This autumn we celebrate a decade of curatorial collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. Josie Sanne and Zaccaria Slater, Graduates from MA Culture, Criticism and Curation, present the exhibition meins ist deins (what’s mine is yours) featuring work by graduates from the Academy and UK based artists. The exhibition meins ist deins reveals the complexity of sharing and questions what it means for a country and its institutions to share a cultural identity.

Join us for the opening of this anniversary edition and explore the ACF! From the intern’s office on the third floor to the salon, library and basement gallery, discover how the ACF space seeks to define, decipher, and distribute culture.

We are delighted to present a short programme of films originally shot on 16mm. While we don't have the capacity to screen the original analogue films we are keen to support a medium that is increasingly under threat by the advances in digital and AI filmmaking.

Continuing on with our programme of films originally shot on 16mm, we transport you back to 1970s London with the screening of Bartleby. The film was adapted from the 1857 short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener; A Story of Wall-street" by Herman Melville. The film relocates the narrative from New York in the 1850s to London in the 1970s. Bartleby, a young audit clerk, is defeated by the pressures of modern life; he gradually opts out of all forms of social engagement and withdraws into his own world.

As part of our 70 years ACF programme, we are delighted to announce a very special memorial concert series dedicated to Arnold and Alma Rosé in collaboration with the National Gallery. The renowned Austrian Korngold Ensemble, together with violinist Benjamin Schmid, will present a programme of works by Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Ernest Chausson.

When Arnold Rosé and his daughter Alma fled from Nazi persecution to their London exile in 1939, Arnold Rosé was looking back on a distinguished career spanning 57 years as a first violinist of Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and leader of the renowned Rosé-Quartet; Alma Rosé, a talented violinist in her own right, was later deported to Auschwitz in July 1943, where she conducted the notorious Women’s Orchestra before she died in April 1944.

This concert marks the 80th anniversary of Arnold Rosé’s death (August 25th, 1946) as well as the 120th anniversary of Alma Rosé’s birth (November 3rd, 1906).

We are delighted to welcome you back to a new season of lunchtime concerts kicking off on 19 October. Together with talented students from the Royal College of Music, we are continuing our popular concert series at the beautiful ACF Salon. Award-winning musicians will explore European musical culture in all its dazzling variety.

After being forced to flee Austria for Britain, the Viennese modernists—designers and artists—were invited to help shape a cultural agenda that combined Austrian and British influences. Those involved included the architects Ernst Freud and Ella Briggs, the designer couples Jacques and Jacqueline Groag and Josef Berger and Margarete Berger-Hamerschlag, and the artists Oskar Kokoschka and Marie-Louise von Motesiczky.

Join cultural and design historian Elana Shapira on a new Arc of History Lecture exploring Viennese modernism.

For new Austrian citizens: In case the event is sold out, please write an email to office@acflondon.org to join the waiting list.

Moments Musicaux Jersey opens its 2026/27 Chamber Concert Season with two of the most celebrated works in the chamber music repertoire.

The London Mozart Players Quartet is joined by Vienna-based pianist Anika Vavić, who returns to Jersey following last season’s acclaimed collaboration with Ballet d’Jerri. Together they perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 - in its chamber version - alongside Dvořák’s String Quartet No. 12, the “American”, as we approach Beethoven's Bicentary in 2027.

Co-authors Charlie Scheidt and Kat Rohrer present their book Inheritance: Love, Loss, and the Legacy of the Holocaust at The Wiener Holocaust Library. The talk is followed by a reception with an opportunity for book signing.

Inheritance is the story of two very different German-Jewish families, uprooted by the Holocaust and war, scattered across two continents, and re-formed in America. It is the story of how a person sets about rebuilding a family history after an unspeakable trauma and ends up building community.

Andrea Capovilla (Ingeborg Bachmann Centre, Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies) and Anna-Dorothea Ludewig (Moses-Mendelssohn-Centre, Potsdam) host a workshop dedicated to exploring the legacy of the Austrian-born painter, graphic artist, costume and set designer, writer and pedagogue Margarete Berger-Hamerschlag.

B for Bartleby is the final film in this short series of films originally shot on 16mm and accompanies the screening of the 1970 film Bartleby. Austrian director Angela Summereder's version of Herman Melville's legendary narrative transforms it into a film essay about remembrance, language, and resistance. Based on dialogues with a deceased companion, the famous phrase I would prefer not to is revived through the voices and gestures of performers, young people, rap musicians, passersby, and stranded individuals – quietly, persistently, timelessly.

We are delighted to welcome Austrian Duo Minerva to the ACF Salon this autumn! The duo will present their programme Hymne à l'amour.

Boundaries between genres, as well as remaining confined to the same musical position, seem entirely foreign to this duo. Austrian clarinetist Johanna Gossner and accordionist Damian Keller from Vorarlberg demonstrate the exciting new possibilities that emerge when one frees oneself from all musical traditions. What they create is an artfully crafted crossover sound that draws inspiration from diverse influences such as classical music, world music, jazz, and the avant-garde, while developing a distinctive character of its own. The masterpieces they reinterpret with great sophistication and a generous dose of playfulness experience a remarkable revival—presented in a way that is both unprecedented and extraordinary.

We are delighted to announce that the judges of this year's ACF Translation Prize have selected the winners!

The Austrian Cultural Forum 2026 Translation Prize attracted 22 entries from established literary translators in Category A, and 34 from aspiring translators in Category B.

In Category A our winner is Rachel Farmer for her stylish translation of a passage from Birgit Birnbacher's Sie wollen uns erzählen. The runner-up in this category is Sharon Howe.

The overall standard of the Category B entries - a translation of a passage from Sophie Reyer's Tod bei den Salzburger Festspielen - was highly impressive. The winner is Chiara Haefliger. The runner-up in this category is Sarah Escritt.