Giving a face to the people of all nations

In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Vienna International Centre, the world.culture.project “FACING NATIONS – culture of humanity” was on display in the Rotunda of the VIC. The idea of the project is to show each person as a unique individual, regardless of origin, skin colour, gender, religion, wealth, and political or other creed. The “ORF-Artist in Residence” Oskar Stocker has thus far painted 124 large oil portraits of 124 people from 124 nations, which are joined together to form a single painted surface over 150 meters long: None of these individual pictures stands alone. Each is a part of this unique “panorama of humanity”!

A project under the honorary protection of Dr. Heinz Fischer, President of the Republic of Austria