03.02.2012 - 29.05.2012
Anselm Kiefer, one of the most significant artists of the present day, forms the big opening of the exhibition year in the Essl Museum. A new solo exhibition personally furnished by the collector Karlheinz Essl is on show
More15.10.2011 - 16.04.2012
The exhibition LUSTSPIEL, with new works by Georg Baselitz (born 1938) and Arnulf Rainer (born 1929), in the Arnulf Rainer Museums premises of the former, neo-classical women’s bath in Baden near Vienna is undoubtedly a very special event.
More about the Exhibition16.09.2012 - 18.09.2012
The Frequency Festival, organised by radio station FM4, is one of Austria’s largest music festivals. With previous locations in Vienna, Salzburg, and now in St.Pölten, some of the names to have appeared – Foo Fighters, The Kooks, The Chemical Brothers and Kaiser Chiefs.
More about the FM4 Frequency Festival23.08.2012 - 09.09.2012
A Classical Music Festival in a romantic setting. Grafenegg offers the historical backdrop for musical masterpieces from past centuries.
More about the Music Festival06.07.2012 - 08.07.2012
Festival in Litschau on Lake Herrensee. Music and theatre combined with nature!
More about the Schrammel.Klang.Festival29.06.2012 - 04.08.2012
A top-ranking theatre festival among the Austrian summer cultural events. Only 70 miles south of Vienna, situated in a scenic mountainous setting, Reichenau has been a traditional summer resort for the Viennese high society since the late 19th century.
More about the Reichenau Festival25.05.2012 - 28.05.2012
This event takes place at one of Austria's most breathtaking abbeys, with sweeping views of the Danube river and nestled right within Austria's wine country.
More about the International Baroque Days at Melk Abbey28.04.2012 - 05.05.2012
An avant-garde pop festival in Krems - inmidst Austria's wine country - featuring music, performance and installations.
More20.04.2012 - 22.04.2012
This international festival is an annual encounter of readings, music and locally grown fine wines. The evening events at Goettweig Abbey are accompanied by modern Viennese music.
More about Literature & Wine12.04.2012 - 23.04.2012
The world heritage site of Wachau is not only famous for the beauty of its landscape, but also its cultural treasures. During this festival, the Wachau region dazzles with everything and everyone of distinction. Multi-course dinners, cookery shows, celebrity table talks and wine tastings prove that Wachau plays in the Champions League of indulgence.
More about Wachau Gourmet FestivalIn the epicentre of the vineyards, this cluster of winemaking facilities, hotel and restaurant emanates the aura of a fairy tale. And this is not, we emphasize, simply a matter of history.
wine House & Restaurant Nigl in SenftenbergLandhaus Bacher has been one of the first culinary addresses in the Wachau for many years. It is one of Austria’s very best restaurants.
Gourmet-restaurant Landhaus Bacher in the WachauJamek has been an institution in the Wachau for decades now. Both for the lusciously comfortable atmosphere and the quality of everything promised...and delivered.
Jamek - Country inn and wine estate in the Wachau valleyThe name says it all. The “Art Mile of Krems” extends from the historic town centre to the medieval village centre of Stein, and from museums and concert venues to gourmet restaurants, ensuring an abundance of stimulating cultural experiences.
Kunstmeile KremsThe Austrian daily “Kurier” called it “Austria’s most beautiful regional wine shop”. The brainchild of local authorities and some forty top winemakers from Wagram, planned by the Viennese architectural team of “gerner°gerner plus”, and opened in September 2009, Weritas Wagram is a centre for the entire region.
Wine Shop Wagram WeritasUltra-modern architecture and exceptional wellness offers in one of Austria’s oldest wine regions: this is a winning concept, as the 4-star Superior Hotel Loisium in Langenlois demonstrates.
Wine Hotel Loisium in LangenloisThe Heurigenhof Bründlmayer is no ordinary heuriger buffet. In this preciously beautiful ensemble of historic buildings, you enjoy superb cuisine and the preeminent stars of the Austrian wine scene, courtesy of Bründlmayer.
Wine tavern-restaurant Heurigenhof Bründlmayer in LangenloisThe combination of culinary pleasures, the historic castle and landscape gardens, the modern architecture, and a world-class concert programme makes the Grafenegg Music Festival a delight for all the senses.
Music-Festival in GrafeneggThe cultural centre at the former psychiatric hospital in Gugging offers an impressive and unconventional introduction to “Art Brut”. And part of the Gugging experience is sometimes encountering the very artists who created these works.
The Art Brut Center in GuggingAt two very different venues – the nearly 900-year-old Klosterneuburg Monastery and the contemporary Kunstmuseum Essl – visitors can join the monthly Art Breakfast.
The Art Breakfast at KlosterneuburgA Festival of Flights of Fancy: the donaufestival Krems, held each April, is regarded as t h e festival for current artistic positions at the interface of performance and acoustic art, experimentation, pop, and subculture.
donaufestival in KremsFrom the middle of the vineyards rises the aluminium-clad cube of the Visitors’ Centre Loisium, a symbol of how adept the winegrowing town of Langenlois is at linking the modern and the traditional. This theme is also taken up each year in March by the Loisiarte music and literature festival.
Loisiarte Festival for Music & LiteratureAustria's diverse cultural offerings include over 200 festivals, stretching from world scale events to small regional gatherings. Many of them make use of Austria's beautiful surroundings and most of them offer an outstanding culinary menu to accompany the cultural experience.
Find out more about Austrian festivalsArnulf Rainer’s hometown of Baden pays tribute to this versatile and busy painter with a museum devoted to his work – and housed in a former bath that is a gem of 19th-century architecture.
Arnulf Rainer Museum in Baden bei WienThe crystal-clear waters of Lake Lunz and the forests and mountains of Lower Austria’s Voralpen region provide the backdrop for a July festival that devotes itself to transcending all borders between styles and genres.
wellenklänge in Lunz am SeeWorld Music from the Waldviertel: Litschau, Austria’s northernmost city, is the birthplace of the traditional “Schrammel” music. In July, the area surrounding the Herrensee and the Herrensee theatre serves as the location for three days of Austrian folk music, sometimes conventional and occasionally eccentric.
Schrammel.Klang.Festvial in the WaldviertelAustria’s wine regions are both beautiful and easy to visit. In fact, once you step off the plane in Vienna, you have already arrived in one of the world’s most unique wine region. Vienna. Then about one hour south east of Vienna lies the Burgenland, and one hour west of Vienna is the region of Lower Austria with many beautiful valleys. Many of them along the Danube.
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