The program, administration and operating costs have been budgeted at around 1.5 million euros annually from 2025.įrom 2023 to 2024, the Foto Arsenal Wien will be located as a guest exhibition at the MuseumsQuartier. The exhibitions will be realized exclusively with loans there are no plans to build up an independent collection.Īccording to the City of Vienna, the planning and conversion cost amount to 2 million euros. The new center will cover an area of 950 m², 740 m² of which will be used for exhibitions, lectures, workshops, etc., while the remaining space will be used for offices and a store. The Foto Arsenal Wien will be a place for contemporary engagement with this genre, a space for mediation and competence. Höfinger stressed, "With the revitalization of the site by different actors from art and culture, we expect an upgrading of the location towards a new cultural and social center in the heart of Vienna."Īccording to the City of Vienna, Photography, as the most formative medium of our time, is omnipresent and significantly determines our perception. "We are very pleased to be able to add another building block to the planned cultural cluster in the Arsenal with the 'Foto Arsenal Wien'," says Petra Höfinger, Managing Director of ART for ART Theaterservice GmbH, owner of the property. Together with the 'Filmmuseum Lab', a unique new cultural cluster is being created in the Arsenal for the Viennese and international guests," says Vienna's City Councillor for Culture Veronica Kaup-Hasler. The Arsenal, with its proximity to surrounding cultural institutions and opportunities for synergies, is the ideal location for this. In the future, the dedicated exhibition hall will unite presentation, expertise, discourse, mediation and networking in one place. "Vienna is gaining a cultural meeting place, its location for photography: in the future, the 'Foto Arsenal Wien' will be dedicated exclusively to this genre, its history, present and development. This model also enables synergies and efficiency in administration, communication and ticketing.ĭue to the spatial connection to cultural institutions already existing or in planning on-site (Austrian Film Museum, ART for ART workshops, rehearsal stages of the Bundestheater, etc.) the new institution will be integrated into a lively cultural area. Under the Stadt Wien Kunst GmbH, the autonomy of the brands Foto Arsenal Wien, 'Foto Wien-Festival' and 'Kunsthalle Wien' is ensured.
Known formerly as Kunsthalle Wien GmbH, Stadt Wien Kunst GmbH is the supporting organization, which provides the appropriate organizational framework for the 'Foto Arsenal Wien' as well as the independent biennial 'Foto Wien' festival that is integrated there.
The invitation to tender will be issued by Stadt Wien Kunst GmbH, which is owned by the City of Vienna.
After a corresponding tender period until mid-July, a review of the applications received and hearings by a jury of experts, the appointment of the new director should take place before the end of the summer. The call for tenders for the artistic direction of the Foto Arsenal Wien is scheduled for June 8, 2022. After the necessary planning and renovation phase, it is scheduled to open in the fall of 2024 in Vienna's Arsenal, more specifically in Arsenal Objekt 19. With the Foto Arsenal Wien, Vienna will get an autonomous center for the presentation and mediation of contemporary photography.
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