Vienna Time
Liudmila Kirsanova interviews artists who are currently active in Vienna. This podcast explores the local vibrating scene and renders a collage portrait of artistic Vienna right now. Here you’ll meet artists of different generations and at different stages of their career, who work with various mediums spanning from painting to performance.
Episodes
30 episodes
Barbara Moura: Feminist Take On The Old Masters
A painter appears in Vienna with a film degree, a restless curiosity, and no plan to become a painter at all, then ends up building a body of work that stares straight into the canon and talks back. Sitting in her studio, I speak with Barbara M...
Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair: Performing Histories And Identities
Vienna’s contemporary art scene often feels like a meeting point for biographies that do not fit neat national labels, and our conversation with artist, curator, and researcher Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair makes that friction visible. From her st...
Alfred Bow: Painting Like Doing Drag Makeup
A painting can look like a celebration and still hold a private storm. We meet Vienna-based visual artist Alfred Bow in his flat-studio, surrounded by huge canvases, tulle, and colour that refuses to behave. He tells us why he doesn’t identify ...
Elena Kristofor: Dialogue With Forest Mediated By Analogue Camera
Who watches whom when the trees stare back? We sit down with visual artist Elena Kristofor to trace how a childhood between sea and steppe collides with the dense, watchful woods of Austria, and how that tension fuels a practice that blends ana...
Beáta Hechtová: Futuristic Folklore And Post-Catastrophic Healing
What if the future feels dangerous and tender at the same time? We sit with visual artist Beáta Hechtová to wander through her post‑collapse worlds, where faceless figures grow thorns, bodies melt beyond gender, and cultures are rebuilt through...
Franzi Kreis: How Personal Stories Become Collective Memory
portraits and interviews, generational storytelling, photography as performance, photography and stage design A photograph that appears in a dark room, breathes for a minute, then vanishes when the lights come up. That’s ...
Julia Belova: Sculpting Queer, Sacred, And Monstrous Bodies
Baroque monsters, porcelain sculpture, queer bodies, migrant identities What If The Holiest Body Is A Monster?A monster at the altar changes how you see the sacred. We sit down with Vienna-based sculptor Julia Belo...
Natalia Gurova: Migrant Identities And New Forms Of Resistance
Sculpture, memory and materiality, street theater as a political act, migrant identities
Nika Kupyrova: Mythology And Storytelling Across Digital Realities
Sculpture in digital context, storytelling across digital worlds, translation and mistranslation as medium, digital spaces as magic spaces
Kaja Clara Joo: Relationship With Materials in Posthuman World
New Materialism, sculpture, poetic materiality, storytelling of posthumanism
Annika Eschmann: Automatism And Mistake Informing The Drawing
drawing, pattern, rational and irrational, automatism and mistake https://annikaeschmann.com/
Brittany Tucker: Reinterpreting Relationship Between Blackness and Whiteness
realistic painting, self-portraits, relationship between American blackness and whiteness, black women in art history https://brittanytucker.net/
Miae Son: Everyday Rituals And New Modalities Of Belonging
video installation, migrant experience, everyday rituals, new modalities of belonging https://miaeson.com/
Maria Belova: Religion And Sacrality in Post-Digital Culture
sculpture, religion in contemporary culture, sacrality and digital space, art exhibitions in churches https://studiomariabelova.com/
Interview with Seung-Yeon Jung
performance, migrant experience, self-identity, South Korean traditional craftshttps://www.instagram.com/seung_yeon_jung/
Interview with Otto Muehlethaler
Otto Muehlethaler https://www.ottomuehlethaler.com/
Interview with Nazanin Mehraein
Nazanin Mehraein https://nazaninmehraein.com/
Interview with Thean Chie Chan
Thean Chie Chan https://www.instagram.com/theanchiechan/
Interview with Nazira Karimi
Nazira Karimi https://www.instagram.com/nazirakar/
Interview with Barbara Maria Neu
Barbara Maria Neu https://www.barbaramarianeu.at/