Since 1997 Directress Johanna Penz has been organizing the ART Innsbruck international fair for contemporary art and antiques. Johanna Penz is also the foundress of the fair.

The interest group of galleries awarded to Dir. Johanna Penz on the occasion of the opening in 2009 with the "Art mediator award 2009".
"The art mediator honours exceptional accomplishments in the intermediary of art", says Hubert Thurnhofer, the president of the interest group, in his laudatio. "Since 1997 Johanna Penz has performed these outstanding accomplishments every year."
2013 ART Innsbruck got nominated with its project artroom21 for the short list of the Bank Austria artprice.

Johanna Penz receives the art mediator award 09