The Forward Calendar brings you the most joyful art events from our community. We have assembled some cultural highlights, so you can venture further into the most inspiring events in Austria and around. Spanning design weeks, ceramics exhibitions in historical gardens, renowned art fairs and cutting-edge collaborations, this kind of calendar will surely bring you forward.

 

Soft Machine | Phileas and Austrian Pavillon at Venice Biennale Arte 2022

(c)Manuel Carreon Lopez

For the first time, the Austrian Pavilion in Venice will also be present in Vienna throughout the summer with a presentation in the new exhibition space of Phileas. The exhibition showcases the work of Knebl and Scheirl alongside that of their students at the University of Applied Arts (Transmedia Art class) and the Academy of Fine Arts (Contextual Painting class). The exhibition of the students’ works, selected and installed by Knebl and Scheirl, will be rotated several times during the exhibition’s run, in keeping with the collaborative strategy pursued by the artists for their project in Venice.

Biennale Arte 2022 in Venice is on view until November 27, 2022.

 

HARD FACTS

Date: 06. 05. – 01. 07. 2022
Second Opening: June 8th, 20:30.
Place: Phileas, Opernring 17, Vienna.

Find more info here.

 

SUBOTRON Interactive Heritage: Game Studies

The event series “SUBOTRON Interactive Heritage” connects actors from the fields of creative industries, science, education and art, who negotiate the potential of games as a means of expression and mediator of the past, present and future of local cultural heritage in an interdisciplinary exchange with each other and with the audience.
HARD FACTS

Date: June 9th, 19:00.
Place: MuseumsQuartier, Raum D, Museumsplatz, Vienna.

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Luma.Launisch. WASEN & WESEN – Unique Ceramics Exhibition

(c) Gregor Hofbauer

Perfect settings, a “human vase”, flytraps, fried eggs, fantastic light and sharp shots promise a great show! The visual world of Luma.Launisch has been enhanced by unique vase creations by Florian Tanzer for around 5 years. The video artist lives his passion for craftsmanship to the full. On display will be ceramic works as well as large prints from a very special photo shoot with drag performer Dutzi Ijsenhower and interior photographer Gregor Hofbauer.

 

HARD FACTS

Date: 12. 06. – 12. 09. 2022.
Opening: June 11th,  19:00.
Place: PALMENHAUS BURGGARTEN / Cafe Brasserie Bar, Vienna.

Find more info here.

 

Wiener Festwochen

(c) Markus Selg

The Wiener Festwochen is Multidisciplinary Arts Festival⁣⁣ in Vienna which combines theatre, performance, dance, music, fine arts, installation, discourse, workshops, and new art forms that cannot yet be categorised. It is a space for multidisciplinary creation that opens fruitful dialogues between well established artists and emerging figures–and between the audiences.

 

HARD FACTS

Date: 13. 05. – 18. 06. 2022
Place: Vienna

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Basel Art Fair

(c) Eva Fabregas

Founded in 1996, Liste Art Fair Basel is the international fair for new discoveries in contemporary art. Every year in Basel, a younger generation of galleries exhibit artists who are outstanding representatives of the latest developments and trends in contemporary art. This year, 82 galleries from 37 countries will present the latest voices in contemporary art. With works by over 100 artists and 60 solo and 22 group presentations, there will be much to discover.

 

HARD FACTS

Date: June 13th – 19th, 2022.
Place:  Art Fair Basel
Messe Basel, Hall 1.1
Maulbeerstrasse / corner Riehenring 113, 4058 Basel.

Find more info here.

 

Exhibition for the State Prize for Design 2022: “Best of Austrian Design

Every two years, the Federal Ministry for Digitalisation and Economic Location awards the State Prize for Design. An international jury of experts selected 28 innovative and future-oriented projects in the categories Consumer Goods, Capital Goods and Product Design Interior. Their common denominators are groundbreaking progressiveness, social relevance and sustainability as essential themes of our time. The exhibition presents the award-winning projects.

 

HARD FACTS

Date: 26. 05 – 26. 06. 2022.
Place: designforum Wien
Museumsplatz 1, Hof 7,  Vienna

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Documenta Fifteen

Documenta Fifteen is an exhibition of contemporary art which takes place every five years in Kassel, Germany. In each edition, documenta has played a leading role in taking the international discourse about art in new directions. Over the past decades, documenta has established itself as an institution that goes far beyond a survey of what is currently happening, inviting the attention of the international art world every five years for this “museum of 100 days.” Ruangrupa is the Artistic Direction of the fifteenth edition of documenta. The Jakarta-based artists’ collective has built the foundation of their documenta fifteen on the core values and ideas of lumbung (Indonesian term for a communal rice barn).

 

HARD FACTS

Date: 18. 06. – 25. 09.2022.
Place: over 30 locations in the city of Kassel in Germany.

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NEVER AT HOME x PARALLEL VIENNA – SKULPTURENGARTEN

NEVER AT HOME presents sculptures in the garden of Palais Auersperg. The historical background of the Palais is broken up by contemporary positions and opens up a dialogue rich in contrast. In this context, young and established artists and art institutions will be connected with each other. In the 5000sqm garden of the Palais, a unique artistic experience is offered on the edge of the Ring during the summer weeks.

 

HARD FACTS

Date: 08. 06. – 10. 08.2022.
Place: Palais Auersperg, Vienna

Find more info here.

 

Steirischer Herbst | A War in the Distance. Prologue

(c) Dana Kavelina

In the summer, a prologue to the 55th edition focuses on Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine—a conflict whose relevance and proximity are impossible to ignore now. In a special exhibition, Steirischer Herbst presents historical and contemporary video art and films. They offer a subjective, sobering, and human view of current events otherwise explained in military or geopolitical terms.

 

HARD FACTS

Date: 1. 07. – 1. 08. 2022.
Opening: July 1st, 19:00
Place: Neue Galerie, Graz.

Find more info here.