and transparency; asking questions of perception and perspective. The display occurs every night for an hour after dusk, but not in winter.
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