Monday, 22. 05. 2023 12 – 1.30pm Cultural Center Spittelberg im Amerlinghaus Stiftgasse 8 1070 Vienna   In the framework of the ongoing project “My City Through Time”, part of the ERASMUS + program of the European Union, BLOCKFREI is organizing a presentation / workshop intended for youth workers (teachers, lecturers, art educators, etc.) on Monday, the 22nd of May, in the premises of the Cultural Center Spittelberg im Amerlinghaus, (Stiftgasse 8, 1070 Vienna), in a period from 12 to 1.30pm. Through the project we will create knowledge, methods and recommendations with which we want to develop the awareness

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BLOCKFREI is one of seven partners developing a two-year project “My City Through Time. Exploring our cities through historic and civic education (MCT)” realized in the framework of ERASMUS + program of the European Union. The project aims to contribute to the recognition and improvement of youth work and its practices and to strengthen the link between youth work and civic and historic education. It wants to provide the partner and other organizations working with youth with new skills, competencies, working methods, and materials related to youth work and historic and civic education.

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Tuesday, 20. December 2022, 7 pm Online (Zoom event) Vienna, Austria   Nastia Khlestova is the curator and founder of the independent art space 127 Garage in Kharkiv, focused on working with emerging artists and community-based practices. Over the past years, Nastia studied the functioning of self-organized spaces in different countries of Europe in order to understand their experiences and put it into practice. During the last three months, she has scanned the Viennese art scene in the scope of the residency program Curators’ Agenda Research Residency: Vienna 2022, adding a new position to her

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NEW DATE: Thursday, 22. December 2022 6 pm –  Guided tour Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier Museumsplatz 1 1070 Vienna     A guided tour by Hana Ostan Ožbolt through Sanja Iveković: Works of Heart (1974–2022) exhibition will focus on the »performative body« and the question of representation while »performing for the camera«, particularly in the works where the artist's own body is used as a medium to challenge traditional conceptions of gender and sexuality, self-imaging, and the narrative of women's ongoing struggle for social justice. Growing up in Ljubljana (close to Zagreb) Ostan Ožbolt is well familiar with

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14, 15, & 17 February 2022 (Online / Vienna, Austria) Hybrid format, combining online and live sessions:   In the framework of the project "RESHAPING THE IMAGE OF DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTIONS 1989: European Contemporary Perspectives and Forgotten Lessons from the Past" the International Forum “The democratic revolutions of 1989 in popular culture and art” will be realized in a hybrid format, combining online and live sessions. The project seeks to remind European citizens about the democratic revolutions 1989-1990 as a period of arduous struggles for pluralistic democracy and peaceful coexistence in Europe with the aim to

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Opening: Wednesday, October 14, 7pm Fluc Marina (Kaiserwiese) Praterstern 5 1020 Vienna Curatorial tour 8pm at Fluc  Artistic texts and poetry reading 9.15 pm at fluc_wanne w/   The exhibition is realized as an edition in the framework of Fluc's contemporary art program IN DER KUBATUR DES KABINETTS  curated by Maria Ursula Probst and in cooperation with BLOCKFREI's Curators' Agenda alumni program.   Artists: Pille-Riin Jaik Ana Likar Nazanin Mehraein Borjana Ventzislavova Curator: Liudmila Kirsanova (Curators' Agenda 2016 alumni)   The concept of the unhomely was introduced by the critical theorist and postcolonial scholar Homi Bhabha. It describes the in-between temporality of living, in between

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Opening: October 28, 2020, 4-9pm das weisse haus Hegelgasse 14 1010 Wien On view: Closed until February 23, 2021, due to COVID-19 regulations   The exhibition is realized in the framework of Studio das weisse haus and BLOCKFREI curator-in-residence 2020 cooperation program. Its curator Malou Solfjeld, alumni of Curators' Agenda 2017, was proposed by BLOCKFREI, and finally selected by das weisse haus to be their curator-in-residence in a period from 3 February - 21 April 2020.   Artists: Mohamed Allam, Will Benedict, Daniel Mølholt Bülow, Gillian Brett, Rah Eleh, Rachel Fäth, Line Finderup Jensen mit Adnan Popovič, Juri Schaden & Parastu Gharabaghi, Lola

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Studio das weisse haus in cooperation with BLOCKFREI has invite Malou Solfjeld (alumni curator of Curators' Agenda program) from February 03 until April 21, 2020 as Curator in Residence. The aim of the residency is to develop a group exhibition in das weisse haus from April 15 to June 06, 2020 with artists, who are currently / or have been included in the program of studio das weisse haus, based on the proposed concept. This first idea will be further developed and finalized during the residency. During her two-month residency, Malou Solfjeld dives

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Lit Link Festival - Visiting Vienna 12 December 2019 Salon Goldschlag Goldschlagstrasse 70 1150 Wien   BLOCKFREI is proud to announce its most recent cooperation with the Lit Link Festival from Croatia dedicated to literary exchange and networking. The Vienna edition of this years' Festival is dedicated to authors from Croatia and German-speaking countries and will take the form of several readings in Croatian and German (with parallel translations). We cordially invite you to hear the most relevant literary positions coming from Croatia and Austria and to enjoy the informal socializing after the official program. Participating authors Barbara Rieger,

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6 – 7 December 2019 Venue: Depot - Kunst und Diskussion Breite Gasse 3 1070 Wien   In the light of 2019 – the bilateral “Year of Culture” between Ukraine and Austria, BLOCKFREI has created a project The New Scene of Ukraine with the idea to present the existing and emerging cultural associations from Ukraine. The main goal is to connect them with their Austrian colleagues for the purpose of exchange of ideas and to lay a foundation for their potential collaboration in the years to come. So far two of the three planned activities have

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