Your hand-picked guide to Vienna Art Week 2015 (November 16-22). Day by day tips for openings, talks and guided tours. What to see and when.
- MONDAY, November 16
Exhibition opening: ‘Young Americans’ at Franz Josefs Kai 3 | 17:00 | Franz Josefs Kai 3, 1010
Exhibition opening: ‘Creating Common Good‘ at KUNST HAUS WIEN | 18:00 | Untere Weißgerberstraße 13, 1030
Exhibition opening: ‘Perpetuum Mobile’ and Musical intervention by Franz Hautzinger & performance by Aiko at KUNST HAUS WIEN Garage | 18:30 | Untere Weißgerberstraße 13, 1030
Talk: The historical origins of art criticism. Roberta Smith (‘The New York Times’) and Jerry Saltz (‘New York magazine’) in conversation with curator Jasper Sharp at KHM | 19:00 | Maria-Theresien-Platz, 1010
Vienna Art Week Opening Party at Dorotheum | Dorotheergasse 17, 1010
- TUESDAY, November 17
Guided tour: Peter Pakesch through the exhibition “Ballgasse 6” at Wien Museum | 17:00 | Karlsplatz 8, 1040
Exhibition opening: ‘The Moving Gallery’ at LOCOMOT | Krummgasse 1a, 1030
Symposium (in German): ‘Can art improve the world?’ at MAK | 19:00-22:30 | Stubenring, 5, 1010
Artist talk: Philipp Fleischmann at One Work Gallery | 19:00 | Getreidemarkt 11, 1010
Exhibition opening: ‘Breakfast on the grass with Wittgenstein – my silent dialog with a young genius’ at Bulgarisches Kulturinstitut – Haus Wittgenstein | 19:30 | Parkgasse 18, 1030
- WEDNESDAY, November 18
Exhibition opening: ‘Artmart’ at Künstlerhaus | 13:00 | Karlsplatz 5, 1010
Artist Talk: Michael Horsky at Konzett Gallery | 16:00 | Spiegelgasse 21, 1010
Guided tour: Olafur Eliasson’s intervention “Yellow Fog” | 16:30| rsvp: sammlung@verbund.com | Am Hof 6a, 1010
Propositional Cinema Film Festival opening: ‘We Are a Parasite on the Institution of Cinema, an Institution of Parasites’ at mumok | 18:00 | Museumsplatz 1, 1070
Exhibition opening: Albert Allgaier at O.T. | 19:00 | Kleine Sperlgasse 1a, 1020
- THURSDAY, November 19
Talk: Oswald Oberhuber at Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien | 10:00 | Schönlaterngasse 5, 1010
Talk: “From Art to Creating Common Good. Eight International Curators in Dialogue at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna | 18:00 | Schillerplatz 3, 1010
Performance: Poetry Slam at das weisse haus | 18:00 | Kriehubergasse 24–26, 1050
Exhibition opening and performance project: ‘Eyes Aghast: Transmannerist Reactions’ at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna | 19:00 | Schillerplatz 3, 1010
Exhibition opening: Vija Celmins, Julia Haller at Secession | 19:00 | Friedrichstraße 12, 1010
- FRIDAY, November 20
Guided tour: Prater studios with curator Maria Christine Holter | 15:00 | Meiereistrasse, across from Ernst Happel Stadium, 1020
Roundtable: Creating Worlds with Olafur Eliasson, Aurélien Barrau, Mirjam Schaub, and Daniela Zyman at Marble Hall of Prince Eugene’s Upper Belvedere | 17:00 | Prinz Eugen-Straße 27, 1030
Guerillawalk with Oliver Hangl | 17:00 | * Limited number of participants. Pre-sale tickets for rental headsets (8 euros): Jugendinfo-Soundbase, Jugendinfos-Soundbase. Meeting point: U4 subway station Kettenbrückengasse
Exhibition opening: Olafur Eliasson at Winter Palace of Prince Eugene of Savoy | 19:00 | Himmelpfortgasse 8, 1010
- SATURDAY, November 21
Guided tour: Departure tour | 11:00 | rsvp departure@wirtschaftsagentur.at
Guided Gallery Tour with Claudia Slanar | 11:00 | Meeting point: Charim Galerie, Dorotheergasse 12/1, 1010
Guided Gallery Tour with Manisha Jothady | 13:00 | Meeting point: Galerie Jünger, Paniglgasse 17 a, 1040
Open Studio Day | 13:00 – 18:00 | for detailed program visit http://viennaartweek.at/en/open-studio
For more events and info visit: www.viennaartweek.at/en
Pictures:
- (c) Vienna Art Week
- Philipp Fleischmann Untitled (Generali Foundation)
- Olafur Eliasson “Yellow Fog”, Sammlung Verbund
- The exhibition and performance project “Eyes Aghast: Transmannerist Reactions”
- Olafur Eliasson, Die organische und kristalline Beschreibung, 1996
Light projector, wave-effect machine, colour filter, convex mirror. Installation view: remote connections, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, 1996. Photo: Courtesy of the artist / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin - OpenStudioDay, photo: Florian Rainer_c_VIENNA ART WEEK 2013
- Featured image: Sissa Micheli, On the Impossibility of Perpetual Motion, Videostill 2015
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