TRENDLETTER 4-February-2021

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The more 'relaxed' lockdown starts in Austria on 8th February: Stores, museums, hair salons,... will open again with more restrictive rules Life is currently like a rollercoaster ride! The more relaxed lockdown will be effective from 8th February and includes measures such as curfew (20:00 - 6:00), obligatory FFP2 masks and 2 meters distance. The visit of a coffee house appears to have been a hundred years ago! And it won't be possible in the next days or weeks! The scenery captured at the popular recreation area Wiener Prater showing a waiter serving coffee and a cake to a woman in long dress holding a parasol reminiscents a beloved Viennese tradition...

Vienna-based design label Susa Kreuzberger presents current collection and new online shop with Austrian actress and singer Edita Malovčić Susa Kreuzberger's work can be described as a merger of art and fashion. Some of the pieces appear like canvases for political and feminist statements. Face of the label is Austrian TV and movie actress, singer Edita Malovčić who appears in the current campaign for the collection wearing items like the long shirt with the writing 'Madame With A Mission'...

Cybersecurity company Kaspersky teamed up with artist Felipe Pantone for an artwork and for the communication of tips how to protect online data and privacy Argentinian-Spanish artist Felipe Pantone's work is rooted in graffiti and an urban-digital dynamic lifestyle. The artwork 'W3-Structural K' visualizes a protection shield for the Kaspersky campaign 'Security Is An Art'. It was made public on Data Privacy Day together with tips by the global security company on how to safeguard personal data such as... Recently, the documentary video about the 'Kaspersky x Felipe Pantone' art collaboration was published. In the video, Felipe Pantone speaks about the development of the artwork and that he took therefore a closer look at high-tech architecture; the artist explains the architecture further as a "... kind of architecture that exposes the whole structure..."

OPEN FROM 9th FEBRUARY
Exhibition tip Vienna: Navigating through the walk-on floor painting-installation by Kapsch Contemporary Art Prize 2020 winner Hugo Canoilas at mumok Hugo Canoilas created a walk-on floor work at an entire hall at mumok for providing for visitors new views on nature. The planet seen from a distance reveals through Hugo Canoilas work the mystical depths of life. The navigation from space perspective leads along...

OPEN FROM 9th FEBRUARY
Wien Museum Musa presents author of 'Bambi, a Life in the Woods' Felix Salten and his cultural life in Vienna (15 Oct 2020 - 25 Apr 2021) Internationally, Felix Salten's most prominent work is the animal story 'Bambi, a Life in the Woods' published at the end of 1922, the basis for the Disney movie, released 1942. But not the book which throws so much light on Salten is in the center of the exhibition. The curators spot on Felix Salten as an important protagonist of the cultural life of Viennese Modernism... The researchers discovered even unreleased and until now unknown texts such as the erotic manuscript 'Albertine' which is announced to...

OPEN FROM 9th FEBRUARY
German/English audio tour (available online) to iconic design pieces via MAK series 'Nachdenkereien / Reflections' spoken by Burgtheater actors The concept of the series of currently nineteen texts written by MAK Museum of Applied Arts art curators and mediators, read by members of the Vienna Burgtheater, is to follow the history of selected pieces, the design idea, the societal circumstances of production, consumption,... and to continue the tour to our days by comparing esthetics, lifestyle of different times with thoughts about the role of marketing or changing values of consumers with reference to topics like the earth's resources or...

OPEN FROM 8th FEBRUARY
Fashion.at tip for an adventure tour with kids in Vienna: Schönbrunn Zoo Calculate around two or three hours for a tour through the zoo. Some of the animals are great performers! The picture shows the greenhouse 'Palmenhaus' which is part of the park of Schloss Schönbrunn. It is located before the entry to the Schönbrunn Zoo (Tiergarten Schönbrunn). Fashion.at visited the zoo recently by taking the fastest route from the Hietzinger Tor along the glass & steel building...