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Manifesta 16 Ruhr / 2026: June 21- Oct.4, 2026

Manifesta 16 will take place in four cities across the Ruhr Area – Duisburg, Essen, Gelsenkirchen and Bochum. Former and under-used church buildings will be transformed into cultural and community hub, where Manifesta 16 will present events, workshops, exhibitions and site-specific artistic commissions and installations.

The artistic programme has been developed by an inter-disciplinary artistic team, composed of eight Creative Mediators: Josep Bohigas, Gürsoy Doğtaş and three intergenerational tandems — Michael Kurtz &

SPACEX Townhall Meeting Vienna > SPACEX Conference – Coventry Biennial: Nov. 13-14, 2025

The research project Spatial Practices in Art and ArChitecture for Empathetic EXchange (SPACEX) responds to the troubling rise of populist nationalism and conflict in European societies by engaging new publics and forging a culture that embraces diversity, difference, and discursive exchange within cities, towns and urban sites.

SPACEX proposes that inventing new and inclusive ways of living together, requires the implementation of new transdisciplinary and cross-sectoral practices and methods, that connect spatial practice with cultural sociology,

TBA21 Academy: Open call for Organismo 2026: Deadline: November 9, 2025

Organismo: Art in Applied Critical Ecologies / January–June 2026

TBA21–Academy and Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza announce the new edition of Organismo, an experimental applied research program that calls on artists, researchers, and practitioners from across different disciplines to imagine and prototype collective strategies for fairer and regenerative futures.

About Organismo
Organismo: Art in Applied Critical Ecologies is not just a program, it’s an experimental ecosystem where art, collective research, and infrastructural activism converge.

Kunst schafft Wissen – Symposium: Oct.10, 2025, 2-8 pm, Vienna University of Technology

Mit dem Symposium KUNST SCHAFFT WISSEN versammelt Karin Harather, Ass.Prof. am Institut für Kunst und Gestaltung, Wegbegleiter:innen und aktuelle Repräsentant:innen der Fakultät, um 40 Jahre der Künstlerischen (Raum-)Forschung, die sie an der Technischen Universität betrieben und etabliert hat, diskursiv zu reflektieren. Mit Kolleg:innen aus unterschiedlichen Dekaden und Generationen wird dem Verhältnis von Kunst und Wissenschaft seit den 1980er-Jahren nachgegangen und die Bedeutung der Künstlerischen Forschung im Kontext der universitären Forschung und Lehre sowie der architektonischen Praxis ausgelotet.

Reflecting Oil: Book launch, June 3, 2025, 5 pm // Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab (AIL)/ Vienna

In our global society, oil is one of the most important resources of the modern age. In the face of rapidly advancing global warming, we are facing a radical transformation into a post-fossil fuel era. Understanding our current culture, which is shaped through and through by oil, is an important
foundation for a successful transition to a sustainable future.

The publication Reflecting Oil, which is based on the artistic research project of the same name at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Angewandte) under the lead of the artist Ernst Logar,