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# Vienna Contemporary 2025: Buzz, discovery, and a closer look at art in Vienna
- URL: https://www.catapult-platform.art/vienna-contemporary/
- Published: 2025-09-12T13:47:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-06T07:12:33.000Z
- Description: Vienna Contemporary 2025 at Messe Wien: vivid encounters, sharp installs, and discoveries Munchies Art Club carries forward.
- Author: Dominique Catherina Foertig
- Tags: Art Fairs

## Vienna Contemporary 2025: Buzz on the floor

[**Vienna Contemporary**](https://www.viennacontemporary.at/de/?ref=catapult-platform.art) opened at Messe Wien with a hum that carried through the halls, and at [**Munchies Art Club**](https://www.catapult-platform.art/) we entered ready to see what the contemporary art fair Vienna 2025 had to reveal. 

![Stone bench with red text reading “THERE IS NOTHING ELSE” placed in the hall of Vienna Contemporary 2025 at Messe Wien, with booths and visitors in the background.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/vienna-contemporary-2025-1.webp)

At Vienna Contemporary 2025, a stone bench marked with the words “THERE IS NOTHING ELSE” (****Lukas Thaler** (represented by Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman).set the tone of urgency and focus across the fair’s aisles. 

People leaned in close, pointed, stepped back again. A stone bench painted in red letters - “THERE IS NOTHING ELSE” **Lukas Thaler** (represented by Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman).- caught the flow of bodies and for a moment set the tempo. 

![Jannis Varelas, painting, figurative contemporary art, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna Contemporary 2025.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/jannis-varelas-artist--painting--gallery-krinzinger-vienna.webp)

****Vienna Contemporary 2025:** ****Jannis Varelas**, presented by ****Galerie Krinzinger** at Vienna Contemporary 2025\. 

![Contemporary Vienna art fair 2025, Messe Wien: installation by Christian Jankowski from Modeled City (Geknetete Stadt); several yellow human figures displayed on white plinths at Vienna Contemporary.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/Christian-Jankowski-sculpture-school-project-vienna-contemporary-art-fair--2.webp)

****Vienna Contemporary:** Christian Jankowski, ****from the series** ***Modeled City (Geknetete Stadt)**, presented at Vienna Contemporary 2025\. A grouping of bright yellow figurative sculptures on white plinths, poised between play and critique.

You felt the crowd pause, then break apart into smaller constellations: artists beside their work, collectors scanning, conversations starting without ceremony.

![Contemporary Vienna art fair 2025, Messe Wien: wall view of four oils by Christian Jankowski from Neue Malerei, portraits after Picasso’s paintings reinterpreted from amateur re-enactments.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/christian-jankovski--suprainfinit-gallery.webp)

****Vienna Contemporary:** ****Christian Jankowski**, presented by ****Suprainfinit Gallery** at Vienna Contemporary 2025\. From **Neue Malerei*: portraits ****after Picasso’s paintings**, sourced from online tableau vivant photos and retranslated into oil to track how icons circulate.

![Driton Selmani, installation, printed plastic bags with text, Galerie Hilger, Vienna Contemporary.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/Driton-Selmani--vienna-contemporary--galerie-hilger.jpg)

****Vienna Contemporary:** ****Driton Selmani,** with ****Galerie Hilger**. Shopping bags become confessionals: hope, doubt, deadlines, and small acts of defiance carried in plain sight.

### How the fair held its ground

The architecture of the fair slowed things down. 

Curated sections pulled you toward single voices, solo rooms asked for patience, and younger galleries stood shoulder to shoulder with those carrying decades of memory. 

