In the Studio Andrej Dúbravský, Rastislavice,Slovakia
Where to meet art, culture and creativity
Born in Linz in 1971, Tobias Pils is among the most exciting painters working today. Employing a heavily reduced color palette, he creates paintings and drawings that weave abstract and representational elements into associative pictorial worlds. What in terms of subject matter can be interpreted as an investigation of both elementary and personal themes like birth and death or becoming and passing, also negotiates central questions in painting at large. For in Pils’ visual cosmos, one painterly mark leads to the next, one image to another, as if painting were constantly staging its own death and rebirth.
Each autumn, 24 Vienna-based galleries invite international curators to respond to a yearly changing theme in the form of an exhibition reflecting on the urgent issues of our time. Founded in 2009 as a platform for artistic exchange, funded by the city of Vienna and led by its galleries, curated by is a unique initiative celebrating artists while fostering international critical discourse. Rooted in collaboration among galleries and taking the form of a city-wide Festival, curated by provides exceptional exhibitions and an encompassing experience of Vienna and its galleries, welcoming numerous visitors from around the world to the city.
METABOLICA leads us into the factory of life and tells a molecular story of metabolic cycles across five chapters – from the Industrial Revolution to the present and future, from whaling and the petromodern age to current and emerging scenarios of the bioeconomy. Algae and bacteria become artistic collaborators, forming a new visual and aesthetic practice through microbiological processes.
Nina Beier, Copenhagen
Everyday objects are more than meets the eye to Danish artist Nina Beier. She showcases innocuous objects such as china, wigs, and pointedly massive bronze statues as more than just materia, but as reproductions of values and views – or as “representations of a world order,” as the artist puts it.
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