Refreshing September is breaking in! Сrushing an upcoming art season, it is buzzing with top events. That means we have packed our Forward Calendar with the most inspiring cultural highlights in Austria and around. Spanning essential art fairs, Forward Festival Berlin, design weeks, curatorial and photography discoveries, this kind of Calendar will surely bring you forward.

 

Images Vevey

 

 

Every two years, the visual art festival presents a new unique collection of made-to-measure indoor and outdoor photography exhibitions and displays, to be discovered free of charge throughout Vevey. By bringing together over 45 artists from some twenty countries, the Images Vevey biennial aims to create links for reunion and togetherness. Our connection with others and with our environment, the importance and fragility of social and family ties, the joys and sorrows when the collective and the individual coexist: these are just some of the topics the 2022 Festival tackles.

 

HARD FACTS

03.09 → 25.09.2022
Vevey, Switzerland

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PARALLEL VIENNA

Photo: Xenia Snapiro

 

PARALLEL VIENNA presents young and emerging as well as established artistic practices and brings together art initiatives of every kind – art associations, galleries, project spaces, off spaces and artist spaces –, both Austrian and international, all under one roof. It thus combines local artistic creation with international trends and contributes to building networks and fosters exchanges between artists, curators, collectors and exhibition visitors.

 

HARD FACTS

06.09. → 11.09.2022
Semmelweisklinik, Vienna

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OFF GRID

Ilse Chlan, Still, Kurzfilm, 2022

 

The third edition of the Viennese off-photo scene festival will present a diverse program. In addition to the main exhibition at the GREEN DOOR artists space & gallery in the Kreta Grätzl, visitors will be able to attend further exhibitions at decentralised Viennese cultural venues, as well as concerts, performances, readings and workshops. The opening of the festival will take place on 7 September 2022 from 6 pm at the GREEN DOOR artists space & gallery.

 

HARD FACTS

07.09. → 11.09.2022
Vienna

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Viennacontemporary

 

Monika Pascoe Mikyšková, Untitled (from the series Small shapes), 2021

 

 

Vienna’s leading international art fair invites you to discover exciting newcomers, established galleries, and carefully curated special exhibitions with a focus on Central- and Eastern European in the magnificent halls of Kursalon Vienna, which lies in the heart of the city. Find out curated special shows, performances, a high-quality educational program with major stakeholders from the global art world, guided tours to selected public and private art institutions.

 

HARD FACTS

08.09. → 11.09.2022
Kursalon Vienna

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Curated By

 

Catalina Ouyang, Kicked Madonna (Crystal), 2022. Photo: Jacob Holler

 

 

Curated by, the gallery festival with international curators in Vienna. It integrates both established and young galleries, and has been presenting contemporary positions on an overarching topics since 2009. This year’s theme KELET is dominated by the traumatic geopolitical events that currently overshadow all art and culture talk, namely the Ukraine war. The exhibition openings in all 24 participating galleries will take place on 9th and 10th September. For one month, Curated by offers a comprehensive program around contemporary art in Vienna with numerous openings, panel talks, performances, conversations and guided tours.

 

HARD FACTS

09.09. → 08.10.2022
Vienna

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VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

 

Beyond the preoccupation with the design of products, Austria’s one of the most important multidisciplinary festival poses the question of what role the work of designers plays for coexistence in the city and worldwide. Since 2007, Vienna Design Week has been a defining part of Vienna’s design landscape. This year it jumps a bit further into the city center, into the 6th district. In addition to the festival headquarters there will also be a special focus on Mariahilf that deals with topics relevant to the district.

 

HARD FACTS

16.09. → 25.09.2022
Vienna

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Glue Amsterdam

 

 

A three-day design tour for Amsterdam designers, the general public, architects, brands, showrooms, galleries, academies and other colleagues. GLUE Amsterdam connects all locations and provides a substantive and attractive program for designers and the public.

 

HARD FACTS

15.09. → 17.09.2022
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Forward Festival Berlin

 

Forward is ready to return to Berlin and is now expanding to a two-day event! Prepare for a program full of highlights ranging from international heavyweights to local heroes of the creative industries, more than 30 speakers on two stages, exclusive side-events, workshops, an interactive expo area and much more at KINO INTERNATIONAL.

 

HARD FACTS

22.09.→ 23.09.2022
KINO INTERNATIONAL, Berlin

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Steirischer Herbst

Mykola Ridnyi Temerari(2022)

 

Steirischer Herbst is an annual interdisciplinary festival of contemporary art running since its founding in 1968. It is firmly rooted in Graz and Styria and focuses on artistic creation that comments on socio-political issues and provokes and contours public debates in different ways, across all disciplines and media. The full program and online tickets are available from 1.9. onward.

 

HARD FACTS

22.09. → 16.10.2022
Graz and Styria

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