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Tropical July is breaking in! That means we have assembled our cultural highlights, so you can venture further into the most inspiring events in Austria and Europe. The Forward Calendar brings you some of the most important events from our community, spotlighting photography and dance festivals, garden-fresh design graduation shows, charity auctions and captivating exhibitions. This kind of hot July calendar will surely bring you forward.
Angewandte Festival 2022
University of Applied Arts opens its doors and presents graduation projects and exhibitions in the central university buildings and in the city. Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz will be closed to traffic and become a meeting place, a stage, a square for the four days of the festival. From a Magazine Launch and Cinema from Ukraine screening to explicit Guided tours, performances and plenty of open Workshops with insight into diverse work, production and experimentation. DJs & Live-Acts Closing is kicking off on Friday from 19:00: students, graduates and teachers will play their music for the soul.
HARD FACTS
Date: 28. 06. – 01. 07.
Place: Infopoint, Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, 1010 Wien
Find more info here.
Megaworld Festival
Megaworld is an online fantasy where anyone can share content. Megaworld wants to create a peaceful community with an unrestrained flight of mind and freedom of expression. Karaoke sessions, performances, sweating on the dance floor and raw, unbiased art. Users do not need to register before participating in the community. Feel free to participate!
HARD FACTS
Date: 01. – 03. 07.
Place: Online, Alte WU/ BIB Vienna
Find more info here.
Royal Academy of Art (KABK) Graduation Show 2022
Explore the work of more than 240 art and design students in the annual Graduation Show. For this, the academy will be transformed into an 8.000m2 exhibition space. The artworks created by its Bachelor’s and Master’s students reflect on themes that are current in society such as artificial intelligence, identity and climate change.
HARD FACTS
Date: 01. – 05. 07.
Opening: June 11th, 19:00.
Place: the Hague, Netherlands
Find more info here.
UKREATE PEACE
Charity Auction x Under The Open Sky
The UKREATE PEACE Charity Auction is an exhibition showcasing Ukrainian and other European artists with an auction of the exhibited works. UKREATE PEACE is collaborating with 2 Ukrainian artists, Masha Reva and Ivan Grabko & with their art project UNDER THE OPEN SKY for which they created 140 artworks in 40 days, during their exile in Uzhgorod.
The auction is organized to support Ukraine and the Ukrainian people in their brave and painful struggle against Russian military aggression, and to raise funds for the humanitarian organizations and civilian initiatives in Ukraine.
HARD FACTS
Date: 2.07. from 2 pm. The auction starts at 7 pm sharp
Place: Elektrohalle Rhomberg, Samergasse 28b, 5020 Salzburg
Find more info here.
Gmunden. Photo 2022
The Festival tries to reflect the most actual contemporaneity through lenses of diverse views, belief systems and strategies of expression. In the sense of being a thoroughgoing witness of its times, this year Gmunden.photo invites Ukrainian artists into a dialogue with Austrian photographers and video-makers. The Festival transfers confronting aspects of the Ukrainian artists’ experience they face during the ongoing war.
HARD FACTS
Date: 02. 07. – 14. 08. 2022.
Place: Stadtgarten Gmunden
Find more info here.
ImPulsTanz
Vienna International Dance Festival has evolved into the largest festival for contemporary dance and performance in the world. Every summer it presents a uniquely diverse programme of performances, workshops, research projects and musical acts.
HARD FACTS
Date: 7. 07. – 7. 08. 2022
Place: Vienna
Find more info here.
Galerie Krinzinger
LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
Joep van Lieshout of Atelier Van Lieshout (AVL) provides some light as the torchbearer of radical change. As a participant in the current documenta exhibition in Kassel, AVL presents a mobile platform for communal action and critical interaction. The exhibition ‘Light in the Darkness’ fulfills Van Lieshout’s mission to enlighten more literally by presenting a wide selection of lamps.
LIMINAL SPACES
Eva Schlegel expands the properties and limits of photography and sculpture by situating each discipline in relationship to the other. Eva Schlegel’s work reveals solitude so complete that it makes one question one’s own existence. It awakens the terrifying feeling that in spite of all our sharing and connectedness, in spite of being surrounded by other people, we are fundamentally alone.
HARD FACTS
Date: 10. 06. – 27. 08. 2022.
Place: Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
Find more info here.
Keeping up with the trouble: A drama
The exhibition of 15 artists working in various disciplines such as painting, installation, video, object and photography. The artists perform in the rooms of the Brut in the form of a joint exhibition and thus intervene to question the relationship of the white cube to the black box. The visitors enter brut as a performative space and find themselves in the stillness of an exhibition environment in which movement (as action) and stillness (as pose) alternate.
HARD FACTS
Date: 1. 07. – 3. 07.
Opening on June 30th / 18 – 24h
Place: brut, Nordwestbahnstraße 8 – 10, Vienna
Find more info here.
EBB & Neïl Beloufa
Pandemic Pandemonium| B. Ingrid Olson and Lieselott Beschorner
You have to play to fully experience the exhibition, which is a kind of walk-on game board: you move from zone to zone, gathering information and clues for the quiz questions and small challenges to be solved at the “gaming machines” where you can try your luck and—with a little dexterity and steady nerves—even win genuine works of art. Don’t be scared!
HARD FACTS
Date: 29. 06. – 04. 09. 2022.
Opening June 28th, 7 pm.
Place: Vienna Secession
Find more info here.
Parallel Skulpturenpark
For the 10th anniversary of the art fair, PARALLEL VIENNA presents the format PARALLEL SCULPTURENPARK for the first time. The sculpture park will be freely accessible throughout the entire period and invite visitors to linger on the island. A selection of up to 20 contemporary sculptures by internationally active artists will be shown throughout the entire area.
HARD FACTS
Date: 23. 07. – 26. 08. 2022.
Opening July 22th
Place: Toscanapark, 4810 Gmunden
Find more info here.
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