Aufnahme des Zentrums der Milchstraße<br>mit dem Radioteleskop MeerKAT — Aufnahme des Zentrums der Milchstraße
mit dem Radioteleskop MeerKAT

Foto: Ian Heywood SARA0 2022 | Design Pentagram Berlin

FESTIVAL 2022

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If only everything were this simple

100 attempts to grapple with complexity

Pandemic, war, climate change, inflation – right now, humanity has got its hands full with complexity, surprises, insecurities, overloads, misunderstandings and all things that in some way require explanation, patience and careful listening.

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News 01.09.2022

New: Festival Pass

If only everything were this simple - in keeping with the festival theme for 2022, this year we have radically eliminated everything that has made the pass so complex over the course of its 35-year history (score cards, assigned seats, personalisation, quotas and various editions). What remains is what has always made the Wien Modern Pass so unique: Five weeks of a full programme at an unbelievable package price.

New music for the city

With around a month of events at countless locations all over the city, Wien Modern is the biggest festival for contemporary arts music in Austria and one of the biggest of its kind worldwide. It was founded in 1988 at the initiative of Claudio Abbado, conductor and the general music director of the city of Vienna at the time. Since then, it takes place every year in November in Vienna.

Exactly what is to be expected from "contemporary arts music" and from a festival with the name "Wien Modern", which is at odds with all the clichés of Vienna?

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