2023-11-01 21:00:00
Esterházy is well known in the world of classical music, but in 2014, under the direction of Vitus Weh, they also ventured into the world of contemporary art called “NOW – Esterhazy Contemporary”. In 2018, Weh teamed up with PR consultant and author Peter Menasse to “form an art-interested law firm and promote contemporary visual art and culture.” This partnership has the more understandable name “Kunstverein Eisenstadt”.
The art association celebrated its five-year anniversary yesterday with a small party and a big appointment: the Viennese art educator Monika Georgieva succeeds Barbara Horvath from Oggau as artistic director of the art association. Horvath moved to the Kunsthaus Wien a few weeks ago (the BVZ had reported).
Vitus Weh at the presentation of the new artistic director, Monika Georgieva, as part of the five-year anniversary celebration.
Photo: BVZ, Kaiser
The art association tries to promote modern art from Burgenland as well as cross-border collaboration with Slovak and Hungarian artists and institutions. This is also the case in the current exhibition “Doomscroll” (i.e. the endless consumption of bad news on social media), curated by Francis Ruyter and with the Rohrbach artist Katharina Höglinger.
The group exhibition is inspired by Jean Paul Sartre’s 1938 novel “Nausea”, in which the protagonist suffers from his isolation, fixation on the lives of strangers and the feeling of alien control – all recognizable as a phenomenon of today’s life.
Opening times at Eisenstädter Joseph-Haydn-Gasse 1 are Saturday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free.
The Rohrbach artist Katharina Höglinger (born 1983) studied painting/fine arts at the Linz University of Art and is currently exhibiting her colorful pictures at the “Doomsday Scrolls” exhibition at the Eisenstädter Kunstverein.
Photo: BVZ, Kaiser
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