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China Girl Tile is a street artist from Germany who creates ceramic tiles and pastes them on walls in different locations around the world. I previously saw her work in cities such as London and Bristol, and I was happy to come across one of her ceramic tiles in Vienna in the Museum Quarter. Her work is often witty and depicts social concerns. Violence, greed, animal rights, survelliance, and environmental concerns are some of the messages of her work. The piece in Vienna seems to be a theme in some of her work from several years ago with foxes. In this one, the fox is leaping into an open soup can. It was placed in 2017.

On the opposite wall is a cube-like structure, and there are additional pieces by the artist, but I did not see them at the time and didn't get a better photograph. They are a school of green and blue fish with printed money print on top of them. On the other side of the structure is another ceramic tile. I am not sure if it is China Girl Tile, but it appears to be a gruesome Disney-esque figure.

Previous posts on this blog that feature China Girl Tile's work are below:

China Girl Tile in Camden
Camden Street Art Self-Guided Tour
Bristol Upfest 2018
ChinaGirl Tile at Upfest 2018
ChinaGirl Tile Pastes up Street Art Mosaics in London
Street Art: St8ment, Grafter, Stra, ChinaGirl and others

When I was in Vienna, Austria at the end of February, I decided to go to a concert at the famous Musikverein building, which was conveniently located near the hotel that I was staying in. I had not been to a classical music concert for several years, and Vienna is notable for its classical music. I did not really know what to expect, but I was interested in enjoying a concert at Brahm's Hall in Musikverein. The hall is gilded in gold and detailed, and it is a beautiful space.

The concert was nearly all string instruments, and I did not find the depth in the instruments. It did not peak or flow, but it seemed mainly a constant sound which lacked depth to my ears. It just wasn't for me, but others enjoyed it.

When I was visiting Vienna in February, I discovered a couple of murals side by side next to a playground outside the centre of the city. The artwork features the work of two artists - Millo and HNRX. Both artists have painted in London, so their work was instantly recognisable to me.

HNRX creates street art that is in a "comic surreal" style, and many of his pieces feature food items combined and matched into surreal items. In this work, it shows a deconstructed sandwich with the ingredients located on the wall above each other.

Millo is an Italian artist who creates illustrations in a black and white style with his character being a part of the work, and he usually creates cityscapes or geometrical patterns. His work reminds me of comics or graphic novels. The work usually incorporates the design of the building. In the work, the character is shown with a backdrop of the cityscape holding onto a corner and appearing to fly. 

More work by Millo and HNRX on this blog can be seen below:

2014 Street Art in London
2015 Street Art in London
Street Art
Millo and Hunto
HNRX Large Murals
HNRX, Frankie Strand, ThisOne
Street Art Round-Up January, 2018
Street Art: HNRX and ThisOne
Street Art: This One
Street Art: HNRX
Leake Street Tunnels, Spring 2016
Street Art Murals in east London by ThisOne
ThisOne and Koctel Collaborate on Street Art in Shoreditch

When I was in Vienna at the end of February, I discovered some street art in the Museum Quarter that reminded me of some of Banksy's most recent work in London. In London last summer, Banksy went on a spree of painting various animals across walls and buildings in London. The street art is located next to a footbridge that has been tiled by Space Invader. The artwork features three gorillas appearing to hang from the limbs of trees. When the trees are in foilage, these gorilla silhouettes may not be visible, but they are a part of the artwork. Now, I am not sure if they are by Banksy as I could not find anything out about them, but they do match the silhouette style of some of the artist's work last summr in London. There's not much stenciling design on the work, but there wasn't in some of his work last summer as well, possibly because in some locations, he had to rush.