![Jakub Čuška, figurative painting, Jiri Švestka Gallery, Vienna Contemporary 2025.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/jiri-svestka-gallery--artist-Jakub-Cuska--art-fair-vienna.webp)

****Vienna Contemporary 2025:** ****Jakub Čuška** with ****Jiri Švestka Gallery**. Figures linger in the in-between: everyday gestures, half-lit poses, beauty not where it is given, but where it hides.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/sophia-suessmilch--artist--krobath-gallery-vienna.webp)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/vienna-contemporary--krobath-galerie--sophia-s----milch.webp)

****Vienna Contemporary 2025:** Sophia Süßmilch, presented by ****Krobath Gallery Vienna** at Vienna Contemporary 2025\. 

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/Demian-Kern--krobath-gallery---vienna-contemporary-art-fair.webp)

****Vienna Contemporary 2025: Demian Kern**, presented by ****Krobath Gallery** at Vienna Contemporary 2025\. 

This pacing mattered: it allowed stories to unfold rather than shout. 

Digital misinformation, migration, feminist narratives, all surfaced not as slogans but as material, pigment, gesture. 

![Contemporary Vienna art fair 2025, Messe Wien: Ivan Kožarić work on paper at Galerija Gregor Podnar, elongated green shape on grey ground in a wooden frame.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/great-work--Ivan-Ko--ari----gregor-podnar-gallery--vienna-contemporary-art-fair-2025.webp)

****Vienna Contemporary 2025: Ivan Kožarić**, presented by ****Galerija Gregor Podnar** at Vienna Contemporary 2025\. 

![Contemporary Vienna art fair 2025, Messe Wien: three framed works by Ivan Kožarić at Galerija Gregor Podnar—green biomorphic shape, magenta–orange block, and black tree on white.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/Ivan-Ko--ari----gregor-podnar-gallery--vienna-contemporary.png)

****Vienna Contemporary 2025:** ****Ivan Kožarić**, ****Galerija Gregor Podnar** at Vienna Contemporary 2025\. 

A painting pressed against sculpture, a canvas opened into a conversation with its neighbor, and images moved between history and the now with intent.

![Nora Ampova and Lyuben Domozetski, painting and mixed media, Little Bird Place Gallery, Vienna Contemporary 2025.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/Nora-Ampova--Lyuben-Domozetski--little-bird-place-gallery--.webp)

****Vienna Contemporary 2025:** ****Nora Ampova & Lyuben Domozetski**, presented by ****Little Bird Place Gallery**. Two voices in one room.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/Rosemarie-Schwarzw--lder-artist--gallery-Galerie-n--chst-St.-Stephan-veinna-contemporary-art-fair.webp)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/Taisia-Corbu----gregor-podnar-gallery--vienna-contemporary.webp)

****Vienna Contemporary 2025:** On the left ****Rosemarie Schwarzwälder**, presented by ****Galerie nächst St. Stephan** and on the right: ****Taisia Corbuț**, presented by ****Gregor Podnar Gallery.**

![Robert Bosisio, figurative painting with blurred contours, Rodler Gschwenter Gallery, Vienna Contemporary 2025.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/rodler-gschwenter-gallery--robert-bosisio.webp)

****Vienna Contemporary 2025:** ****Robert Bosisio**, presented by ****Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle**. Figures dissolve into atmosphere, hovering between presence and disappearance.

### Encounters worth carrying

At [**WHOISPOLA**](https://whoispola.com/?ref=catapult-platform.art), Julia Woronowicz’s canvases held the room. 

They read like diaries written in paint: a teenage figure on a horse beneath a thin moon, not as fantasy but as a blunt stage for pain, cramps, and quiet strength. 

![Julia Woronowicz, oil painting of a teen figure on a white horse at night, WHOISPOLA gallery, Vienna Contemporary 2025.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/Julia-Woronowicz--artist--art-fair-vienna-contemporary-1.webp)

****Vienna Contemporary 2025:** ****Julia Woronowicz**, ****WHOISPOLA gallery**. A diary in paint: a teenage figure across a white horse under a thin moon, where pain meets resolve.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/julia-woronowicz--artist-1.webp)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/discover-Julia-Woronowicz---vienna-contemporary-2025.webp)

****Vienna Contemporary 2025:** ****Julia Woronowicz** presented by ****WHOISPOLA gallery**. 

Flowers and moths drifted in, clouds threatened flood, and the gaze stayed steady, a woman painting women without turning them into spectacle. 

