A city known for its architecture, music, and paintings switches focus to another art form for around three weeks at the Foto Wien photography festival.
- A long celebration of photography around Vienna
- Exhibitions, workshops, talks and more
- Next festival: Mar 9 to Mar 27, 2022
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What is Foto Wien all about?
(Home of the festival organisers)
Organised by the excellent Kunst Haus Wien (which includes the Hundertwasser museum), this is Vienna’s contribution to the European Month of Photography.
Consider Foto Wien a celebration of the art of photography, a showcase for photographic initiatives and photographers, and a focus for all those with a love of the medium to come together at talks, workshops, exhibitions etc.
In its inaugural year, over 100 partners hosted events of one kind of another, but a festival centre also acted as a hub and headquarters.
2022 highlights
The successor to the first 2019 festival is slated for March 2022. The event skipped both 2020 and 2021, unfortunately (thanks, COVID).
At that initial festival, many of Vienna’s leading art museums, galleries, and other institutions served as festival partners, including the Museumsquartier, the Albertina, the Jewish Museum and the Natural History Museum.
Over 160 exhibitions and 300 events are already planned for 2022: browse the festival website to review the full programme when it becomes available. Two particular thematic highlights will be Female Photographers in Focus and Rethinking Nature.
The 2019 festival centre occupied the former Post Office Savings Bank (Postsparkasse), itself an iconic piece of architecture and design by Otto Wagner. In 2022, the honour passes to the Atelier Augarten, the former studio complex of the sculptor Gustinus Ambrosi.
2022 tickets and dates
Provisional dates are March 9th to March 27th.
In 2019, anything happening at the Foto Wien festival centre was free. Exhibitions and events elsewhere may have required admission to the particular location. See the website for the 2022 situation regarding tickets and access.
How to get to Foto Wien
The Atelier Augarten is just off the Augarten Park and not far from the Porcelain Museum and the home of the Vienna Boys Choir.
Tram/bus: take trams 5 or O to Nordwestbahnstraße. Catch the 5, for example, from the U4 subway station Friedensbrücke. Alternatively, take the U2 subway to Taborstraße and go for a walk through the park to reach the Atelier.
Address: Nordwestbahnstraße 35A, 1020 Vienna (festival HQ)