Greetings, July! Get ready for some hot action and the sway of the Danube. We’re thrilled to announce the exciting events lined up for this month. Whether you’re into mind-blowing dance and film festivals or classy exhibitions, we’ve got it all. Keep an eye out for our July Calendar!

 

Hybrid Beats Festival

 

 

Time for Dance, Music and Translocal exchange! Hybrid Beats is a two-day open-air festival that explores the intricate aesthetics of translocal spaces around Wallensteinplatz in Vienna’s 20th district.

It features a curated selection of contemporary artistic perspectives on translocality, which make interfaces, interactions and differences visible and create new hybrid cultural forms.

 

HARD FACTS

30.6.→ 1.7.2023
Wallensteinplatz, Vienna

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Gmunden. Photo

 

 

This year 16 artists will show an insight into their photographic work in shipping containers. The exhibition also features prominent international names in photography, including Man Ray, Stanley Kubrick, Elfie Semotan, and others.

 

HARD FACTS

1.7.→ 13.8.2023
Stadtgarten Gmunden, Austria

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Arles Photo Festival 2023

 

 

Every Summer since 1970, over the course of more than forty exhibitions, the Rencontres d’Arles has been a major influence in showing the best of world photography and playing the role of a booster for photographic and contemporary creative talents. Hit the Road!

 

HARD FACTS

3.7.→ 24.9.2023
Arles, France

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Impulstanz

 

 

Vienna International Dance Festival has over the years evolved into the largest festival for contemporary dance and performance in the world. Every summer it presents a uniquely diverse programme of performances, workshops, research projects and musical acts.

 

HARD FACTS

6.7.→ 6.8.2023
Vienna

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Frameout Festival

 

Frame[o]ut shows innovative contemporary cinema that is dedicated to a certain motto every year. New films & docs, experimentals and shorts. Open air and free entrance!

 

HARD FACTS

14.7.→ 2.9.2023
MQ, Vienna

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HUMAN_NATURE

 

 

With about 30 artistic perspectives, the 2023 exhibition explores this sometimes romantically elevated, sometimes toxic, and all too rarely harmonious relationship between human and nature.

 

HARD FACTS

15.6.→ 17.9.2023
Künstlerhaus, Vienna

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VALIE EXPORT

 

 

A pioneer. A media and performance artist. A feminist and a visionary, Austria’s most influential and innovative creators. The Albertina brings us fearless feminist art in a retrospective of the iconic Austrian artist. The exhibition is challenging, evocative and provocative.

 

HARD FACTS

23.6.→ 1.10.2023
Albertina Museum, Vienna

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Perspektiven Kunstfestival Attersee

 

 

This festival shapes a community. It’s about shared conversation and unforeseen connections. Thirty artists bring their perspectives to Attersee, each engaging with the theme of society, community, connection, and exchange in their own unique way.

 

HARD FACTS

15.7.→ 6.8.2023
Attersee, Austria

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Videopark Art Festival

 

 

Videopark Festival is to acquaint the general public with contemporary artistic practices in the field of video, film and moving images. Working with the local community, supporting decentralization in the arts and creating a platform for all young artists, UVUU aims to relocate the center from major cultural centers, festivals and art fairs to smaller places

 

HARD FACTS

24.7.→ 30.7.2023
Užice, Serbia

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Image credits:

© Hybrid Beats Festival, Graphics: Anna Menecia and Antenete Hambira.
© Annika Elisabeth von Hausswolff, 2019
© Impulstanz, Art Direction & Design: CIN CIN, Photos: Anna Breit
© Romana Hagyo, Silke Maier-Gamauf
© Valie Export
© Natascha Farmer