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We know you have been waiting! August comes on the heels of, thus we have assembled our cultural monthly highlights, so you will be prepared to experience the most inspiring events in Austria and Europe. This hot august the Forward Calendar brings you a wholesome selection of diverse festivals, exhibitions and cultural happenings, which surely will bring you forward and awaken a bunch of insights.
Manifesta 14, Pristina 2022
Manifesta, the European Nomadic Biennial, comes to Prishtina, Kosovo with a 100-day programme of art, performances, events and workshops. Manifesta 14 aims to support the citizens of Kosovo in their ambition to reclaim public space and to rewrite the future of their capital as an open-minded metropolis in the Balkans and in Europe through the development of a new cultural institution.
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22.07 → 30.10.2022
Prishtina, Kosovo
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KUB 2022.03
Jordan Wolfson
Jordan Wolfson is known for powerful and unsettling works in a range of media and formats that interrogate the conditions of art, technology, and mass media in contemporary life. In his works, visitors find themselves in a virtual world, where skyscrapers soar beside them, as cars and yellow taxis pass along one of New York’s grand avenues. The 3D video is compelling alone in its uncanny proximity to reality. But a monstrous act begins to quickly unfold in the immediate vicinity, a man is beating another to death with a baseball bat. The viewers become witnesses, they see the victim ultimately bleed to death, implicating themselves by looking. Virtual reality, VR, becomes RV, Real Violence, 2017.
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16.07. → 09.10.2022
Kunsthaus Bregenz
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Triennale Milano
Since 1923 Italy’s foremost institution for design and contemporary culture, the 23rd International Exhibition is conceived as a space for open and plural debate and comparison. Unknown Unknowns. An Introduction to Mysteries tries to answer a series of questions about what we still “don’t know we don’t know” in different topics: from the evolution of the cities to the oceans, from genetics to astrophysics. A deep experience, which involves designers, architects, artists, playwrights, musicians, and that gives the opportunity to overturn our idea of the world.
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15.07. → 11.12.2022
Milan, Italy
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NFT | A Crypto Dimension
The group exhibition is meant to stimulate discourse, to open eyes to the parallel between intangible art on a blockchain and haptic exhibits.
The boundary between video art and NFT blurs and thus illustrates the perpetual dissolution of boundaries in 21st-century art. Diverse artists such as Ju Schnee, Lilly Grote, Tatumm and others reflect on the current issues of war in Europe and the climate crisis. Each of the artists represents not only their own understanding of art but also a different approach to making NFTs. Only one thing unites them: The dissolution of boundaries and a view of a new medium.
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22.07. → 27.08.2022
Galerie Mond, Berlin
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ImPulsTanz
The festival is on fire! A uniquely diverse programme of performances, workshops, research projects and musical acts is still on view! From Florentina Holzinger and Alexander Gottfarb to parties at Burgtheater Vestibül and Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz. Don’t miss the chance to celebrate dance, body and joy!
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→ 07.08.2022
Vienna
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Kultur Sommer Wien
The Vienna Summer of Culture invites you to enjoy open-air culture with free admission. Around 2,000 artists from the fields of cabaret, literature, music, performance, dance, theater and contemporary circus will be on stage for you.
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→ 14.08.2022
Vienna
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HOCHSOMMER ART Festival 2022
Overcoming the void
In 2022, HOCHsommer would like to grow beyond fixed borders and bring the countries of Austria, Slovenia and Hungary closer together. Within the framework of various joint exhibitions and events at different venues around the region of the border triangle, artists from all three countries are invited to work together. The annually changing leitmotif is oriented towards the current problems and issues of our society, such as nature and environmental protection or borders and intercultural cohesion.
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05.08. → 15.08.2022
Styria, Burgenland, Slovenia
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Barbara Kruger
Bitte Lachen / Please Cry
The Neue Nationalgalerie presents Barbara Kruger’s first institutional solo exhibition. The American conceptual artist has developed a site-specific text installation for the Neue Nationalgalerie’s upper-level exhibition hall, making use of the entire space. The work seeks to engage visitors in public discussion about political and social topics.
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→ 28.08.2022
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
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Wolfgang Tillmans
Sound is Liquid
Less than a month left to see the Sound Is Liquid exhibition featuring early photographs by Wolfgang Tillmans. Dive deep into the pop-culture milieu of the 1990s along with abstract images or high-resolution photographs of the globalized and digitalized reality of the early twenty-first century. The two-channel video installation Book for Architects will also be on view, as well as several recent music recordings and videos.
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→ 28.08.2022
MUMOK Vienna
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The Heidi Horten Collection
OPEN
The exhibition OPEN focuses on the building’s architecture, as well as the history of the site and its predecessor buildings, and marks the inauguration of the building as a stage for art. It features a selection of thirty works, offering an illustrative insight into the collection, which has been cultivated and expanded by Heidi Goëss-Horten over decades and includes a large number of recent acquisitions of contemporary art.
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03.06. → 02.10.2022
Heidi Horten Collection, Vienna
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Collaborations
Departing from the focuses of the mumok collections on the avant-garde of the 1960s and 1970s as well as conceptual and socio-analytic approaches in contemporary art, the exhibition Collaborations examines diverse strategies of collective authorship. The exhibition investigates how artistic models of a “we” can be cultivated for life together as a society: What does collaboration mean in the twenty-first century when fundamental social structures continue to dissolve? From works of Marina Abramovic & Ulay and Yoko Ono to the video series lumbung calling from documenta fifteen, curated by ruangrupa.
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06.07. → 06.11.2022
MUMOK, Vienna
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