Fritz Lang’s METROPOLIS is perhaps the most famous German film of all time, and certainly one of the most influential. This restoration, premiered in Berlin, is the most complete and authentic version possible of Lang’s original 1927 vision ...
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Features & upcoming events
Showcase Platform for Young Artists. Thomas Gänszler & Elisabeth Wedenig
4 August – 24 September 2010 | Austrian Cultural Forum London
This exhibition is organized and presented by the Vienna-based Plattform für junge Kunst – Bäckerstrasse 4. The platform was founded by Gabriele Schober with the intention of giving young artists an opportunity to present ...
Vienna Vegetable Orchestra
10 – 25 September 2010 | Various venues, UK
The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra performs music solely on instruments made of vegetables. Using carrot flutes, pumpkin basses, leek violins, leek-zucchini-vibrators, cucumberophones and celery bongos, the orchestra creates its own extraordinary vegetable sound universe. The ensemble ...
Brave New World. New image concepts in Austrian photography
15 September – 17 December 2010 | Austrian Cultural Forum London
Developments in photography, film, video and computers, as well as the use of these media in our daily lives, has had a significant impact on the production and reception of artworks. Artists embrace the opportunities ...
The Philosopher of Auschwitz. Jean Améry and Living with the Holocaust
21 September 2010, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London
A Book LaunchBy Irène Heidelberger-Leonard
Jean Améry, born Hans Maier in Austria in 1912, escaped his homeland to join the Austrian Resistance in Belgium. He was imprisoned in Auschwitz and liberated from ...
International Baroque Players. “Endless Pleasures: Music from London’s Pleasure Gardens”
23 – 24 September 2010 | various venues
Time is what keeps the light from reaching us
24 September 2010
Spider Project presents a unique telling of the fairytale Hänsel and Gretel at this year’s Liverpool Biennial. The psychology of fairytales has been much interpreted since Sigmund Freud and the structure of a ...
How the Brits opened the door to a Wolf
30 September 2010, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London
An evening presented by Bernard Keeffe, former BBC presenter and Chairman of the Anglo Austrian Music Society
Hugo Wolf was born 150 years ago in Windischgrätz, a small town in what is now Slovenia ...
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Austrian dancer performs as a First Soloist at the Royal Ballet
Johannes Stepanek was promoted to First Soloist in June 2009 in time for the 2010/11 season. He will dance his first performance as a First Soloist in Onegin at the Royal Opera House on 2 October 2010. For more information click here.
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.
First European Centre for the History of Physics opened in Styria
Under the name “echophysics“ (European Centre for the History of Physics), the first European institution of this kind has opened in the sumptuous baroque Palace of Pöllau near Hartberg (Styria) on 29 May 2010.
Austrian curator appointed at The Museum of Modern Art
Independent curator, author, and lecturer Sabine Breitwieser has been appointed Chief Curator of the Department of Media and Performance Art at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Ms. Breitwieser, who from 1988 to 2007 served as founding Director and Curator of the Generali Foundation, a public contemporary art museum in Vienna, will begin her new position at MoMA on October 4.
1938-2008: Legacies and Lessons in post-war Austria
Over the last decade, important new research has been undertaken on Austrian history during the period 1938 - 1945 and the post-war era. Through a series of public lectures, organised by the Austrian Embassy London, in co-operation with the Wiener Library and the Austrian Cultural Forum London, eminent Austrian scholars and experts presented new research and shed some light on the questions raised. These lectures can now be viewed online at www.doew.at/frames.php?/post-war_austria.html
Franziska Ullmann and Peter Ebner at Venice Architecture Biennale
Under the title, “People meet in architecture” the 12th Venice Architecture Biennale will take place from 29th August to 21st November 2010. Among the 43 international architects, engineers and artists, invited by the Biennale’s new Director, Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima, feature Austrian architects Franziska Ullmann and Peter Ebner.
Rondo-Studios, Styria: Artist in Residence 2011
The Styrian Provincial Government is offering foreign scholarships to young free-lance artists in all fields from European and non-European countries for the year 2011. These scholarships will be awarded upon proposal by a jury. The deadline is May 31, 2010. More information is provided on www.kulturservice.steiermark.at
Curator for 54th Venice Biennale 2011 appointed
Minister of Culture Claudia Schmied appointed Eva Schlegel as curator of Austria's contribution to the 54th Venice Biennale 2011.
New MUMOK Director appointed
On 22 March 2010 German art historian Karola Kraus was appointed as new director of the Museum of Modern Art (MUMOK) in Vienna. Incumbent Director Edelbert Köb will resign on 1 October 2010.