![Contemporary Vienna 2025: Julia Woronowicz (paintings of horse with teenager lying topless on it) and Jan Baszak (sculptures of horse in black with bird and a horse head sculpture) with WHOISPOLA.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/Jan-Baszak--WHOISPOLA-gallery--paintings-Julia-Woronowicz.webp)

****Vienna Contemporary 2025:** ****Julia Woronowicz** (paintings) and ****Jan Baszak** (sculptures) with ****WHOISPOLA**.

Across from them, Jan Baszak’s rough-edged horses pushed the air heavier. One stood on a spindle, mane falling like a relic; another, blackened, carried a bird on its back.   
Together they made a booth that felt both fragile and mythic, present and haunted.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/Larisa-Sitar-artist--for-SUPRAINFINIT-GALLERY--vienna-contemporary.webp)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/Kim--Contemporary-Art-Centre--Anastasia-Sosunova-artist-.webp)

****Vienna Contemporary 2025:** On the left ****Larisa Sitar** with ****Suprainfinit Gallery** and on the right ****Anastasia Sosunova** with ****Kim? Contemporary Art Centre**. Two reliefs in conversation: ground and myth, touch and image.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/Vienna-art-fair--Jecza-Gallery--Genti-Korini.webp)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/VUNU--gallery--artist-Nat--lia-S--korov---Bildrecht-SOLO-Award--Vienna-Contemporary-2025-1.webp)

****Vienna Contemporary 2025:** ****Genti Korini** with ****Jecza Gallery** on the left and ****Natália Sýkorová** with ****VUNU Gallery** \- ****Bildrecht SOLO Award** on the right. Two booth views at Vienna Contemporary 2025, each marked by strong presence and distinct vision.

### When restraint speaks loudest

Elsewhere, restraint carried weight. Some artists let surface and pigment do the work, pulling you into the grain of color. 

![Kateryna Lysovenko, large figurative painting with flowers, Tba Gallery, Vienna Contemporary 2025.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/Kateryna-Lysovenko--Tba-Gallery--vienna-contemporary.webp)

****Vienna Contemporary 2025:** ****Kateryna Lysovenko**, presented by ****Tba Gallery**. A luminous gathering in warm tones where figures and blooms seem to merge, awakening a feeling of tenderness.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/Tomasz-Kulka--Van-Rij-Gallery.webp)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/einspach-czapolai-fine-art--detail-artist-Tam--s-Melkovics-and-painting-detail-Tamas-So--s.webp)

****Vienna Contemporary 2025:** Left: ****Tomasz Kulka** with ****Van Rij Gallery**. **Right:** ****Tamás Soós** with ****Einspach & Czapolai Fine Art**. Baroque-surreal painting meets a biomorphic modular tower: exuberance with calm weight.

Others used humor, sharp and exact, where a small joke twisted into a larger truth. A few spread painting wider, stretching scale until the walls themselves seemed to bend around it. 

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/CONTEXT-curated-by-Samantha-Ozer--artist-Kurt-H--pfner--galerie-dantendorfer.webp)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/special-show-CONTEXT-curated-by-Samantha-Ozer--artist-gallery-Dantendorfer--vienna-contemporary.webp)

****Vienna Contemporary 2025:** ****CONTEXT** curated by ****Samantha Ozer**. Left / Right: ****Kurt Hüpfner** with ****Galerie Dantendorfer**.

![Franz Kapfer, installation with mask prints and boxed rifle silhouette, Gregor Podnar Gallery, Vienna Contemporary 2025.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/gregor-bodnar-gallery--Franz-Kapfer--artist--vienna-contemporary.webp)

****Vienna Contemporary 2025:** ****Franz Kapfer**, presented by ****Gregor Podnar Gallery**. Neon masks watch over a boxed weapon silhouette: fear, control, and spectacle held in one frame.

