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Von 12th to September 21, 2025 finds the fourteenth Edition of the festival Wienwoche in Vienna. Under the title “Breathe Again“Wienwoche in 2025 drills with artistic and activist means ventilation shafts in social zones, which have solidified through the pressure of imperialism in such a way that many people literally run out of air. wienwoche.org.
Taking a deep breath means at the Opening Event in the Semperdepot (Atelierhaus / Prospekthof). At least for those who raise their voice against imperialism and (neo) colonialism. Among them the celebrated French mezzo -soprano Katia Ledoux (Currently “Carmen” in the Vienna Volksoper), the Mercury Prize-nominated British musician, sound and visual artists Obaro ejimiwe aka Ghostpoet and the choreographer born in Slovenia Christian Guerematchithat with the performance “Blaq Tito“An internationally noticed inventory of the block-free movement was also included: DJ and artist Share so aka SOÑXSEED as well as the poet and performer Girame. And because hard times, according to the US author and activist Alice Walker, require racing dancing, the line-up controls the WIENWOCHE Opening After Party The necessary beats and grooves in the Celeste.
Long -due corrections of institutional imperialism
How and where does imperialism manifest itself today? What resistant knowledge, which practices are put into position? The Vienna Week 2025 program provides exemplary answers to these questions. The Habsburg monarchy and the German Empire, in particular, come into view, especially the dealings with the repressed legacy of the colonial period. The famous Aztecal Feather head jewelry “El Penacho” enables the festival contribution “Returns“ von Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll and Verena Melgarejo Weinandt The previously refused Home to Mexico: A transport box developed by leading scientists enables the spring crown a low vibration and safe journey home – and it exposes the alleged transport risks as an excuse for the return of the artifact refused by Austria. The presentation of the box as part of a procession by Vienna City puts on the performing crown for years of efforts to go home “El Penachos”.
Like no other medium, the Austrian cinema of the post -war years contributed to the identity -creating re -establishment at the imperial Austria. Keyword “Sissi”. The video artist and political scientist How I Lost Edit the film material and lay in one Screening whose harmonizing attacks of imperial violent history open. With the German-Iraqi artist Nora Al-Badri and the design collective Pamplast again Wienwoche organizes a symbolic Home recovery the world -famous Nefertet bust from the new Museum Berlin: not home to Egypt, but home to our dwellings – as a scale -true replica, at Stand 129 at the Viktor Adler Market on demand made of melted plastic closures. For the home recovery of the marble boobies of the former “Istanbul tors“In Belgrade one makes itself Initiative strong. She invites you to visit the boards, which general Count Laudon reduced in 1789 after the victory over the Ottomans and brought to Vienna for his tomb.
Anti -colonial cultures of remembrance
Several projects as part of Wienwoche 2025 are putting current imperialist dispositives on the grain. The “Laboratory for Anti-Imperial Solidarity“The artist inner duo doplgenger is inspired by historical anti -colonial alliances such as the “movement of the block -free”. With an exhibition, panels, film screenings and activism, it addresses environmental and resource-related topics in the Musa Start Gallery of the Vienna Museum, in particular the ruthless exploitation of mineral resources in “strategic partner countries” of the EU. That of Natalia Gurova initiated theater and performance project “Giant Hogweed“Reminds a fifth diplomatic gesture at Wiener Ballhausplatz. To the Vienna Congress, which sealed the imperialist world order of the 19th century, the Russian Tsar gave the Prince Metternich a supposedly useful exotic plant: the large bear claw today threatens the flora of Europe.
That of Karin Watabe-Wolfger and Petar Rosandic aka Kid Pex operated exhibition project “SOS Balkan route – Challenging Borders“Focuses on people who want to prevent the EU border regime along the Balkan route at the entry into the Schengen area. The series of events“Breathing Through Food“ (Yasmin Ahmad, Recucial) Analyzes how colonial and imperial systems have shaped the global food landscape and how nutritional sovereignty can be fought. The BIPOC art project “commemorates the resistance to the colonization of the global south“ commemorates::weaving ancestral futures::“, Guided by Nkeny Balam Nsangong. Collective body work and memory work with textiles heal transgenerational (neo) colonial wounds. The collective conveys how Flinta free the hip-hop culture from its patriarchal structures and use them as tools of anti-colonial empowerments, cultural resistance and artistic liberation DMCAT woman in workshops and proves at the Vienna Week closing event.
Further collaborations during the festival
The Museum of Applied Art (Mak) leaves July Krah and SUSANNA DELALI your own collection of one “Decolonial” process Take in, among other things with a focus on textiles, fashion, craftsmanship and trade routes. A “Minute Museum of Resistance“Open that Documentation archive of Austrian resistance (Döw) and Wienwoche at the Otto Wagner area. It is dedicated to the Belgrader in dialogue Museum of Yugoslavia the museum work with objects of resistance and persecution – as well as their reception. Under the motto “25 years of troublemaker“Present them IG Flex and the IG Social A look back on their work as parts of the union of private employees (GPA). An exhibition in the ÖGB catamaran documents creative work in the interests of atypical and precarious, (involuntary) independent or people in health and social professions.
The Children’s program For “Breathe Again”, the Black women community (AFC) at. The “Big breathing trips“Under the direction of David’s rising-dieby help the six to ten-year-olds and their adult caregivers to help them to have more courage, strength and inner calm. Other cooperation partners of Wienwoche 2025 are: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Association of Austrian Trade Union Education (VöGB), broadcast, greenhouse, film Archive Austria, Friends of the Congo, Kulturhaus Brotfabrik, Afri-Eurotext Austria, Celeste, Netty Exotic, Art Beat Production,>: Esel.at) 94.0.
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Save the Date: (hybrid) Press conference Wienwoche 2025 | Program presentation
The artistic management team of the Vienna Wienwoche Kunst and Actism Festival presents the Vienna Week 2025 program, which takes place from September 12 to 21, 2025 in Vienna.
Datum: 04.09.2025, 9:30 a.m.
Art: Press and
Ort: Initiative AFRI-EUROTEXT
Lassallestraße 20
1020 Wien
Austria
URL: https://bit.ly/PK_WIENWOCHE_250904