"curated by 2021 COMEDY": The Gallery Festival in Vienna September

For a whole month, you can look forward to an artful schedule in the federal capital. The 13th edition opens on the first weekend in September. 24 Viennese galleries are hosting. From 4 and 5 September 2021 (and until 02.10.2021), curated by not only invites you to visit the galleries on site but also presents an extensive program online! After the kick-off with the Vienna Contemporary and other projects, Vienna presents itself as an ever-vibrant hotspot and echo of Eastern Europe.

The theme COMEDY in 2021 reflects aspects from literature, history, philosophy, and art. The artists and curators formulate their own understanding here. Although the organisers emphasise that the festival will continue to focus on physical engagement with the exhibited works, this year there will be an extensive range of information on the website. 

For the opening weekend, by the way, visitors can look forward to 14 guided tours. These will also take place via live streams.

Curators

• Olesya Turkina (art critic and theorist) invited by Charim Gallery
• Poetry Machine invited by Crone Vienna
• Nicolas Trembley (curator and art critic) invited by Croy Nielsen
• Cindy Sissokho (Curator, New Art Exchange, Nottingham) invited by E X I L E
• Niloufar Emamifar (artist) and Pujan Karambeigi (art critic) invited by FELIX GAUDLITZ
• Sarah Johanna Theurer (Curator, Haus der Kunst, Munich) invited by GIANNI MANHATTAN
• Francesco Pedraglio (Artist and Art Critic) invited by Galerie Martin Janda
• Phoebe Cripps (Curator, Hayward Gallery, London) invited by Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer
• Valentinas Klimašauskas (Curator, 14th Baltic Triennial) invited by Georg Kargl Fine Arts
• Andrea Bellini (Director Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève) invited by Christine König Galerie
• Jannis Varelas (Artist) invited by Krinzinger Schottenfeld
• SPATZI SPEZIAL: Sophia Süssmilch and Valentin Wagner (art collective) invited by Krobath Vienna
• Studio for Propositional Cinema (art collective) invited by LAYR
• Stephan Stoyanov (freelance curator) invited by Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art
• Zdenek Felix (freelance curator, author and museum director) invited by Galerie Meyer Kainer
• Martin Germann (curator, S.M.A.K. Ghent) invited by Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder
• Salvatore Viviano (Artist) invited by Raum mit Licht
• Jörg Heiser (art historian, Berlin University of the Arts, art critic) and Sarah Khan (author) invited by Gabriele Senn Galerie
• Bonny Poon (artist) invited by shore
• Pierre-Yves Desaive (freelance curator and art critic) invited by Galerie Silvia Steinek 
• Lisa Long (Curator, Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin) invited by Sophie Tappeiner 
• Francesco Tenaglia (art critic) invited by VIN VIN Gallery
• Mouna Mekouar (independent curator and art critic) invited by Galerie Hubert Winter
• The Performance Agency (art collective) invited by Zeller van Almsick