13 March 2026: In conversation
To mark the end of the „Still-Leben“ exhibition, KiS – Kunst in Seefeld hosted a panel discussion with Michael Ziegler, the artist behind the delicate floral paintings. Collector and gallery owner Rafael Jablonka and cultural manager Gerald Matt spoke at length with the artist about the motif of flowers, which is one of the recurring themes in his work.
The audience learnt how the […]
8 April 2026: Things are about to get colourful
As part of the „Still-Leben“ exhibition featuring works by Michael Ziegler, actress and musician Juliana Haider took a group of curious children on a playful journey of discovery. In keeping with the watercolour paintings in the exhibition, everything revolved around flowers, colours – and the music and stories that spring from them.
Together […]
25.8.2025: The artist on the podium
Rafael Jablonka hosted a talk with Platon and Viennese gallery owner Peter Coeln - and the members and patrons of Kunst in Seefeld turned up in droves. In a relaxed atmosphere, the New York-based photo artist with Greek roots talked about how he found his visual language and achieved technical mastery [...]
Works by Plato at KiS
On 13 June 2025, KiS hosted the vernissage of the exhibition „Plato: Photos from the island of Paros“. „The camera is nothing more than a tool. What counts is the story, the message, the feeling, the connection,“ says the photographer, born Platon Antoniou in London in 1968 with Greek roots, about his work. [...]
Works by Sherrie Levine fascinate
There was great interest and a large audience, with fruitful discussions and thought-provoking questions … Sherrie Levine’s works – from her grotesquely beautiful bronze figures to the monochrome pieces in the „After Yves Klein“ series – raise many questions. As Florian Waldvogel also noted in his introduction: „The artist provokes answers, but she does not provide them.“ At the […]
Valerie Fritz & Goran Stevanovich
The concert by Valerie Fritz and Goran Stevanovich on 7 May 2025 was once again attended by numerous members of KiS - Kunst in Seedeld with an interest in music and art in the old fire station hall in Seefeld. The duo played current works, for example by Polish composer Mikolay Majkusiak (The Best Composer of the Young Generation [...]
Tour with Angela Braster
Angela Braster is herself an active member of the KiS association. She loves art and art history as well as exchanging ideas with people interested in art. During the tours through the showrooms of the Jablonka Collection, she imparts interesting facts about the artists and their works. Among others Sherrie Levine, Eric Fischl, Philipp Taaffe, Francesco Clemente, etc.
In the [...]
About Giovanni Segantini and life
Michael Krüger on the paintings of Giovanni Segantini – that was the theme for a reading at KiS in late October 2024. The audience encountered not only the author Michael Krüger, but also the publisher, who, as the long-standing director of Carl Hanser Verlag, has followed and helped shape the German-language literary scene like no other. […]
On the programme: PictureReading
A big jungle party. A nest with eggs - or birds? Creatures on stilts. The children „read“ Ross Bleckner's pictures in their own way - with an open mind and an alert eye. They then put their version of flowers and blossoms on paper while painting. Juliana Haider, who organised the [...]
Music by Glass and Shostaktovich
„A wonderful musical summer evening“ – „This is beautiful“ – „The performance was outstanding.“ These and similar comments were heard from the audience at the concert at KiS in early July 2024. The cedag quartet performed two String Quartets No. 3: Philip Glass’s, which was originally composed for the film „Mishima – a […]
The image of the flower. Flower pictures
Although Ross Bleckner did not travel in person from New York to Seefeld for the opening of his exhibition at the end of June 2024, he did contribute his thoughts in the form of a written piece for the catalogue published to mark the exhibition. „Any interest I have in flowers is actually an interest I have in pictures of flowers“, […]
Pia Fries in conversation at the finissage
Pia Fries„ exhibition came to a close in March 2024 with an engaging panel discussion. Maria-Anna Meßner-Haidenthaler from the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum led the discussion with the artist and Rafael Jablonka. “Basically, I want to paint a good picture,” said Pia Fries, summing up her approach in a simple statement. She then went on to […]
Reading with saxophone accompaniment
Every poem, even the shortest, can blossom into a full-blown poem; indeed, it might even burst into life, for everywhere there lie hidden, immeasurable reserves of splendour and cruelty, waiting patiently for us to discover them …
This is how „Erblühendes Poem“ begins, a poem by Adam Zagajewski, which Alexandra Maria Jablonka (right) read in February […]
Opening with Friedhelm Mennekes
The advice of Friedhelm Mennekes, who introduced the works of Pia Fries at the opening of tausend : einerlei, related to the question of the meaning of art. In his experience, it should be lived, „because when things are shaky and unstable, art helps.“ Mennekes, Jesuit and expert, who among other things [...]
An evening with Siggi & Juliana Haider
The accordionist and composer Siggi Haider not only knew Werner Pirchner personally and recorded the ‚Sonata of the Harsh Life‘ with him in the recording studio, but he also plays the accordion that Pirchner, who died in 2001, had specially made for himself. Together with his daughter Juliana (saxophone and vocals), Siggi Haider performed on the occasion of […]
Jesuit priest gives introduction
Great interest at the opening of David LaChapelle's exhibition: Jesuit Father Friedhelm Mennekes (second from right) gave exciting insights into the biblical scenes from „Jesus is My Homeboy“ from the perspective of the Church. Father Mennekes, who advises the Vatican, among others, as an art expert, was enthusiastic about LaChapelle's photographic interpretations, which for him [...]
Sarah Bogner’s *Love and Embarrassment*„
The pastel-coloured horses with their accompanying creatures, created by Sarah Bogner for the old fire station in Seefeld, fascinated visitors to the opening. Despite the driving snow, many interested people came to take a first look at „Love and Disgrace“ - the title of the exhibition. KiS association chairwoman Elisabeth [...]
Bach, Reich, Gordon
The exhibition of Andy Warhol's „Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century“ provided the perfect backdrop for a special concert. The young cellist Valerie Fritz (right) played Johann Sebastian Bach, Steve Reich and Michael Gordon and author Friederike Gösweiner read the poem „Going to Lviv“ by Adam Zagajewski. This Polish poet, who died in 2021, [...]