Focus on Vienna: August 2016

Manon de Boer. Giving Time to Time at Wiener Secession, Association of Visual Artists

Manon de Boer's six film pieces at Wiener Secession take a sensitive and analytical look at the relations between time, image and sound. In An Experiment in Leisure, the stationary camera captures simple but expressive pictures. Other works like Presto. Perfect Sound and Dissonant explore variation, translation and concentration in creative processes. Last chance to enjoy the exhibition's hypnotising quality.

Aldo Giannotti. Spatial Dispositions. Intervention #6 at Albertina

Rising art star Aldo Gianotti has been keeping rather busy. His conceptual yet humorous drawings have now taken over the historic Albertina Museum.

Kay Walkowiak. Forms in Time at MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art

Austrian artist Kay Walkowiak's central video work in this exhibition was filmed during his travels in Asia and questions different constructs of thought in the East and West.

Frederick Kiesler. Life Visions at MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art

The Austrian-American architect, artist, designer, set designer, and theoretician lived for the transdisciplinary idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk and the interconnection of art and life. Life Visions captures his inspiring approach with a large number of visionary sketches, photos, plans, and texts from the extensive inventory of the Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation.

Béton at Kunsthalle Wien (MQ)

City planning has always been about more than just building. In the post-war years and using the most advanced material of the time, it was about implementing the idea of a concrete utopia. Today, it is seen as a relict of socialist ideology, symbol of poverty and failed progress, but it's also celebrated for its sculptural qualities. Gathering works from some of the most sophisticated artists of the past decades, including Isa Genzken, Liam Gillick, Tobias Zielony, Thomas Demand, the show Beton at Kunsthalle Wien showcases various structures and ideas of concrete architecture.

Franziska is an art theorist and writer working in projects related to Visual Culture. She's ArtRabbit's Vienna correspondent. For more updates on contemporary art events follow ArtRabbit on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram.