Gallery smart fox

✨ Season’s Greetings ✨

As the year comes to a close, we would like to thank our artists, visitors, and community for their support.

2025 marked a wonderful beginning for our gallery, presenting two outstanding artists:

- Adi Atassi https://www.smartfox.art/adi-atassi
- Elsa Martini https://www.smartfox.art/elsa-martini

Please note that the gallery will be closed from December 21, 2025, to January 6, 2026.

We look forward to welcoming you back on January 7, 2026, as we continue the exhibition “The Happiness of Others” by Elsa Martini, on view until January 23, 2026.

Thank you for being part of our journey. We wish you a joyful holiday season and a bright year ahead.

Photo Credit: Andrés Vergara (AKA Tato Aphu Meneck)

Thank you Les Nouveaux Riches for covering our current exhibition by Elsa Martini - The Happiness of Others, featuring an interview with the artist conducted by Erka Shalari.

Les Nouveaux Riches Magazine – Interview with Elsa Martini At smart fox gallery, the artist returns to The Happiness of Others, opening a new chapter intimately tied to Vienna. Martini moves ...

Stealing some of the moments at the opening exhibition of ELSA MARTINI “THE HAPPINESS OF OTHERS – Wiener werden edition”.

Presenting new works by Elsa Martini in three distinct rooms - Albania, Italy, and Austria.

Thank you to everybody who joined us in getting this incredible solo exhibition off the ground 🚀

Anyone who missed out, the exhibition runs until 17 Jan 2026, accompanied by meet-the-artist events - watch the space! ✨

Elsa Martini at Gallery smart fox

Press enquiries Erka Shalari via [email protected]

Installing our new exhibition by Elsa Martini

COMING SOON!

ELSA MARTINI THE HAPPINESS OF OTHERS

solo show 15.11.25 - 17.1.26

✨ exhibition opening ✨ Sat 15 Nov ✨ 19:00 ✨

At gallery smart fox , Fuchsthallergasse 10, Vienna

In “The Happiness of Others – Becoming Viennese Edition”, Elsa Martini explores the fragile intersections of memory, trauma, and family history.

Through paintings, objects, and domestic elements from Austria, Italy, and Albania, she creates an immersive installation that bridges private narratives and collective experience.

Rooted in Vienna’s psychoanalytic tradition, the exhibition invites reflection on silence, guilt, and transgenerational healing — where art becomes a space for dialogue between history and the present.

www.smartfox.art/elsa-martini

With Elsa Martini and her electrifying, authentic energy, introductions are optional!

Getting ready to unveil Martini's captivating and expanding series “The Happiness of Others”

"I take what I live, feel, and witness into my practice - raw, immediate, and shaped by how it moves me, so it can move others too." - Elsa Martini

Elsa Martini graduated from the Tirana Academy of Fine Arts and Vienna University of Applied Arts, as well as Institut für Kultur Konzepte. Her practice is based on mixed-media work, encompassing painting, video and text art, site-specific and performance often exploring experimental and boundary-pushing approaches. Her works has been exhibited internationally, meanwhile in Austria at Belvedere 21, Parallel Vienna, Künstlerhaus Wien, IG Bildende Kunst, Kultur Kontakt, Sommerakademie Salzburg, Galerie Krass, Aktionsradius. She lives and works in Vienna and is the founder and curator of NATA international art collective.

www.smartfox.art/elsa-martini

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Dialogue Night - an evening of art, reflection, and exchange with some incredible distinctions to take away.

With Kirsten Krampe from Heinrich Böll Stiftung in dialogue with Adi Atassi (moderated by Ralph Overbeck).

We are All Refugees by Adi Atassi - Limited Edition Series (1 to 15) signed by the artists.

This series reflects the shared vulnerability and resilience that connect us all. The first painting in the series, with its solitary, outstretched figure, embodies displacement and survival a body marked by pain but refusing erasure. Behind the figure, boats crowd a restless horizon, echoing journeys taken in desperation, hope, and defiance. The collective clusters of figures and fragmented spaces that suggest community, memory, and the search for belonging. The layered strokes and fractured forms speak to the chaos of exile, but also to the strength found in solidarity. The red and purple tones hint at both wounds and renewal, while the scattered lines evoke movement migration as an ongoing, unending story.

“Through these paintings, I explore the idea that refugee is not an identity limited to borders or headlines but a universal human condition. Whether through loss, transformation, or the search for safety and meaning, we all encounter moments of displacement. These works invite viewers to see themselves in these figures to recognize empathy as a shared homeland.” - Adi Atassi -

Limited edition series by Adi Atassi commissioned by Smart Curators in collaboration with Tato Aphu Meneck pre/post production.

Gallery smart fox is a concept by Smart Curators.

Picture Credit: Courtesy of Tato Aphu Meneck

Dear viewers and gallery visitors, you still have a few days to see this mysterious portrait by artist Adi Atassi live. Come and visit us at Fuchstallergasse 10, 1090 Vienna.

Meanwhile we are in preparation for the presentation of another artist ...

More info coming soon
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Adi Atassi at smartfox.art by Smart Curators

Stealing some of the moments at the Finissage | Faces Hidden Behind Masks | by Adi Atassi with Sabina Köhlmeier.

Photo Credit Andrés Vergara (aka Tato) Tato Aphu Meneck

Adi Atassi and Sabina Köhlmeier at smartfox.art curated by Smart Curators