Kontakt Video Portraits

The Kontakt Video Portraits carry on the tradition of art-historically important Austrian projects: The “portraits of artists” curated by Peter Kogler for the “museum in progress”, which offer an impressive panorama on international artistic perspectives of the 1990s, as well as Wilhelm Gaube's oeuvre of around 250 artist portraits from the 1960s and 1970s. For the Kontakt Video Portraits, the publicist and dramaturge Claus Philipp, the artist Manuel Gorkiewicz and the filmmaker Julius Lermer were commissioned to conduct and record conversations with Central and Eastern European artists and intellectuals who contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of artistic and social realities and developments in this cultural space.