WE LOVE ARTISTS
We present a pool of professional artists of diverse cultural and conceptual spaces, artistic disciplines, and branches. We create an international network of creativity, knowledge, expertise, and artistic diversity, physically located in the Ministry of Artists in Vienna, virtually unlimited.
Aspiring, established, world-famous – to us, these are just different steps of a shared path. We learn from each other in solidarity, grow together as humans, artists, audiences, and society.
As artists, we’re flooded by “great new platforms for exposure” – and nearly all of them are exploitative. The Ministry is made by artists for artists. If you’re interested in joining us, it is not obligatory to be a member of the association (although we appreciate it). Our homepage and exhibition/concert programs are curated professionally to offer and maintain a high-quality standard. Feel free to contact us with any questions you have!
LE MONSIEUR FLASH
PHOTOGRAPHER, GRAPHIC DESIGNER, CO-FOUNDER, CURATOR
Born in Paris, France, he lived in London for several years as a teenager for family reasons. Influenced by this early international experience and his contact with the club culture that was growing up there at the time, he was drawn to the world of night catering at an early age.He first learned the trade...
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REINHARD AUER
THEATER DIRECTOR, EVENT MANAGER, CURATOR
1980-92 Leading director of Yura-Soyfer-Theatre-Vienna since 1993 Artistic director of Liberty Theatre of Bolzano (Italy) Awards: 1980, 1985 City of Vienna of the Theatre festivals of Cluj (Romania, 2000), Kerch (former Ukraine, 2003), Prague (2008), Novi Sad (Serbia, 2019) 2020-21 actor direction of the short film „In the rain of bird dropping“ (Bolzano/Berlin) since 2013 exhibition...
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ANCA VINTILA DRAGU
CERAMIC ARTISTS
Born in Romania, she studied Business Administration in Bucharest and earned her BA in Economics in 1999, but her passion for art made her switch from her management and marketing career to a professional artist. She then studied Ceramics in Bucharest Academy of Arts, UNArte and earned a BA and Master degree in Decorative arts...
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DORIS KAPNER
FIGURATIVE ARTIST, CERAMICIST, PAINTER
Doris Kapner is a figurative artist working primarily in ceramics and painting. Her work is based on her experience as a woman within the limitations and expectations of society. Her primary themes are the objectification of women and the idea of women’s domesticity. She employs traditional women’s crafts and imagery found in the home including...
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MERLIN DICKIE
FINE ARTIST, PAINTER
Viennese artist Merlin Dickie studied “Painting and Animation” at the University of applied Arts Vienna and holds a diploma as creative art director. In his twenties he worked as a practical effects artist for Austrian film but his focus has always been painting. As a painter Merlin Dickie explores socio-critical themes, art history and myths....
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PIOTR AMBROZIAK
VISUAL ARTIST, CURATOR
Visual artist, curator, originator of the Festival of Independent Art „Warsaw off ART”, a festival of independent art galleries. A social activist who always goes against the tide. He studied at the Faculty of Graphics and Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź.In 1996 he graduated with honours in the woodcut studio of...
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CLARE SAPONIA
WRITER, ARTIST, COACH
Clare Saponia is a London-born, Berlin-based writer, poet and coach, and the author of three poetry collections: Federal Gods (Palewell Press 2022), The Oranges of Revolution (Smokestack Books 2015) and Copyrighting War and other Business Sins(Olympia Publishers 2011). Her work has featured in various anthologies, including Smokestack Lightning (Smokestack Books 2022), They want all our...
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DAVIDE TURA
PIANIST, COMPOSER, CONDUCTOR
He is the founder and director of the Virgilio Ensemble and of the Einstein Youth OrcheStar, artistic director of the Suono DiVino music festival in Sogliano al Rubicone. He receives commissions from ensembles, concert performers and individuals.As an interpreter and composer, he recorded the first album called S(ottrazioni) in 2020 for Amadeus Arte.He performs music...
