Independent Space Index

Field Report: An Exercise In Discernment

Panel Discussion: Vienna’s independent scene as an international, decentralized institution

7pm in Vienna

Solo Voce

Ethan Assouline: tout va bien

Len Schweder: No Partial

Mike Kelley & Marlie Mul

Mapping the Scene: The unconscious of a scene

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2025

7pm in Vienna

Aodhan Madden on Independent Space Index 2025 for Spike

Offspace-Preise 2025

Stadt Wien verleiht Galerien- und Offspace-Preise 2025

Field Report: An Exercise In Discernment

Diona Kusari reflects on the 2025 edition of Independent Space Index

Video-Interview: Independent Space Index 2025

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Urbane Räume neu denken. Stadt gemeinsam gestalten.

Wettbewerb „Creatives for Vienna – Making Spaces“ zur Gestaltung und Aktivierung städtischer Freiräume

Celebrating Spaces In Vienna

Daniel Lichterwald interviews Bruno Mokross and Francis Ruyter for Les Nouveaux Riches

Mapping the Scene: Lifespan of a space in a project oriented scene

Part 3 of a series of panel discussions at Kunsthalle am Karlsplatz

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Mapping the Scene: The unconscious of a scene

Part 2 of a series of panel discussions at Kunsthalle am Karlsplatz

Solo Voce

31.5.2025, KUNSTVEREIN GARTENHAUS

Vittoria Totale: Solo Voce

31.5.2025, KUNSTVEREIN GARTENHAUS

Program Booklet: Independent Space Index 2025

Program Website: Independent Space Index 2025

Alexander Gottfarb: Encounters #1

30.5.2025, Der Betrieb

Anat Stainberg: Speculation Diorama

30.5.–20.6.2025, ES49

Archival Practice Unlimited

30.5.–1.6.2025, Salon für Kunstbuch

Cäcilia Brown

30.5.–12.6.2025, Global International

Demokratie - Zelle

30.5.–31.7.2025, KUNSTZELLE

fini la la comédie

30.5.–20.6.2025, ES49

Gert Resinger: Tourist

30.5.–30.7.2025, säulen der erinnerung / pillars of memory

Golden words of The women’s matinée: archive of a quiet revolt

30.5.–1.6.2025, FABRIKRAUM

Ingrid Cogne: MÛ au quotidien

30.5.–13.6.2025, Mz*Baltazar's Laboratory

Laia Fabre & Meret Kern

30.5.–31.7.2025, Size Matters

Len Schweder: No Partial

30.5.–12.7.2025, Loggia

Mahony Collective: The things we attend to

30.5.–18.6.2025, flat1

Mapping the Scene: What is an independent space?

Part 1 of a series of panel discussions at Kunsthalle am Karlsplatz

Margit Busch: The soul is fluid

30.5.–29.6.2025, OpenCave

Marta Beauchamp: Light Injuries

30.5.–16.6.2025, Viktoria

Mateja Kavčič, Alja Piry: Above the Muddy Surface

30.5.–17.6.2025, Sussudio

Mike Kelley & Marlie Mul

30.5.–30.7.2025, Laurenz

Nanna Kaiser

30.5.–1.6.2025, VAN

Nina Hassert, Ora Katz, Loren Voth, Constantin Stähr, Jeanne Schmidt, Haruka Tomotaka

30.5.–1.6.2025, Zink

Nour Sokhon, Joanna Zabielska: Do You Hear the Silence?

