She was part of the founding team that rebranded Austria’s biggest contemporary art fair, viennacontemporary.
Christina Steinbrecher was born in Kazakhstan to German-Ukrainian parents, and speaks German, Russian and English, fluently.
[3] Later that year she helped to realize the Jeremy Deller show From One Revolution to Another,[4] held at Palais de Tokyo.
[12] She is credited with sharpening the fair’s profile[13] and for positioning it as the “gateway to the East.”[14][15] In 2018, Steinbrecher-Pfandt was named “40 under 40” by Apollo magazine for her role in advancing contemporary art in Vienna.
[16] Later that year, she resigned from viennacontemporary and moved to San Francisco to "help bridge the gap between art and tech" with the launch of Blockchain.art.