14.06.2024
Our symposium on the added value of vacancy activation took place a year ago. This year, we are not inviting people to attend, but we do have a video review, exciting event tips and calls for people looking for space. What else has happened? The second VCC focus group has started, the press has reported on temporary use in the real estate magazine and we are back on the podium.
Take a look: Impressions of the Symposium 2023
Exactly one year ago, Kreative Räume Wien, in cooperation with the Vienna Business Agency, organized the symposium CIRCULAR POTENTIALS – Added value of vacancy activation.
As part of our excursion, we visited exciting projects, had international guests and gathered valuable knowledge in workshops and on the podium with experts, discussed and shared experiences in the field of vacancy activation and the circular economy. To relive these inspiring moments, we have created a video review .
All information about the symposium can be found on our website. You can also listen to the presentations and the discussion there and on YouTube.
Exhibition: Never at home in the Römergasse
Never at home is back! This time with the exhibition “all surfaces clean at all times” as part of the Climate Biennale 2024. The initiative promotes young creatives through temporary activation and artistic use of empty spaces.
The interdisciplinary exhibition ‘All surfaces clean at all times’ can be seen in a vacant building in Vienna’s 16th district. It examines the moral and political assumptions associated with hygiene, cleanliness and sterility that are conveyed through architecture and design.
WHEN: June 19, 2024, 17:00 – July 03, 2024, 19:00
WHERE: Römergasse 57, 1160 Vienna
Further information on the exhibition at www.never-at-home.at.
CALL: F23 awards studios to students and alumni of art colleges
Artist in Residence in the 23rd district. The cultural initiative F23 awards a studio in the cultural anchor center of the same name to students or alumni of art academies for one semester. The two-storey studio (atelier.zwei) is 89 m² in size and up to 6 m high. The studio is heated by district heating – the costs are covered by F23. The application deadline is 31.08.24.
All submitted works will be publicly presented in an exhibition in September and the studio will be awarded to the artist with the most votes by means of a public vote. Participants must not have reached the age of 28. (Year of birth < 1996).
WHEN: October 2024 to February 2025
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 31.08.2024
WHERE: Gastgebgasse 4, 1230 Vienna
Information and conditions of participation at www.f23.at.
Summer festival review: Villa.Bunter.Hund
The annual summer party at the VillaBunterHund interim use facility was successfully held last weekend in the picturesque Stammersdorf vineyards.
More information about the project: The art and culture association KUNSTGEBEREI, which was founded in 2024, runs the project, whose team has been active on the outskirts of Floridsdorf since 2020 – and also founded Villa.Bunter.Hund. The focus is on clowning/impro theater, dance and acrobatics. There is a rehearsal room and the smallest living room stage in Vienna. They can be used on request, as can the Villa.Bunter.Hund garden.
WHERE: Auckenthalergasse 7, 2220 Vienna
All information can be found on Facebook, Instagram and at www.kunstgebung.at.
Join in: Scullery in the old WU becomes an exhibition experiment
As a public community studio, Machen Sachen is now also trying out an exhibition experiment with PUZZLETILES. And invites anyone who would like to exhibit to join in!
The Machen Sachen collective has been offering an open studio space and workshops from various creative fields since October 2023. They are temporarily using the ‘Wolke’ space of the Althangrund für Alle initiative in the old WU, the former refectory of the former business school. Their idea: anyone who likes to be creative is invited to use the space and setting.
In the former scullery of the old canteen, all the walls from the floor to the ceiling are covered with tiles. The white, square tiles have a uniform size of just over 19 x 19 cm. The participants have the opportunity to position any number of small-format works in the space they choose. The aim is to collect as many different perspectives and works as possible and put them together like a puzzle to create an overall picture. After all, it is the many individual parts that make up the whole.
WHEN: Exhibition on 22 June 2024 / registration until 18 June 2024
WHERE: Alte MENSA / Kulturzentrum 4lthangrund / Alte WU(Augasse 2-6, 1090 Vienna)
All information on how to take part can be found at this online link. Atelier Machen Sachen are on Instagram and have a website.
Further information on our own behalf
- New culture focus group together with VCC and IG Kultur
We are continuing our cooperation with the Vienna Club Commission and IG Kultur Wien as part of the VCC focus groups with the new culture focus group on the topic of “Preserving subculture – law versus practice”.
- Discussion: Field Trips – Transformation of the inventory
Selected research results will be presented as part of the Vienna Climate Biennale from June 26-29, 2024. Uli Fries from Kreative Räume Wien will discuss the topic of vacancies, temporary uses and the handling of existing urban structures with other experts at the opening of the exhibition on Wednesday, June 26 from 18:30 .
- Read more: When creativity germinates in the in-between
The press reports on creative interim uses: In addition to Iris Kaltenegger from Open House Vienna and Fabian Waldmüller from IG Architektur, Katharina Egg from Kreative Räume Wien was also interviewed on the topic. Read the text from the archive here.