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On 10 December, the Austrian Art Prize 2024 of the Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Public Services and Sport was awarded to choreographer Doris Uhlich. The prize honours established artists for their internationally recognised Gesamtkunstwerk and is endowed with 20,000 euro. Congratulations from the bottom of our hearts!

On 27 November, the “Förderungspreise” of the City of Vienna were presented at the Vienna City Hall in recognition of the award winners’ artistic and scientific achievements to date and to strengthen their future careers. The prestigious 4,000 euro award for the visual arts went to Tiina Sööt and Dorothea Zeyringer. Congratulations!

Be curious and let yourself be surprised by what theatre in Vienna can do and be. With the KommPAKT! subscription you can attend five shows at five theatres. brut Wien takes part with the dance performance AVA by Karin Pauer on 12 December in the ABO A+ and on 13 December in the ABO A.

In addition to her work as Artistic Director of brut Wien, Kira Kirsch will take over the management of the Franco-German cultural festival Perspectives in her home town of Saarbrücken from 2025.

Chen Wei's cinematic imagery depicts mesmerizing scenes, situating the brut artwork of season 2023/24 in a poetic atmosphere.

"HOUSE OF CONSTRUCTS" reimagined the exhibition space as both a literal and metaphorical construction site.

brut such ab Mitte September eine Karenzvertretung im Bereich Dramaturgie & Outreach. Bewerbungsfrist: 21. August 2024

Am 21. / 24. Mai & 10. / 13. / 14. Juni finden die Vorstellungen mit ÖGS (Österreichische Gebärdensprache) Begleitung statt. Die Vorstellungen werden von Eva Böhm und Pam Eden gedolmetscht. Die künstlerische Erarbeitung für die ÖGS Dolmetschung erfolgte in enger Zusammenarbeit mit Pam Eden.

Wie werden Feind- und Fremdbilder konstruiert? Was bedeutete der Rosa Winkel? Warum ist Erinnerungsarbeit wichtig? Was haben die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus mit mir zu tun? Wie viel ist uns unsere Freiheit wert? Dies sind einige der Fragen denen sich Nesterval in der Produktion "Der Rosa Winkel – die Geschichte der Namenlosen" stellt und die im Rahmen eines dreiteiligen Vermittlungsprojekts mit 150 Berufsschüler*innen diskutiert werden. Die Auseinandersetzung mit den Inhalten des Stücks leistet eine zeitgemäße Form der Erinnerungsarbeit, sie macht aber auch auf die Situation jener Menschen aufmerksam, die aktuell unter Diskriminierung, homophoben Angriffen oder Hassverbrechen leiden – und dies aus Scham, aufgrund bisheriger Erfahrungen oder wegen der politischen Situation verschweigen.

The series brut accessible deals with aesthetics and conditions of accessibility in the performing arts. In workshops, discourse formats, artistic impulses and a conference, experiences of artists and audiences with disabilities can be discussed, existing practices can be explored, and new incentives and impulses can be created: lived experience and perception is at the center of this discussion.

In the independent performing arts, it is perhaps emerging artists who most need spaces for artistic development, networking, building up trust, sustainable production structures, and gaining international visibility. Since its founding in 2004, FREISCHWIMMEN, as the platform for dance, theater, and performance in the German-speaking world, has made all of this possible across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland’s national borders.

Two planned productions in December have to be postponed: "LOIE (is a fire that cannot be extinguished)" by Claire Lefèvre and "now" by Inge Gappmaier will be presented in 2024. We are working on new dates in collaboration with the artists and will inform you about the rescheduled dates as soon as possible. The guest performance "The Feeling of Home" by Frans Poelstra & Oleg Soulimenko with support from Oliver Stotz planned for February unfortunately has to be cancelled. Read more about the programme changes in this article.

Over three days in October 2023, Chroreographic Platform Austria presented insights into the Austrian dance and performance scene in pitching sessions, film screenings and performance formats to a national and international audience. Photographer Christine Miess captured the impressions of the three-day platform for us in these pictures.

We are happy to announce that this year two of our co-productions are nominated for the Nestroy Award: In the category Special Award "Die Namenlosen" by Nesterval and in the category Best Off-Production "JUSTITIA! Identity Cases" by Gin Müller, Sandra Selimović, Mariama Nzinga Diallo and Edwarda Gurrola, directed by Gin Müller, Natalie Ananda Assmann, Selina Shirin Stritzel and Andreas Fleck.

The new series PING PONG SPLIT SCREEN by irreality.tv was presented at brut nordwest.

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.

Our current subjects by photographer AnaHell depict creatures that transcend the purely human and reveal the absurdity of the ordinary.

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.

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.

This week, the Österreichische Herzfonds visited brut nordwest to hand over a defibrillator.

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.

Our current subjects by photographer Chase Middleton re-enact stories from life.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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!

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. . . .

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?

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.

Our current poster subjects by photographer Kanghee Kim combine magical moments from everyday life with modern surrealism.

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.

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.

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.