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The second issue of blank will shed light on crisis from many different angles, unstable and yet resilient. The theme is approached by more than 60 students and young graduates from all around the world, who responded to our Open Call. Guided by David Gallo’s graphic design, which in itself is moving in and out of crisis, we are experiencing various turning points: literary, visual, critical, artistic, personal, political, serious and ironic.

The new issue of blank is approaching, tackling and contemplating the phenomenon of crisis. Already collected and selected in autumn 2019, the contributions do not deal with COVID-19, and yet they touch the pandemic.

blank is an international students publication, initiated by a group of students of the IKA, the Institute of Art and Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. The annual publication series serves as a blank space for everyone’s ideas. It might be nothingness and emptiness, but it also is the potential to be filled by our imagination. They see it as a free space, as a start, perhaps a challenge – an opportunity for sure!

Facts:
Artworks from more than 60 students
160 Pages, 3 kinds of paper

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Alexandria Deters, born 1992 in San Jose, California is currently a Bronx, New York based artist. In 2016 she graduated with a MA in American Fine and Decorative Art from Sotheby’s Institute of Art, New York.

Jonlouis grew up in Melbourne, Florida watching rocket launches as a child fueled with curiosity. In 2014 Jonlouis began his professional art career and it was not long before he became a young renowned artist.

Born in Upper Austria he found his passion in photography after completing his apprenticeship as a chef and working in top gastronomy. Jakob Urwanisch currently lives and works in Vienna.

Marvin Kanas is a Video Artist from Marseille who is living in Vienna since six years. He studied documentary filmmaking in Paris and started to work on smaller art projects besides that.

The Rabbit Eye Movement Art Space in 1060 Vienna (established in 2012) operates as a full time agency, shop and exhibition room. The REM is hosting and connecting local and international artists.

The Russian artist Bogdana Skorik is currently living and working in Moscow. She prefers to work with real materials and her purpose is to catch the eye of the viewer. Sharp, brutal, expressive.

Mary Sue is a double game, with a single player (the creature) who also acts as a referee (the creator) and as a favorite playground stereotypes, conventions, aberrations of the world, my own dysfunctions.

Rita Keller is an Ukrainian visual artist. Her story “Youth in Graz” is a long-term research and documentation of youngsters, their self-perception, exposed beauty and mental boundaries.

The Ukrainian artist Yelyzaveta Vlasenko is 21 years old. She is currently living in Kyiv. Her way of expression is the abstract painting. She is inspired by colors, shapes and their union in an environment.

The project focuses on creative, new, and versatile ways to communicate contemporary art and specializes in press, public relations, and social media communication for artists as well as galleries, museums.

It was my last day in Milan, and I just wanted to take a short walk through the city. By chance, I wandered into a street where the PORTS 1961 fashion show had just taken place.

Something So Clear is Kapil Das‘ patient look behind the visual clichés and stereotypes that have come to define India. Consisting of a tight edit from thousands of photos taken over a decade.

The Robotic Art Gallery is glad to invite you to the next exhibition „Cosmic Sculpture“ by Anke Eilergerhard. Her works are balancing virtuously between the boundaries of concrete sculpture & abstraction.

The French painter Bertrand Fournier is 34 years old. He lives and works in Janville Sur Juine, a small village in the suburbs of Paris. He is married and is a father of three beautiful children.

Paul Gounon is a multidisciplinary artist born in 1989 in Aix-en-Provence. At the moment he lives and works in Paris. His work is at the crossroads of history and storytelling.

Based on years of experience as a photographer and an absolute Vienna lover I invite local people as well as visitors to explore hidden gems not far away from the place where they live.

Two Journeys is a project by The Golden Pixel ­Cooperative, conceived by Viktoria Schmid and Lisa Truttmann, in collaboration with Los Angeles-based filmmakers ­Rebecca Baron and Nora Sweeney.