This year's Vienna Fair 2009 was quite interesting and a few good works to be discovered.

The professional VIP viewing was crowded and good to catch up with art people from all over the world. Lot's of art talk and watching art until late at night.

What else do you need ;)

Artsits that I have discovered there are new galleries I have discovered or visited for the first time in person are Projektraum Viktor Bucher who runs a gallery space in his own appartment and right next to it the space by Karol Winiarzyk, whom I first met in Graz at the Spike Unlimited evening at the Kunsthaus Graz. Great places to check out in the Praterstrasse 13/ 1/ 2 (Bucher) and 12 (Winiarzyk) in Vienna. A good space I haven't heard about before is Andreas Huber Gallery and all three of them commissioned Adam Budak (Curator of Kunsthaus Graz and last year's Manifesta's Rovereto site in Italy) to curate a show in a former Market hall in Landstrasse Wien Mitte. Nothing else to excpect than a perfect setting and perfect artists chosen. My favorite piece was by Clemens Hollerer who is also a parasite-net member and an artist to be closely watched with a strong future ahead of him that has started internationally (Australia, New York and Belgium where he absolved the HISK art school in the last few years) and is recocnised in Austria peu a peu already.

So there is lots going on in Vienna right now which for a while has been a little provincial with regards to good shows. Defenitely a place to be visited now if you're interested in good shows and promising artists.

So long my review about Vienna and more to come from LOOP Video Art Fair and Venice Biennial in mid June 2009.

All the best,

Daniela (Haberz)