PAKS Gallery, Vienna/other locations
For more than a year i have been spammed with mails from this gallery. They use my full name followed by the sentence: “as you know, gallery repressentation is very important for the artist’s career.” I find this marketing strategy very aggressive since i politely stated as a reply to the first mail i got – that i didn’t need repressentation by a foreign gallery. I did not block the email, because i wanted to see, what they were “tempting” me with. It is a pay-for-play/vanity gallery and i read some negative reviews online that has confirmed this is not a good gallery to exhibit in.
Have anyone had dealings with this gallery?
Anonymous
Hello, a few years ago I participated in 3 exhibitions with them after paying a considerable fee. This was my impression: They invite as many artists as possible and with 1 painting so the rooms look filled with people during the day if the vernisagge. Take pictures of all of them and release an article in a local magazine (in German), and the owner is always on the main picture as he was a celebrity. Most of the wall spaces are dedicated to the wife of the organizer which makes a collective exhibition pretty uneven.
They are polite people but to be honest I felt completely scammed after that and off course, there was no selling in any of the 3 exhibitions. After traveling from another country and having high costs for transport and accommodation, it definitely doesn’t worth the “investment or representation”.