A project by
the Vienna Festival in collaboration with students, graduates and lecturers of Transmedia Arts Class.
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 Zwingland Thomas Kasebacher, Wiener Festwochen
Production:
Mathias Vieider, Wiener Festwochen
Technical Coordination: Jane Zandonai and Roman Streuselberger, Wiener
Festwochen
Programme
Transmythical Eröffnung 20.05.2026, 6:00 pm
Vienna Festival / Wiener Festwochen, House of the Republic
Badeschiff, Wolfgang-Schmitz-Promenade 4, 1010 Vienna
Installations 15.05.–21.06.2026, 4:00 pm – midnight
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, 4:00 pm – midnight
Programme: 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, and more.
A collaboration between the Vienna Festival/Wiener
Festwochen and the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Transmedia Arts, Jakob Lena Knebl.
Further information
transmedialekunst.com
festwochen.at
