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viennacontemporary Magazine reports on the activities of viennacontemporary and provides you with in-depth insights into what’s going on in the art world. We publish interviews with gallerists, collectors, artists, and art lovers. Our main focus is Austria, but we also explore the art scene in Southern and Eastern Europe and beyond. viennacontemporary is not only a reflection of the contemporary art landscape in the region. It’s about people, society, trends, and dialogue.

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Join the Conversation

Meet the seven impressive art professionals who will come to Vienna in September to join the conversation.
28 August 2024

Join the Conversation is an international networking initiative that invites emerging and senior art professionals, curators, and critics to experience and engage with the Viennese art scene in-depth. It is organized by viennacontemporary and takes place with the kind support of the Vienna Business Agency. The program offers numerous visits to galleries, off-spaces, museums, and […]

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Art Events in the City

Discover some of the festival partners of viennacontemporary that happen around the fair
21 August 2024

September is around the corner, bringing the tenth edition of Austria’s top art fair, viennacontemporary. But that’s not all—Vienna and the surrounding region will host several other major art festivals around the same time, making it a late summer art hub. We’ve got everything you need to dive into Vienna’s vibrant art scene, with joint […]

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Meet Vienna’s Gallerists

Sophie Tappeiner | Galerie Sophie Tappeiner
18 July 2024

viennacontemporary presents Vienna’s vibrant gallery scene. Find out what drives them, why they see Vienna as a hotspot for contemporary art, and the secret places where the art scene can be found. Sophie Tappeiner founded her eponymous gallery Sophie Tappeiner in 2017. It is a critically engaged space that has developed a strong focus on […]

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VCT STATEMENT: The Color Of Energy

Artist List
4 July 2024

For the exhibition The Color of Energy, curator Mirela Baciak employs color as a metaphor to narrate stories that reflect on energy flows: red in its different hues links heatwaves scorching major European cities to the color of blood; green is as much the color of grass as it is of money; black, being the […]

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Meet Vienna’s Gallerists

Martin Janda | Galerie Martin Janda
25 June 2024

viennacontemporary presents Vienna’s vibrant gallery scene. Find out what drives them, why they see Vienna as a hotspot for contemporary art, and the secret places where the art scene can be found. Galerie Martin Janda was founded by Martin Janda as alternative exhibition space in 1992. In the following years, the field of activities was […]

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Meet Vienna’s Gallerists

Maximilian Thoman | Galerie Klaus und Elisabeth Thoman
14 June 2024

In this new series, viennacontemporary presents Vienna’s vibrant gallery scene. Find out what drives them, why they see Vienna as a hotspot for contemporary art, and the secret places where the art scene can be found. Meet Maximilian Thoman, whose parents founded Galerie Klaus und Elisabeth Thoman in 1977. Today, the gallery that is based […]

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Meet Vienna’s Gallerists

Christine König | Chapter III
17 May 2024

In this new series, viennacontemporary presents Vienna’s vibrant gallery scene. Find out what drives them, why they see Vienna as a hotspot for contemporary art and the secret places where the art scene can be found. Christine König founded her eponymous gallery in Schleifmühlgasse. Today, her daughter Elsa König runs the well-established gallery together with […]