Networks

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).

Becoming Allies is an open network and exchange format. It brings together interested parties, allies, artists, cultural workers, access experts and affected individuals to work together on greater accessibility, inclusion and participation in the performing arts. Networking meetings, workshops or lectures at venues such as brut Wien and WUK performing arts create space to reflect on familiar structures and personal positions, share questions and further develop inclusive approaches for the scene and institutions. Key questions include: What does accessibility mean in concrete terms? How can it be sustainably anchored? How can equal cooperation be achieved – and what does allyship mean in the cultural sector?

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

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 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.

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.

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.