viennacontemporary

Sep 4

Specially focused on the regions of Central- and Eastern Europe, viennacontemporary 2023 is taking place at the Kursalon Vienna, 7-10 September.

Austria's leading international art fair, viennacontemporary, welcomes you to delve into a space shaped by established art galleries, riveting new artists, familiar faces and special exhibitions. The splendid Kursalon Vienna will host this event from September 7th to 10th, 2023.

The art fair displays ZONE1, curated by Francesca Gavin, focusing on emerging talents from Austria like Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola or Brishty Alam. The program STATEMENT: Political Homelessness and Contemporary Citizenship studies the idea of belonging in today's Europe.

In this selection of works (where the majority of the artists are women) we are able to, once again, watch how the art world gets more and more versatile by the second. Christiane Peschek and her fluid bodies, presenting Transition F12, a singular viscous mass that we don't know whether we want to touch or not. Jakob Lena Knebl, who we've recently seen in the Austrian pavilion at the Venice Biennale, is an artist that never ceases to amaze us with fun, colorful works. Jakub Choma's works seem to seek the representation of an almost dystopian panorama, using mixed media like soil, distributed across the floor, a rectangle representing an open mouth ejecting torn wires… The Prague-based artist takes us to a place where something has finally exploded. What? We don't quite know.

viennacontemporary firmly establishes Vienna as a crucial place inside the current global art scene.