art:badgastein x POSITIONS

27 June - 6 July 2025

Hotel Astoria, Kaiserhofstraße 10, 56640 Bad Gastein
Entry via Kaiser-Wilhelm-Promenade!

Opening
Friday, 27 June 2025
  4 pm

Opening hours

Saturday, 28 June - Sunday, 29 June
  2 - 7 pm
Monday, 30 June - Friday, 4 July
  4 - 7 pm
Saturday, 5 July
  2 - 7 pm
Sunday, 6 July
  2 - 6 Uhr

Admission is free of charge.

Special guests are coming for the 15th anniversary: POSITIONS Berlin has been invited to create its very own art fair format.

With art:badgastein x POSITIONS, the former Grandhotel Astoria becomes the stage for a special kind of art fair. Selected international galleries show contemporary and modern works here - not on clinically white fair walls, but in the old, venerable rooms of a building that breathes history. Between faded glamour and charming decay, the art unfolds in new, surprising ways in the cinematic interior of this listed monument.

Every step through the corridors, every door that opens, brings new discoveries, new perspectives on the presentations of painting, drawing, photography, sculpture and installation. It feels less like being at an art fair and more like being on a special voyage of discovery in alpine surroundings.

It's exciting that POSITIONS is realising this format: for years, the Berlin art fair has stood for fresh impulses and an undisguised approach to art. Now it is venturing out of the capital and into the heart of the Hohe Tauern National Park, into a valley that is bursting with contrasts: nature meets history, Belle Époque meets the present, art meets the heart.

It is an invitation to marvel, to linger, to encounter. A fair that is more than a showcase - it is a genuine art experience. And you can feel it: For POSITIONS, being a birthday guest here is a matter of the heart.