Content Creation & Fine Art Photography
Content Creation & Fine Art Photography
The Schloss Eggenberg contains the Alte Galerie – a world class art museum with none of Vienna’s crowds. It has work by Michael Pacher, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Giovanni Pietro de Pomis, and an extensive collection of stained glass, Maria statues, and panel paintings. If you’re a medievalist, you’re not
Picture a glass well. Now picture a well within that well. Now picture yourself within that well within a well. Now follow the white rabbit… This Alice in Wonderland concept is located in the Joanneumsviertel (“Joanneum Quarter”). Sunk into the square are 5 large circles that connect 3 of the
The eerie, subterranean world of the Joanneumsviertel was created by the Spanish studio Nieto Sobejano and the Austrian firm eep architekten. You can see the original plans in this case study by inexhibit.
Ever walked through the innards of an alien? You can at the Kunsthaus. Like the Murinsel, the Kunsthaus (“Art Museum”) was created for European Capital of Culture celebrations in 2003. The architects, Peter Cook and Colin Fournier, took a mass of iridescent acrylic panels and wove them into an amorphous
Thanks to the presence of the university, Graz is a student town.
The blue acrylic “skin” of the Kunsthaus is designed to act as a giant exhibition screen. Embedded within the walls are 930 40W fluorescent rings – or pixels – that can be set at a variety of illumination levels. Check it out at night.
In the Kunsthaus, even the restrooms are trippy. (They can be found in the basement, next to the lockers.)
The unassuming facade of Sackstrasse 16 (near the Dreifaltigkeitskirche) hides a townhouse of Rococo splendor. As with Wolf Dietrich’s Residenz in Salzburg, the interior of the Museum im Palais is awash with staterooms in white & gold. Princesses of any age will particularly enjoy the chandelier-lit Mirror Hall. Scattered among
The chubby boy on the back of the black bird is Ganymede. He’s being abducted by Zeus (disguised as the eagle) to serve as a cupbearer to the gods at Olympus. Above them, and upside down, the gods wait impatiently for their ambrosia. Ganymede hovers over the staircase of the