Work by Banksy on this blog:

New Banksy Animal Murals Appear Across London
Banksy's Artwork in Art'otel in Shoreditch
Banksy's Guard Dog vs His Master's Voice
Where to Find Banksy's Artwork Across London
Banksy on Old Street
Banksy's Snorting Copper
Banksy Tribute to Basquiat
Banksy's 'Les Miserables' Mural
Banksy's 'The Stinker'
Banksy's Dismaland 
Banksy's "Girl with the Pearl Earing"
Banksy's Car in Ely's Yard
Banksy in Bristol
Diamond Jubilee
Banksy's Diamond Jubilee Art
Banksy at Bristol Museum

Last summer, the wall outside of Zetland House in Shoreditch was re-painted by street artist Lily Mixe. Lily Mixe is known for painting illustrated designs with patterns inspired by floral designs, nature, and the animal kingdom. The pattern painted onto Zetland House is of a series of spotted gold and black toads on a blue background.

Lily Mixe is an artist from France who currently lives in London. She is inspired by the natural world, and her artwork features sea creatures, coral reefs, and floral designs.

For more street art by Lily Mixe in this blog, see:

Street Art Round-up in 2015
Shoreditch Street Art Round-up 2014

When I was in Vienna in February, I came across street art by British street artist David Shillinglaw. The street art is at "Dirty Paradise" along the canal in Vienna, which was not open when I visited but which may be a summer bar and entertainment area. David Shillinglaw's artwork is inspired by tribal, abstract, and pop art and uses bright colours and an illustrative style. Painted in 2016, the artwork looks pretty good considering that it is nearly ten years old.

More posts on this blog with David Shillinglaw's work is located here:

David Shinnglaw Street Art at Camden Lock
David Shillinglaw in Salisbury
David Shillinglaw New Mural at Zetland House
Street Art: David Shillinglaw
Street Art Round-Up to July 2015
Malarky Returns to Create Street Art on East London Shutters

Invader (also known as Space Invader) is a street artist from France who has pasted up ceramic tiles featuring 8-bit characters inspired by the digital games of the 1970s and 1980s across cities all over the globe. His work is titled as "invasions" and features popular video game characters, such as PacMan and Space Invaders, Super Mario Brothers, Star Wars, and more. There is a map and an app where you can earn points by capturing the mosaics, and this enabled me to locate many that I would never have seen in Vienna. This is the first time that I downloaded and properly used the app. Below are most of the work by Invader that I was able to discover on my visit to Vienna.

More street art by Invader on this blog:

Street Art by Invader in Brussels

The Broken Fingaz Crew is a duo of street artists from Israel who have painted all over the world. There are a couple of murals from a visit several years ago in Vienna from the duo, although the only one that I could find that was not painted over is pictured below and is off a side road west of the historical centre of Vienna. The artists work in an illustrative style that reminds me of comics with inked outlines and bright colours.

The Association of Visual Artists of Austria was an artistic movement around Gustav Klimt's artwork at the end of the 1800s, and they built a building named the Vienna Succession to house their exhibitions. The architecture of the building functions as a gallery but also appears to be styled as a temple. The gallery hosts exhibitions, but the main attraction is the "Beethoven Frieze" by Klimt. Music was important to the group of artists.

The frieze is painted directly onto the walls of the gallery, and it is inspired by Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony". The figures represent human emotions and a series of different stages of life.

Visitors to the exhibition can listen to the music on headphones while they view the painting.

Street artist ROA is a high profile street artist who is originally from Belgium but who has painted all over the globe. The artist's style is recognisable and rendered in a black and white illustrative style with high detail, and the subjects in the street art are bird and animal. The below mural was painted just outside of the city centre in Vienna and features a bundled grouping of different animals on top of each other. Th work is called "Fox and Friends" and was created in 2013, although the bottom part of the mural has since been painted over. It features a rabbit and a beaver. 

Unfortunately, the artwork dates from several years ago and has been painted over, so it is difficult to really appreciate it.

More street art by ROA on this blog is located below.

ROA's Giant Flea Street Art in London
Phelgm and ROA Street Art on South Bank, London
Street Art: ROA