Austrian Cultural Forum NYC - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Austrian Cultural Forum NYC. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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“UN/MUTE” Exhibition
Co-Curated By Daina Mattis And Melinda Wang The Austrian Cultural Forum New York and Undercurrent presents un/mute, an international group exhibition of collaborative works by 28 artists across multiple...More »
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Lily Renée, Bil Spira, and Paul Peter Porges “Three With A Pen”
An exhibition featuring works by Jewish artists, driven from Vienna during World War II who survived and flourished thanks to their talent, humor, and resilience The Austrian Cultural Forum New York...More »
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“Freedom Will Have Been An Episode” Exhibition
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“Resident Alien Austrian Architects in America” Exhibition
Architects & Designers on view: Raimund Abraham, Herwig Baumgartner, Herbert Bayer, Ella Briggs, Elizabeth Close, Matias del Campo & Sandra Manninger, COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, Josef Frank, Paul T. Frankl,...More »
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Gabriele Edlbauer “How much is the fish?”
This summer, the Austrian Cultural Forum New York presents a site-specific art installation by Erste Bank ExtraVALUE Art Award 2019 recipient Gabriele Edlbauer. How much is the fish? views brotherhood...More »
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Yvonne Oswald & Tatiana Lecomte “Void”
Curators: Danielle Spera, Director of the Jewish Museum Vienna and Astrid Peterle, Chief Curator of the Jewish Museum Vienna The Austrian Cultural Forum New York presents the exhibition VOID, uniting...More »
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“Women.Now” Exhibition
Featured artists include: Uli Aigner, Sevda Chkoutova, Adriana Czernin, Ines Doujak, Béatrice Dreux, Titanilla Eisenhart, Maria Hahnenkamp, Heidi Harsieber, Sabine Jelinek, Ellen Lesperance, Margot Pilz,...More »
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“The Projective Drawing” Exhibition
The Austrian Cultural Forum New York (ACFNY) presents the upcoming group exhibition The Projective Drawing, curated by Brett Littman, Executive Director of The Drawing Center, New York. The exhibition...More »
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“Wild West” Exhibition
Featuring: Franz West, Rudolf Stingel, Urs Fischer, Andreas Reiter Raabe, Mary Heilmann, Rudolf Polanszky, Octavian Trauttmansdorff, Anna-Sophie Berger, Tillman Kaiser, Sarah Lucas, Anne Schneider, Rirkrit...More »
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Martin Roth “In May 2017 I cultivated a piece of land in Midtown Manhattan nurtured by tweets”
The Austrian Cultural Forum New York presents a new installation by Austrian-born, New York-based artist Martin Roth, titled In May 2017 I cultivated a piece of land in Midtown Manhattan nurtured by tweets. In...More »
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“Constructing Paradise” Exhibition
Curated by Dieter Buchhart Curatorial Advisor: Mathias Kessler The Austrian Cultural Forum New York presents Constructing Paradise, a group exhibition curated by Dieter Buchhart and Mathias Kessler...More »
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“10 Years of VIENNA DESIGN WEEK” Exhibition
The Austrian Cultural Forum New York is pleased to announce a ten year retrospective of Vienna’s largest and most influential design event, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK. The multifaceted exhibition 10 Years of VIENNA...More »
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Ulrike Königshofer “Sense and Record”
The Austrian Cultural Forum New York (ACFNY), in collaboration with studio das weisse haus and Erste Bank present the exhibition sense and record by Ulrike Königshofer—winner of the first Erste Bank MoreVALUE...More »
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“DIS-PLAY / RE-PLAY” Exhibition
The Austrian Cultural Forum New York (ACFNY) presents DIS-PLAY / RE-PLAY. A group exhibition examining the roles of artistic and architectural display in the context of the ACFNY’s unusual exhibition space,...More »
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“Normalities” Exhibition
The Austrian Cultural Forum New York presents Normalities, a show starring artists from the Western Balkan region (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia), Croatia,...More »
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Erich Lessing and Andrew Mezvinsky “The Jewish Museum on 52nd Street”
The Austrian Cultural Forum New York announces two exhibitions touring from the Jewish Museum Vienna: LESSING PRESENTS LESSING, works by noted photographer Erich Lessing, curated by his daughter Hannah...More »
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“Display of the Centuries. Frederick Kiesler and Contemporary Art” Exhibition
Display of the Centuries. Frederick Kiesler and Contemporary Art at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York is dedicated to the work and ideas of the Austrian-American architect, designer, artist, and theoretician...More »
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“Lenin: Icebreaker Revisited” EXhibition
In 1957 the Soviet Union launched the icebreaker Lenin to international fanfare which included delegations from the United States and United Kingdom. As the world’s first nuclear-powered civilian vessel...More »
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Martin Karplus “Photographs 1953 – 2009”
Martin Karplus is a chemist, Professor emeritus at Harvard University, and Nobel laureate who has spent the past fifty years consumed by a passion for documenting humanity in thousands of photographs....More »
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“Self-Timer Stories” Exhibition
Curator: Felicitas THUN-HOHENSTEIN Exhibition Design: Dorit MARGREITER This group exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, titled Self-Timer Stories, shows works from the Federal Austrian...More »
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“Vienna Complex” Exhibition
This new international group exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, titled “Vienna Complex,” is being presented in conjunction with Carnegie Hall’s three week-long festival, Vienna: City of...More »
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“An I for an Eye: Counter-Representations of Geopolitical Conflict” Exhibition
This international group exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York gathers together different artistic reactions to the ways in which media representations of violent conflict are increasingly...More »
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"The Vienna Model: Housing for the 21st Century City" Exhibition
This new exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York presents THE VIENNA MODEL, a survey of public housing design in the Austrian capital of Vienna curated by Wolfgang Förster and William Menking....More »
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"[UN]NATURAL LIMITS" Exhibition
This exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York gathers together different artistic reactions to the alienating effects of the unfettered global exploitation of resources, and offers insight into...More »
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"Against the Specialist: Contemporary References to Arnold Schoenberg in Image and Sound" Exhibition
A modern day appraisal of Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg and his legacy forms the point of departure for the Austrian Cultural Forum’s fall 2012 exhibition, titled "Against the Specialist." The show,...More »
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"IT CAME FROM chashama" Exhibition
WochenKlausur Features, New York (USA), a project by Vienna-based group WochenKlausur, who are part of the Austrian Cultural Forum's tenth anniversary exhibition, OUR HAUS, focuses on contemporary positions...More »
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"Our Haus" Exhibition
The Austrian Cultural Forum New York (ACFNY) presents Our Haus, an exhibition in celebration of its ten year anniversary. Curated by Amanda McDonald Crowley, Our Haus forgoes a typical survey, instead...More »
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Kathrin Rhomberg "Curator's Perspective: The Virtue of Unprofessionalism" Lecture
The Austrian Cultural Forum and Independent Curators International present a lecture by Vienna-based independent curator Kathrin Rhomberg, “The Virtue of Unprofessionalism,” for the third Curator’s Perspective...More »
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"The Locus of Control" Exhibition
The exhibition was curated by Patrick Gibson, in association with On Stellar Rays, and will feature works by artists Zipora Fried, Christoph Schlingensief, and Hans Schabus. The show cites the social psychology...More »
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"It's the Political Economy, Stupid" Exhibition
The Austrian Cultural Forum New York is pleased to present this international group exhibition, curated by the Austrian-American team of Oliver Ressler and Gregory Sholette. The title derives from the...More »
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"Beauty Contest" Exhibition
"Beauty Contest" deals with one of the most trivial everyday experiences: the daily encounter with human beauty and its social construction. A perennial anthropologic subject dating back to the writings...More »
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"Fünf Räume" Exhibition
The exhibition presents five emerging artists who have been given the opportunity to transform a distinct space within the gallery of the Austrian Cultural Forum by creating new, site-specific installations....More »
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"Alpine Desire" Exhibition
The exhibition dialectically examines the various desires associated with and the abysses hiding behind the cultural-historical subject of the Alps. It juxtaposes art-historical icons of 19th century Romanticism...More »
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"FAQ Serbia" Exhibition
With the onset of war in former Yugoslavia, Serbia became perceived by some as a violent and xenophobic nation. International media coverage of the war helped establish stereotypes across the world and...More »
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"Serbia - Frequently Asked Question" Exhibition
The Austrian Cultural Forum New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade presents an exhibition of works by 18 contemporary artists entitled Serbia - Frequently Asked Questions. The artists, many...More »
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"NineteenEightyFour" Exhibition
This exhibition examines the evolution of imagery and language in what has been described as our panoptic era. While its roots are grounded in the concepts that arose from the 1948 novel by George Orwell,...More »
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"Solace" Exhibition
This exhibition understands art in a very mundane sense as a source of solace. It is committed to the mildly intoxicating character of beauty and the inebriating quality of alcohol and embraces the baser...More »
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"Videorama: Subversion, Absurdity, and Form in Austrian Video Art" Exhibition
The Ursula Blickle Videoarchiv of the Kunsthalle Wien consists of several thousand videos focusing on video art from Austria. Three jurors: Massimiliano Gioni, Sabine Himmelsbach, and Ian White selected...More »
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"1989: The End of History or the Beginning of the Future? Video Art Comments on a Time Shift" Exhibition
As its fall focus, the Austrian Cultural Forum presents the video-based exhibition "1989: The End of History or the Beginning of the Future?" which features 15 films from international artists, and will...More »
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"sound:frame festival" Exhibition
The Austrian Cultural Forum New York presents the best work from the sound:frame festival, the worldwide leading VJ/DJ event from Vienna. The exhibit sound:frame:remix will show seven videos and installations...More »
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"Critical Strategies in Art and Media: Perspectives of New Cultural Practices" Conference & Symposium
A roundtable conference of digital theorists and practitioners on the future of cultural intelligence and freedoms. This roundtable will address questions such as "Beyond the obsolete models of artist...More »
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"The Seen and the Hidden: (Dis)covering the Veil" Exhibition
The woman's veil is one of the most symbolically charged pieces of clothing in contemporary dress; it is provocative even when it is not revealing. With roots in the three Abrahamic religions, it has become...More »
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"Open Space Uncurated: Creative Migration" Exhibition
This spring, the Austrian Cultural Forum New York is launching its new project, OPEN SPACE UNCURATED, as an annual event. For one month, young Austrian artists living in the USA and working in a variety...More »
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"The Artist As Troublemaker" Exhibition
Art often has the potential to "make trouble", with artists serving as the "troublemakers" who want to rethink and reinvent the existing social order and its institutions. Museums are the focal point and...More »
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"Cutting Realities: Gender Strategies in Art" Exhibition
"Cutting Realities" is an exhibition that links the historically important decade of the 1960s with contemporary approaches to issues of gender, demonstrating how artists articulate their concerns on a...More »
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"Bread and Soccer" Exhibition
In June 2008, Austria and Switzerland play host to the European championship soccer tournament UEFA Euro 2008. Spectators and players alike will celebrate a game that has been a cultural phenomenon long...More »
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"Under Pain of Death" Exhibition
In 2006, 1,591 people were executed around the world. They were hanged, shot, beheaded, poisoned, or tortured to death. In China, the country where most executions were carried out, the bodies of delinquents...More »