About Wienwoche
WIENWOCHE is a Viennese festival that experiments with merging creative practices and activism in different scales and formats and from different sides of art and social movements. Since its beginning in 2012, WIENWOCHE has taken place in September every year. WIENWOCHE sees cultural work as engagement in social, political and cultural debates, with the aim of advancing them and making them visible. WIENWOCHE intends to push the boundaries of cultural and artistic practices and make them accessible for all social groups living in Vienna. WIENWOCHE is carried out by the independent “Verein zur Förderung der Stadtbenutzung” (“The Association for the Promotion of City Use”).
Verein zur Förderung der Stadtbenutzung
The Verein zur Förderung der Stadtbenutzung was founded in 2011 to support the new cultural project WIENWOCHE. The development and promotion of socio-political and cultural spaces for artistic, socio-cultural and civil society actors - also in the sense of reclaiming urban public space - is at the heart of its activities.
Board
The members of the board are:
FORMER BOARD MEMBERS
The members of the board from 2011 till 2024 were
Ivana Pilic
Chairperson
Cornelia Kogoj
Treasurer, Deputy Treasurer | General Secretary of the Minorities Initiative, curator
Luisa Ziaja
Deputy Secretary, Secretary | curator, author, editor
Eva Meran
Secretary | curator
Martin Fritz
Treasurer | curator, advisor and publicist
Simon Inou
Deputy Secretary | journalist, co-founder of afrikanet.info and the communication campaign Black Austria, managing director of M-MEDIA
Asli Kişlal
Chairwoman | director, dramatist, scriptwriter, artistic director of the theater project „daskunst“
Marissa Lôbo
| artist and activist in the Black and Migrant movement, chairwoman of the association "Forum Interkulturalität"
Markus Wailand
Deputy Chairperson | director, author and producer of documentary, short and TV films
WHW
Gabu Heindl
