Partnerships and projects 2024

Phileas – The Austrian Office for Contemporary Art supports artists, curators, galleries and institutions in Austria and works to strengthen their presence on the international landscape of contemporary art. Through long-term partnerships with museums, biennials and art institutions around the world, we enable the production and exhibition of new artworks and their donation to public collections.

As we celebrate our ten-year anniversary in 2024, Phileas is supporting and co-producing the following projects:

60th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, for the Austrian Pavilion by Anna Jermolaewa
60th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, for the participation of three artists in the main exhibition (to be announced)
24th Biennale of Sydney, Australia, for the participation of Robert Gabris
Manifesta 15, Barcelona, for the participation of Hui Ye (Radio Slumber) 
Busan Biennale 2024, South Korea, for the participation of UBERMORGEN
15th Baltic Triennial, Vilnius, for the participation of Josef Dabernig
SEFO Triennial, Czech Republic, for the participation of Dorit Margreiter Choy
SEFO Triennial, Czech Republic, for the participation of Andreas Fogarasi
17th Biennale de Lyon, France, for the participation of three artists and one artist collective (to be announced)

Bergen Kunsthall, Norway, for a performance project by Florentina Holzinger
Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, for a solo exhibition of Gisèle Vienne
Frac Lorraine, Metz, for a group exhibition with Soshiro Matsubara
Cordova, Barcelona, for a solo exhibition of Parastu Gharabaghi
Fondazione Mudima, Milan, for a solo exhibition of Michael Kienzer
MoMA, New York, (in collaboration with Austrian Film Museum Vienna) for a publication project and film screenings of VALIE EXPORT

In 2024, Phileas will be the commissioner of the Austrian Pavilion at the 15th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea. Artist Liesl Raff was selected through an open call to create an exhibition for the pavilion, which marks the first official participation of Austria at the Gwangju Biennale. The pavilion will be hosted by the LEEKANGHA Art Museum.

Phileas produces an annual series of publications titled First Monographs, which provide the first comprehensive overview of the work of an Austrian or Austria-based artist and introduce them to an international audience. Our next monograph in 2024 will present the work of the sculptor Birke Gorm.

In 2024, Phileas is launching a new, long-term initiative to support and promote writing about art. It will begin in the spring with a three-day workshop in Vienna in collaboration with Frieze New Writers, during which a group of aspiring writers will have the opportunity to develop their art-writing skills with support from editors and critics from frieze magazine. Applications are open until midnight (BST) on Friday 16 February, 2024.

Our exhibition space in Vienna presents projects that Phileas has recently co-produced with biennials and institutions around the world. The three projects that will be shown in 2024 are:  

Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński: Respire (Liverpool)
January 31–April 20, 2024
A collaboration with the 12th Liverpool Biennial, UK

Anna Jermolaewa: Swan Lake
May 7–September 14, 2024
A collaboration with the Austrian Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia

Soshiro Matsubara
October 2, 2024–January 11, 2025
A collaboration with Haus am Waldsee, Berlin

Each exhibition will be accompanied by a programme of public talks, screenings, performances and other events.

Phileas also runs a year-round Visitor Programme that organizes research trips to Austria for international curators, art critics and museum groups, and maintains an Artist Library of exhibition catalogues, publications and portfolios available for research and consultation at our Vienna office.

For more information, see phileas.art or write to us at office [​at​] phileas.art.