Forward Calendar October 2022

The Forward Calendar brings you the most important events from our community. We have assembled our cultural highlights, so you can venture further into the most inspiring events in Austria and around. Crashing in with Forward Festival in Vienna, our calendar is full of grandiose exhibitions, renowned design and art festivals. Such an adventurous autumn will surely bring you forward!

Forward Festival Vienna

Forward Festival will return to Vienna on October 6th – 7th 2022 presenting nothing less than a firework of creativity. 2 days, more than 20 speakers, hands-on workshops and exciting side-events promise unforgettable encounters.

HARD FACTS

6.10 → 7.10.2022
Vienna

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Design In Motion Festival

The world’s best motion design is showing on 5000 screens for 24 hours in the public space throughout the Netherlands. The programme repeats every 8 hours.

HARD FACTS

6.10.2022
The Netherlands

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TASHWEESH Festival

Tashweesh (Arabic for ‘Noise interference’) is an interdisciplinary art festival that focuses on bringing together feminist movements, creating a platform for artistic practices and research concerning intersectional feminism in Europe, South West Asia and North Africa.Through performances, discussions, installations, screenings, and a night full of music, the festival seeks common ground beyond perceived cultural boundaries.

HARD FACTS

7.10.→ 15.10. 2022
Vienna, Tanzquartier

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Steirischer Herbst’22

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.

HARD FACTS

22.09. → 16.10.2022
Graz, Austria

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Dutch Design Week

Each year the biggest design event in Northern Europe presents work and ideas of more than 2600 designers to visitors from home and abroad. In more than 110 locations across the city, DDW organizes and facilitates exhibitions, lectures, prize ceremonies, networking events, debates and festivities.

HARD FACTS

22.10. → 30.10.2022
Eindhoven, The Netherlands

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PhEST, International Festival of Photography and Art

PhEST is photography, cinema, music, art, contaminations from the Mediterranean. It is born out of the need to give back a voice to the thousand identities that form the “sea within the lands”, the need to redefine a new, original imagery.

HARD FACTS

09.09. → 1.11.2022
Monopoli, Italy

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La Biennale de Lyon

A total of 202 international artists have been invited to present their works at the eleven venues spread across the city. The 16th Lyon Biennale: manifesto of fragility positions fragility at the heart of a generative form of resistance that is emboldened by the past, responsive to the present and primed for the future

HARD FACTS

14.09. → 31.12.2022
Lyon, France

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Basquiat. Retrospective

Basquiat’s works turn a spotlight both on African heritage and on problematic hierarchies in society, with omnipresent racism being the theme that he found most important and personally relevant. As an eccentric outsider and an exploited superstar of his times, Basquiat now stands among contemporary art’s most significant key figures.

This exhibition at the ALBERTINA Museum is Austria’s first comprehensive museum-based retrospective featuring Jean-Michel Basquiat’s extraordinary oeuvre with around 50 major works from renowned public and private collections.

HARD FACTS

9.09.2022 → 8.01.2023
Albertina Museum, 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.

HARD FACTS

7.09.2022 → 15.01.2023
MEP, Paris
14.10.2022 → 3.01.2023
Pinault Collection, Bourse de Commerce Salon, Paris

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The Animal Within – Creatures in (and outside) the mumok Collection

The Animal Within uses the popular appeal of animals to reflect on the nature of sex, hunger, and affection, as well as on family and gender relations, socialization and domestication, and, not least, on the enduring impact of colonial history. Who leads whom on a leash? Who clips whose wings? Who scratches whose back? The animal as a motif serves as a starting point to get to a materialist understanding of art and life.

HARD FACTS

22.09.2022 → 26.02.2023
Mumok, Vienna

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