Artwork Season 2023/24
Chen Wei's cinematic imagery depicts mesmerizing scenes, situating the brut artwork of season 2023/24 in a poetic atmosphere.
Artwork Season 2022/23
Our current subjects by photographer AnaHell depict creatures that transcend the purely human and reveal the absurdity of the ordinary.
Dance till you drop: Teenage brut celebrates it's 15th birthday with Powerjam & A party called JACK
15 years of performance, dance and theater! Artists, audience, friends and companions from 15 years were invited to celebrate brut! According to the teenage years, the party was accompanied by the roller skate community Powerjam. For the roller disco, the concrete floor of brut nordwest was transformed into a dance floor for dancing on eight wheels. Also off the roller skate rink, people celebrated to the sound of the artists' collective A party called JACK. Christine Miess captured the atmosphere for us in these pictures.
20 Jahre FREISCHWIMMEN – Plattform für Performance und Theater steht vor dem Aus
FREISCHWIMMEN ist seit 2004 die Plattform für Performance und Theater im deutsch-sprachigen Raum.
Als Netzwerk ist FREISCHWIMMEN nicht für eine Weiterförderung 2024-2025 durch das Förderprogramm „Verbindungen fördern!“ des Bundesverbandes Freie Darstellende Künste (BFDK) ausgewählt worden. Damit droht der gemeinsamen Produktionsplattform von acht Theatern aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz nach 20 Jahren nun das Aus.
Behind the scenes – brut Artwork 2022/23
For our current artwork, photographer AnaHell came to Vienna to shoot new photos on the area of brut nordwest. AnaHell often uses the human body as fluid material that can transform into beings that transcend the purely human. Her images reveal the absurdity of the ordinary, creating a parallel reality where the real and the surreal collide.
Here we show some impressions from the photo shoot in autumn.
Thanks to Österreichischer Herzfonds!
This week, the Österreichische Herzfonds visited brut nordwest to hand over a defibrillator.
Nestroy-nominated group toxic dreams comes to brut nordwest with new project starting October 21st
The Viennese group toxic dreams and the set designer Paul Horn are nominated for the Nestroy Award for Best Set Design with the production "The Art of Asking your Boss for a Raise". The co-production of toxic dreams and brut premiered in October 2021 at brut nordwest. The next co-production of toxic dreams with brut will premiere again at brut on October 21, 2022 – this time in collaboration with the Rabtaldirndln.
brut Artwork Season 2021/22
Our current subjects by photographer Chase Middleton re-enact stories from life.
Save the date – brut season starts from October 1st
with toxic dreams, Sara Lanner, Lau Lukkarila, Andrea Gunnlaugsdóttir, Gin Müller & Denice Bourbon, Oleg Soulimenko, Doris Uhlich, Simon Mayer, Willi Dorner, Potpourri, Georg Blaschke & Jan Machacek, Florian Malzacher & The Art of Assembly, and many more
New Art on Air – The brut Wien Podcast
We love performance dance and theater and we love conversation. The podcast “New Art on Air” introduces artists from the independent performance, dance and theater scene and asks questions about artistic creation and the art of life, about what inspires, motivates and moves. We are Kira Kirsch and the team from brut Wien, the theater for New Art on Stage.
FREISCHWIMMEN – Platform for performance and theatre
FREISCHWIMMEN is an international exchange and production platform for young groups and artists* from theatre and performance. It is supported by brut Wien, FFT Düsseldorf, Gessnerallee Zürich, HochX München, LOFFT – DAS THEATER Leipzig, Schwankhalle Bremen, Sophiensæle Berlin, and Theater Rampe Stuttgart.
About BEATE – brut's active audience club
The brut audience club meets regularly to exchange ideas, works internationally with groups of other Be SpectACTive! network members and visits events of the brut programme.
Looks like it has begun IV – So much space!
In brut nordwest everything is united under one roof: colleagues and artists can meet again in one place, exchange ideas and participate in the development of the projects together. In addition to event and rehearsal areas, there is also enough space for the administration offices, the technology warehouse and lounge areas for employees and artists in the Nordwestbahnstraße. The new edition of "Looks like it has begun" takes a look at the areas on the sideline of the big stage.
Looks like it has begun III – Please take your seats!
A lot has happened in brut nordwest over the last few weeks and months to adapt the former industrial hall in the 20th district to a theater. On the checklist for the first premiere in front of an audience, only a few points have to be done. Now that a lot of black molton transforms the center of the hall into a black box, t is no longer difficult to imagine the first evening of the premiere. Rehearsals have already started!
Looks like it has begun II – Stage clear at brut nordwest
Work continues in brut nordwest. brut has performed at 90 venues in 19 Viennese districts over the past few years - some of them in places completely unfamiliar to the theatre, such as on the lakeside of Seestadt Aspern or in the huge laundrette of the Matteottihof in the 5th district. The many experiences in adapting new theatrical locations are now benefiting us! And yet it is something quite new to transform a former factory hall into a theatre venue for several years. . . .
Looks like it has begun I – a stopover with a lot of potential
There's already a lot going on behind the scenes at brut nordwest and we can't wait to welcome our audience here. Until the completion of the future permanent venue in St. Marx, brut will find a new temporary home in the Nordwestbahnstraße for three years. The nomadic existence of the last few years will come to an end except for the further planned site-specific projects. Until the moving to St. Marx, brut nordwest will become the center for New Art on Stage in the 20th district. studio brut will continue to exist as a secondary venue in the 7th district. The “Looks like it has begun” magazine series will shed light on the background to the development of brut nordwest. In the first issue: How did the brut get on the Nordwestbahnstraße?
The adaption process of the new venue "brut nordwest" has started
A new space for performance, dance and theater is emerging – In January, the adaptation of the new brut venue “brut nordwest” in Vienna's Nordwestbahnstraße 8-10 started. The 1.600 square meter factory building right next to the Augarten will be transformed into brut's temporary main venue in the upcoming weeks. From March 2021, rehearsals for the imagetanz Festival will begin in brut nordwest. Performances will be opened to spectators as soon as the circumstances permit them. The location brut nordwest will be in use until the end of 2023.
Art Work brut
Our current poster subjects by photographer Kanghee Kim combine magical moments from everyday life with modern surrealism.
brut all over Vienna and a new home for brut
90 different locations in 19 districts of Vienna - this is the city record and the preliminary interim balance from brut. The nomadic existence will soon come to an end: brut is getting its own house, the old central bank branch St. Marx!
Video: brut Wien – New Art on Stage
brut is a place for the production and presentation of performative works of art in Vienna and one of the most renowned institutions of the independent performance, dance and theatre scene in the German-speaking countries.
ANY RESAMBLANCE TO REALITY IS PURELY INTENTIONAL.
Simple answers and populist slogans are currently booming in politics. In view of this, the brut program invites us to pause, change perspectives, and discard prefabricated perspectives. This autumn's artists* ask complex political questions, raise contradictions, develop poetic visions and create space for openness and imagination.
Come join BEATE, the audience club at brut
BEATE accompanies rehearsals and creative processes of projects, creates dialogue with artists and takes part in brut's program decisions.
Führung Kunst & Kultur – eine Initiative von Neue Wiener
Anlässlich der Neubesetzung des Wiener Volkstheaters hat Neue Wiener Theaterkritik neun Führungspersonen kleiner, mittlerer und ganz großer Bühnen Wiens zum YouTube-Interview über Machtstrukturen, Mitbestimmung und die besondere Verantwortung von Leiter_innen künstlerischer Betriebe getroffen.
