21.10.2024
There is some great news. The art initiative Never At Home is moving into over 70 rooms in the ORF Funkhaus in Argentinierstraße, the Rooming Inn project is opening in the 22nd district, Vienna Art Week is just around the corner and there are currently two submission deadlines. One for vacancy activation in the 2nd and 20th districts and one for innovative spaces for creative use. But first things first.
Moved in: Never At Home in the Funkhaus
The cultural initiative Never At Home moves into two floors of the former ORF broadcasting center in the 4th district. Centrally located, 73 studio spaces are available for visual artists, musicians and creative people from all disciplines in Austria’s largest and oldest broadcasting center. The first users will move in tomorrow, and exhibitions, events and workshops are also planned.
While the Never At Home association will use the first and second floors of the listed 1930s building until probably summer 2025, the Wiener Festwochen will occupy the ground floor, the basement, the third floor and various open spaces – and proclaim the ‘Republic of Love’ here in June 2025. The ORF will continue to use parts of the building for the ORF RadioKulturhaus and the Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Read more: ORF, Standard and Falter.morgen reported on the arrival of Never At Home, diePresse on the plans of the Wiener Festwochen.
WHEN: Oct. 2024 to July 2025
WHERE: Argentinierstraße 30A, 1040 Vienna
You can also find more information about Never At Home’s previous projects on our website.
Funding: Grätzlinitiative 20+2/Call
Do you want to revitalize a vacant space in the 20th or 2nd district with your project? Then watch out now: The WieNeu+ urban renewal program and the Business Agency are looking for innovative space utilization concepts for lively ground floor zones in the 20+2 project area. Preference will be given to concepts that revitalize street-side premises. Small businesses, cooperatives, start-ups and associations can receive up to 50 percent of the rental costs for three years (maximum 12,000 euros per year).
How does it work? Submit a project idea for a utilization concept in the ground floor zone for Grätzl 20+2 by email. A jury will decide and the winners will then have until the end of April 2025 to rent the vacant space. In addition to the assumption of rental costs, there are support offers such as the formation of room communities and support from imGrätzl.at. We like!
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: November 15, 2024
WHERE: WieNeu+ area in the 20th and 2nd district (highlighted in pink on the map above)
Further information can be found at www.imgraetzl.at/leerstand or wieneuplus.wien.gv.at.
Competition: Creatives for Vienna – Making Spaces
TheCreatives for Vienna – Making Spaces competition was launched for the second time on September 23, 2024. With this competition, the Vienna Business Agency invites people to develop and refine spaces for creative uses. Ten winners of the competition will each receive prize money of 15,000 euros. We are looking for concepts that create spaces for creative work, make them accessible and activate them.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: December 2, 2024
Q&A: Online appointment on Thursday, November 21 via Zoom(register here)
Link to the submission and further information can be found at wirtschaftsagentur.at. Click here for the winning projects from 2023.
Visit: RoomingInn Living Lab
Another temporary use project is underway: The former municipal kindergarten with a large garden at Quadenstrasse 13 in the 22nd district is being used by the RoomingInn cultural initiative. The building offers space for community and social projects. As a living lab, RoomingInn wants to find out and test how a good life can succeed over the next five years.
The opening with a varied program will take place on 26 October. It is the 70th birthday of the kindergarten in Quadenstraße. A good opportunity to visit the new project!
WHEN: Sat, Oct. 26, 2024 I 2 – 7 p.m.
WHERE: Quadenstraße 13, 1220 Vienna
Further information on the project at www.roominginn.at and on the opening ceremony program here.
Save the Date: Vienna Art Week
Interested in getting to know artists from all over the world working in Vienna and taking a look inside their studios? Or discover some of the numerous independent art spaces hidden in the neighborhood? From November 8 to 15, 2024, the VIENNA ART WEEK will shine the spotlight on Vienna as a city of art for the 20th time. With this year’s theme “Facing Time”, the VIENNA ART WEEK reflects on its almost 20-year history and explores the dimensions of time.
The anniversary celebrations will kick off with a big party on Saturday, 8 November with artistic interventions in the Atelierhaus of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (formerly Semperdepot), and together with around 70 program partners, the festival will offer a week of inspiring art from the present to the Baroque with free admission. We are delighted to be a partner again!
VIENNA ART WEEK – The big anniversary edition
WHEN: Nov. 8 to 15, 2024
WHERE: All of Vienna I → Map
OPEN STUDIO DAYS
WHEN: Saturday, Nov. 9. & So. Nov. 10. 2024 I 1 to 6 p.m.
All events are free of charge, but due to limited space, registration is required for many of them at www.viennaartweek.at.
Discuss: Use vacancies!
A new, broad alliance has formed in Vienna to combat vacancies. In the run-up to the 2025 municipal elections, IG Architektur and numerous cooperation partners are calling for a uniform definition, vacancy surveys, mandatory reporting and other measures to revitalize vacant properties. Building on the list of demands, which was developed together with experts from architecture, administration and civil society, the alliance is organizing three public events to discuss the issue in greater depth. A publication on the topic is also due to appear next year. In addition to vacancies in residential buildings, the focus is also on the ground floor zone and commercial buildings. Of course we will be there!
Uli Fries from Kreative Räume Wien will discuss the topic of vacancies in the first floor zone together with Patricia Anderle (municipal councilor), Sabine Lutz (MA18 Stadtentwicklung Stadt Wien), Christian Peer (Senior Scientist at TU Wien, futurelab), Anna Theresa Renner (TU Wien) on Friday, November 8 at the old WU.
The discussion will be moderated by Robert Temel, architecture and urban researcher, Platform for Building Culture Policy.
Vacancy on the ground floor with Kreative Räume Wien
WHEN: Fri, Nov. 8, 2024 I From 6 pm
WHERE: WEST. Alte WU, Festsaal, Augasse 2-6, 1090 Vienna
Vacancies in commercial buildings
WHEN: Wed, Nov. 27, 2024 I From 6 p.m.
WHERE: WEST. Alte WU, Festsaal, Augasse 2-6, 1090 Vienna
Read more: In addition to the Standard and other media, the ORF reported extensively on the list of demands and the upcoming discussion events. Further information on the topic can be found directly at www.ig-architektur.at.
Read more: Transformative practices for vacancy activation
News from science! Three projects in Berlin, Hamburg and Vienna will be used to show how users of pioneering projects can be actively involved in transformative urban development processes. It is essential to dovetail bottom-up and top-down approaches and to create framework conditions in which cooperative urban development becomes possible.
A summary of the open network meeting by Uli Fries from Kreative Räume Wien and Mara Haas from Future.lab at TU Wien.
Click here for the full text as pdf.