Parabol

http://www.parabol.org

Parabol Art Magazine is an international periodical for contemporary art in English language, a project by the design agency section.d (Max Haupt-Stummer, Robert Jasensky), the art consultancy section.a (Katharina Boesch, Christine Haupt-Stummer) and the artist Chris Goennawein. Each issue is produced by a curator. Each curator´s task is to examine a contemporary phenomenon in pictures and words on the basis of artistic points of view. Parabol Art Magazine focuses on the representation of contemporary art in graphic space. Over a period of time, the total pattern created by all of the issues will result in a reflection of central spotlights of contemporary art production, like a two-dimensional exhibition. With its notorious size, the image itself is the main focus of the publication.

Oliver Haidutschek

 

http://aotooouchi.tumblr.com

"In the time of post internet art, an understanding in pure digital media consumption/ production/ redistribution and the philosophy of object-oriented ontology is what frames my field of work. What you see is what you get is the title of my latest work of representation and recontextualisation of "objects" or "pictures" in a "picture". We are used to see "real" sculptures as pictures in the net, we rarely go there and walk around and look at a sculpture. Instead we flick through masses of pictures online every day. This work is about the question of our validation of mass and reality."

Via http://www.ofluxo.net/

Hans Hollein

 http://www.hollein.com

via butdoesitfloat

Erwin Wurm

—"The act of dealing with sweaters, putting them on and taking them off, is hardly ever perceived consciously. When the object, i.e. the sweater, is stretched so that the body of the wearer can find its way into this envelope, when it shrinks so as to adapt to the body's contours and to create a shape or a lack thereof, an essential plastic process takes place." Erwin Wurm
—"He explores issues such as the thinness craze and obesity, fashion, advertising, the cult of consumerism, whose central fetishes include the private home as well the car. In his approach, anything can become sculpture: actions, written or drawn instructions, or even a thought."—Deichtorhallen
—'In the end, art deals with the difficulty of coping with life - be it by means of a philosophy or a nutritional diet,' Erwin Wurm.

http://www.xavierhufkens.com/artists
http://www.postmedia.net/
Erwin Wurm (1954, Bruck an der Mur) lives and works in Vienna.

See also:
House Attack, 2006
The artist who swallowed the world, 2006
Carrying Edelbert Köb (Be nice to your curator), 2006
One Minute Sculpture: "Lehne deinen Kopf an die Wand, denke an Adorno und furze"
Art Basel Fucks Documenta 2006
Instructions for Idleness (v.l.n.r.: Make slow movements; Be indifferent about everything; Fantasize about minimalism; Express yourself through yawning; Think about the void; Never respond; Look silly; Don't Care), 2001
One Minute Sculptures, 1997

Brigitte Niedermair

—Her work questions the feminine condition. Examining traditions, religions and modernity, and applying this to such subjects as abortion and artificial insemination, she proposes a dual vision between the sacred and the profane, asceticism and eroticism, cutural heritage and emancipation.

—Born in southern Tyrol in 1971, she lives and works in Milano and Paris. Before dedicating herself to photography at the age of 20, she created through painting and drawing. A self taught artist, Brigitte Niedermair has been working principally in fashion since 2000, composing her photographs as if they were paintings.

http://www.quadriga.fr/

Bela Borsodi

http://www.belaborsodi.com/

—In still life photography, every thing can be investigated in so many more and different ways. There are endless possibilities and each one of them has the potential to eventually change our perspective.

—It’s about playing with lots of objects all the time and trying things out, as long as it’s fun and worthwhile. I’m finished with a project when I’m happy with it and that’s when it all falls together and makes sense. The only purpose to reach an end is to finish a project - but it is really not that important to find all the answers. What is really interesting are the questions because they make you try things out, make you think and investigate. The process is what’s interesting and that can lead you to situations and possibilities that you couldn’t have anticipated. The results are then also a documentation of that process.

—If I can manage to have real joy with my projects this can likely also communicate my excitement to other people and perhaps inspire. That’s what I really want to share: humor, obsession, intelligence, curiosity, making an effort…
Interviewed by Pingmag.

Bela Borsodi was born in Vienna and has lived and worked in New York City since the early 1990s. He studied fine art and graphic design and often incorporated photography in his projects. His work offers a surreal imagery that makes clothing and accessories 3-dimensional. His “Foot Fetish” story for V Magazine received both negative and positive responses, which ended up sparking discussions on how the female body is sexualized and objectified in fashion and in art.

