Austrian Cultural Forum London

Features & upcoming events

Ernst Eisenmayer: Art Beyond Exile

2 February 2012, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London

The exhibition continues until Friday 23 March, ACF London

This is the first major retrospective exhibition in the UK of the Viennese-born artist Ernst Eisenmayer (born 1920), recipient of the Medal of Honour from the City of Vienna in recognition ...

The near and the elsewhere

The near and the elsewhere. Featuring Gregor Graf

25 January – 17 March 2012 | PM Gallery & House
'The near and the elsewhere' is an exhibition based on current financial events and the global downturn, looking at failed spaces and abandoned architecture. It explores the constant upheaval of developing cities and the shrinking ...
Moving Pictures’

Moving Pictures’

27 January – 10 February 2012
‘Moving Pictures’ is an exhibition of video installations by Judith Albert along with poetry by Viennese poet Michael Donhauser. To each of Albert's five video installations Donhauser has composed poetic reflections which will be ...
Migrations

Migrations

31 January – 12 August 2012 | Tate Britain
This exhibition will explore British art through the theme of migration from 1500 to the present day. From the sixteenth and seventeenth century Flemish and Dutch landscape and still-life painters who came to Britain in ...
Luvos, vol. 2 at the Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival 2012

Luvos, vol. 2 at the Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival 2012

4 February 2012
Luvos, vol. 2 is a weird and simultaneously touching vision of a brave new world of GMO's playing havoc with humanity, choreographed by Editta Braun. The dance performance plays with alienation and familiarity of ...
Max Perutz Lecture

Max Perutz Lecture

8 February 2012, 5.00pm
The Master and Fellows of Peterhouse College are this year resuming the Max Perutz Lectures in collaboration with the Austrian Cultural Forum London. The annual lecture honours Max Perutz (1914 –2002), a former Fellow of ...
Sound Park Austria X – Music to Picture

Sound Park Austria X – Music to Picture

9 February 2012, 7.30pm | The Forge
The tradition of bringing music together with the moving image goes back to the era of silent movies, when scores would be improvised in realtime by pianists in the playhouse. Over the past hundred years ...
In Portrait: Olga Neuwirth

In Portrait: Olga Neuwirth

11 February 2012, 7.30pm | Southbank Centre
The London Sinfonietta presents a portrait of Olga Neuwirth, the Austrian composer who came to prominence in the UK with her operatic adaptation of David Lynch’s Lost Highway produced by the ENO and the ...
Going Under with Glenn Gould

Going Under with Glenn Gould

14 February 2012, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London
Our annual birthday celebration of Austria's maverick novelist and playwright Thomas Bernhard (1931–1989) once again promises enlightenment and entertainment. His celebrated novel Der Untergeher (The Loser) is an extended meditation on (amongst other ...
Jews, Politics and Austria

Jews, Politics and Austria

15 February 2012 | Austrian Cultural Forum London
'The complexity of my condition: an Austrian, a Jew'. This diary entry by Arthur Schnitzler in 1913 serves as epigraph of our lecture series Jews, Politics and Austria organised together with the Leo Baeck Institute ...
Ready Steady Doc! EUNIC Documentary Festival

Ready Steady Doc! EUNIC Documentary Festival

16 – 23 February 2012 | Austrian Cultural Forum London
Each year European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) organises a unique film festival to showcase the best in European cinema. The 30th edition of the modern Olympic Games is fast approaching, and we have ...

News

Friedrich Cerha wins Siemens Music Prize

Friedrich Cerha has been awarded the international Ernst von Siemens Music Prize 2012. The Austrian composer, born in 1926, will be awarded the prize, valued at €200,000, for his life's work.  In addition Soundings composer Luke Bedford was awarded the Composers' Prize.

Writer's residence in Graz

The city of Graz awards the "Writer of the City of Graz" scholarship each year and includes the provision of an apartment for free in Cerrini-Schloessl on the Schlossberg, from 1 September 2012 until 31 August 2013. A monthly stipend of EURO 1,100 is paid.

Application deadline is 31 March 2012. E kulturamt@stadt.graz.at for more information.

Theater an der Wien announces the creation of a 'Junges Ensemble' for singers of exceptional talent

Junges Ensemble seeks to develop new talent and allow them to gain valuable experience working as part of Theater an der Wien!  Openings for soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone / bass-baritone and bass are available for periods from 2-7 years.  Email: jungesensemble@theater-wien.at for further information.

IUGTE and ArtUniverse: Scholarships for Dancers, Choreographers & Actors

IUGTE and ArtUniverse have announced scholarships for the February event 2012 - International Physical Theatre Laboratory! The scholarship amount is 300 EUR and covers part of the participation fee.  To apply for the scholarship, please send your CV/resume with photo and a brief cover letter to iugte.projects@gmail.com. Performers of different genres and techniques - dancers, choreographers, actors and directors are welcome to apply for participation.

Good Pitch Documentary Festival - call for papers!

The festival which aims to maximise the impact of social-issue documentary takes pleace in London on 25 June 2012.  Call for entries is now open and closes on Wednesday 1 February.  For more information and to submit visit www.britdoc.org/goodpitch

Austrian Music Export has a new website!

Visit www.musicexport.at to find out about new musicians and events happening in the Austrian music scene!

Soundings reviewed in the Guardian

Guy Dammann gives Soundings VII a four star review in the Guardian on 7 December. Read all about it here

Federal hymn: Austria also sings the praises of its daughters

The coalition parties – Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) and People’s Party (ÖVP) – and the Greens presented a joint motion to change the lyrics of Austria's national anthom. Austria is now "home to great daughters and sons" (previously only sons) and in the third stanza "choirs of brothers" will be replaced by "joyous choirs".

Emily Howard celebrated at Wien Modern

British composer Emily Howard has been celebrated in the Austrian and UK press for her piece Solar and the Wien Modern commissioned Calculus of the Nervous System, performed by the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra. Howard has taken part in the ACF's Soundings platform and first travelled to Vienna in 2009 for a special Soundings concert at the Alte Schmiede. Read Micheal White's review in the Telegraph and an interview in the Austrian magazine Terz (in English).

Austrian artist Kurt Hentschläger at the London Cultural Olympiad 2012

Ironbridge Gorge Museums Trust said the work, entitled Core, would be displayed at the Enginuity museum from March until autumn 2012. The installation will feature computer-generated video projection, set to a soundtrack and a series of screens will double as "windows into a weightless world, populated by groups of humanoid figures". Mr Hentschlager said the figures would "interact like a school of fish... and at other times like intricately choreographed modern ballet dancers". For further information please visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-15002550

Austrian Database for Scholarships and Research Grants

www.grants.at, Austria's most comprehensive database for scholarships and research grants in German and English language now features grants and scholarships for the academic year 2012/2013 as well as summer 2012.

Keep in touch with Austrians abroad

austrians.org is a community platform and a global network for Austrians and friends of Austria abroad.  The website provides an opportunity to create international contacts, exchange information and suggestions as well as informing the rest of the world about Austria.

Egon Schiele Documentation Centre

A new Egon Schiele Documentation Centre has been set up in Leopold Museum at Museum's Quartier in Vienna. It combines documentation, provenance research and library facilities accessible to researchers and students. For more information visit http://www.egonschiele.at

Soundings film online

De Novo Arts has produced an online short film about this year's Soundings platform entitled 'Inspired by Mahler'.  You can view it here.