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Porn: An Oral History by Polly Barton is a must-read on a topic that is so rarely talked about. Interviews were done over a year with nineteen people of different ranges of ages, genders, and sexualities about everything related to porn. After you finish it, give it to your close ones.

Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers by Janet Malcolm is an anthological collection of essays closely portraying painters, photographers, writers, and critics. The dirty laundry of the art world exposed throughout the decades.

Do You Remember Being Born? A novel by Sean Michaels is a love letter to poetry, the nature of language, and art, with the most popular question: Will A.I. change art forever?

The Crossdresser’s Secret by Brian O’Doherty is a historical fiction novel following the mysterious figure of Chevalier d’Eon, who lived as both a man and a woman. It is an 18th-century spy diary through the lens of a celebrity figure, written by an artist and awarded critic.

Females, by Andrea Long Chu „Everyone is female, and everyone hates It.“ This is a pure ride on what it means to be a woman, you will have a love-hate relationship with it, and this is what should happen; you will learn, laugh, and underline.

Kristina Deska Nikolić – www.deskadeska.com, www.instagram.com/deska.deska/


Note: This text is part of our WallArt Journal #2, which we specially produced for the SPARK Art Fair 2024 in Vienna. You can find copies around Vienna, or if you want to have one, feel free to contact us.

There is a similarity between detective stories and visiting an art exhibition: in both we are looking for clues. This is how art criticism turned me into a voyeur or you could also call it a detective figure.

So on this occasion, we took a chance to bring you closer to the process and history of the Raku technique, born in Japan and brought by Bernard Leach to the West—actually to England in the 1920s.

… to the Helmut Lang Archive (MAK). In 2005, he left the fashion world and the brand where he was the main designer from its establishment, and which today still holds his name.

Pia Aydt, born in 1998, lives and works in Vienna. She studies fine arts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, focusing on drawing. Her work strongly revolves around ambivalent emotions.

Das feministisch inspirierte Künstler:innennetzwerk wurde 1977 gegründet, um die Situation für Frauen im sozialen und künstlerischen Sektor zu verbessern und setzt sich bis heute für diese Themen ein.

Nick Havelka ist ein in Tschechien geborener und in Österreich lebender Künstler. 2023 schloss er sein Studium an der Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien mit der Diplomarbeit „I am Fine!“ ab.

Emma Kling’s diploma thesis received the Vanessa Preger-McGillivray Prize 2024. The work subtly addresses latent power dynamics within the context of art history. A Review by Katharina Hoffmann.

Over the past two decades, he has embraced the dual role of a passionate supporter of artists and an avid collector of art. His curated collection boasts several hundred remarkable works.

Hanna Antonsson’s practice is based on taxidermy, sculpture, and photography. With an interest in the animal’s perspective, its symbolism, its constant presence in various myths, and our everyday life.

Maybe it is a feeling about passage or transition. It also reminds me of my works using materials related to migration and transport, like Styrofoam used to transport goods, and the car tire itself.

Am 7. Dezember ab 16:00 Uhr öffnet die Ausstellung BLING BLING im ersten Bezirk ihre Tore. Im Contemporary Pop Up Space werden eine Vielzahl zeitgenössischer Positionen präsentiert.