Latest Events in Vienna(June Updated)

The Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen) was founded in 1951, a pivotal year of unity following the two World Wars. Its initial purpose was to demonstrate to the world that "Austria will continue to live on," and that Vienna would continue to invest in cultural development. Now, over sixty years later, the festival has become one of the most influential international arts festivals. Its most distinctive feature is its large-scale, multinational productions, primarily categorized as self-produced, co-produced, and invited performances.

With over one million items, it is one of the world's most important collections of prints, founded 250 years ago: this is the Albertine Collection. What began as a private collection has grown into a world-class museum.The foundation of this collection was laid by Albert of Saxe-Tessin in 1776. This exhibition focuses for the first time on the contributions of women to this world-renowned collection, highlighting Maria Theresa's beloved daughter, Marie Christina, and showcasing how she and her husband Albert systematically built this collection. This exhibition explores Albertina's origins and the motivations of her collectors. What image does this series of works aim to create? What was the purpose of the collection? Which artists were favored? When did large collections of works by Albrecht Dürer or Egon Schiele enter the museum's collection? These questions, and others related to them, will be answered through valuable examples such as Dürer's *The Boy and the Hare*. This book focuses not only on reviewing a glorious history but also on looking to the future.

Digital surveillance, artificial intelligence, and visual manipulation—Miao Ying exposes the dark side of our online world. Her solo exhibition at Belvedere 21 Gallery explores the aesthetics of digital control with meticulous attention to detail. Through installations, drawings, and videos, the artist reflects on global media culture, censorship mechanisms, and the power of generative technologies.

From July 2nd to August 16th, the Vienna Summer Festival will be held for the seventh time throughout Vienna, offering a rich array of cultural activities including music, cabaret, literature, drama, dance and performance, contemporary circus, and children's activities—all free to attend. This year's theme is "Culture So Close," and the Vienna Summer Festival is once again committed to making the city's cultural feast easily accessible to everyone. In addition to evening events, there will be children's programs and garden concerts in nursing homes. The "Summer Festival+" interactive program offers visitors opportunities to participate in dialogue and explore their own creativity. Furthermore, in collaboration with the Vienna Film Festival, a Sunday jazz brunch and two choral evenings will be held at Vienna City Hall Square; and for the first time, two summer cultural evenings will be held at the Otaklinger Beer Festival.

Jürgen Meltz is a glacier photographer who captures the silhouettes of these white giants from diverse perspectives. He creates classic landscape photographs while also revisiting historical sites where photographers took panoramic photographs a century ago. Through comparative photography, he hopes to showcase the beauty of mountains gradually disappearing due to climate change, thereby prompting reflection. Another focus of his work is documenting glacier caves. He observes glaciers up close and uses drones to explore their abstract structures and textures from the air, enriching his photographic portfolio.

Coins are among the smallest portraits in the world. These masterpieces of miniature art show busts or faces of prominent individuals in amazing detail and usually in profile. In many cases, the diminutive nature of the coin portraits necessitates the use of highly symbolic visual imagery. Yet, the hairstyles, clothes and accessories are more than just aesthetic embellishments, they reflect the zeitgeist and offer a window into the culture of ages past. The exhibition Turning Heads (Kopf & Kragen) presents over a hundred numismatic portraits from a cultural and historical perspective, casting light on fashion and lifestyle from several millennia.

Coins are among the smallest portraits in the world. These masterpieces of miniature art show busts or faces of prominent individuals in amazing detail and usually in profile. In many cases, the diminutive nature of the coin portraits necessitates the use of highly symbolic visual imagery. Yet, the hairstyles, clothes and accessories are more than just aesthetic embellishments, they reflect the zeitgeist and offer a window into the culture of ages past.The exhibition Head and Shoulders (Kopf & Kragen) presents over a hundred numismatic portraits from a cultural and historical perspective, casting light on fashion and lifestyle from several millennia.

Photographer Gregor Sailer opens the exhibition with "Cockaigne"—an ancient word meaning "land flowing with milk and honey"—to showcase humanity's long-held dream: abundance of food. The invention of agriculture has brought the first steps towards prosperity and also revolutionized human nutrition. However, this exhibition does not look back but looks to the future, focusing on the transformation of future food production. It presents two systems: on one hand, highly diverse agricultural ecosystems requiring significant human input; on the other hand, automated agriculture controlled by artificial intelligence, employing standardized organisms and processes, and promising to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. How do we hope to shape future food production? After all, agriculture has never been wilderness; it has always been about transforming nature and natural processes, and altering ecosystems to meet human needs.

Everything is in *The Magic Flute*! This exhibition showcases the latest collection from Munich-based veteran collector Dr. Günter Grish and his wife Rosemary. They have meticulously amassed a large collection of Mozart's works, with a particular focus on *The Magic Flute* and "Freemasonry in the Mozart Era." Among these is an extremely rare libretto from the 1791 premiere, featuring Immanuel Schikaned as Papageno.

Landscape painting flourished in Europe during the 19th century. Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller was a key figure in this development, capturing humanity's longing for nature through his delicate portraits of trees, majestic paintings of the Vienna Woods, and iconic Salzkammergut landscapes. This exhibition places Waldmüller's landscapes within the context of their time. Works by contemporary pioneers such as Johann Constable and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot serve as inspiration for exploring Waldmüller's depictions of nature within the context of European developments.