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We know you have been waiting! December comes on the heels of, thus we have assembled our monthly highlights, so you will experience the most inspiring events in Austria. The Forward Calendar brings you a wholesome selection of diverse festivals, exhibitions and talks, which surely will warm you up and bring you forward.
Homesick Festival
The Festival presents a series of performances that take place in private homes. Conceived and organized by Vienna-based artist Michikazu Matsune, each edition is joined by several artists from the fields of performance, dance and visual arts. Upon booking, a pair of artists visit your home to perform in person – exploring the environment of private homes as a stage for unique encounters and shared experiences.
HARD FACTS
25.11. → 18.12.2022
Presented by das weisse haus, Vienna
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18. Best Austrian Animation Festival
Founded in 2011, the competition offers an annual overview of relevant Austrian productions in the field of animation. The festival aims to present animation in the spectrum from art to commerce, from experimentation to narration, in all newly developed analogue, digital and hybrid techniques.
The BAAF! returns to the Filmcasino in Vienna. In addition, the festival plays host to the gallery space Sehsaal with a great exhibition and the ‘Semperdepot’ (studio house of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna) with a symposium focusing on cooperation between students from all over Austria.
HARD FACTS
28.11. → 3.12. 2022
Filmcasino, Sehsaal, Semperdepot, Vienna
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Perspektiven des Zusammenlebens: Zur Demokratie
Under the title “Perspectives on Living Together: On Democracy”, the Austrian Democracy Lab and the School of Philosophy in cooperation with Künstlerhaus are organising a symposium lasting several days, which will also be the final event of the Austrian Democracy Lab.
The event offers a stage for reflection and the opportunity for everyone to participate. The symposium will be accompanied by the art project “Democracy and the Senses”. Works by the members of the Künstlerhaus Association Stefan Gyalai and Julia Bugram, an installation by Anna Paul and a scent installation by MUELLER-DIVJAK will be on display.
HARD FACTS
2. → 4.12. 2022
Künstlerhaus Factory, 1010 Vienna
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EINE STUNDE MIT EIKE KÖNIG
The talk opens the doors to creatives and offers the opportunity to get to know the speakers, their inspiration, background and stories behind. After great hours with Mirko Borsche, Laura Karasinski, Erik Kessels, Sarah Illenberger and many more, Forward Creatives invites you to dive into exciting and very personal insights of an artists and designer Eike König.
Free entry but first come first serve & registration.
HARD FACTS
12. 12. 2022
Schikaneder, Vienna
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Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab
The Platform for Art, Science and Artistic Research embarks on its fascinating December program. Join the Talk The trouble with visibility, a live performance on mother earth and living systems and a tour at Holobiont Exhibition. The following sound performance, which is closing the month, will share and explore the concept of living matter and nature.
HARD FACTS
1. 12.2022 → 16. 12. 2022
AIL, Vienna
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Idols and Rivals
The exhibition shows how in antiquity, the Renaissance, and the Baroque, artists competed with one another and how, in addition, they measured themselves against ancient models. This kind of competition has brought forth some of the best-known works in the history of art.
HARD FACTS
→ 8.01.2023
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
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Death and the Maiden. Young Ukrainian Art
The exhibition Death and the Maiden gathers together experiences, observations and emotions ensuing from the war and its continuing consequence for citizens of the Ukraine and European society.
HARD FACTS
4.11.2022 → 15.01.2023
Kunstforum, Vienna
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mixed up with others before we even begin
The exhibition features works that open perspectives to postcolonial histories of diversity, to satirical transliteration, queer folklore, and collective feminist rituals, to the molecular borders of the human body and its entanglements with science and technology.
HARD FACTS
26.11.2022 → 10.04.2023
mumok, Vienna
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