Networks

FREISCHWIMMEN

Since 2025

FREISCHWIMMEN light

The international production platform FREISCHWIMMEN, consisting of brut Wien, FFT Düsseldorf, Gessnerallee Zürich, HochX München, LOFFT – DAS THEATER Leipzig, Schwankhalle Bremen, Sophiensæle Berlin and RAMPE Stuttgart, is starting a new chapter in the support of emerging artists in the independent performing arts with FREISCHWIMMEN light. With this approach, the platform offers non-monetary support for a group of selected performing arts artists, focussing on networking and resource sharing. For the period 2025/26, six artists and groups from six different cities have been selected to be supported as part of this programme: Caroline Kapp (Munich), DARUM (Vienna), Fatima Moumouni (Zurich), Laura Oppenhäuser (Stuttgart), Mika Bangemann (Berlin) and TIGER’S KITCHEN (Düsseldorf).

D—Arts

Since 2024

D—Arts

The network forms the sustainable basis for continuous learning and development, new collective places, formats and forms of cooperation.

kulturen in bewegung

Since 2024

kulturen in bewegung

kulturen in bewegung, the art and cultural institution at the Vienna Institute for International Dialogue and Cooperation (VIDC), aims to integrate artistic and cultural productions and initiatives by artists and cultural workers from diaspora communities in Vienna as well as artists from the global South more strongly into the Austrian cultural, artistic and educational scene.

Imagining Futures

A future focused peer network and European co-commission experiment | 2021–2024

Imagining Futures

Imagining Futures invites some of Europe’s most innovative independent performance festivals to rip up the rule book, spark new connections, support artistic development, explore new models and encourage porous, international dialogue.

Imagining Futures

Be spectACTive!

2019–2023

Be spectACTive!

Be SpectACTive! is a large-scale European cooperation project – co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union – which operates in performing arts through artistic productions and participatory practices aimed at involving the citizens and spectators in creative and organisational processes. Its members are European festivals, theatres, cultural organisations, universities and a research centre.

be spectactive

FREISCHWIMMEN

Platform for performance and theatre | 2018–2023

FREISCHWIMMEN

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.

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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

September 2025
Theresa Scheinecker / Ray & Katharina Senk / Senki
Move to the Beat – Stay for the Curry
October 2025
Karin Pauer
LOW
October 2025
Season Opening Party
October 2025
Aperitivo
October 2025
Matteo Haitzmann
Im Styx baden
November 2025
Veza Fernández
Chantal, the body is a text longing for perspective
November 2025
Aperitivo
November 2025
Elena Lach & Ema Benčíková
Spacing in: Relaxed Performance Lab
November 2025
DARUM (Victoria Halper & Kai Krösche)
[EOL]. End of Life
November 2025
Drag Show with the Dragsau Collective
November 2025
Touch tour
November 2025
Alex Franz Zehetbauer
An Evening with

studio brut

not accessible

Zieglergasse 25, 1070 Wien
Subway: U3 (Zieglergasse), Tram: 49 (Westbahnstraße / Zieglergasse)
not accessible

October 2025
Lens Kühleitner & Olivia Hild
trace my layers, thrust your guts
October 2025
Aperitivo
November 2025
François-Eloi Lavignac
Fifth position
November 2025
Laureen Drexler & Giorgia Scisciola
PIERRE

Breitenseer Lichtspiele

not accessible

Breitenseer Straße 21, 1140 Vienna
U-Bahn: U3 (Hütteldorfer Straße) Tram: 10 (Laurentius Platz), 49 (Hütteldorfer Straße)

October 2025
Alex Franz Zehetbauer
An Evening with

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)

November 2025
Maria Mam & Flora Renhardt
sk8r grrrl
November 2025
Simone Lorenzo Benini & Miriam Budzáková
Sandpit