HOUSE OF THE REPUBLIC of the VIENNA FESTIVAL / WIENER FESTWOCHEN
15.5.–21.6.2026
INSTALLATIONS, WORKSHOPS & PERFORMANCES
Transmythical Opening 20.5.2026, 6 p.m.
Vienna Festival / Wiener Festwochen, House of the Republic
Address: Badeschiff, Wolfgang-Schmitz-Promenade 4
1010 Vienna
Let us sail into an ocean of colour, bodies and sound. Students and lecturers of the Transmedia Art Class are devising a cosmology of myths for the Republic of Gods, so the floating House of the Republic invites its visitors to travel through mists and in-between worlds. Sensual experience becomes a method of insight and awareness as ecstatic rituals and imagery open the gates between dream and reality, hope and devastation. The Transmedia Art class supports experimental approaches and gathers inspiration from curiosity for the unknown. On Vienna’s waters, on this boat dispatched by the gods, the young artists are asking all visitors to dive into a fleeting cosmos: a performative exploration, a fluid, queer transformation of Viennese archetypes such as the legendary Donauweibchen figure becoming a wise goddess. Every Wednesday night, the students design a one-off special edition of Transmythical with installations, performances and music!
Curated by Eva Chytilek, Gerald*ine Grestenberger, Alexander Martinz, Anna Zwingl and Thomas Kasebacher, Wiener Festwochen
Production: Mathias Vieider, Wiener Festwochen
Technical Coordination: Jane Zandonai and Roman Streuselberger, Wiener Festwochen
Installations 15.5.–21.6.2026, 4- 0 p.m.
Reza Shirvan, Otis Vogl-Fernheim, Francesca Centonze & Iris Writze, Ida Mariboe Nielsen, Laura Chalabi, Mina Banabak, Sophia Festini Sughi & Marietheres Reichegger & David Spanier/AA+, Angela Proyer, Ymo09, Leonie Holtkamp, SHE SAID
Workshops & Performances & Concerts each Wednesday, 4 - 0 p.m.
Program
Sebastian Krenn, Luna Maluna Gri, Barbara Oberhofer, Paul-Can Atlama, Mahdi Bakhshi, Julius Lugmayr, Lea Gander & Matthias Sanoll, Jona Lingitz & Neptunia Monna Anarchus, Martina Menegon, Doris Krüger, Aisel Gulieva, Rage, Lea Neckel, Janine Scheer-Erb, Leonie Wimmer, Lea Neckel, Katharina Busl, Daryna Moisieienk und viele mehr!
A collaboration between the Vienna Festival/Wiener Festwochen and the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Transmedia Arts, Jakob Lena Knebl.