Every month, the Forward Calendar brings you the most important events from our community. In contrast to regular event calendars, we don’t just collect an innumerable amount of exhibitions and conferences taking place in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. Our calendar is a collection of the most inspiring events from the Forward universe. The kind of calendar that brings you forward.

 

Forward Festival Vienna 2020
 


 

Only a few days left until Forward Festival Vienna 2020!

|| DIGITALEYES ||

For six years now, the Forward Festival has been a popular hotspot for creatives and those interested in the creative scene. With this year’s motto Digital Eyes, the festival will take place digital, analog, and yet anything but binary. Digitization and technology are no longer exclusively future-visioned terms, they came to stay. It affects us all, our work, the market, it changes and will no longer become less. With our heads in our smartphones, we seem to have entered a post-digital age.

This year Forward Festival decided to go live and make a LIVESTREAM from the already sold-out Viennese festival. The Livestream will broadcast all lectures on the main- and forward stage on both festival days.

 

HARD FACTS

Date: October 08th – 09th 2020
Place: Gartenbaukino Vienna & Online

Get your ticket now!

For more info click here.

 

‘Martha Cooper’ – Taking Pictures

 

 

As we already announced in our article from last week, the large retrospective ‘Martha Cooper – Taking photos’ is opening next week at Urban Nation in Berlin.

The extensive retrospective Martha Cooper: Taking Pictures is devoted primarily to Martha Cooper’s previously unpublished, mostly analog photographs. Furthermore, the original dummy of Subway Art will be on display. The 1984 book, published by Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant, is today considered the “Bible of Graffiti”. Also featured are personal items from the photographer’s private collection, including sketchbooks, diaries, scrapbooks, memorabilia, children’s toys, and original works by 35 artists who have reinterpreted Cooper’s photographs.
 
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Date: Opening weekend from October 2nd to October 4th
Place: Urban Nation Berlin and Online

For more information click here.

 

Kunst Zürich 2020
 

 

Kunst Zürich will open its doors for the 26th time. Offering an exciting overview over the contemporary art scene, Zürich’s leading art fair is not only aimed at experienced art collectors but also at newcomers inviting both of them to discover something new at the approximately 50 positions in the newly renovated Halle 550 in Oerlikon.

 

HARD FACTS

Date: October 29th – November 1st
Place: Hallo 550, Zurich
More Infos here.
 

Designmesse Blickfang

 

 

At the 17th blickfang Vienna, good design is celebrated in all its facets. More than 150 designers from Vienna and all over Europe await you personally! Immerse yourself in the creative scene, discover original furniture, fashion, and jewelry products, get inspired – and take your favorite pieces straight home with you.

 

HARD FACTS

Date: October 9th – 11th
Place: MAK Wien
More Infos here.

 

‘Aah’ Austin Lee at Peres Projects

 

Your last to see Austin Lee’s solo exhibition at Peres Projects on the occasion of Gallery Weekend Berlin. The exhibition is presenting new paintings and sculptures. The works stage a collapse in the distinctions between real and imaginary, digital and physical. In our everyday lives, we move between online and offline space in an increasingly seamless way, in his translation between mediums, Lee’s practice becomes the conduit for bringing the digital into reality.
 

HARD FACTS

Date: until October 9th
Place: Peres Projects, Berlin
More Infos here.
 
Viennale
 

 
The fifty-eighth edition of the Viennale takes place in a very exceptional year. In the course of its history, the Viennale has gained in importance thanks to its programmatic, aesthetic and political principles; it has become a reliable event on an international level and has become an integral part of the calendar for the audience of the City of Vienna.

 

HARD FACTS

Date: October 22nd – November 1st
More info here.

 

WORKSHOP: Creating Unique Brand Experiences

 
This October Creative Region is hosting a workshop with the title ‘Creating Unique Brand Experiences – the analog digital future of brands.’

How does good branding actually work?

The only constant of our time is change. This confronts companies and brands with major challenges. In this workshop with Almut Becvar and Franz Riebenbauer from the renowned design studio Studio Riebenbauer, you will learn how companies create identity even under these circumstances – and what is really important for a successful brand experience, both analog and digital: They don’t believe in half measures. From classic communication to design to branded spaces, every point of contact of a brand is covered. National and international.
 
HARD FACTS

Date: October 27th
Where: Grand Garage, Tabakfrabik Linz
More info here.

 

Architektur in Progress w/ Dekleva Gregorič Architects

 


 
Dekleva Gregorič Architects is one of the most renowned architectural firms in Slovenia and was founded by Aljoša Dekleva and Tina Gregorič in Ljubljana in 2003. Tina Gregorič is head of the research department for building theory and design at the Institute of Architecture and Design at the Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Planning at the Vienna University of Technology and Aljosa Dekleva is head of the AA nanotourism Visiting School of the Architectural Association in London. In the development of their award-winning projects they follow the concept of ‘research by design’ and ‘design by research’, whereby social added value, spatial qualities, high-quality materials and the historical context are essential. The buildings and interventions are characterized by their relation to the site, local craftsmanship and local construction methods and materials, as well as by the identification of the needs of residents and users.
 
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Date: October 6th
Where: Laufen Innovation Hub, Salzgries 21 Wien
More info here.