Viktor Szeri
unseen
Before, after and everything in between – for unseen, the audience finds itself in a liminal space where transformation quietly unfolds. The performers navigate shifting rhythms and subtle gestures as certainty dissolves and new possibilities emerge. Viktor Szeri’s most recent work is an immersive exploration of the moments before form takes shape.
How can we create new worlds through movement? Being in this space feels like standing on the edge of a mirror that hasn’t yet decided what it will reflect. Everything familiar wavers, and you catch glimpses of yourself in motion – half-formed, shifting, becoming. The air tastes of possibility and uncertainty at once; the ground beneath you is both solid and strange. It’s a quiet dissonance, a feeling of floating between who you were and who you are not yet, noticing the threads of old patterns loosen even as new shapes begin to form. You are both liberated and alive here, suspended in the fragile, luminous pause before transformation.
Viktor Szeri’s new performance unseen is an immersive exploration of the moments before form takes shape. Performers navigate shifting rhythms and subtle gestures, where certainty dissolves and new possibilities emerge. The audience enters a liminal space where movement, sensation, and presence intermingle and transformation quietly unfolds.
Viktor Szeri is an independent performer and choreographer based between Budapest and Vienna. His solo Fatigue has toured widely across Europe. His multidisciplinary works explore the interplay of performing arts and visual strategies, often blurring the line between stage and audience to create intimate, immersive environments. He works across theatres, galleries, public sites and abandoned spaces. Szeri’s pieces have been shown at major institutions, and he has held numerous residencies across Europe. Fatigue received the Rudolf Lábán Prize in 2023 and was selected for Aerowaves Twenty24. He is supported by the Life Long Burning – Creative Crossroads programme (2024–2026). During 2026 he will have residencies by the support of STUK – Belgium in Leuven and MDT in Stockholm. He is one of the founders of the Hollow collective and co-organises the Under500 Festival. His practice centres around embodied presence, collaboration and the constant reimagining of how audiences encounter performance.
Credits
Concept & choreography Viktor Szeri Created & performed by Martina De Dominicis, Imre Vass, Sasha Portyannikova and Viktor Szeri Music Rozi Mákó Light Design Viktor Szeri, Kata Dézsi
A co-production by Viktor Szeri and WUK performing arts in co-operation mit imagetanz 2026/brut Wien
Funded by the City of Vienna’s Department of Cultural Affairs (MA 7)
Thanks to the Creative Europe Project Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found for their support as Creative Crossroads Artist 2025–2026
Links & Social
Dates & Tickets
WUK performing arts
Währinger Straße 59, 1090 Vienna
Info
On Sat. 28.03., Closing Cocktail hosted by Elena Lach & Ema Benčíková will take place at 17:30.
Content notes
The performance features depictions of nudity.
Also, there will be haze, strobe effects, loud music and electronic cigarettes.
Event recommendations
gergo d. farkas
rascal
Closing Cocktail
A final festival get together hosted by Elena Lach & Ema Bencíková
brut all over Vienna
brut nordwest
accessible
Nordwestbahnstraße 8-10, 1200 Vienna
Subway: U1, U2 (Praterstern), U4 (Friedensbrücke), U6 (Dresdnerstraße) Tram: 5 (Nordwestbahnstraße) Bus: 5A (Wasnergasse)
accessible
studio brut
not accessible
Zieglergasse 25, 1070 Wien
Subway: U3 (Zieglergasse), Tram: 49 (Westbahnstraße / Zieglergasse)
not accessible
Bears in the Park Art Place
not accessible
Eyzinggasse 12, 1110 Vienna
U-Bahn: U3 (Gasometer) Bus: 72A (Gasometer), 76A, 76B (Simoningplatz)
not accessible
WUK performing arts
barrierefrei
Währinger Straße 59, 1090 Vienna
Subway: U6 (Währinger Straße / Volksoper), Tram: 40, 41, 42 (Währinger Straße / Volksoper), 5, 33 (Spitalgasse), 37, 38, 40, 41, 42 (Spitalgasse / Währinger Straße)
Der Betrieb
accessible
Vogelweidplatz 13, 1150 Wien
Subway: U6 (Burggasse-Stadthalle) / Bus: 48A (Moeringgasse) / Tram: 9 (Camillo Sitte Gasse)