Launched in 2024, CONTEXT focuses on artistic positions from the late 20th century, aiming to foster dialogue between artists rooted in the region and those working in broader international contexts and to highlight how today’s contemporary art scene has emerged out of a fascinating recent past.

 

For 2025, internationally connected curator Samantha Ozer has been invited to shape this key section, presenting ten solo exhibitions. Ozer shared her enthusiasm: “I’m thrilled to work with the new artistic director Abaseh Mirvali and the viennacontemporary team to continue shaping this section.”

 

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ABOUT THE CURATOR

Sam Ozer is curator-at-large at Canyon, a writer, and the founder of TONO, a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to time-based work. TONO hosts an annual festival across museums and music venues in Mexico City and Puebla, and has presented or commissioned work by over fifty artists in collaboration with leading institutions such as the Serpentine Galleries, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul), the National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne), the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Venice Biennale, WIELS (Brussels), Mudam (Luxembourg), and CAM Gulbenkian (Lisbon).

She was the inaugural video curator for both Feria Material and ZⓈONAMACO in Mexico City, and previously held curatorial roles at the Poetic Justice Group at the MIT Media Lab, as well as at the Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 in New York.

 

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