In the Studio Sophie Hirsch, Vienna

Viennese artist Sophie Hirsch explores the intersection between materiality, movement, and tension, where strength and vulnerability coexist. Drawing from her early experiences in a New York Pilates studio, her work examines the body’s physicality and the relationship between movement and structure.

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In the Studio Barbara Kapusta, Vienna

Barbara Kapusta multimedia work encompasses photography, video, installation, sound and sculpture. However, the starting point of her work is always language and her engagement with it.

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In the Studio Franziska Reinbothe, Pretzsch, Germany

Franziska Reinbothe defines herself as a painter, though not in the traditional sense: she folds the canvas, breaks up the stretcher frame or lets it shine through by using chiffon fabric. Her aim is to render the invisible visible, to bring the back to the front.

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Collector Stories Otto and Saskia Wiesenthal, Vienna

It has been twenty-five years since Otto Wiesenthal resigned from a managerial position to devote his time to the transformation of a house in Vienna’s seventh district built during the period of intensive industrial expansion at the end of the nineteenth century into the Hotel Altstadt Vienna, a key role in this decision, was the intention of installing his personal art collection. We met with Wiesenthal and his daughter Saskia, the hotel’s marketing and art manager and an art collector in her own right, in one of the suites of the “Altstadt” filled with design and art for a conversation about life with beautiful things and of that which is special about Vienna.

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