Fair Director’s Picks: Vienna 2026
Ahead of Affordable Art Fair’s second edition in Vienna, we asked Fair Director Tanya van Breda Vriesman to show us her favourit works from this year’s fair.
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Tanya Van Breda Vriesman
Wednesday 29 April, 2026
As the Affordable Art Fair Vienna 2026 approaches, I’d love to share my personal connection to the art world and this year’s theme, ‘Find your art happiness’.
From an early age, I was introduced to art through my mother, who is an artist herself. She regularly took my brother and me to museums and gallery exhibitions, encouraging us to describe what we saw and reflect on why certain works resonated with us. What began as a playful exercise also included lessons in colour and composition. Most importantly, it sparked a lasting joy in discovering art.
A recurring storyline across many Affordable Art Fairs worldwide is the exploration of art colour theory, which is also part of this year’s fair. If, after your visit, you would like to learn more, you can take a look at “Conquer Colour Theory for maximum impact”.
While preparing this year’s fair, I encountered a vast range of artworks, making the selection process both inspiring and challenging. The works presented offer only a small preview of what you can experience this May in Vienna.
I hope this sneak peek sparks your curiosity and invites you to explore, discover, and ultimately find your own art happiness.
Anna Tubau
Painting has been Anna Tubau’s passion since her youth. She began her artistic career in the 1980s under the guidance of local painters Joan Ferrer and Josep M. de Martín. Her work focuses on urban landscapes, still lifes, and especially the female figure.
As she explains, “Composition is essential to me – I seek to reveal what lies beneath through simple strokes and carefully placed color.”
Wilhelm Krumböck
Wilhelm Krumböck’s artistic practice is defined by an inexhaustible creativity. As a self-taught artist, he was inspired by painting from a young age and translates profound emotions and states of being into nature-inspired visual forms.
For him, the process of creation remains endlessly fascinating: how a sudden spark of thought gradually evolves into a complex, multi-layered work of art.
His works emerge from spontaneous impulses. They intentionally leave space for interpretation, allowing each viewer to form their own connections and discover personal experiential worlds. Through this openness, his works become multifaceted reflections of our world.
Alexander Bobkin
Alexander Bobkin (1952), born in Siberia and based in Nijmegen since 1991, creates paintings that blend reality with a quiet spiritual and mystical depth. Through oil on canvas, he transforms everyday objects and simple scenes—a crying hare, a glass of water—into symbolic, intimate stories that invite reflection on the deeper meaning of life.
Godot (IT/AT)
StudioGodot x grubeckcontemporary, Stand C10/D7
The camera, his third eye, has followed Godot since adolescence. After early years shaped by music and photography, the sea called him to sailing—a passion that became a profession, while photography quietly endured.
Shuichi Nakano
Shuichi Nakano (b. 1966, Hokkaido, Japan) lives and works in Yuzawa, Akita. In the artworks animals appear within Japanese cityscapes, their altered scale questioning the balance between nature and urbanization. Rendered with meticulous detail, these quiet, surreal scenes suggest displaced creatures seeking refuge in cities as their natural habitats disappear.
Óscar Vázquez
Born in 1979, Óscar Vázquez paints with a quiet intensity shaped by study and travel. Educated in Madrid, his work journeys across borders—seen at international fairs and gathered into discerning public and private collections—carrying a steady dialogue between restraint, recognition, and vision.
BenTereZ
Benterez is a Bucharest-based collage artist who began exhibiting in 2022, working under a pseudonym to let the work speak free of biography. Drawing on a quiet Romanian tradition, she reclaims images from their former lives and sets them adrift in new constellations. Her collages—now held in international collections—unsettle fixed meanings, revealing collage as a rebellious language that fractures appearances and gestures toward other possible worlds.
Domenico Grenci (IT)
Sylvia Janschek Gallery, Stand B5
Born in Calabria in 1981, Domenico Grenci lives and works in Bologna.
His portraits — pared down to gaze and gesture — radiate a quiet, almost sacred presence.
Drawn from anonymous photographs and transformed with bitumen, his women appear timeless, suspended like ancient images, preserved between memory and myth.
JAVIER GARCES
Sergi Sanchez Art Gallery, Stand A1
Javier Garcés works between drawing, painting, and sculpture, dissolving their borders with irreverence and intensity. In his hands, the everyday becomes an act of rebellion.
His lines vibrate with raw energy, colors erupt and collide, and materials resist their own limits. Through chaos and fracture, Garcés reveals a fierce, unruly beauty.
Floor Merjenburgh
In her work, Floor listens for chance—the quiet coincidences that emerge when materials and techniques meet. Guided by intuition, her process unfolds naturally, shaped by curiosity and touch. She studies how matter behaves, how it responds, and with careful restraint she tests its borders, letting discovery arise at the edge of control.
Ju Schnee
ARTECONT Gallery, Stand A10/B9
Schnee’s work unfolds where painting and technology breathe together.
Intuitive, biomorphic forms surface from the unconscious, drifting between oil and augmented reality.
Rooted in touch yet extended through the digital, her practice transforms emotion into immersive spaces—quiet, fluid, and endlessly becoming.
Kim In-Ja
For over thirty years, Kim In‑ja has pursued color through the ancient Chilbo technique, fusing glass, metal, and fire. Rooted in Buddhist tradition, her work carries the memory of the “Seven Treasures” while opening itself to the present.
Through layered firings and contemporary pigments, molten color seals chance and intention into luminous surfaces. Past and present meet in these radiant skins, where material, light, and time unfold into a renewed visual language.
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All of these works of art and many more will be on display and available for purchase from May 28 to 31 at the Affordable Art Fair Vienna in the Marx Halle.
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