Exhibitions: Old Masters from the Hermitage. Masterpieces from Botticelli to van Dyck (June 6 – September 2, 2018)

Vienna is to host one of Europe´s most outstanding collections of paintings, that of Tsarina Catherine the Great at the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, featuring a dozen paintings by Tintoretto, Poussin, van Dyck, Rembrandt, and other great masters. In combination with works from the Picture Gallery of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna this stellar selection of masterpieces is certain to create an exciting dynamic.

(1., KHM – Kunsthistorisches Muesum Vienna, www.khm.at)

Music Film Festival at City Hall Square (June 30 – September 2, 2018)

The biggest and best known Film- and Food-Festival in Europe offers a unique mixture of music films of all genres with big names – admission is free. In combination with the gastronomic offer the special atmosphere will once again attract hundreds of thousands of visitors from all over the world.

(1., Rathausplatz, www.filmfestival-rathausplatz.at)

9th Vienna Popfest (July 26 – 29, 2018)

The Vienna Popfest offers Austrian musicians and a number of guests a highly respected live platform for innovative pop music in its various guises. The playing continues for four days and nights on the Kunstplatz Karlsplatz, both open-air and indoors in the art and culture establishments. The admission to the Popfest – including 60 music acts – is free!

(4., Karlsplatz, www.popfest.at)

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Culture capital in fall 2018: viennacontemporary (September 27 – 30, 2018), Parallel Vienna (September 26 – 30, 2018) an curated by (September 14 – October 13, 2018)

The art fair viennacontemporary presents contemporary art with a focus on Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe in the Marx Halle in the 3rd district.

Arount 100 galleries across Vienna:

That is the concept of curated by. The main topic of this year’s festival focuses on the city of Vienna itself – with its historic and present-day potentials in the area of contemporary art.

By contast, Parallel Vienna presents divergent positions of young and etablished contemporary art.

(www.viennacontemporary.at www.parallelvieanna.com www.curatedby.com)

Buskers Festival (07.09.-09.9.2018)

The Karlsplatz will be transformed into Vienna’s biggest venue of international street art of highest quality. With free admission, the Buskers Festival will offer clowns, juggling and acrobatics, Graffiti, various styles of music, dance and performance art, object theatre and improvisational theatre, as well as fire-eating.

(4., Karlsplatz, www.buskers.at)

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Exhibition
Bruegel (October 2, 2018 – January 13, 2019)

2019 sees the 450th anniversary of the death of Pieter Bruegel the Elder. To mark the occasion the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna is dedicating the world’s first ever major monograph exhibition to the artist widely regarded as the 16th  century’s  greatest  Netherlandish painter. The museum owns by far the largest collection of wooden panels and along with many paintings an loan from international  museums and private collections, the overview of Bruegel’s entire oeuvre is set to be nothing short of sensational.

(1., Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, www.khm.at)

Music
“Bodyguard – The Musical” (September 27, 2018 to June 2019)

The German stage version of the 90s movie hit brings glamor and romance to the stage at the Ronacher – with the fantastic original songs by Whitney Houston. With over 45 million recordings sold, the Bodyguard is the most successful film music album of all time. In the German-language  production (Austrain premiere!), the songs are sung in English.

(1., Ronacher, www.musicalvienna.at)

Vienna Art Week (November 19 – 25, 2018)

Promising Paradise: Vienna Art Week offers a packed programm of podium discussions, talks, interviews with artists, special guided tours, installations, interventions and perfomances. Around 70 partners, including the city’s leading museums and galleries as well as independent exhibition venues and alternative spaces, will stage a combined total of more than 200 events for art fans.

(different locations, Information and full program: Https://2018.viennaartweek.at)

15th KlezMORE Festival (November 10 – 25, 2018)

Jewish klezmer music has a long tradition and thrills audiences in November with sirring melodies and high-spirited singing. The festival offers varied dialoges in a thriving multicultural metropolis of the 21st century. Ensembles from around the world make music in different Viennese theaters and music clubs.

(different locations, Informations and full program: www.klezmore-festival.at)

Advent Concerts at St. Stephen´s Cathedral (30 November – 23 December 2018)

Viennese classical music sounds particularly solemn on brass instruments. In St. Stephen´s Cathedral, the soloists of the Wiener KammerOrchester perform Advent concerts with trumpet accompaniment. On the Advent weekends compositions by Mozart, Bach, Schubert and Haydn and the most beautiful carols are played. (www.kunstkultur.com)

New Year´s Eve Trail & New Year´s Eve Ball at the Hofburg Vienna (December 31, 2018)

For New Year´s Eve Vienna offers a spectacular mix of events. From 2 p.m. Vienna´s historic old town transforms into one giant venue for a pulsating party of around 600,000 people following the New Year´s Eve Trail (www.wien-event.at). The legendary charm of Vienna´s traditional balls and the imperial luster create an unforgettable atmosphere at the New Year´s Eve Ball at the Hofburg Vienna. (www.hofburgsilvesterball.com)

Erwin Wurm. Peace & Plenty. (November 21, 2018 – February 17, 2019)

