Opening: 27. October, 7pm Krinziger Projekte Schottenfeldgasse 45 1070 Vienna 28. October - 09. November 2016 Mon-Fri: 3pm - 7pm / Sat: 11am - 2pm   Artists: Živa Drvarič, Stephan Genser, Gašper Kunšič, Anna Lerchbaumer, Sarah Pedde, Martin Schlögl, Marit Wolters, Hui Ye   Curators: Cima Azzam (PS/JO), Aviya Cohen (IL), Mahzabin Haque (BD), Liudmila Kirsanova (RU), Theresa Kneppers (US/GB), Adelina Luft (RO/ID), Erika Martin (CR), Raffaella M. Matrone (IT), Evelin Pál (HU), Lorena Parada (CO), Katarzyna Sobucka (PL/GB), Gabriele Tosi (IT)   The group exhibition I WAS HERE TOMORROW is a joint project of 12 emerging, international curators

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August 2016, 21h Square in front of the St Mark's Cathedral Korčula, Croatia The emphasis of the 5th ŠUŠUR! Festival of Words is on the issues of origin, belonging and identity in which a language/dialect plays a vital role. The audience will have an opportunity to hear personal testimonies, stories, and fragments by writers, travelers, historians with characteristic immigrant status and (im)permanent addresses. They will discuss their positions as migrants, the artistic process that is determined by nomadism and other phenomena of exchange of cultural patterns characteristic for the “life abroad”. Authors: Alida

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Opening: 30. October, 8pm 30. October - 6. November 2015 University of Applied Arts Vienna Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2 Lichthöfe A and B 1010 Vienna   Artists: Sebastian Gärtner, Maria-Magdalena Ianchis, Mira Klug, Philipp Kruder, Olena Newkryta, Philipp Renda, Jana Rinchenbachova and Katrin Weidhofer.   Curators: Aidan Li, Alexandra Nitschke, Bruna Grinsztejn João, Federica Brigo, Inês Jorge, Lorena Moreno Vera, Sophie Wallace, Ângela Susana Rodrigues and Teja Rot.   According to Jean Louis Delotte, the inscription of an event becomes a matter of taking place, a trace of memory. In order to claim its existence, such event should be found in time and place.

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Opening: 29. October, 5:30pm 30. October – 14. November 2015 Mariahilferstraße 43 1060 Vienna   The exhibition VIENNA/SERBIA RAW – Our new neighbours is a result of photography workshops with refugees from Middle East and Africa, which took place between May and July 2015 in Subotica, Belgrade and Vienna. The participants had the opportunity to reflect together upon their experience and needs as well as to work with their already existing photographic material in order to depict their background and parts of their journey to Europe. Some of them also produced new material, dealing with their current

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Opening: 02 October, 5:30pm 03. – 13. October 2015 Trg Nikole Pašića 11000 Belgrade The exhibition Vienna/Serbia Raw – Our new neighbours is a result of photography workshops with migrants, which took place between May and July 2015 in two cities in Serbia (Subotica and Belgrade) and Vienna. The workshops were based on the artistic practice of the established photo collective Belgrade Raw from Serbia in cooperation with BLOCKFREI. Belgrade Raw was joined for these workshops and field work by a documentary film director - Srđan Keča. The participants had the opportunity to reflect upon/exchange their

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9. August 2015, 20.30h Square in front of the St. Peter's Church Korčula, Croatia In the warmest month of the year, on 9 and 10 August, Šušur! brings literary treats to Korčula for the fourth time with the hot topic of Love & Mystery novels, reserving for each genre one evening of literary debate in the surroundings of the picturesque medieval old town of Korčula in Dalmatia, Croatia. During the discourse the authors will share with the audience their interpretation of these genres. Authors: Ante Tomić, Želimir Periš, Rumena Bužarovska and Mirjana Novaković. August 2015,

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After Berlin, Amsterdam, Belgrade and Basel - The International Summit of Cheap Laser Graphics brings art to Vienna for only one Euro! Opening: 14. November 2014, 7pm 14. – 15. November 2014 Künstlerhaus Karlsplatz 5 1010 Vienna   After a successful tour across the Balkans and Europe, the Vienna-based organisation BLOCKFREI and Künstlerhaus bring the International Summit of Cheap Laser Graphics to Vienna.   https://vimeo.com/111402196     During two nights from 14th until 15th of November, we join forces to transform the Künstlerhaus building in a pop-up gallery that offers accessible artwork for all. This year's International Summit of Cheap Laser Graphics is

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The project VIENNA/SERBIA RAW - Our New Neighbours used art practices of documentary photography in the context of one of the most relevant social issues nowadays – asylum seekers problematic – mutual for both Serbia and Austria, in order to enable higher visibility and awareness of their cultures and heritage, but also their everyday problems. Due to lack of activities, which would enrich their isolated lives, this project had the aim to encourage the participants to deal with their past, fears and hopes in a creative way, both among themselves,

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viennacontemporary 24. – 27. September 2015 Marx Halle Karl-Farkas-Gasse 19 1030 Vienna     BLOCKFREI is happy to announce that it will present three art collectives from Serbia in the category of "editions" during the viennacontemporary art fair: 1. The Centre for Graphics and Visual Research Akademija - Faculty of Fine Arts 2. Silkskrin collective 3. Belgrade Raw collective These collectives represent some of the most distinctive players in today's contemporary art scene in Serbia, and include established figures alongside the emerging artist. Gathered around shared goals, they produce editions of graphic prints and photographs in small series, available in limited

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9 - 10. August 2015, 21.30h Square in front of the St Mark's Cathedral, Square in front of the St. Peter's Church Korčula, Croatia    ŠUŠUR! Festival of Words 2015 is focusing on the phenomenon of “summer readings”, romance novels and noir stories in the perception of regional and local authors of former Yugoslav countries. In the warmest month of the year, on 9. and 10. August, ŠUŠUR! Festival brings literary treats to Korčula for the fourth time with the hot topic of Love & Mystery novels, reserving for each genre one evening of

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