01/08/2026
Behind the Neo-Renaissance facade of the EST Hotel Palais Chotek on Währinger Straße lies a house built on the finest carpentry: for decades it was home to the art joinery Friedrich Otto Schmidt, the very workshop behind Adolf Loos’ furniture designs, and from whose range Loos adopted his famous eleohant-trumk table.
Across nine floors of this restored palace, Artcare curated the art programm, letting contemporary positions meet the building’s heritage on equal terms. From julian.jankovic golden sculpture at the grand staircase, cast from discarded COVID-era laboratory pipettes, to Karl Karner aluminium work above the bar fireplace, and multi-panel screenprints lining the corridors floor by floor.
A heartfelt thank yoy to the entire team of EST Hotel Palais Chotek Vienna for the trust and the wonderful collaboration, and to all the artists whose work brings these historic walls to life. ✨
Julian Jankovic julian.jankovic / Karl Karner Karl Karner / Alex Ruthner Alexander Ruthner / Nobuyoshi Araki / Gert Verhoeven / Pia Fries / Britra Huttenlocher / Julius Deutschbauer / Josef Kern
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Read more about the project and our rental concept at artcare.at/est-hotel-palais-chotek