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VIENNAFAIR
May 12 to 15, 2011

The International Contemporary Art Fair focused on Central Eastern Europe.
As of 2011, the new artistic director Georg Schöllhammer takes over the programming of VIENNAFAIR together with Hedwig Saxenhuber.

The VIENNAFAIR – annually held at MessezentrumWienNeu, the new trade fair venue in the heart of the city of Vienna – saw its first successful edition in spring 2005. Focusing on young art and galleries the VIENNAFAIR presents the dynamic development of the international art scene with a strong emphasis on Central Eastern Europe (CEE). In addition to the art fair collectors and visitors are invited to a programme of side events amongst which can be found highlights such as panel talks, viewing of company and private collections, to name just a few.

As the main sponsor Erste Bank Group enables young galleries from Central Eastern Europe to participate in the VIENNAFAIR. The growing number of CEE galleries is a testimony to the success of the concept.

Erste Group is main sponsor of the annual ‘VIENNAFAIR. The International Contemporary Art Fair focused on Central Eastern Europe’.

Customers of Erste Bank are offered tickets for VIENNAFAIR at reduced prices.

External links: www.viennafair.at

Story The Balkans Thing Grita Insam opened her gallery in Vienna 36 years ago, Andreiana Mihail opened hers in Bucharest six months ago. On the occasion of the VIENNAFAIR art fair in Vienna the two gallery owners spoke with “Report” about their pioneering work, global markets and the gap that followed Picasso. by Nina Schedlmayer \| 2007-04 » read	Story “Intensify the contact with galleries and art institutions in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe” Thanks to the support of KONTAKT twelve galleries from Central Europe are again represented at this year’s viennAfair, the art fair in Vienna. Report has chosen four of these galleries for presentation. by Nina Schedlmayer \| 2006-05 » read	Story Expensively Framed The ViennAfair art fair was celebrating its premiere this April. Over two dozen galleries from Eastern and South-eastern Europe have come to Vienna for this occasion. Nina Schedlmayer introduces six of the most interesting ones. by Nina Schedlmayer \| 2005-04 » read
Statements The Art of Collecting – Statements by Miryam Charim (Charim Galleries/Berlin/Vienna), Simon Rees (Contemporary Art Centre of Vilnius/Lithuania) and Asia Zak (Zak Branicka/Berlin). \| 2010-04 » read	Gallery WATCH: VIENNAFAIR 2010 \| 2010-05 » read	Gallery WATCH: VIENNAFAIR 2010 Impressions from the opening on 5 May 2010 \| 2010-05 » read
Gallery Video: „Meeting Point“, Sanja Iveković, 1978 Kontakt - films and videos of the Art Collection of Erste Group at the VIENNAFAIR 2010 \| 2010-04 » read	Gallery Video: „Me & Aids“, Artur Żmijewski, 1996 Kontakt - films and videos of the Art Collection of Erste Group on the VIENNAFAIR 2010 \| 2010-04 » read	Gallery Video: „Cutting“, VALIE EXPORT, 1967 Kontakt - films and videos of the Art Collection of Erste Group on the VIENNAFAIR 2010 \| 2010-04 » read

Story

45 galleries from Eastern and South-Eastern Europe

New this year are the Newman Popiashvili Gallery from Georgia and Tengri Umai Gallery from Kazakhstan. Also for the first time in Vienna, Jiri Svestka Gallery from Prague, Art Radionica Lazareti and Contemporary Croatian Photography from Croatia are present with artists.

| 2011-05

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Story

Art has MoreVALUE
Erste Bank is main sponsor of the VIENNAFAIR for the 7th time

As main sponsor, Erste Bank enables galleries from Central and Eastern European countries to participate in the VIENNAFAIR; they also represent the fair’s focal point. Over the last years, the fair has established itself as an influential springboard for galleries and artists from Central and South-Eastern Europe into the international art world.

| 2011-05

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Gallery

WATCH: Video interview with Georg Schöllhammer

The author and curator Georg Schöllhammer talks about the strategy and responsibility of "Kontakt. The art collection of Erste Group" and about the history of the manifold art scenes in the former East and West, their protagonists and their intentions.
In the framework of the focus on "Film+Art" at the Viennafair 2010 video works from the collection will be presented, which Schöllhammer has curated in his function as a member of the Art Board.

| 2010-04

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Observer

List of galleries: VIENNAFAIR 2010

Focused on Central and Eastern Europe

| 2010-04

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VIENNAFAIRMay 12 to 15, 2011

VIENNAFAIR
May 12 to 15, 2011