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JULIUS WERNER CHROMECEK
PHOTOGRAPHER, DANCER, MUSICIAN, SCIENTIST
Born and having always lived in Vienna.After first photo shoots at the age of fifteen, photo apprenticeship, then sixteen years working in the photo trade; 2019/20 Friedl Kubelka School for Artistic Photography, thus came late to artistic photography, before that, among other things, five years working in brain research, several years of training in contemporary...
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ANDREAS TANZER
FINE ARTIST, PAINTING, DRAWING
Born in 1987, Andreas Tanzer graduated with distinction from the University of Artistic Design Linz in 2016. In 2015 he also studied at UWE (Bristol) – fine arts/drawing and applied arts. In 2019, an exhibition and catalogue entitled “Fractions in the Museum” was realised at the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Tanzer has been living and working in...
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ALICE KAMMERLANDER
CERAMIC SCULPTOR
ProfileMag. art2016 until today freelance artist Education1998 – 2005 Study of Fine Arts / Master Class Ceramics, Otto Lorenz University of Applied Arts, Vienna2000 – 2001 Scholarship Guildhall University London1998 Master Class Tone Fink Summer Academy Salzburg ExhibitionsMarch. 2023 MOA, Ministry of Artists, solo exhibitionFeb. 2023 MOA, Ministry of Artist, group exhibition2009 Studio Tour Q212008...
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AGNIESZKA ZAWISZA
PAINTER, VISUAL ARTIST
She studied at the Warsaw Art Academy, Department of Painting (1994-2000), obtaining a Master‘s degree with honors in the year 2000. She recently obtained a Ph.D. in the field of Fine Arts at the Łódź Art Academy. Zawisza won the first prize at the Painting Biennial in Moldova in 2017.Oil painting is her most frequently...
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DMITRI SHIBAEV
ARTIST, ART HISTORIAN, LECTURER
The topic of his theoretical research as a PhD student is the problem of drawing in the context of the evolution of fine arts in the Republic of Moldova. The central subject of his oil paintings is the image of stairs, using the composition as visual conceptualization in the context of contemporary art, of one...
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GÁBOR SZÜCS
Painter, Video Artist, VJ, Teacher
Lives and works in Kolárovo and Šamorín, Slovakia. Painter, teacher, video artist, VJ. 1st prize of FreshArt8 competition – Debrecen, Hungary 2017 3rd prize in Live video-mapping contest at Live performers meeting – Amsterdam, Netherlands 2017 Finalist at Art Vision VJing – Moscow, Russia 2016 3rd prize in VJing at Signal festival – Prague, Czech...
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DENISE SCHELLMANN
VISUAL ARTIST, VIDEO ARTIST, SCULPTOR, SCIENTIST
As an enthusiast of microcosmic structures and organic, elementary particles Denise Schellmann researches the building blocks of her life artistically. Her versatile artwork is based on her many years of experience as a natural scientist, working between crystal structures and cell structures, between the living and the non-living, in cancer research. Similar to a chemical...
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PAWEL WOCIAL
SCULPTOR, DESIGNER, SCENOGRAPHER
I am a sculptor, designer, and scenographer, and I create contemporary sculptures, installations, objects, videos, and drawings. My artworks were presented, among others, in Monte-Carlo, London, Venice, Berlin, Paris, Cannes, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Wien, or Budapest. I realized dozens of international individual and collective exhibitions, with artists: Marina Abramović, Tracey Emin, Magdalena Abakanowicz. Banksy, Peter Weibel,...
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DORIS DITTRICH
SCULPTOR, PAINTER, VISUAL ARTIST
The Viennese artist adopts the perspective of a contemporary archaeologist, observing western society and its everyday culture. The results of her question, if being a witness brings a responsibility to (re)act, manifest in extended work series in multiple disciplines. Doris Dittrich first studied social work and celtology in Vienna and Ireland before she began studying...
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DANIEL SOMMERGRUBER
PAINTER, SCENOGRAPHER
Vienna-based artist Daniel Sommergruber’s interest in staging can be found in each of his works, whether photography, painting, drawing, sculpture, or activated, as a stage set. The starting point of his work is always the human being and his relations to conceptual space, which drives his experiments with materials and techniques. His interdisciplinary work is...
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