The best encounters were not loud; they were the ones that held you long enough to change your pace.

![Gottfried Bechtold, framed image of intertwined figures, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna Contemporary 2025. and Hanakam & Schuller, photographic work with cactus and painted circles, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna Contemporary 2025 and Martin wade](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/detail-both-gallery-krinzinger--gottfried-bechtold--middle-right-detail-of-hanakam-schuller-photgography--.webp)

****Vienna Contemporary 2025:** ****Galerie Krinzinger**. Left: ****Gottfried Bechtold** Middle: Martin Walde Right: ****Hanakam & Schuller**. Bodies and cactus: sculptural gesture meets charged photographic surface.

![Zsófia Keresztes, sculptural wall piece with pink gingham forms and red orbs, acb Gallery Budapest, Vienna Contemporary 2025.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/Zs--fia-Keresztes--acb-gallery-budapes-1.jpg)

****Vienna Contemporary 2025:** ****Zsófia Keresztes**, with ****acb Gallery Budapest** and her piece **Tactile Empire*.

### Highlights that stayed 

[**Christian Jankowski**](https://christianjankowski.com/?ref=catapult-platform.art)**’s** *Neue Malerei* at [**Suprainfinit** **Gallery**](https://www.suprainfinit.com/?ref=catapult-platform.art) cut through with a reminder of how images travel, break apart, and reform into new icons, and how visual languages shift when they move between contexts. 

![Ulrike Müller, textile mural The Conference of the Animals, Meyer Kainer Gallery, Art for Stronger Democracies Prize 2024, Vienna Contemporary 2025.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/meyer-kainer-gallery--ulrike-mueller--art-for-stronger-democracies-prize.webp)

****Vienna Contemporary 2025:** ****Ulrike Müller** with ****Meyer Kainer Gallery**. Winner, ****Art for Stronger Democracies Prize 2024**. **The Conference of the Animals* (mural/tapestry).

At **Meyer Kainer**, **Ulrike Müller**, this year’s winner of the Art for Stronger Democracies Prize, showed work that carried that clarity into sharp focus. 

![Clara Adolphs, figurative paintings from archival photos, Victor Lope Gallery, Vienna Contemporary 2025.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/victor-lope-gallery--vienna-contemporary--Clara-Adolphs-artist-booth.webp)

****Vienna Contemporary 2025:** ****Clara Adolphs** with ****Victor Lope Gallery**. Anonymous found photographs become paintings of soft melancholy: thick paint, gestural marks, collective memory held in the present.

[**Clara Adolphs**](https://www.claraadolphs.com/?ref=catapult-platform.art) at [**Victor Lope Gallery**](https://www.victorlope.com/en/?ref=catapult-platform.art) and a tight selection at [**Galerie Krobath**](https://www.galeriekrobath.at/?ref=catapult-platform.art) reinforced the sense that clarity, not volume, is what endures. 

![Galerie Krobath booth with works by Elisa Alberti, Josef Bauer, Melanie Ender, Demian Kern, Sebastian Koch, Anna Meyer, Fritz Panzer, Haleh Redjaian, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Sophia Süßmilch, Sofie Thorsen, Vienna Contemporary 2025.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/insight-gallery-krobath--vienna-contemporary.webp)

****Vienna Contemporary 2025:** Booth view ****Galerie Krobath** presenting works by Elisa Alberti, Josef Bauer, Melanie Ender, Demian Kern, Sebastian Koch, Anna Meyer, Fritz Panzer, Haleh Redjaian, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Sophia Süßmilch, Sofie Thorsen. 

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/Tobias-Izs----galerie-k--nig--vienna-contemporay-art-fair-.webp)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/Tobias-Izs----vienna-contemporary.webp)

****Vienna Contemporary 2025:** ****Tobias Izsó** with ****Christine König Gallery**. A calibrated wooden assemblage arcs across the wall: domestic material made uncanny, memory held in precise joints.

