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April is almost here and with it comes an array of cultural events to explore. Our Forward Calendar features some of the most notable events in Austria and Europe. From aesthetic climax with Florentina Holzinger to hidden architectural venues or Porn Film Festival. Stay ahead of the game with our carefully curated April calendar.
VALIE EXPORT
Hurry to see the feminist legend’s work. ‘Oh Lord, Don’t Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb on Me’: tubes hang from the ceiling, galvanized organ pipes dangle like stalactites from above, others cast slender, pointed shadows onto the glass walls. The sound sculpture for the Kunsthaus Bregenz revisits this notion and updates it in terms of the current political agenda – the urgent desire for peace.
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4.3. → 10.4. 2023
Kunsthaus Bregenz
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FMX 2023 Film & Media Exchange
Following its success in 2022, FMX – Film & Media Exchange will host another hybrid edition next year. From April 25 to 27, 2023, FMX will present its top-class program on site at Haus der Wirtschaft in Stuttgart. On April 28, FMX will once again offer an exclusive online day with numerous presentations from around the globe. With its hybrid approach, the conference for animation, effects, interactive and immersive media will allow people to network in person and connect from around the world. The central theme of FMX 2023 will be EVOLVING, with renowned BAFTA-winning and Oscar-nominated producer Jinko Gotoh serving as next year’s Program Chair.
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→ 25-27.04.2023
Stuttgart’s Haus der Wirtschaft
→ 28.04.2023
Online
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Edible, Beautiful, Untamed
Kunsthalle Bratislava is very happy to announce a new solo exhibition of the Czech sculptor Anna Hulačová curated by Tjaša Pogačar. The main protagonists of the exhibition aren’t human. This is a world of modified organisms and machinery – giant vegetation, hybrid insects, and mutated agricultural equipment. Heavy concrete objects with shapes reminiscent of engines are adorned with intricate ceramic vegetal growth.
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→ 10.04. 2023
Kunsthalle Bratislava
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Kunsthalle Bratislava is very happy to announce a new solo exhibition of the Czech sculptor Anna Hulačová curated by Tjaša Pogačar. The main protagonists of the exhibition aren’t human. This is a world of modified organisms and machinery – giant vegetation, hybrid insects, and mutated agricultural equipment. Heavy concrete objects with shapes reminiscent of engines are adorned with intricate ceramic vegetal growth.
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→ 10.04. 2023
Kunsthalle Bratislava
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The Porn Film Festival
The Porn Film Festival Vienna takes a critical look at the topic of pornography and deals with alternative porn beyond the mainstream. We want to stand up for and live diversity, sexual freedom, and self-determined sexuality. We aim to create safer spaces without prejudice, to take actions that go beyond social taboos, and to refuse stigmatization.
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12.4. → 16.04. 2023
Vienna
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Academy of fine kink
The Student Union for Fine Arts of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna invites you to a special exhibition. They will show multimedial sex-positive works and performances by students of the Academy of Fine Arts. The visitors are invited to become part of the performances themselves. Join for the cultural expression of desires and longings.
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13.4. → 16.4.
Vernissage 13.4., 10pm-4am
Semperdepot, Lehargasse 6, 1060 Vienna
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Florentina Holzinger
After her sensuality extravaganza production ‘A Divine Comedy’ in 2021 Holzinger is back in Vienna with the new work ‘Ophelia’s Got Talent’. Reflection, reproduction, healing and violence: the multidisciplinary ensemble from several generations performs a physical study of the psychology of water in the 21st century.
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17.4. → 19.4. 2023
Volkstheater, Vienna
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EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED
The last month to see Simon Lechner and other artists’ works. The group exhibition presents exemplary artistic positions in 3D scanning, 3D printing, augmented reality, CGI and machine learning.
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→ 30.4.2023
Kunsthalle Bonn, Bonn
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FANTASTIC FILM FESTIVAL
Programming fantasy, thriller, science fiction, and horror films, the BIFFF brings to the fore the genres that shake up the codes of cinema. The atmosphere of the festival is unique in Belgium. Celebration, conviviality, fun and sharing (beers) are the core values of the festival.
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11. 4.→ 23. 4. 2023
Brussels, Belgium
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Museum Liaunig
The miracle in nature opens its door in spring again! Museum Liaunig is a private art museum in Carinthia founded in 2008. Alongside the Essl Collection in Klosterneuburg, it is the second Austrian private museum for contemporary art. It presents the private collection of the industrialist and art collector Herbert W. Liaunig.
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April 30 → October 29, 2023
Neuhaus, Carinthia
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Baby better have my menstruation. I ain’t no museum
Films and a trailer by and with accomplices. Film portraits and a live feed as a tribute to collaboration itself. Anna Spanlang’s light-footed and hip exhibition intervention is laid out as a fragmented montage in the Kunsthaus. Over it all hovers a great democratic task: the instruction for empathy.
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→ 30.04.2023
Kunsthaus Graz
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Mining Photography
At the exhibition, historical photographs, contemporary artistic positions and interviews with experts tell the story of art photography from the perspective of its industrial production. Where, for example, did the copper come from that was used for Hermann Biow’s famous daguerreotype of Alexander von Humboldt?
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→ 30.4.2023
Kunsthaus Wien
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