Neuberger Kulturtage and Modern Art Fair Austria

Opening of the Neuberg Festival and the "First International Modern Art Fair Austria" in castle Neuberg .

12.July 2015


Stift Neuberg / Austria. For the 39th time the opening of the Neuberg Festival took place in Stift Neuberg. The MAMAG Modern Art Museum in collaboration wih PAKS Gallery displays the "First International Modern Art Fair Austria" parallel to the Neuberger culture days. This year the opening of the Neuberg Festival held together with the "First International Modern Art Fair Austria". At the opening ceremony, numerous guests from politics, culture and economy were talking about art with the artists of the "International Modern Art Fair Austria". Federal President Heinz Fischer and first lady Margit Fischer visited the opening of the Neuberg Festival and the "First International Modern Art Fair Austria" and talked about the works of art with the famous Pop Art artist Tanja Playner, artists Marlen Peix, Kumi Ozaki and Sameer Hazari. Opened the Neuberg Festival with the oratorio "The Seven Last Words of Christ by Haydn" Orchestra of Vienna and Wiener Singakademie under the direction of conductor Stefan Vladar.

Among the prominent guests of the opening were Federal President Heinz Fischer and his wife Margit Fischer, owner of the castle Franz Aigner, former National President Andreas Kohl, Mayor of Neuberg Peter Tautscher, real estate entrepreneur Sabine Krifter, Herbert Mock, Mag. Hannes Fahrnberger, Dr. Gerhard Ofner.

Visitors to the exhibition "First International Modern Art Fair Austria" have a perfect possibility to see the photographic art and experimental art with shapes and colors of the internationally renowned photo artist Marlene Peix (Deutschand), photo art with natural scenery and classic act of winner of the "International Modern Art Award 2015 "Janice Alamanou-Coastal (Great Britain), reduced magical imagery with elegant poetic precision of the strokes of Maria Isabel Salazar de Lince from Colombia, colorful works of art with the use of shells, the international artist Marta Melniczuk from Germany. You can admire the radiant frescoes by Karen Salicath Jamali which has more than 100 solo and group exhibitions around the world carried out for 25 years and is represented in more than 600 private collections. To convince visitors of the exhibition also features new visions of Impressionism by Jack Young of New York, which is represented on the Asia Contemporary Art Hong Kong in addition to the art works of Yayoi Kusama, Andy Warhol, Takashi Murakami and Banksy. Full of enthusiasm are the combination of primitive motifs, abourigenen style combined with modern elements of shapes and colors in the works of the artist from Cyprus Christos Eliades. On display are also imaginative new surrealist artworks by the master of Fine Art from Spain Jose Galant, as artworks one of the most famous pop art artists worldwide, Tanja Playner (Russia / Austria).

An excellent cultural program offer the Neuberg Festival to 26 July at Stift Neuberg with the chansons by Jaques Brel, Edith Piaf and Georges Brassens interpreted by Timna Brauer and a lecture recital with Univ. Prof. Dr. Harald Haslmayr with works by Franz Schubert and Ralph Vaughan Williams. On Monday July 20, the Jazz Session will be held at Urani pond at the pond. Enthusiastic visitors are the Neuberg Festival also the duo recital / Gavriel Lipkind and Stefan Vladar of works by Bohuslav Martinu, Johannes Brahms, Claude Debussy and Dmitri Shostakovich.

"First International Modern Art Fair Austria" is from 14 to 23 clock in Neuberg Abbey to visit daily until July 26.