The Forward Calendar brings you the most inspiring events from our community. We have prepared our monthly cultural highlights, so you can hop onto some warming November agenda and hit the ground running. Spanning film and art festivals, interdisciplinary labs and legendary retrospectives, this kind of November Calendar will surely warm you up before winter.
Viennale’22
The Viennale is Austria’s most important international film event, as well as one of the oldest and best-known festivals in the German-speaking world. The Viennale takes place in beautiful cinemas in Vienna’s historic center, providing the festival with an international orientation showing a carefully picked selection of new films from all over the globe. Gala screenings, special events and parties are as much part of the festival as interviews, audience discussions and opportunities to meet the many international guests of the festival.
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20.10. → 1.11.2022
Vienna
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Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab
AIL is a platform for art, science and artistic research which was found in 2014 by the University of Applied Arts Vienna. AIL makes space for events and exhibitions, explores future-oriented topics and makes them available to an interested public and community. AIL November programme is full of open lectures, live concerts and performances.
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3.11. → 24.11.2022
Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna
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30 years Kunsthalle Wien
You can look forward to an open house with multiply guided tours, workshops, and behind-the-scenes insights into Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier and Karlsplatz. From Sanja Iveković Works of Heart (1974–2022) exhibition, T-shirt printing workshop or Children’s Disco to a festive ceremony from 7 pm and a musical evening program.
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5.11. → 6.11.2022
Museumsquartier and Karlsplatz, Vienna
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Open House of Angewandte
At the annual Open House of Angewandte, students and teachers give insights into studios and workshops of the University of Applied Arts Vienna and inform about the fields of study and study programmes.
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9.11.2022, 10:00 – 18:00
Angewandte, Vienna
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Vienna Art Week 2022. Challenging orders
The Festival shines a spotlight on Vienna’s vibrant art scene. Each year, its program includes around 140 events and ranges from guided tours and studio visits to expert talks, performances, workshops and exhibition openings as well as lectures, symposia, and interventions in public spaces. This year’s theme of Vienna Art Week invites us to question existing norms and orders.
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18.11 → 25.11.2022
Vienna
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Helmut Newton Legacy
With the retrospective Helmut Newton Legacy, the Kunstforum will be celebrating the Berlin photographer’s hundredth birthday (1920–2004) – delayed because of corona, but all the more comprehensive, with 300 or more works that document Newton’s complete oeuvre. The exhibition presents Newton with iconic photos, also with works that have never been on show before.
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19.10.2022 → 15.01.2023
Kunstforum Vienna
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Ways of Freedom, Jackson Pollock to Maria Lassnig
Albertina modern’s autumn exhibition is dedicated to the abstract expressionism of the New York School. Figures including Pollock, Clyfford-Still, Rothko, Ad Reinhardt, Barnett Newman, and Robert Motherwell were representatives of new freedom of art as manifested in their reinvention of American abstraction. The exhibition presents an international dialog including over 90 works by Austrian and international artists. It examines the interplay between abstract expressionism and informalism in the context of transatlantic dialog from the mid-1940s to the end of the Cold War.
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15.10.2022 → 22.1.2023
Albertina Modern, Vienna
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We love our customers, exhibition by Stefanie Moshammer
Stefanie Moshammer’s ongoing series We Love Our Customers plays with our perception of today’s consumer and brand culture. In a humorous and perceptive way, the artist examines our relationship to garments between tradition and the present, between appreciation and mass product.
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13.10.2022 → 14.2.2023
Kunst Haus Wien
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100 BEST POSTERS 21. Germany Austria Switzerland
The winning posters of the competition focus on current social issues. As a reflection of our society, the posters deal with the burning questions of the day: gender and equality, climate protection and corona, cryptocurrencies and NFTs. Contemporary issues such as these are presented using playful typography, photo collages, and photographs.
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19.10.2022 → 5.03.2023
MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna
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Heidi Horten Collection, LOOK Exhibition
The Heidi Horten Collection is a world-class art collection of modern and contemporary art. The first thematic exhibition “LOOK” is a tribute to the founder of the museum, Heidi Goëss-Horten. It spotlights art and fashion and their inspiring interplay. The “look” of women and looking at women, as well as other aspects associated with the feminine, are key themes in the Collection.
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21.10.2022 → 16.4.2023
Heidi Horten Collection, Vienna
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