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VIENNAFAIR
VIENNAFAIR is Austria's biggest fair for contemporary art and focuses on the CEE (later this concept was expanded to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe) region. It has taken place in Vienna every year since 2005 until 2015. Since 2015, the fair has been held under a new name – viennacontemporary. History In 2005 the viennAfair (older spelling) was founded by Reed Messe Wien GmbH. Its artistic management was taken over by Gabriela Gantenbein with a mainly Austrian team and board. The original reasons for founding the fair included providing more sales opportunities for the art galleries, which are found in large numbers in Vienna, and establishing Vienna as a location for art. From the beginning, the supporting programme included public discussions and curated exhibitions. Because of Vienna's geopolitical situation, a relation was established to the countries of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. At first mainly the countries newly acceding to the EU were exhibi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christina Steinbrecher-Pfandt
Christina Steinbrecher-Pfandt (born 1983) is an international art curator and director. She was appointed as CEO of Tech-Diplomacy.org network in March 2023. Before she was the co-founder together with Micha Anthenor Benoliel of Blockchain.art, a digital platform for artists and collectors. She was part of the founding team that rebranded Austria’s biggest contemporary art fair, viennacontemporary. Personal life Christina Steinbrecher was born in Kazakhstan to German-Ukrainian parents, and speaks German, Russian and English, fluently. She moved to Cologne, Germany in 1990 where she attended . She studied international business at Maastricht University, Netherlands. She wnet on to receive her Master of Science in Contemporary Art from Sotheby's Institute of Art in London, where she majored in Moscow Contemporary Arts in the 1990s. She is married to Stefan Oliver Pfandt. Together, they have two daughters. Career In 2008, Steinbrecher-Pfandt moved to Moscow, Russia to run Volker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viennacontemporary
viennacontemporary is an international fair for contemporary art in Vienna, Austria. From 2015 to 2020 it took place annually in the fourth week of September at the Marx Halle, located in St. Marx, a part of Vienna's third district. In 2021, the fair took place at Neue Alte Post in Vienna. Since 2022, viennacontemporary regularly takes place in September in Kursalon Vienna in Stadtpark in the center of Vienna. Besides its focus on Central- and Eastern Europe, viennacontemporary presents international and Austrian galleries showcasing young and established positions of contemporary art. The art fair is accompanied by a series of supporting events, which take place in cooperation with Austrian museums and other art institutions and aim to promote and strengthen Vienna's importance as a center for contemporary art and culture. Every year, viennacontemporary attracts several thousand visitors, including many international stakeholders of the art world. In 2022, around 70 galleries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pawel Althamer
Pavel (Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian and Macedonian: Павел, Czech, Slovene, Romanian: Pavel, Polish: Paweł, Ukrainian: Павло, Pavlo) is a male given name. It is a Slavic cognate of the name Paul (derived from the Greek Pavlos). Pavel may refer to: People Given name *Pavel I of Russia (1754–1801), Emperor of Russia * Paweł Tuchlin (1946–1987), Polish serial killer *Pavel (film director), an Indian Bengali film director * Surname *Ágoston Pável (1886–1946), Hungarian Slovene writer, poet, ethnologist, linguist and historian *Andrei Pavel (born 1974), Romanian tennis coach and former professional tennis player *Claudia Pavel (born 1984), Romanian pop singer and dancer also known as Claudia Cream *Elisabeth Pavel (born 1990), Romanian basketball player * Ernst Pavel, Romanian sprint canoeist who competed in the early 1970s *Harry Pavel (born 1951), German wheelchair curler, 2018 Winter Paralympian *Marcel Pavel (born 1959), Romanian folk singer *Pavel Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julien Bismuth
Julien may refer to: People * Julien (given name) * Julien (surname) Music * ''Julien'' (opera), a 1913 poème lyrique by Gustave Charpentier * ''Julien'' (album), by Dalida, 1973 * "Julien" (song), by Carly Rae Jepsen, 2019 Places United States * Julien's Auctions, an auction house in Los Angeles, California * Julien's Restorator (ca.1793-1823), a restaurant in Boston, Massachusetts * Julien Hall (Boston), a building built in 1825 in Boston, Massachusetts * Brasserie Julien, an American restaurant in New York City Elsewhere * Julien Day School, a co-educational primary, secondary and senior secondary school in Kolkata, West Bengal, India * Julien Inc., a Canadian stainless steel fabrication company * Camp Julien, the main base for the Canadian contingent of the International Security Assistance Force in Kabul, Afghanistan * Fort Julien, a fort in Egypt originally built by the Ottoman Empire and occupied by the French * Pont Julien, a Roman stone arch bridge over th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirin Neshat
Shirin Neshat ( fa, شیرین نشاط; born March 26, 1957 in Qazvin) is an Iranian visual artist who lives in New York City, known primarily for her work in film, video and photography. Her artwork centers on the contrasts between Islam and the West, femininity and masculinity, public life and private life, antiquity and modernity, and bridging the spaces between these subjects. Since Iran has undermined basic human rights, particularly since the Islamic Revolution she has said that she has "gravitated toward making art that is concerned with tyranny, dictatorship, oppression and political injustice. Although I don’t consider myself an activist, I believe my art – regardless of its nature – is an expression of protest, a cry for humanity.” Neshat has been recognized for winning the International Award of the XLVIII Venice Biennale in 1999, and the Silver Lion as the best director at the 66th Venice Film Festival in 2009, to being named Artist of the Decade by ''Huffin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Schöllhammer
Georg Schöllhammer is an Austrian curator, writer and editor, born in 1958 in Linz, Austria. He is one of the founders and the editor in chief of the influential art magazine '' Springerin'' based in Vienna and was the initiator, head and editor in chief of the ''Documenta 12 Magazines''. Georg Schoellhammer studied architecture, art history and philosophy. Between 1988 and 1994, he was the editor for fine arts of the newspaper Der Standard. From 1992 on, he was visiting professor for Theory of Contemporary Art at the University of Arts and Industrial Design Linz. He published extensively on fine arts, architecture and art theory. He gave lectures and held seminars at various universities and colleges around the world and he was curator for the international cooperative project “translocatione new media_art”; he also co-curated the festival “du bist die welt” of the annual Vienna Festival in 2001, as well as exhibitions in Yerevan, Bucharest and Sofia Sofia ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
