Magdalena Herzog’s paintings explore themes of intimacy and the violence that lies beneath the surface. Drawing often serves as the starting point of her process, capturing a thought or a memory.
From 29 to 31 May 2026, with the opening day on 28 May 2026, the Independent Space Index once again invites visitors to discover Vienna’s diverse and vibrant independent art scene.
The newest part of the project spans twenty years already. „Developments“ will be exhibited in La Villette in Paris. With Artist Erik Tannhauser on the project’s origins, all the locations and details.
On Beginnings, Objecthood, and Milan in the 1980s. In-depth about material agency, mechanical choreography, and aesthetics & functions of display in Anna Franceschini’s expanding body of work.
Zagreb-based artist Ivana Fischer talks about her studying times, influences, and how her work navigates themes of identity and vulnerability through intuition. In preparations for her next solo show.
To blur the boundaries between exterior and interior, to unsettle the interface between nature and construction, and to investigate on the relation between our bodies and the space we’re living in.
In conversation with Marilisa Cosello, an artist working across performance and photography, we explore her practice and ask whether the real medium might ultimately be the body itself.
Bunny Hennessey is a London-based painter whose work arises from the physical and sensory conditions of painting itself. Driven by movement, her practice explores the inner parameters of the body.
At just 36, Li Yi-Fan will represent Taiwan at the Venice Biennale 2026, curated by Raphael Fonseca, the current curator of modern and contemporary Latin American art.
The Helsinki-based visual artists work with sculpture, installation, and printed matter. On wood, fruit pits, rooms that are swallowed like feelings, and speculation as an artistic practice.
In January, we spent a week in Belgrade, and this time we also got to experience the city in winter, with up to 25 cm of snow. It gave the town a completely different vibe and a nice atmosphere.
Melanie Thöni (*1998, Zams) is a Vienna-based painter whose work moves between color and form and Northern Alpine motifs, exploring tradition, everyday life, homeland, and female heroines.
A conversation with artist Julia Creuheras on desire, agency, animated objects, and fashion as a technological, performative language, featuring kinetics, high heels, mannequins, and pets.
A conversation with London-based artist Conor Quinn on translating soft sculptures into oil paintings, exploring animal–human relationships, shame, religion, and his wishes for 2026.