Forward Calendar January 2023

What a year! We are looking forward to welcoming 2023 and a cozy January which might calm us down after the holiday rush. That also means we have packed our Forward Calendar with the most inspiring cultural highlights in Austria and nearby. From Rundgang, prominent exhibitions and gallery discoveries to the last-chance 2022 highlights. This kind of Calendar will surely bring you forward!

Rundgang 2023

Institutes and departments of the Akademie of Fine Arts Vienna will open their studio doors with numerous exhibitions, performances, discussions and educational programs. The annual Academy Auction will also take place as part of the tour, for which world-famous and emerging artists will present their works.

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19.01. → 22.01.2023
Vienna

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Tanzquartier

Tanzquartier Vienna opens a 2023 season! From 2.01. on lectures, art&dance performances and movie discussions will take place. Book your tickets!

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Ongoing
Museumsquartier, Vienna

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Hito Steyerl, Animal Spirits

What is a garden, a habitat, a sphere, a ‘cave’? What spirits live there and how do they show themselves? The outstanding international artist and essayist, documentary filmmaker Hito Steyerl creates a many-layered, immersive installation.

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→ 8.01.2023
Kunsthaus Graz

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Basquiat at Albertina

Final Call! The exhibition is Austria’s first comprehensive museum-based retrospective featuring Jean-Michel Basquiat’s extraordinary oeuvre. It shows around 50 major works from renowned public and private collections, providing new insights into Basquiat’s one-of-a-kind visual language and decoding the substance behind his artistic ideas. Don’t miss the last chance!

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→ 8.01.2023
Albertina, Vienna

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MAK Design Lab

DESIGN LAB demonstrates the many ways design can contribute to positive change. Contemporary projects by designers, artists, architects, programmers, activists, and idealists that react to the challenges of the 21st century and visualize problems, suggest alternatives or offer solutions are contextualized in complex ways with historical approaches from the MAK collection.

More than 500 objects, as well as tools, scientific research, and technologies, show approaches for a sustainable transformation of our modes of production, lifestyles, habits, and systems. The LAB directs our attention to the consequences of our current lifestyle, but also to what innovative solutions mean for every one of us.

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Ongoing
MAK, Vienna

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Brut Vienna

The brut theater offers international, innovative performing arts. You will find the most diverse forms of theatre, dance, performance and music here. The programme 2023 stands for experimentation and interdisciplinarity and presents a variety of the independent scene: performances, installations, music, studio visits, talks and workshops!
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Ongoing
Vienna

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Cukrarna

After more than 80 events and six exhibition projects in the past year, Cukrarna Gallery has already become recognised not only as a contemporary art gallery but also as a new urban nexus of art, culture and social life in Ljubljana. Discover the local and international artists in an up coming season!

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Ongoing
Ljubljana, Slovenia

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Oceans. Collections. Reflections.

Born in Aotearoa – New Zealand, Nuku creates art that seems to travel through time, upholding and developing Aotearoan artistic tradition while stretching from carved amulets using natural materials to monumental installations made of modern-day plastics and polystyrene. The Weltmuseum Wien presents the most comprehensive exhibition of the artist and his first show in Austria.

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→ 31.01.2023
Weltmuseum, Vienna

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Boris Mikhaïlov, Ukrainian diary, At Dusk

Considered one of the most influential contemporary artists from Eastern Europe, Ukrainian artist Boris Mikhaïlov has been developing a body of experimental photographic work exploring social and political subjects for more than fifty years. For the first time, the Pinault Collection is exhibiting the series At Dusk made up of 110 photographs.

The Maison Européenne de la Photographie is also paying tribute to Mikhailov by devoting its largest retrospective to him with over 400 images exhibited, selected in close collaboration with the photographer.

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→ 15.01.2023
MEP, Paris
→ 3.01.2023
Pinault Collection, Bourse de Commerce Salon, Paris

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