Marilyn Monroe … still a legend and still a Hollywood star nobody forgets. From December 22^th, 2011 to February 26^th, 2012 an exhibition called ‘Marilyn: Intimacy’ at the ‘Novomatic Forum’ in Vienna shows devotional objects of Marilyn Monroe for the first time in Austria. Until today the memories of Marilyn Monroe are kept alive by her fans, one of them is the German collector Ted Stampfer. He has been a fan of Marilyn since he is ten years old.

He was able to gather nameable pieces of the inheritance of Marilyn Monroe on several nameable auctions and this definitely allows a unique access to Marilyn Monroe. The ‘Novomatic Forum’ will be transformed into a ‘memorial place’, a great memory to a real Hollywood star, a sensational trip in history, where one can see what has been left over and what is memorized: personal objects of the tenure of a world star …

The Novomatic Forum is close to The Ring, Vienna’s Casual Luxury Hotel … and no, we did not transform the hotel into a memorial place but we simply liked to 2 pictures of Marilyn Monroe done by the famous artist Steve Kaufman, that is why they are placed at the restaurant at eight …