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Austrian Sculpture Project
Explore and enjoy a curated selection of Austrian sculpture. You will find the exhibition during VIENNAFAIR from October 10 to 13 both indoors and outdoors at the fair grounds . Sorry, no Franz West this time! Indoor section is located at the booth A1: Outdoor sculptures will be displayed in the area leading to the … Continue reading
VIENNA Family Hosted By ESSL MUSEUM
VIENNAFAIR 2013 pays special attention to families’ creativity through stimulating their children’s involvement with art. At ESSL MUSEUM’s open studio at the fair, kids and their parents can explore their own creativity! Visitors are invited to try out different painting techniques and tools and to put color, form, and movement to paper. Continue reading
“DIYALOG”: New Energies
OMV supports a special project at the VIENNAFAIR already for the third time. This year the focus is on non-profit spaces and new galleries in Romania and – as in the previous years – on Turkey. The project is complemented with perspectives from the up and coming contemporary art scene in the Caspian region. “DIYALOG”: … Continue reading
VIENNA Duet: Georgia – “Our Caucasus”. Part I
VIENNAFAIR The New Contemporary is grateful to the Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia and the Embassy of Georgia in Vienna for their generous support of the special project VIENNA Duet: Georgia “Our Caucasus i. e. Chveni Kavkasioni” curated by Irena Popiashvili and the artistic directors of VIENNAFAIR Christina Steinbrecher – Pfandt and Vita Zaman. “The art … Continue reading
VIENNAFAIR: ZONE1. Part II
VIENNAFAIR The New Contemporary is very grateful for the support for young Austrian artists from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Art and Culture (BM:UKK) (www.bmukk.gv.at) in facilitating ZONE1, a special project at the fair where Austrian galleries present solo exhibitions. This is the second part of the introduction to the artists and a peek at the works from the upcoming … Continue reading
VIENNA Gold / School Of Happiness Lesson 18: “Being Happy Without Realizing It, Is The Purest Form Of Happiness”
The world happiness report, released on Monday by Columbia University’s Earth Institute, ranks Russia as the 68th happiest country in the world. Every Sunday at 12:00, Russian seniors gather together in a few of Moscow’s parks. Regardless of the weather, they meet each other and dance. Since I was a child I remember seeing them … Continue reading
VIENNA Protest: State Of Sabotage
Today we are introducing you another special project of VIENNAFAIR The New Contemporary, that will take a place from October 10 to 13, 2013. Continue reading
VIENNA Tribute: Tony Soprano and Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius
VIENNAFAIR The New Contemporary is organizing an extensive non-commercial artistic program, which will enrich the fair experience for all visitors with presentations of a broad range of cutting edge art topics and discussions, exhibitions, artistic interventions, collaborations and much more. Today we will introduce you to the special project VIENNA Tribute: Tony Soprano (“Sunday” by Donatas … Continue reading
School of Happiness Lesson 15: You Are Just One Click Away From Becoming Happy Again
Magda Tothova will take part in VIENNA Live at VIENNAFAIR from October 10 to 13. For The New Contemporary Blog she prepared a special interview about happiness: Back in 2009 Ad Astra United started as a small company. Their business idea to offer people a means of getting rid of their negative energy became a huge success, … Continue reading
School Of Happiness Lesson 11: Why?
A conversation with artistic directors of VIENNAFAIR at the Cemetery of the Nameless in Vienna explaining their fascination with the theme of happiness and the importance of learning to be happy. Continue reading
School Of Happiness Lesson 9: Neutralize Negative Feelings
Ana Prvacki will take part in VIENNA Live at VIENNAFAIR in October 2013. Her work deals with re-imagining and re-staging social situations. Continue reading
Happy Birthday, Dr. Sigismund Schlomo Freud! Welcome School Of Happiness: Lesson 1
VIENNAFAIR 2013 turns its curatorial focus toward Austria, to its rich traditions and histories and its contemporary Zeitgeist. A series of research activities, talks, specially commissioned artworks, and performances will attempt to capture – and then rip apart once again – the elusive relationship between art and the psychological and even ethical state known as … Continue reading