![Tobias Izsó, wall-mounted wooden sculptures resembling cuffs, Christine König Gallery, Vienna Contemporary 2025.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/vienna-contemporary-2025--Tobias-Izs----christine-k--nig-gallery-2.webp)

****Vienna Contemporary 2025:** ****Tobias Izsó** with ****Christine König Gallery**. 

These were presentations that asked little but gave much, proof that a fair can make space for depth even in the quick churn of September.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/bliss-gallery--magdalena-lazar-artists.webp)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/bliss-gallery--vienna-contemporary-artist--magdalena-lazar.webp)

****Vienna Contemporary 2025:** ****Magdalena Lazar**, with ****Bliss Gallery**. New metalwork where welded lines become habitat: symbiosis over spectacle, overlooked life made visible, tenderness as strength.

![Lena Göbel, artist portrait at Galerie 422 Gmunden booth, Vienna Contemporary 2025.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/galerie-422--gmunden--vienna-contemporary-lena-g--bel.webp)

****Vienna Contemporary 2025:** [****Lena Göbel**](https://www.catapult-platform.art/all-about-lena-goebel-artist/) with ****Galerie 422, Gmunden**. Previously featured by Munchies Art Club.

![Teresa Kasalicky, textile wall installation with colored strands and floor columns, Galerie 3, Vienna Contemporary 2025.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/TERESE-KASALICKY--curated-by-Aliaksei-Barysoniak--galerie3-1.jpg)

****Vienna Contemporary 2025::** ****Teresa Kasalicky** with ****Galerie 3**. **Curtain (new)* spills in bands of pink, blue, and lime while a small forest of stacked columns steadies the room.

### Vienna in September

[**Vienna Contemporary**](https://www.catapult-platform.art/vienna-contemporary/) sets the pace at Messe Wien, bringing local and international voices into one dynamic, curated space. 

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/galerie-gugging.webp)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/Marko-Djurdjevic---galerie-gugging--vienna-contemporary-detail.webp)

****Vienna Contemporary 2025:** ****Marko Djurdjevic** with ****Galerie Gugging**. Blue landscapes from walks with his dog Vincent; the pigment stains his fingers as much as the canvas.

Running alongside it are [**Parallel Vienna**](https://www.catapult-platform.art/parallel-vienna/), which holds its ground in historic, raw settings, and **Curated By** Vienna, a city-wide gallery festival engaging international curators in intimate gallery venues. 

![Daniele Franzella, glazed ceramic figurines in satirical scene, RizzutoGallery, Vienna Contemporary 2025.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/rizzutogallery--vienna-contemporary--booth-artist-Daniele-Franzella.webp)

****Vienna Contemporary 2025:** ****Daniele Franzella** with ****RizzutoGallery**. A glazed ceramic tableau where suited figures and uniforms play out a dark folk drama: power, ritual, and absurdity on a tabletop stage.

Together with smaller events, these three anchor September as a rich, layered moment for Vienna’s vibrant contemporary art scene.

![Campari bar, vienna contemporary art fair, pop up, Stanley Kubrick vibes](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/campari--vienna-contemporary-art-fair-vienna.webp)

Loved the Campari bar! Total Stanley Kubrik vibes.

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### In Short:

If you're an **art collector**, a **curator watching regional shifts**, or a **cultural traveler who prefers substance over spectacle**, *viennacontemporary* is your **September non-negotiable**.

> **2025 Dates:** September 11–14  
> **Location:** Messe Wien, Halle D  
> **More Info:** [viennacontemporary.at](https://www.viennacontemporary.at/?ref=catapult-platform.art) 

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***Vienna’s premier art fair isn’t just another stop on the cultural calendar. It’s a strategic heartbeat of the European art scene with its ears pointed east.***

# Pre-Review: viennacontemporary 2025: Where Urgency Meets Curatorship

From September 11 -14, [**viennacontemporary** ](https://www.viennacontemporary.at/en/?ref=catapult-platform.art)returns to Messe Wien’s Hall D with sharpened focus and broader reach. 

