21/kunstakt

The quote of Agnes Denes “Seeing reality and still being able to dream” is the motto of this year’s kunstakt exhibition from which students of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna have drawn their inspiration in preparing an exhibition already for the 16th time for our law firm. Our trust that freedom, health and our “society” may be taken for granted has been shaken and challenged in the year 2020, and thus also the freedom and ease of artistic production were affected.

“To dream” means to stand up to this uncertainty, continue to think ahead, to experiment, to play, to perceive and adopt, as well as to exchange views. Art as the essential force driving interpersonal existence, the search for reality, the quest for a basis in reality.

Nine young artists took individual and very personal approaches in dealing with our age and its issues, and created equally diverse, complex and interesting works of art. In addition, their goal this year was once again to create works of art intended to inspire insights, discovery and discussion among onlookers amid the interplay between the law firm fwp, art, and society as a whole.