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But now I love the city. When I go to buy vegetables at the Naschmarkt I can chat in Russian to the people selling them. Once a man at one of the stands asked what I did for a living. I told him I made videos. He winked at me. It was clear he thought I meant that I made porn videos. This has all become a part of home for me. But can’t this little »metropolis« be incredibly slow moving at times? I actually see that as something positive, an ideal environment for working in a concentrated way, or for developing yourself culturally. I mean the Filmmuseum alone is a treasure. In Vienna I can build up my energy reserves by swimming in summer on the Donauinsel, or by ice-skating in winter on the Alte Donau. It isn’t by chance that a lot of internationally successful artists live in this city: Franz West, gelitin, Elke Krystufek, Valie Export, Hans Schabus, Martin Guttmann, Peter Kogler or Maria Lassnig, just to mention a few. Everything is within easy reach. You meet people here face to face, not in a chat room. And in comparison to the relatively small size of the city, the range of cultural facilities offered is enormous. Every day quite a number of good (!) cultural events take place, an off-space opens, or a museum or gallery has an opening. Traditionally the amount of music performed is amazing and a lot of things happen at the interface between music, fashion, performing and visual art; a lot takes place in institutions but also through personal initiatives. Why does art flourish to such an extent in the Viennese biotope? There are only a few collectors of contemporary art in Vienna; art isn’t bought in Vienna but it is communicated here. In Austria, state support of contemporary artists compared, say, to Germany, is exceptional. There are gallery subsidies, studios are financed, grants and scholarships awarded, prizes given and so forth. At times I toyed with the idea of moving to New York, because now my entire family has immigrated to the USA. But how should I make my art there if I have to work three jobs just to pay the rent for my studio? My foreign colleagues envy me for living in this »artist’s paradise«. —— SPIKE ART GUIDE EAST 01 — 2009 Vienna 263 It isn’t by chance that a lot of internationally successful artists live in this city Vienna
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