Exile Bulgarian Petar Petrov is, alongside Wendy&Jim, the great new hope among young Austrian fashion designers. We asked him about the fashion scene in his own country.
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Appropriately, for the 6th festival of fashion from Unit-F (www.unit-f.at) we have clothed ourselves in a new, more contemporary design. Not just better looking, but above all more functional and easier to follow so that, dear readers, we can offer you better service as well as more information and content. Have a look and surf through ...
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Interview: In her work The System: prêt-à-porter the artist Barbara Holub, since 2006 president of the Viennese Secession, addresses the shifts in economic structures and social form of appearance using the humanitarian and global circumstances of the Humana relief organization.
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In her work The System: prêt-à-porter Barbara Holub addresses the shifts in economic structures and the technical circumstances of communication associated with them in the changing "western" cartographies. A review.
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Die russische Autorin und Kuratorin Julia Demidenko erzählt, warum es in sowjetischen Unterwäschegeschäften keine Anprobekabinen gab, wie russische Frauen aus Kinderstrumpfhosen schicke Beinbekleidung für sich selbst schneiderten, und vieles mehr.
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In Moscow at least, Aleksandr Ilich Lyashenko, otherwise known as Petlyura, was for many years an underrated and controversial member of the movement known as »current Moscow art«.
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Czech products in the 1960s and 1970s between reform and normalisation.
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Statements:
In autumn of last year, the MNAC (Muzeul National de Artă Contemporana) was opened in the palace of the former dictator, Nicolae Ceauşescu. For some, the site has too many negative historical connotations, while others think it is just the right place to present contemporary art. We asked Anca ...
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A Commend on the last exhibition "Territories, Identities, Nets" in Ljubljana of the Slowenian curator Igor Zabel (1958-2005).
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Abou new urban planning: The city today in its new constellation as an urban region in a globalized world produces an enormous challenge for all actors in the field and notably for architects.
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A considerable amount of political attention is repeatedly being focussed on the major area "Europa Region Mitte" (Europe Central Region). One of the next areas is Vienna/Bratislava. In our neighbouring city developments are moving ahead rapidly – with the involvement of western and Austrian investors. We asked the editor-in-chief of ARCH, Henrieta H. Moravčíková, about the level of transparency and the quality of what is going on there. There too we encounter the eternal problem with competitions, the public realm and the difficulty of ensuring quality.
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Henrieta Moravčíková talks to architecture theorist Friedrich Achleitner
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"Six Pack", an architecture exhibition of six young Slovene architects practices, started its European tour at the beginning of 2004, shortly before Slovenia joined the EU.
Petra Čeferin explores in our magazine the way the exhibition and the projects were received and analyses the search for differences and the local aspects.
Not only a Slovene, but also a European problem.
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Architect and critic Horia Marinescu about his native city: What has happened to Bucharest since the monstrous 1980s? A tale of the memory of a lost generation.
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"Europe is a state of mind that cannot be contained by traditional boundaries" (Mark Leonard)
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Architects in the European Wonderland. Nine countries. Nine exhibitions. Ninety-nine teams.
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Platforma 9,81 and MULTIMEDIA INSTITUTE, two NGOs from Zagreb, in conversation with Boris Groys about social and cultural changes in Europe.
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Portrait of the slovakian artist, curator mediator and director of tranzit.sk.
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A country has to redefine itself. An interview with Croatian architecture theorist Vedran Mimica
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The Bosnian architects Sead Golos, Amir Vuk, and Srdja Hrisafovic talking about their hometown Sarajevo: Portrait of a new metropolis.
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The Fashion and Music Scene in Russia
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Is architecture political? For “Platforma 9,81”, architecture is nothing if not political, especially now, right now in Croatia.
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The accession of ten new countries to the EU on 1 May 2004 will bring major changes not only to the European Union but to Europe as a whole. Although business and politics are setting the tone, Brussels has also employed the catchphrase “cultural diversity.” Yet what exactly does this slogan mean? The following report from Bratislava explores this question.
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The “Unit F büro für mode” stages this festival every year, in the course of which the “Kontakt Fashion Award by Erste Bank” is also presented.
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