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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.
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 […]
Come with us on an exclusive tour around the family home of the collectors and Kunsthalle Praha founders, Pavlina and Petr Pudil.
Open Call: Queer Art Prize 2024
by viennacontemporary and Queer Art Spaces Vienna | Supported by Radatz, Almdudler, and GayParship
25 June 2024
Submissions are open until 15 August 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
They are young, informed, and interested – get to know Vienna’s young collector scene, find out which artists they love and which channels they use to get information. Catharina Knobloch The 30-year-old management consultant started collecting art more than five years ago: “When I received my first big salary plus bonus, I […]
“We grew up witnessing how our grandfather’s life was all about collecting and art.”
Collectors Interview | Saskia and Clemens Leopold
22 April 2024
A conversation with the twins Saskia and Clemens Leopold, whose grandfather Rudolf Leopold founded the Leopold Museum, about their first art purchases, developing their personal taste, and how young people could be better integrated into the art world.
Studio Visit: Abdul Sharif Oluwafemi Baruwa
Winner of the viennacontemporary | Bildrecht SOLO Award 2023 together with EXILE
15 April 2024
Abdul Sharif Oluwafemi Baruwa and EXILE were selected as the winners of the viennacontemporary | Bildrecht SOLO Award 2023, when Abdul Sharif Oluwafemi Baruwa (*1975) impressed the jury with an installation consisting of video, sculpture, drawing and object. viennacontemporary visited the Vienna-based artist in his studio.