![vienna contemporary](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/07/vienna-contemporary--art-fair.jpg)

****Impressions from last year’s Vienna Contemporary © Tim Dornaus** Cover Image: Highlights from the Munchies Art Club walkthrough on Instagram ****Header**: [****Karina Mendreczky & Katalin Kortmann Járay** ](https://www.catapult-platform.art/karina-mendreczky-katalin-kortmann-jaray-promising-new-contemporary-artists/)at Tomas Umrian Contemporary — captured by Munchies Art Club co-founder Ernst Koslitsch

  
Under new artistic director *Abaseh Mirvali*, the 2025 edition assembles 102 exhibitors from 25 countries, including 38 from Central and Eastern Europe, solidifying the fair’s role as a critical bridge between East and West, politics and poetics.

## Fresh from Vienna Contemporary: Zone 1 Artists Announced

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Tobias IZSÓ *The Accountant*, 2025 Nussholz, Nussholzfurnier, Eichenfurnier, Perlohrring 152 x 47 x 39 cm | Image Courtesy and Permission Galerie Christine König for Vienna Contemporary 

We are delighted to see [**Tobias Ilzsós**](https://www.catapult-platform.art/tobias-izso-exploring-the-intersection-of-texture-form-and-philosophy-in-art/), whom we featured in collaboration earlier, now presented at Vienna Contemporary. 

[Tobias Izsó: Exploring the Intersection of Texture, Form, and Philosophy in ArtSee how Tobias Izsó’s art injects vibrant energy and fresh perspectives, urging viewers to look beyond the usual, at König2 by Robby Greif![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/icon/munchies-art-club-magazine-225.png)Catapult - The New Munchies Art Club MagazineDominique Catherina Foertig![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/thumbnail/tobias-izso--artist--promising-sculptor--contemporary-art--austria-2.webp)](https://www.catapult-platform.art/tobias-izso-exploring-the-intersection-of-texture-form-and-philosophy-in-art/)

Tobias Ilzsós - Munchies Art Club Article 

Within **Zone 1,** curated by **Aliaksei Barysionak**, [**Galerie Christine König**](https://christinekoeniggalerie.com/artists/tobias-izso-21d9e345/?ref=catapult-platform.art) showcases his practice. Ilzsós works across sculpture, installation and photography, using everyday objects in assemblages that reflect on memory, identity and the uncanny in domestic space.

Also part of the special exhibition Zone 1, artist **Terese Kasalicky** will be presented at **Vienna Contemporary 2025** with Galerie3\. 

![Installation view of Terese Kasalicky’s sculptural work at Parallel Vienna 2023, presented by Galerie3.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/vienna-contemporary-2025.webp)

****Terese Kasalicky** at ****Parallel Vienna 2023** with ****Galerie3.** Her sculptural practice transforms ornamental forms into spatial interventions, turning the decorative into a powerful presence. A preview moment before her presentation in Zone 1 at Vienna Contemporary 2025

After being shown at [**Parallel Vienna in 2023**](https://www.catapult-platform.art/review-parallel-vienna-2023/), her practice now enters this curated format that highlights emerging voices in the city’s contemporary art scene.

### Curated Confrontations: Algorithms, Displacement, Feminism

Three curated sections form the heart of the program: STATEMENT, CONTEXT, and ZONE1\.   
  
From algorithmic disinformation in Realities Building (curated by Marcella Beccaria) to solo exhibitions in ZONE1 highlighting migration, war, and feminist narratives by artists under 40, the fair puts urgency on display. 

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****Vienna Contemporary, Impressions** From the last edition of viennacontemporary Booth: Lombardi—Kargl © kunst-dokumentation.com

Meanwhile, VC Vault, a newly introduced format by Antonia Lia Orsi (City Galerie), brings together eight emerging galleries from across Seoul, Oslo, and beyond, emphasizing experimentation over spectacle.

