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Euromaxx Highlights

April 30, 2016

Legendary artist Christo is working on his new project on Lake Iseo in northern Italy. A group of Swiss artists are giving the football sticker a creative makeover. And: a rollercoaster restaurant in the city of Vienna.

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2013 DW euromaxx highlights

Christo's ‘Floating Piers’


Christo's new work will allow visitors to walk on water: he's designed a structure which is three kilometers long and 16 meters wide, extending across the water of Lake Iseo in northern Italy.

Football meets art


The’Tschutti Heftli’ from Switzerland is the alternative to the famous Panini football stickers collectors album. 24 artists have beautifully created the portraits of the players for the 2016 European Championship.

Maurice Mikkers' tears

Can one determine, by the look of a tear, why it was shed? That's a question Dutch photographer Maurice Mikkers tries to answer. He brings his subjects to tears, and then examines the result under a microscope.

Vienna's rollercoaster restaurant

In a rollercoaster restaurant dishes speed to the tables on rails. What's unique here is that not humans but robots send the food and beverages to the guests. The newest restaurant of this kind opened in Vienna’s Prater.

2016 Jazzfest Bonn

This year’s Jazzfest Bonn opened with internationally acclaimed bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff and his new program ‘My Favorite Things’. Many other powerful voices, such as singer Lisa Bassenge, can be heard there.