Viennacontemporary 2015
dal 22/9/2015 al 26/9/2015
Segnalato da
22/9/2015
Viennacontemporary 2015
Marx Halle, Wien
Art Fair. 99 galleries from 25 countries, ranging from Austria to East and West, will present their artists at Vienna's most important international art fair. The number of galleries from CEE is unique worldwide, this year's focus will be on Bulgaria.
From 24 to 27 September 2015, Marx Halle will host the international art fair viennacontemporary for the
first time. Boosting 99 participating galleries from 25 countries, an additional 20% of international collectors,
national as well as international art institutions and a comprehensive complementary program,
viennacontemporary presents itself stronger than ever.
The talks program of viennacontemporary
With its complementary program, viennacontemporary offers a chance for all interested fair visitors to
enhance their knowledge about contemporary art and to find out more about the most relevant international
art collections. From 24 to 27 September, the series Keys to Contemporary Art, co-curated by Christina
Steinbrecher-Pfandt, artistic director viennacontemporary, Nicolaus Schafhausen, director Kunsthalle Wien,
and Vanessa Joan Müller, head of Dramaturgy at Kunsthalle Wien, addresses topics such as: the rediscovery
of avant-garde movements in Eastern Europe, the influence of contemporary socio-critical art and
the performative strategies of current art production, which are gradually becoming more and more
important, to the concepts of interpretation of contemporary art at museums and art spaces. In addition,
daily at 2:00pm, 20four7 – Contemporary Collecting will offer insights by international collectors into their
strategies of acquiring art as well as the presentation of their collections. Subject to change.
New galleries and presentation formats at Marx Halle Vienna
With its historic wrought iron construction, newly adapted Marx Halle Vienna offers a spectacular
atmosphere for contemporary art. In addition, art lovers may look forward to exploring up-and-coming,
exciting galleries from Western Europe as well as from the focus region CEE. 25 out of the 99 participating
galleries will come to Vienna for the first time, among them Martin Asbæk Gallery/Copenhagen Richard
Saltoun/London, which will – together with other new galleries such as Hammelehle und Ahrens/Cologne,
Caroline Smulders/Paris, Triangle and Iragui/Moscow, Yay Gallery/Baku or EASTWARD
PROSPECTUS/Bucharest – highlight the international relevance of viennacontemporary. The Austrian
gallery scene will be participating with its most important representatives, in particular Thaddeus Ropac,
who after a break has once again opted for a fair participation in Vienna. This year, all of Vienna's most
significant galleries will take part in viennacontemporary – another sign of the high level of trust put in the
new venue and the new fair team. The presentation category Reflections, a format with which
viennacontemporary intends to underline the curatorial aspect of gallery work, has attracted a lot of
galleries. There will be 37 presentations on display that have been specially conceived for
viennacontemporary such as, for example, presentations by galleries Geukens & De Vil/Antwerp and
Knokke, Boccanera/Trento, :Baril/Cluj-Napoca, Raster/Warsaw, Ani Molnár Gallery/Budapest and
KOW/Berlin.
Focus Bulgaria
After the focus countries Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Belarus (2012), Georgia and
Poland (2013) and Azerbaijan (2014), viennacontemporary is taking a look at Bulgaria in 2015 with Focus
Bulgaria. Upon the initiative of Vesselina Sarieva and Katrin Sarieva, founders of the Open Arts Foundation
and Sariev Contemporary, Plovdiv in cooperation with Iara Boubnova, curator, art critic, founding member
and director of the Institute of Contemporary Art-Sofia and Vessela Nozharova, curator of the Art Affairs
and Documents Foundation, this year, Focus Bulgaria will present a representative selection of
contemporary Bulgarian art from private collections and major Bulgarian galleries.
Press contact:
Christina Werner - w.hoch.2wei. Kulturelles Project Management Breitegasse
17/4 A-1070 Vienna +43 1 524964622 email werner@kunstnet.at
Preview & Vernissage: Wednesday, 23.09.2015
Marx Halle, booth A16-B15
Karl-Farkas-Gasse 19 A-1030 Vienna
Opening hours:
Thursday, 24. September 2015: 11 am–7 pm
Friday, 25. September 2015: 11 am–7 pm
Saturday, 26. September 2015: 11 am–7 pm
Sunday: 27. September 2015: 11 am–6 pm