In the Studio Sofia Goscinski, Vienna

Sofia Goscinski is an Austrian sculptor and painter with Polish-Russian roots. Her working method is process-oriented; the work, which revolves around the question of identity, emerges during the creative process.

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In the Studio Keith Boadwee, Emeryville

American conceptual artist Keith Boadwee emerged in the early 1990s through abstract action painting and photography that pushed the boundaries of decency. Over time, he expanded his practice into multiple, overlapping bodies of work—ranging from quick, expressive, and often scatological figurative paintings to more recent works featuring frogs, poodles, and domestic objects.

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In the Studio Marina Faust, Vienna

Austrian artist Marina Faust began her career in photography. In addition to commissioned work, she already showed her unique view of the world in the 1980s with works such as Miniatures. Her work combines the planned and the playful, always starting with the object, the “objet trouvé” (found object), which she transforms into rolling armchairs or eclectic chandeliers.

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Collector Stories Robert Punkenhofer, Barcelona/Vienna

For more than 20 years, Robert Punkenhofer has been involved in international corporate and art management. His agency Art & Idea considers itself a nexus between art, architecture, design, and economics. He has curated more than 100 exhibitions, among them the annual Vienna Art Week. He has served as Trade Commissioner for the Austrian Foreign Trade Organisation in Mexico City, New York, and Berlin, a role that he currently holds in Barcelona. We spoke with the unusual collector about art, his ability to repeatedly create things from nothing, and about his passion for Vienna’s brilliant k. and k. period.

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