The Vienna Music Film Festival is the largest annual cultural regional project in Russia. Project in the format of the Music Film Festival on the Rathausplatz in Vienna. The organizers are the Honorary Consulate of Austria in Ekaterinburg, the Austrian Cultural Forum in Moscow and IMZ International Music Media Center (provide the program). The annual festival, founded in 2010, has become an integral part of the city's cultural program and has delighted thousands of music lovers for more than a month.

- Honorary Consulate of Austrian Republiс

-  IMZ International Music + Media Centre

- Ural Federal University named after the First President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin

Vienna Music Film festival

The Festival "Austrian Film      Festival" is traditionally shown in Moscow and the regions. Due to the Covid-19      pandemic, this year’s Festival could only be presented in Moscow. The Austrian Film Festival starts with the world premiere of the adaptation of the classic novel by Stefan Zweig ROYAL GAME (Schachnovelle). The festival program includes different formats and genres: drama FOX IN A HOLE (Fuchs im Bau), vaudeville about health and marriage RISKS AND SIDE EFFECTS (Risiken und Nebenwirkungen), hooligan cartoon SNOTTY BOY (Rotzbub), documentary portrait of designer Bruce MAU. All films are shown in the original language with Russian subtitles.

CoolConnections Art Association
Moskino Cinema

New Austrian Cinema

The “Flora” project in the St. Petersburg Hermitage is known in Austria under the title “Ganymed”, which is shown in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. The director Jacqueline Kornmüller and the producer and playwright Peter Wolf have invited outstanding writers and musicians from Austria, Russia, Germany, Great Britain, the USA, Belarus and other countries to write texts and compositions for art pieces in the Hermitage. A team of 14 actors and dancers created performances that show a new interpretation of famous paintings. By involving the audience in their piece, the artists invite the audience to have a new artistic experience in a classical museum.

Austrian Ministry of Arts and Culture, Civil Service and Sport

FLORA Performing Arts meet fine art heritage. Take a fresh look at the Old Masters!

The Volkstheater in Vienna is performing the play "Drei Schwestern" in Moscow as part of the New European Theater Festival (NET). The director Susanne Kennedy interprets the well-known play by Anton Chekhov in a radical new way.

The project is supported by: As part of the German Year in Russia 2020/2021 with the support of Goethe-Institut

With support from the Austrian Cultural Forum Moscow

Three Sisters

The 3rd Festival of German speaking countries DACH_FEST 2021 hat 2 big Austrian blocks В рамках 3: book fair, lectures, film presentation will be shown in the Griboedow´s library. The retrospective of filming of Austrian romans, dedicated to the 25 anniversary of the program will be presented in the Ekateringofskaya Library.

Austrian library in Saint Petersburg
Austrian Cultural Forum Moscow 

The 3rd Festival of German speaking countries DACH_FEST 2021

DACH_FEST 2021

The festival is the successor to the famous Belye Stolby festival. Since 1997 the Gosfilmfund of Russia organized it to acquaint film critics and cinephiles with the collection of one of the most important film archives in the world and the largest in Russia. Previously, the festival passed in the Moscow region in the cinema halls of the Gosfilmfund. In 2021, the festival of archival films will be pass in Moscow for the first time. Most of the films will be shown from the film in their original language.

Cultural ministery of the Russian Federation

Moscow International Festival of Archival Films

21 October 19.30, Mediacenter: programme “Austrian panorama” and “Yuong animation”. 22 October 19.30 — 21.40, New stage:  “Electronic theater”. 24 of October, online zoom: Discussion “Animation in Austria:  trends and ideas”. The participants Kathrin Steinbacher and Reinhold Bidner , host — Anton Yakhontov.

New Media Laboratory of Alexandrinsky theater
Austrian cultural forum Moscow

Ars Electronica Animation Festival-2020 at the New stage of Alexandrinskij theater

Grounding is a refocusing of our attitude, a search for a new connection with what lies under our feet. To recognize our responsibility to the Earth means to accept soil as a complex systemic phenomenon, and humans as a part of this system. Based on the theories of Vasily Dokuchaev and Vladimir Vernadsky, Grounding exhibition will reconstruct the meanings and values of soil and its relationship with a human.

The ITMO University Endowment Fund
Ars Electronica Festival
 Dokuchaev Central Soil Museum 
 The Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia
 Raiffeisenbank

Ars Electronica Festival in Saint Petersburg

The Festival "Moscow meets its friends", the project generously sponsored by the International Vladimir Spivakov Charitable Foundation, takes place annually since 2004 on the best concert platforms of Moscow and Moscow region. All participants are representatives of various regions of Russia, the CIS and Baltic countries, as well as foreign countries: the soloist instrumentalists, singers, dance and choir collectives, circus groups, painters, orchestras and conductors. Austrian participation is this year presented by Amelie Jade Knapp und Duo von Ania und Sophie Druml in online-format.

University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

18th international Music Festival “Moscow meets friends”

The main purpose of this project is a demonstrative cultural exchange that will take place regardless of pandemic restrictions. It is also very important that the initiative comes from the young artists of Viennese art schools. Different media and visions will be represented in this exhibition. About 15 artists from the Austrian and Russian side each will present their works.