![Abaseh Mirvali](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/07/Abaseh-Mirvali.jpg)

****Vienna Contemporary 2025** Abaseh Mirvali, Artistic Director Image courtesy of Press, viennacontemporary

### More Than a Fair: Vienna Becomes the Venue

Parallel exhibitions and performances ripple across the city.   
  
With institutional partners like the Belvedere, mumok, Kunsthalle Wien, and the Heidi Horten Collection, viennacontemporary blurs the line between fair and city. 

Timed alongside [***Parallel Vienna*** ](https://www.catapult-platform.art/parallel-vienna/)and [***Curated by***](https://www.catapult-platform.art/curated-by-vienna/), the Austrian capital becomes a living map of contemporary art urgent, discursive, alive.

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### In Short:

If you're an **art collector**, a **curator watching regional shifts**, or a **cultural traveler who prefers substance over spectacle**, *viennacontemporary* is your **September non-negotiable**.

> **2025 Dates:** September 11–14  
> **Location:** Messe Wien, Halle D  
> **More Info:** [viennacontemporary.at](https://www.viennacontemporary.at/?ref=catapult-platform.art) 

## Past Vienna Contemporary Highlights:

**2024**

[Vienna Contemporary 2024: Kogo Gallery Highlights Baltic Artists Exploring Gender, Nature, and IdentityVienna Contemporary 2024: Kogo Gallery presents Laura Põld and Sabīne Vernere, exploring nature, gender, and identity through ceramics and ink.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/icon/munchies-art-club-magazine-140.png)Munchies Art Club MagazineDominique Catherina Foertig![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/thumbnail/vienna-contemporary-2024-1.webp)](https://www.catapult-platform.art/kogo-gallery-highlight-vienna-contemporary-2024/)

Special Aperrence - Kogo Gallery

[Bruno Mokross: Curating ZONE1 at Vienna Contemporary 2024Curator Bruno Mokross guides through the highlight section ZONE1, which presents 10 solo presentations by young emerging artists under 40 with a strong connection to Austria![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/icon/munchies-art-club-magazine-142.png)Munchies Art Club MagazineDominique Catherina Foertig![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/thumbnail/bruno-mokross-1-1.webp)](https://www.catapult-platform.art/bruno-mokross-vienna-contemporary-2024-highlight/)

Munchies Art Club in collaborations with Vienna Contemporary and Zone 1

[Minda Andrén: Zeller van Almsick - Vienna ContemporaryMunchies Art Club presents three sneak peeks of artist Minda Andrén’s works, featured in Zone1 at the Vienna Contemporary Art Fair 2024, all curated by Bruno Mokross.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/icon/munchies-art-club-magazine-143.png)Munchies Art Club MagazineDominique Catherina Foertig![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/thumbnail/minda-andren-artist-2024-profile.webp)](https://www.catapult-platform.art/minda-andren-artist-zeller-van-almsick-at-vienna-contemporary-2024/)

Minda Andren - Zone 1 - Vienna Contemporary 2024

[Sebastian Schachinger: Redefining Time and Memory in ArtExplore the depths of time and memory with R. Sebastian Schachinger at Vienna Contemporary 2024, curated by Bruno Mokross in ZONE1![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/icon/munchies-art-club-magazine-144.png)Munchies Art Club MagazineDominique Catherina Foertig![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/thumbnail/sebastian-schachinger-vienna-contemporary-2024.webp)](https://www.catapult-platform.art/sebastian-schachinger-artist-redefining-time-at-vienna-contemporary-2024/)

Sebastian Schachinger - Zone 1 - Vienna Contemporary 2025

**2023**

[Vienna Contemporary Art Fair 2023: A Walkthrough At Kursalon Wien In StadtparkVienna Contemporary Art Fair with Munchies Art Club Magazine: Review![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/icon/munchies-art-club-magazine-141.png)Munchies Art Club MagazineDominique Catherina Foertig![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/thumbnail/vienna-contemporary-art-fair---sandwich-gallery.webp)](https://www.catapult-platform.art/vienna-contemporary-art-fair-2023-top-selection/)

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