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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In the Studio Mario Kiesenhofer, Vienna

The Austrian artist Mario Kiesenhofer works with photography, video, text and installation. He focuses on the representation of queer communities and their safe spaces in art and society.

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In the Studio Liliane Lijn, London

Although Liliane Lijn might best be known for her “kinetic art”, her artistic scope goes far beyond movement. Since the 1960s, Lijn has pioneered a new way of working with a multitude of materials, from plastics to minerals, exploring the intersection between language and image.

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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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