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VIENNA ART WEEK

VIENNA ART WEEK was founded in 2005 and shines a spotlight on Vienna’s vibrant art scene every November. Together with around 70 program partners, the festival offers a week of inspiring art from the present to the Baroque with free admission at all its events and has become one of the most important art events in the Danube region, attracting around 30,000 visitors each year.

 

Each year, the festival program includes more than 100 events and ranges from guided tours and studio visits to expert talks, performances, workshops and exhibition openings as well as lectures, symposia, and interventions in public spaces.

 

Additionally to being a festival, VIENNA ART WEEK sees itself as a joint platform of the Viennese art community and is based on a cooperation of Viennese art institutions, art universities, galleries, independent art spaces, and artist associations that is unique worldwide. Our year-round art calendar on the website shows the visitors the diverse offer of the city.

 

©Rainer Fehringer

The VIENNA ART WEEK team
(from left to right: Julia Hartmann, Robert Punkenhofer, Theresia Nickl, Juliana Furthner)

 

 

ART CLUSTER VIENNA

VIENNA ART WEEK is organized by the association Art Cluster Vienna, which was founded in 2004 to raise the profile of Vienna as an important center for visual art among both national and international audiences. A year later, the first edition of VIENNA ART WEEK took place. The Art Cluster Vienna is an association of some of the most important art institutions in Vienna. With their high-quality programs and ideas, they contribute significantly to the success of VIENNA ART WEEK.

 

Its members are:

 

— Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

— Albertina & Albertina modern

— Architekturzentrum Wien

— Belvedere & Belvedere 21

Dom Museum Wien

DOROTHEUM

Heidi Horten Collection

— KÖR Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Wien

Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier & Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz

KUNST HAUS WIEN

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien & Weltmuseum Wien

Künstlerhaus Vereinigung

Leopold Museum

MAK – Museum of Applied Arts

mumok Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien

MuseumsQuartier Wien

Nitsch Foundation

— Österreichische Friedrich und Lillian Kiesler-Privatstiftung

Secession

Sigmund Freud Museum

STRABAG Kunstforum

— University of Applied Arts Vienna

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