Episodes – those small and large segments of time that come together to form our lives, intertwined with our thoughts, ideas, and perceptions, our dreams and memories, infinitely significant, always with us. Guido Maria Kucsko dedicates his new series of works, EPISODES, to them.

Here, word and image engage in an open interplay. The EPISODES appear casual, yet are marked by great precision. They are invitations—to see, to think, to open a door. Hybrid miniatures composed of language and photography, concept and intuition, everyday life and abstraction. Kucsko turns art into a dialogue—with himself, with us, with the world.

Edited by Angela Stief, this volume presents a conversation between Angela Stief and Guido Maria Kucsko about art, intellectual property law, magic, and the creation of the EPISODES, as well as a selection of 41 EPISODES created between 2020 and 2024. Each is self-contained and tells its own story through a brief text introduction, a sequence of ten images, and an afterword.

Angela Stief, born in 1974 in Augsburg (Germany), is an art historian, curator, and cultural publicist. She studied art history and philosophy. From 2002 to 2013, she was a curator at Kunsthalle Wien. In 2020, she took on a guest professorship for curatorial practice at the University of Linz. Since 2020, she has worked at the Albertina and, in 2021, was appointed Director of the Albertina Modern and Chief Curator for Contemporary Art at the Albertina.

Guido Maria Kucsko, born in 1954 in Vienna, lives and works in Vienna. As a legal scholar, he specialized in intellectual property law (trademark, design, patent, and copyright law), authored numerous academic publications, and taught this field as an honorary professor at the University of Vienna. He brings this background into his minimalist, narrative, conceptual artwork. His works have gained public recognition through museum exhibitions and installations, including at the Albertina (Vienna), Bank Austria Kunstforum (Vienna), Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig, Freud Museum (Vienna), Palazzo Ducale (Mantua), Domus Media (Oslo), MOMus (Thessaloniki), Landesgalerie Niederösterreich, Museum Krems, and Francisco Carolinum (Linz).