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5/5/2009

Viennafair 2009

Messe Wien, Wien

VIENNA (6 April 2009). –“One month before the opening of the fifth edition of the >VIENNAFAIR< on May 6, 2009, we are pleased that we can still announce new registrations of galleries. This is a major signal demonstrating the attractiveness of the art venue Vienna and the >VIENNAFAIR<”, comments Matthias Limbeck, managing director in charge of New Business, Marketing & CEE/SEE at fair organiser Reed Exhibitions Messe Wien the current list of participants of the >VIENNAFAIR 2009<. The fair will take place from 7 to 10 May, 2009, in Hall A of Vienna’s Conference Center Messe Wien. In total, approximately 125 exhibiting galleries are expected.

For instance carlier | gebauer from Berlin decided to participate again, and Olaf Stüber and the Galerie OPEN gallery are two further Berlin galleries exhibiting at the >VIENNAFAIR 2009<. Including the new registration of White8 a total of 33 of Vienna’s galleries participate and Edition artelier from Graz is also a new participant. Galerie Altnöder gallery from Salzburg and acb Galéria as a major Budapest gallery are both new starters at the >VIENNAFAIR 2009<.

New Strategies for Art Mediation and on the Art Market
With a comprehensive panel discussion programme in the context of the >VIENNAFAIR 2009< departure wirtschaft kunst und kultur gmbh will deal with current issues galleries and museums or art associations alike are facing in the current economic situation. In the top-flight panel discussions current trends in art and Vienna as the venue of innovative cultural productions are debated. In the context of the exhibition project “curated by_vienna09”, organised by departure, in which 18 Vienna galleries will participate, the curators Dan Cameron (founding director and chief curator, Prospect. 1 New Orleans), Jérôme Sans (director, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing), Matthew Higgs (director, White Columns, New York) and Gianni Jezter (director, Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, New York) amongst others, together with other internationally renowned experts from the art world, will discuss curatorial practices and current trends in contemporary arts.

A special programme highlight here will be the panel discussion with the title “All Art Isn’t Global Yet”. The New York Times art critic, Michael Kimmelman, will take a look at the relevance of still existing regional trends in a seemingly globalized art together with the Russian curator Victor Misiano and Iwona Blazwick, director of Whitechapel Art Gallery in London. Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, manager of departure wirtschaft, kunst and kultur gmbh in Vienna and Simon Rees, chief curator of the Contemporary Art Center in Vilnius, will act as moderators of this interesting panel discussions.
To enable as many interested persons as possible to follow the discussions, departure wirtschaft, kunst und kultur gmbh makes a limited number of free admission tickets available. After a personal registration under the e-mail-address viennafair_panelprogram@departure.at visitors can pick up their departure panel pass at the VIP counter of the >VIENNAFAIR 2009<.

The Programme in Detail
Thursday, 7 May 2009, 2 p.m. to 3.30 p.m. (in German)
Fractured Narratives
Wtih Gianni Jetzer (director, Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, New York),
Roberto Ohrt (author, Hamburg), Prof. Dr. Jörg Huber (head of the Institute for Critical Theory at the Zurich University of the Arts, ZHdK, Zurich), Dora Hegyi (project manager, tranzit.hu, Budapest).
Moderator: Diana Baldon (curator, London and Vienna).

Thursday, 7 May 2009, 4 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. (in English)
Correspondences
With Matthew Higgs (director, White Columns, New York), Anselm Franke (director Extra City: Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerpen)
Moderator: Lars Bang Larsen, (free curator and art critic, Barcelona/Kopenhagen).

Friday, 8 Mai 2009, 2 p.m. to 3.30 p.m. (in English)
Blurred Boundaries: Between Museum Curating and Gallery Practice
With Dan Cameron, (founding director and chief curator, Prospect. 1 New Orleans), Peter Nagy (director, Gallery Nature Morte, New Delhi), Friedemann Malsch (director, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz)
Jeremy Deller, (artist, London/requested), Chus Martinez (chief curator, MACBA, Barcelona).
Moderator: Cay Sophie Rabinowitz (Europe correspondent, Art In America, New York).

Friday, 8 Mai 2009, 4 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. (in English)
From Europe to Asia and back again.
With Jérôme Sans (director, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing), Chantal Beret (curator Centre Pompidou, Paris), Joao Ribas (chief curator, The Drawing Center, New York), Oliver Dorfer (artist, Linz),
Manray Hsu (free curator and art critic, Taipei, Berlin and Linz).
Moderator: Jérome Sans.

Saturday, 9 May 2009, 2 p.m. to 3.30 p.m. (in English)
All art isn't global yet
With Michael Kimmelman (art critic, The New York Times, New York and head of the European office in Berlin), Victor Misiano (curator and art critic Moskow/Italy) Iwona Blazwick, (director Whitechapel Art Gallery, London / requested)
Moderators: (director, departure wirtschaft, kunst und kultur gmbh,Vienna) and Simon Rees (curator, CAC, Vilnius)

Saturday, 9 May 2009, 4 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. (in English)
Potential: What's next for the Viennese art scene?
With Adam Budak (curator Kunsthaus Graz, Graz), Diana Baldon (free curator, London and Vienna), Ursula Maria Probst (free curator and art critic, Vienna), Andreas Huber, (gallery owner, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna).
Moderator: Simon Rees (chief curator, CAC, Vilnius).

Sunday, 10 May 2009, 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. (in English)
Kontakt. Das Programm für Kunst und Zivilgesellschaft der Erste Bank
Kontakt. The Art Collection of Erste Group
Lecture: Walter Seidl (curator Erste Bank collection)

All panels and the lecture will take place in the departure lounge at the >VIENNAFAIR 2009<. Please find further information and details on all panels and the lecture at www.viennafair.at

Vienna Chamber of Commerce Will Donate Two Awards for Best Fair Stands
The Vienna Chamber of Commerce supports the >VIENNAFAIR< this year again as an important measure for the internationalization of the art venue Vienna. Thus, for the fourth time, a top jury will bestow the gallery award of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce for the best stall presentation at the >VIENNAFAIR 2009<. This year, the gallery award will be bestowed for the first time in two categories. The best stall presentation of a young, innovative gallery and that of an already well-established gallery are each awarded 5,000 Euros – with this, the prize money of the past years is actually doubled. Brigitte Jank, president of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce, will be handing over the gallery award to the lucky winners in the course of the preview on 6 May 2009 at 6 p.m.

Image: Maria Manolescu, Romelo Pervolovici, Sousveillance, 2009, Interactive audio-video projection, variable. Courtesy 2Meta Gallery, Bucharest

Press contact: Paul Hammerl presse@messe.at

Preview on 6 May 2009 at 6 p.m

Messe Wien
Messeplatz 1, A - Wien
Admission prices:
1-day ticket: € 15.50
Online ticket: € 10.50
Pre-registration: € 12.50

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