Partners:
Art Kolkhoz - Platform for contemporary art
Werk - Art space in Kazan
Shtab - residence of creative industries



suitcase exhibition “Rubin Kazan”

The first international conference "Art and Practices of Hospitality" will break down the topic of hospitality in contemporary art, museums, art residences, design, architecture and inclusion. This conference is an online and offline platform for active networking and exchange of best practices and knowledge that is especially important during the pandemic. There are cultural professionals among the participants: artists, curators, art managers, architects, researchers, experts in inclusive and educational programs. 

On November 27 the participants from Austria will present their projects. The conference programme includes a discussion of the book "Mir Metro" by the artist and researcher Katharina Gruzei (Austria) in a dialogue with the architecture historian Anna Bronovitskaya (Russia), film by artist Andrea Seidling (Austria) and presentation of the book “Moscow Cinema Project” by Vasilena Grankovska (Austria) in an interview with the curator of the CTI Fabrika Kristina Pestova (Russia). ​​​​​​​

Grants Fund of the President of the Russian Federation

International conference “The Art and Practices of Hospitality”

On the occasion of the newly published novel "Junischnee" by Ljuba Arnautović, a reading followed by a discussion with the author will take place at the GULAG History Museum, the All-Russian State Library for Foreign Literature named after M. I. Rudomino as well as the Central Universal Science Nekrasov Library. In cooperation with the translators' residence "Peredelkino", individual excerpts of her book will be translated and read out in a “double reading” in both languages, German and Russian. 

27.10.2021 - Central Universal Science Nekrasov Library

28.10.2021 - All-Russian State Library for Foreign Literature named after M. I. Rudomino

​​​​​Central Universal Science Nekrasov Library

All-Russian State Library for Foreign Literature named after M. I. Rudomino 

Artistic Evening with Ljuba Arnautovic. The author conducts a reading of her new novel “Junischnee”

The main Cantor of Vienne synagogue Shmuel Barzilai

Soloist of Saint Petersburg Philharmonia Taras Trepel, cello 

Symphonic orchestra “Tavricheskij”, artistic director and conductor Mikhail Golikov

Compositions of Baruh Berliner (Israel), Max Bruch, Isaack Dunaevskj, Isaak Schwarz

the Big Choral Synagogue in Saint Petersburg and symphonic orchestra “Tavricheskij”

Consulate general of Federal Republic of Germany

Charity concert at the Big Choral Synagogue in Saint Petersburg

Cobario - Weihnachtskonzert

Cobario Christmas Concert

The Russian-Austrian public forum "Sochi Dialogue" in collaboration with the Austrian Cultural Forum Moscow are hosting a series of discussions based on the topic of “Theatre dialogues between Austria and Russia”. Prominent cultural workers and representatives in the field of theatre from both countries are invited to participate in order to create a dialogue about recent topics within the theatre world and to exchange opinions and experience. The series of discussions will kick-off with the round table on the topic “Theatre Work during the COVID-19 pandemic: Difficulties and Challenges. Conclusions that have been drawn from this period of work”

moderator: Fabian Ortner, director of ACF Mocsow, cultural attaché of the Austrian embassy Moscow

Ambassador Dr. Margot Klestil- Löffler, special representative of the Federal Minister for European and International Affairs for the Russian Federation in the context of the Sochi Dialogue

Andrej Fursenko, Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation

Dmitrij Ljubinskij, Ambassador of the Russian Federation in Austria 

Dr. Werner Almhofer, Ambassador of the Republic Austria in Russia 

Valery Fokin, artistic director of the Alexandrinski-Theater, Saint Petersburg

Vladimir Urin, general director of the Bolschoj theater Moscow 

Roland Geyer, director at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna

Kay Voges, director of the Volkstheater Vienna

Dmitry Bertman, artistic director of the Helikon-Oper, Moscow

Alexandra Althoff, deputy artistic director of the Burgtheater Vienna

Russian-Austrian public forum "Sochi Dialogue" 
 Austrian Cultural Forum Moscow

Theaterdialoge zwischen Österreich und Russland

Theatre dialogues between Austria and Russia

The four members of the Auner Quartet met in 2013 during their studies of chamber music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. The strong chemistry between Daniel Auner (violin), Barbara de Menezes Galante Auner (violin), Nikita Gerkusov (viola) and Konstantin Zelenin (violoncello) led the four to continue their concert activities after completing their studies. And with great success. Driven by the desire to further explore and expand the sonic possibilities of this formation, the fixed line-up of the Auner Quartett was formed after several concerts in Vienna. Auner Quartett have been selected as NASOM “New Austrian Sound of Music” act 2020-21.

Born into a distinguished musical family in St. Petersburg in 1973, Russia, pianist Evgeny Sinaiski has carved a unique niche as one of the most sought after and highly respected chamber music partners and pedagogues in Europe. Professor of chamber music and an official accompanist at the Vienna Conservatoire.

Joseph Haydn: String quartet Op. 33, No. 3 in C major ("The Bird")

Auner Quartett, Evgeny Sinaisky | Haydn Op. 33/3, Schostakowitsch Klavierquintett

Online concert was recorded on April 23rd in the Ehrbar Saal in Vienna, digital premiere on May 4th 2021

Digital concert Auner Quartet with Evgeni Sinaiski (piano)

Soloists of the Vienna State Opera: Slávka Zamečníková, Peter Kellner

Conductor: Peter Feranec (Director of Slovenský inštitút v Moskve)

Program: W.A.Mozart, G.Donizetti, G.Rossini, Ch.Gounoud, G.Verdi, G.Puccini, A.Boito, J.Strauss (son), F.Lehár

Concert in two parts with intermission. The duration of the concert is 1 hour 40 minutes.