At the most influential Viennese international art fair viennacontemporary, which was held from September 12 to 15 in the Austrian capital, Gallery RIMA participated in a special section of the fair titled Context, presenting the art of renowned Serbian and Yugoslav painter Kosara Bokšan (1925–2009).
As part of the fair’s tenth anniversary edition, that year’s artistic director, Francesca Gavin, conceived the special Context section and entrusted its overarching concept to curator Pernille Holmes. Gallery RIMA gladly accepted Holmes’s invitation and her idea to dedicate the inaugural Context to artists who, although well-known in their local or regional art scenes during the final decades of the 20th century, had undeservedly remained under the radar of the broader European art historical discourse. Only nine galleries participated in this sector of the fair, each presenting one artist, and Gallery RIMA introduced the paintings of Kosara Bokšan (1925–2009) to an international audience in Vienna for the first time.
On this occasion, the gallery exhibited paintings and drawings created between the mid-1960s and late 1980s—a period in which some of Kosara’s most authentic series emerged, featuring motifs of bathers, the sun, and solar spirals, as well as the cycles Icarus and Mountain Women. Through representative examples from this part of her oeuvre, the international audience of the fair had the opportunity to become acquainted with Bokšan’s original visions and her distinctive painterly style.
It is worth noting that this marked Gallery RIMA’s fourth appearance at viennacontemporary, and that earlier that year, the gallery had already achieved a successful presentation in Vienna—at the Spark art fair in early March, where it showcased Andrea Ivanović Jakšić.
