TRENDLETTER 7-March-2022: Animated Film Festival, Berlin Fashion Week, Wiener Festwochen,...

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TRENDLETTER 7-March-2022

Animated Film Festival, Berlin Fashion Week, Wiener Festwochen,...

International Animation Film Festival 'Tricky Women' will happen in hybrid form in cinema and online from 9 - 13 March in Vienna The programme of this year's International Animation Film Festival 'Tricky Women' is already online. The festival with the title 'Tricky Realities' was announced with the nature-power-shamanism inspired trailer by French filmmaker Héloïse Ferlay who is currently Artist-in-Residence at Q21/MQ in Vienna. For the first time, the 'Maria Lassnig Golden Film Reel Award', worth 10,000 € will be handed out. The international award is named after Austria's groundbreaking female artist Maria Lassnig who communicated a new 'body awareness' through her work...

Berlin Fashion Week (14 - 20 March) presented this edition's key visual as sign of solidarity in the colors of the Ukrainian flag Berlin Fashion Week released the preview of the programme with an introduction into the pillars of the 7-days event series reaching from classical runway shows of designers like Rebekka Ruétz or Marcel Ostertag during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, exhibitions (Berliner Salon) to future-orientated think-tank meetings of professionals...

Wiener Festwochen 2022 production 'Astronaut Wittgenstein' by Nataša Rajković explores times of transition with site-specific theater event in Vienna Recently, Wiener Festwochen announced that around 40 productions will happen from 13 May to 18 June at more than 20 locations in Vienna. Among the productions are more than 10 world premieres such as 'Astronaut Wittgenstein' by Croatian playwright and director Nataša Rajković who developed for the Kaisermühlenbucht a site-specific theater event where people around like cyclists, roller skaters, swimmers, sunbathers will be involved into the story of Astronaut Wittgenstein. The artist explores topics like the definition of the natural or the artificial, questions how change is working, the impact of time, or how strangers can communicate with one another and hits this way quasi the nerve of the Wiener Festwochen 2022 motto...

Two new sculpture exhibitions opened in Vienna: 'Face to Face. Marc Quinn meets Franz Xaver Messerschmidt' at the Belvedere and 'Erwin Wurm. Subject' at König Galerie at the KHK - Kleines Haus der Kunst Marc Quinn and Erwin Wurm are contemporary artists who reflect in their work upon everyday life, struggling in life, structural differences, abilities-disabilities, the social environment with all the different values in a symbolic language that makes communication through art easy to understand...

MKG Hamburg exhibition 'Dressed' follows role models, pioneers for telling the story of 200 years of fashion and emancipation For the exploration of society and especially the role of women, MKG uses as 'red thread' clothing and accessories worn by extraordinary women, role models in their times from the early 19th century until nowadays. Even when the presented women were according to the press release not selected after the criteria status or celebrity, the dramaturgical red thread is mainly a luxurious one...

Vienna hiking route tip to the Hermannskogel by Fashion.at publisher Karin Sawetz: View from the highest peak in the city, the Habsburg Warte, to the east of Austria The tower with its spiral staircase up to the terrace is the last leg of the tour. The staircase gets narrower with every round. When I arrived at the terrace, my first look was to the east where on these days the thoughts of the whole world are. The border of the Ukraine is around 400 kilometers away from Vienna. Even when the terrace isn't high enough to see over the city and Austria's neighbor Slovakia to the Ukraine...

It's seeding time again! Austrian gardening retailer Bellaflora presented four garden trends On the basis of the general kitchen-relax garden trend and on occasion of the current seeding time, Austrian gardening retailer Bellaflora released a planting trend report developed by the company's plant expert Bettina Bayer-Grilz with focus on the mix of flowers and trees with herbs and vegetables. The four garden architecture trends are summarized as the 'Sun Garden' with sun-loving plants like peppers, citrus trees and geraniums, the 'Shadow Garden'...

Vienna Insight: 'Straw instead of Concrete'-graffiti for making aware of animal farming Although vegan food is trending in Austria with a growing product series of meat alternatives and milk products like cheese on a plant base, animal farming is still a theme. For a good reason as vegan nutrition has the touch of exclusivity practiced by a minority, compared with the diet of the average Austrian. Last month, the graffiti on over 50 m2 at the Donaukanal in Vienna was thematized in several Austrian media publications where the artwork by unknown artists was presented with the story behind. The graffiti shows in the middle...