The Albertina exhibits  the collected drawings of Austrian artist Erwin Wurm until February 17,  2019. “Peace & Plenty” is not only the name of the hotel in George Town/Great Exumas where many of the drawings were created but also an allusion to the extent of Erwin Wurm’s work. He has done hundreds of works on paper over the past three years that range from pencil drawings to watercolors and collages. The drawings are storehouses of ideas, reflections and commentaries on the world and much like a diary, they offer a rare insight  into the artist’s creative process. (1., Albertina, www.albertina.at)

Ball Season

Each year Vienna hosts around 450 balls, from elegant high society galas to wild carnival parties. Enjoy the three-quarter rhythm of the waltz at the Confectioners’Ball (17.1.), Rainbow Ball (26.1.), Vienna Coffeehouse Owners’Ball (22.2.), Opera Ball (28.2.) and many more. (Further dates: www.vienna.info)

Rubens to Makart – Liechtenstein. The Princely Collections (February 16 – June 10, 2019)

In 2019 the creation of the imperial principality of Liechtenstein lies exactly 300 years in the past. This event is being celebrated by the Albertina with the exhibition “Rubens to Makart”, which shows the entire breadth of the Princely Collection for the first time. At the center of the exhibition will be works such as the Venus by Peter Paul Rubens, the life-sized bronze sculpture of Christ in Distress by Adriaen de Vries and the recently acquired Bronze Bust of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. (1., Albertina, www.albertina.at)

20 th International Accordion-Festival 2019 (February 23 – March 24, 2019)

The 20 th International Accordion Festival will present accordion music in all its many facets starting on February 23 and continuing for a whole month at Numerous well-known Viennese venues. Fans of accordion music can look forward to both traditional styles as well as experimental sounds. (different locations, information and full program: www.akkordeonfestival.at)

Art
Foto Vienna (March 20 – April 20, 2019)

For an entire month, photography will be the focus of Vienna´s art scene. The new photo-festival shines a light on the local photography scene but also encourages international cooperation, for example with guest country France. Organized by the Kunst Haus Wien, many exhibitions as well es discussions and workshops will be part oft he festival, which has its festival center at Otto Wagner´s Postsparkasse on Ringstrasse. (www.photovienna.at)

Wining & Dining
Vienna Restaurant Week (March 18 – 24, 2019)

The Vienna Restaurant Week is one of the culinary highlights of the year and offers an ideal opportunity for experiencing the wide variety of high-end dining the city has to offer. Around 75 leading restaurants with up to three toques each participate in the culinary week and offer excellent menus at a reduced fixed price. (www.restaurantwoche.wien)

City of Women Female Artists in Vienna from 1900 to 1938 (January 25 – May 19, 2019 )

The impressive output of a group of bold female artists from the era of viennese Modernism and the First Republic orm the focus of a retrospective at the Belvedere. (3., Lower Belvedere, Orangery  – Belvedere – Unteres Belvedere & Orangerie – www.belvedere.at)

36. Vienna City Marathon (April 7, 2019 )

The Vienna City Marathon is a huge international event htat leads 42.000 runners from 130 nations past Vienna’s most beautiful sights. A million spectators  encourage them. (Information, packages & registration: www.vienna-marathon.com)

100 years Red Vienna (April 30, 2019 – January 19, 2020)

The great impact of the Social Democrats who had the majority in Vienna from 1919 to 1934 is visible up to the present day. The influence of Red vienna is noticeable in numerous social recreational and cultural institutions. The public housing (Gemeindebau) created back then still characterizes the Viennese cityscape. On 100 years of Red Vienna the exhibition in the vienna Museum MUSA is dedicated to this topic (1st, Wien Museum MUSA, Felderstr. 6-8, www.wienmuseum.at) The “Museum at the Laundry  Room” at Karl-Marx-Hof offers insights in the topic as well (19., Museum at the Laundry Room, Halteraugasse 7, www.dasrotewien-waschsalon.at)

Genussfestival at Vienna Stadtpark (May 10. – 12. 2019)

At the “Wiener Genussfestival”  the best Austrian food producers and cottage industries present their delights at STadtpark.    The motto “the very best from Austria”     will apply once again in May 2019.

(1., Stadtpark, www.genuss-festival.at)

Vienna Festival (10.5.–16.6.2019 )

The annual theatre, perfomance and music festival offers five weeks of top stage productions by international ensembles. The Vienna Festival takes place from May 10 to June 16 and offers 45 productions (including 10 world premieres) by 430 artists from 19 countries. At 27 venues in eleven districts, there are 281 performances for which 45,000 cards are issued.
We warmly invite you to join us! (www.festwochen.at/en)

EuroPride, Life Ball and Rainbow Parade
(01.6 – 16. 6. 2019)

After 2001, EuroPride 2019 returns to Vienna. A range of events and parties make Vienna the focus of the center of Europe’s LGBT community . The Pride Village on City Hall Square is the center for EuroPride 2019. The highlights are the Life Ball (City Hall) on 8.6.2019 and the Rainbow Parade on 15.6.2019. (https://europride2019.wien.info)