Some images retouched by thescienceofdesign.

Heimo Zobernig

http://www.heimozobernig.com/

—With art I would like to raise questions and as a result produce things that put themselves in question.

Heimo Zobernig's work is a quest for the elemental. He dissects phenomena almost scientifically and presents their components in new constellations. The question is what art can produce.—Museums Quartier.

Drawing on various art histories he questions the principles and conditions which underpin them; challenging and reinterpreting them with a lightness of touch and an economy of material that is at times playful, dry, witty, unsettling and disarming. Born in 1958, in Austria, Heimo Zobernig's work includes sculpture, video, text, painting, installation, architectural intervention and performance. —Tate.

Marek Haiduk

http://marekhaiduk.de/

Illustrator and designer from germany, currently living and working in Vienna. Flickr / Deviantart.

Klaus Fleischhacker

http://www.nichtkunst.com

Klaus Fleischhacker is aka Nichtkunst. Follow his latest projects on Tumblr / Flickr / Facebook / Twitter / Myspace. via Behance.

Atelier Olchinsky

http://www.olschinsky.at/

Atelier olschinsky is a small independent multi-disciplinary design studio based in Vienna. Their projects frequently turn around graphic design, product design, web sites, 3d, illustration, animation and photography. via Behance.

Moussa Kone

http://www.moussakone.com/

1978 born in Niederösterreich
1999-03 Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien. Painting.
2003 Diploma MFA. Lives and works in Vienna and Berlin.

Reiner Riedler

Fake Holidays 2004-2009

When wishes are out of reach, simulation is taking over our leisure time and our holidays. Imaginary worlds are created, often under massive technological exertion, in order to offer us experience as reproducible merchandise. Although the quality of these adventures on demand sometimes proves to be rather dubious, the boom does shed light on one thing: the yearnings and dreams underlying people’s daily lives.—Jens Lindworsky about Fake Holidays.

http://www.photography.at/

Reiner Riedler was born in Austria in 1968. He studied photography in Vienna and has published “Albanien, Leben an der Peripherie” 2001, “Ukraine. Fotografien” 2003, “Gestürmte Festung Europa” 2007, and “Fake Holidays” 2009. As a documentary photographer he deals with contemporary topics and his view always centers on the human being in his or her environment.

Alexander Egger

1. People who make noises are dangerous. Zine.
2. The top is just the bottom in reverse. Zine.
3. Pilot project identity.
4. Sex is nostalgia for sex when once it used to be exciting. Zine.
5. Places to go, people to see, things to do. Zine.
::. Zines available via dienacht.

http://www.satellitesmistakenforstars.com/

Shyness and discontentment with his own inadequateness is a strong driving force. He likes white and empty rooms because of the space in which things can happen. Has plenty of useless knowledge about a lot of things nobody is interested in. He is not easily impressable but can fall in love with certain incidental movements which are not intended for somebody. Loves the phase between sleep and alertness when thougts and images come to one‘s mind from nowhere in a half aware accidental order compounding to strange combinations. —By Alexander Egger (1971), a graphic designer, illustrator, concept developer, artist, writer, publisher of zines and musician, who lives and works in Vienna.

Images retouched by thescienceofdesign.

Felix Auer

http://www.felixauer.at/

Felix Auer (b.1986) is an austrian illustrator and graphic artist based in Vienna.

"I was searching a long time for my own technique. Since I started to work as an illustrator and graphic artist I was fascinated with the differences and possibilities of digital and traditional media. In my illustrations I like to play with the viewer. Actually my works are dealing with pretty dark subjects like death, sickness, isolation, depression and fear, but are concealed by bright and strong colors, representing our society where these subjects are not accepted but being pushed away."

You can find him also on Facebook.

Albert Exergian

Popular TV shows: A view on TV culture, 2009. Series of 37 posters. Available at Blanka.co.uk.

http://www.exergian.com/

I really like how Exergian uses the simplification of form to represent products of popular culture, and how in this way reveals the existence of a collective memory that is able to get engaged with the different levels of abstraction in his work.

Follow his blog on Tumblr.
Found via miriamströbach.