viennacontemporary 2025 brings 102 exhibitors from 25 countries to Vienna. Curated focus on CEE art, digital realities, and next-generation voices.

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.

viennacontemporary 2025: Where Urgency Meets Curatorship

From September 11 -14, viennacontemporary returns to Messe Wien’s Hall D with sharpened focus and broader reach.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Curatorial Project by Munchies Art Club - Artist Submit here

Timed alongside Parallel Vienna and Curated by, the Austrian capital becomes a living map of contemporary art urgent, discursive, alive.

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.