Fair Director’s Picks: Vienna 2025
Ahead of Affordable Art Fair’s first edition in Vienna, we sat down with Fair Director Tanya van Breda Vriesman to explore her must-see artworks!
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Bettina Kirchweger
Wednesday 14 May, 2025
As the Affordable Art Fair Vienna 2025 comes closer, Fair Director Tanya van Breda Vriesman shares her personal highlights for this year’s edition to showcase the diverse and dynamic offerings of the Viennese premiere of Affordable Art Fair.
Tanya’s selection features a mix of bold new voices and refined contemporary practices, offering a glimpse into the creative energy and international spirit of this first edition. These standout works reflect Tanya’s curatorial eye—and serve as an invitation to explore all that the fair has to offer this May in Vienna.
Andreas Leikauf (AT)
Galerie Ernst Hilger, Stand B2/C1
Andreas Leikauf’s artworks combine striking visuals with catchy slogans, reflecting themes from fashion, music, film, and lifestyle. The combination of images and text is intriguing. The work sticks like a ‘Ohrwurm’ (An Ohrwurm is a German word for a song that just won’t leave your mind).
Rep Ringel (NL)
Rep Ringel makes ‘Art Driven By Music’. Each painting is based on a song which he plays in a loop where he translates all layers of the music into layers of paint on the canvas. These artworks are a true experience to look and listen to.
Amelie Crepy (UK)
Amelie Crepy’s art explores organic materials and physical processes. She uses oak gall ink made from oak trees in her grandmother’s garden in the South of France. Her work often blends elements of art and craft, creating unique pieces.
Michele Lombardelli (IT)
B&B FineArt Fine Art, Stand A16/B21
Michele Lombardelli’s eclectic style explores “the unsolved” and “the undefined”, inspired by Samuel Beckett. His work spans painting, ceramics, photography, and music, emphasizing semantic ambiguity and transcending conventional boundaries.
Catherine Parra (FR)
Galerie Barrou Planquart, Stand D22
Catherine Parra’s work blends lyrical abstraction, expressionism, and art brut, using vibrant colors and materials to create a dynamic, joyful universe. This work is really a party!
Mahchen (KR)
Mookji Art Contemporary, Stand D3
Mahchen’s art, inspired by self-reflection and enlightenment, captures nature’s changing colors and uses layers to represent maturation. His pieces feature playful symbols and doodles, reflecting modern life’s complexities. In this work one keeps discovering, like little hidden messages.
Phung Pham (VN)
Raquelle Azran Vietnamese Fine Art, Stand D15
Starting in the 1970s, Phung Pham created black-and-white woodblock prints characterized by simplicity and purity. His intertwining lines formed melodies and intricate patterns, shaping the work’s form and adding resonance through their interplay. When looking at this piece I can hear music.
Søren Lynggaard (DK)
Søren Lynggaard’s work includes paintings, prints, and sculptures, exploring themes of ambiguity and the undefined. His eclectic style challenges conventional boundaries.
Lil Blanc (ES)
Galeria Rodrigo Juarranz, Stand C11
Lil Blanc, a Spanish artist, transitioned from architecture to expressive painting, blending color and texture with a dreamlike approach.
Kristiane Semar
Kristiane Semar’s intricate printmaking combines monotype, collage, and watercolor, creating energetic and charming characters. “I just love the characters in the work, so much to find an be surprised by…”
Gediminas Endriekus (LT)
GALLERY PAVEIKSLAI.LT, Stand A10
Gediminas Endriekus is a Lithuanian artist known for his abstract bronze sculptures, often featuring human and animal-like forms. His work explores philosophical themes like existence and the origin of man. I get a sur-real feeling when seeing these sculptures.
Petra Schweifer (AT)
Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill, Stand C8/D7
Petra Schweifer’s mixed media work on paper and linen explores themes of fragility and reality with intricate textures. Can’t stop looking at this work…
Book your tickets and take a look at our full exhibitor list to start planning your visit!
Tanya: “There are so many more I would have loved to include but I stop at the magic (and Taylor Swift’s favorite) number 13 and hope to have inspired you to discover art at our fair! Viel Spaß and enjoy!”
All of these artworks and many more will be available to see and purchase at Affordable Art Fair Vienna from May 22 – 25 at MARX HALLE, Vienna.
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