An interview with Austrian Film historians Michael Omasta and Brigitte Mayr from Synema. To discover more about the little-known Austrian actor Oscar Homolka we went straight to the experts! Michael and Brigitte have been researching, writing about and publishing books about Austrian exile filmmakers, actors, composers and cinematographers for years. We are delighted to have… Read More Discovering Oscar Homolka
by Sabrina Thom Last Thursday the Austrian Cultural Forum London opened its doors to fashion and art aficionados for the opening of Transfashional Lab. A collaboration between the London College of Fashion, the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the Polish Cultural Institute and the ACF Warsaw, this exhibition showcases work by emerging Austrian, Polish and… Read More Transfashional Lab-Opening up a new discourse on fashion
EUNIC London, the network of the cultural institutes and embassies from the member states of the European Union in London, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. A branch of EUNIC Global, EUNIC London was founded in 2007 and has currently 31 members fostering a vibrant exchange of ideas and resources among European nations and… Read More EUNIC London : Celebrating 10 Years of Cultural Cooperation
by Sabrina Thom To launch the English translation of Arno Geiger’s Der Alte König in seinem Exil (2011) (The Old King in his Exile), a memoir on the author’s father who is suffering from Alzheimer’s, the Austrian Cultural Forum organised a reading with the author followed by a discussion with Rachel Thompson from UK Dementia. As… Read More When conventional conversation fails: Arno Geiger’s The Old King in his Exile
It has been a busy start into a new season at this Austrian Cultural Forum, with a host of Austrian talent past and present at last week’s Frieze & Frieze Masters Art Fair two exhibitions supported by the ACF at the Korean Cultural Centre and The Photographers’ Gallery and our autumn exhibition Tender Touches opening… Read More Art News
Wolf Suschitzky, our dear friend has forever closed his eyes that were ever watchful of what was going on around him. Together with Wolf we had the pleasure of publishing three books on his photographic and cinematic oeuvre in the last 10 years. We were lucky enough to create two large solo exhibitions with Ursula… Read More Obituary Wolf Suschitzky
Wolf Suschitzky, unser liebenswerter Freund, hat seine Augen – die stets wach waren für alles, was ihn umgab – für immer geschlossen. Gemeinsam mit ihm hatten wir in den letzten 10 Jahren die große Freude drei Bücher zu seinem fotografischen und filmischen Werk publizieren zu können. Hatten das Glück gemeinsam mit Ursula und der Exilbibliothek… Read More Nachruf: Wolf Suschitzky
by Sophie Backhausen To mark the 60th Anniversary the ACF London has, together with the curators at section.a, invited 8 UK & Austria based artists to produce new works for an exhibition entitled ‘Out of the Box’. Each artist was given a different brief – some engaged with the building itself, some with the history,… Read More Made of Clay: Portraits of a different kind
By Robert Rotifer It’s funny how music can act as a shortcut in getting to know people. A few days earlier I had never met percussionist, drummer and sound artist Aram Zarikian or keyboard player, drummer and composer Daniel Pucher (Danny Rico, as he is also known), and now here we were back at the… Read More Rutland Reverb
From 17-19 June, the Austrian Cultural Forum London celebrates its 60th anniversary with an open house weekend presenting newly commissioned artworks, performances and compositions of artists, writers and composers from the UK and Austria. Alongside an impressive line-up of young, emerging talents in the fields of classical, new music, pop, jazz and rock, the ACF… Read More Introducing: The Hang
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