30.5.–1.6.2025, philomena+

Renate Pittroff, Christoph Theiler: Positionen

30.5.–4.6.2025, galerie wechselstrom

Sammlung Andreas Fogarasi invites you to SPLIT

30.5.–1.6.2025

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30.5.–1.6.2025, prolet.AIR

SOUND AND SILENCE

30.5.–1.6.2025, school

Stefanie Hintersteiner: Back to Concrete

30.5.–20.6.2025, 1zwei3

Uncanny Gardens

30.5.–21.6.2025, Medienwerkstatt Wien

Beyond the High. The Chemsex Experience: Crisis, Resilience and Community

29.5.–1.6.2025, Entre

David Gruber: Persona

29.5.–20.6.2025, new jörg

Independent Space Index 2025

Festival of independent spaces for contemporary art in Vienna

Jasper Jordan-Lang, Alexandra Ragg: Devil’s Mill

29.5.–22.6.2025, Pilot

Katharina Ernst: Le temps / encore

29.5.–1.6.2025, Ve.Sch

Koloman Kann: Andere Baustelle…

29.5.–10.6.2025, SUPER

Light bent backwards, waiting to be forgotten

29.5.–10.6.2025, arka arka

Magdalena Herzog: I do not feel safe to own a body

29.5.–1.6.2025, Grossraum

Mirko Canesi: Natural

29.5.–1.6.2025, Clubclub

Under Pressure 2

29.5.–1.6.2025, ada

Alternative Kunsträume: Wo Wien Berlin als Hotspot abhängt

Nicole Scheyrer for Falter

Christian Egger: Hear DINGE See SACHEN Say ZEUG

23.5.–31.8.2025, 20 20

Deep Skin

23.5.–1.6.2025, NODE Media Lab

Nicolas Jasmin: L’Insecte

22.5.–28.6.2025, Pech

WEST WIND – raising flags: Jonathan Monk

22.5.–2.9.2025, museum in progress

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18.5.–23.6.2025, FLUCC

Dana Munro: Threshold

17.5.–1.6.2025, Schleuse

Waiting for a larger sun

17.5.–1.6.2025, hoast

Christoph Srb: Schlaflos gezeichnet

15.5.–3.6.2025, LLLLLL

Lisa Großkopf: Schöner Schwitzen

14.5.–23.6.2025, Kulturdrogerie

About Termites and Beavers

10.5.–1.6.2025, Mauve

Minna Kangasmaa & Veera Komulainen: In the Liminal

9.5.–1.6.2025, puuul

Nina Zeljković: Calendar

9.5.–8.6.2025, Can

Zuza Golińska x Cezary Poniatowski: Remnants of the Current

8.5.–1.6.2025, WAF

Über Nacht

6.5.–5.6.2025, Fotogalerie Wien

Santa Maria Paraffina - Mythos § Trope § Glitch

25.4.–1.6.2025, VBKÖ

Olga Titus / Andy Guhl: Resonanz, Lichtrisse und Schalltritte

24.4.–5.6.2025, Kunstraum am Schauplatz

Ethan Assouline: tout va bien

11.4.–1.6.2025, Prosopopoeia

Manuel Gorkiewicz: Hangar

10.4.–1.6.2025, Neuer Kunstverein Wien

Habitat Hybrid. Erkundungen im Raum und Zeit

4.4.–30.6.2025, Museum Nordwestbahnhof

Gaps, Leaps, Fractures – Queer Temporalities

28.3.–19.6.2025, Queer Museum Vienna

Independent Space Index Map #3, January 2025

2024

Communities of Spaces

Public gathering and exchange between festivals for independent art spaces in Europe and beyond

Field Report: Independent Space Index 2024

Cecilia Bien reports on Independent Space Index 2024 for Arts of the Working Class

Offspace-Preise 2024

Stadt Wien verleiht Galerien- und Offspace-Preise 2024

Independent Space Index Sticker

Poster: Independent Space Index 2024

Independence Days

Victor Cos Ortega reviews Independent Space Index 2024 for artmagazine.cc

Independent Space Index 2024

Festival of independent spaces for contemporary art in Vienna

Program Booklet: Independent Space Index 2024

Program Website: Independent Space Index 2024

Independent Space Index Map #2, March 2024

2023

Kyiv Biennial 2023

17.10.–17.12.2023

Offspace-Preise 2023

Stadt Wien verleiht Galerienpreise und Offspace‑Preise

Field Report: Myriad ways through Vienna

A field report on Independent Space Index 2023 by Antonie Angerer and Anna-Viktoria Eschbach

Young and Beautiful

Leonie Huber reports on Vienna’s independent art scene for Spike Art Magazine #76

Vienna’s Independent Scene as an International, Decentralized Institution

Young Art Spaces: Laurenz

Interview with Aaron Amar Bhamra and Monika Georgieva of Laurenz on PW‑Magazine

Independent Space Index Map #1, June 2023

Independent Space Index 2023

Festival of independent spaces for contemporary art in Vienna

Program Website: Independent Space Index 2023

Young Art Spaces: Pilot

Interview with Niclas Schöler of Pilot on PW‑Magazine

2022

Independent Networks, International Exchange

Presentations, discussion, and exchange between international independent space initiatives

Zu Besuch in den Kunsträumen

Johanna Hofleitner for Die Presse

Program Website: Independent Space Index 2022

Flyer: Independent Space Index 2022

Independence and Self‑Organization

Erasmus Blended Intensive course

Panel Discussion: Vienna’s independent scene as an international, decentralized institution

22.6.2022, Neuer Kunstverein Wien

2021

past/present/future – Offspaces lokal/international/vernetzt

Online panel on international networking initiatives by independent spaces

2020

Vienna Art Spaces: school

Interview with Yasmina Haddad and Andrea Lumplecker of school on PW‑Magazine

Offspace-Preise 2020

Vienna Art Spaces: Significant Other

Interview with Laura Amann and Jen Kratochvil of Significant Other on PW‑Magazine

2019

Invitation to the opening party of Independent Space Index 2019

Die Freie Szene als Institution

Interview with Bruno Mokross and Fanny Hauser for PW Magazine

2018

Independent Space Index 2018

Festival of independent spaces for contemporary art in Vienna

Vienna Art Spaces: SORT

Interview with Myles Starr and Katharina Höglinger of SORT on PW‑Magazine

2017

It might be brilliant, it’s not new

A series of talks on the ecology of local art spaces at Kunsthalle Wien