Symposion Lindabrunn

Residency: Katya Dimova
2024-07-01 08:00 - 2024-07-10 17:00 (Europe/Paris)
The life of wild plants shows parallels to our society, for example when neophytes are portrayed as unloved wild plants or women’s herbs are discredited by popular belief.

In textile books, the artist passes on various storiesabout the healing powers of plants. In the NEOPHYTEN III books embroidered in 2023, she focuses on neophytes. These plants arrived after 1492 with or without human intervention in an area where they were not previously native. Manyhave interesting properties, healing powers or a variety of uses, yet such species are blacklisted, fought against and outlawed because they can conquer large areas and thus suppress the “native” fauna. “If we don’t allow plants with a history of migration to become part of ourpart of our culture, they will remain marginalized,” says the artist.

In her work, Katya Dimova studies these plants on site in all their complexity and plays with the layers of meaning. Are (we) humans also neophytes?

Produktionsaufenthalt – Claudia Rohrauer
2024-07-05 08:00 - 2024-07-16 17:00 (Europe/Paris)
ANALOGUE FIELDWORK
Analogue Fieldwork deals with the potential and possibilities of sustainable analog darkroom practice, plant-based developers as an alternative to conventional photographic chemicals and thus with the future of analog photography. The central starting point is the ability of plants to act as a developer substance through the phenols and polyphenols they contain and to reduce silver salts to metallic silver.
The environment and surroundings in Lindabrunn become accomplices and co-producers of photographic image production; as an artist, I hand over control of the processes to plants, soil, weather, sun and, last but not least, to chance, which may bring about unpredictable chemical reactions between the light-sensitive photographic material such as film and paper and the plant phenols. Tried and tested techniques will be played out with the ecological resources available at Lindabrunn: the production of plant-based film developers to develop photographic documentation of the work process; phytograms of plants growing on site: a technique in which the plant develops its own image through direct contact with the film material and anthotypes: ephemeral light images created by dyes from plants growing on site. In this way, a site-specific portrait of the terrain is created – the depicted and the depicting grow together in the picture plane. Process documentation and “end results” meet on an equal level.
ANALOGUE FIELDWORK Workshop
The workshop offers an insight into alternative and sustainable processes in the analog photo lab. The central feature is the ability of plants to act as developing agents through the phenols and polyphenols they contain and to reduce silver salts to metallic silver. During a walk, plants growing on site will be collected to serve as source material for image production: following the exploration of the area, a film developer will be brewed from the plants to develop the photo documentation of the walk. On top of that, the technique of the phytogram is presented, in which plants develop their own image in the form of a silver image through direct contact with the film material. The collaborative process with a performative character opens up a field for an exchange on the relationship between environment, material resource and image production as well as the depicted and the depictor.
Previous knowledge of photography is not a prerequisite, but can be an advantage.

SummerArtAcademie
2024-07-20 - 2024-07-26 | Symposion Lindabrunn, Steinbruchstraße 25, Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn, 2551
Art workshops for children, young people and families.

Artists from different cultures and nations offer insights into the fields of painting, graphic design, photography, sound design, textile design, drawing, literature, journalism, dance, music and science.

The Limits of Resilience - lin. Symposion Ökologie und Kunst
2024-08-24 - 2024-08-25 | Symposion Lindabrunn, Steinbruchstraße 25, Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn, 2551
“Ecological resilience has been defined as the magnitude of disturbance that can be experienced before a system moves into a different state and different set of controls.” (Holling, 1973)
The Limits of Resilience is organized by guest curators Malin Walleser (media artist, carpenter) and Felix Gaulhofer (ecologist). Together with various artists, ecologists, musicians, scientific and non-scientific researchers, they will address the urgent topic of resilience in socio-ecological systems. It is intended to be a place for critical debate and research. The program includes visual art such as site-specific installations, watercolours and sculptures, performances, concerts and sound art, discussion formats, artist talks and workshops.
CURATORIAL APPROACH
In 1973, Canadian ecologist C.S. Holling defined ecological resilience as the magnitude of disturbance that can be experienced before a system moves into a different state and different set of controls. In 2000, the British human geographer Neil Adger described social resilience as the ability of human communities to withstand external shocks to their social infrastructure, such as environmental fluctuations or social, economic and political upheaval. However, resilience is also the ability to live on in the face of change and emphasizes the need to accept change and adaptation as a fundamental property of systems in order to maintain continuity, rather than assuming stability and trying to rationalize deviations from it. How much disruption can a system withstand? How far can a system adapt before it becomes an abolition? How fast can change be so that it is still tolerable? Resilient systems are able to restructure themselves and rely on dynamic learning and development processes. In order to imagine the future and develop new narratives, we need to work together with art and culture. In this way, people can be taken on a journey of transformation.
Program
Exhibition
Marie Vermont: The common landscape of Lindabrunn (picture, audio)
Jakob Schauer: A resilient sound-map (outdoor sound installation)
Heidi Trimmel: Solutions I: communication (interactive intervention)
Hannah Todt: The difference between everything (site-specific installation)
Claudia Rohrauer: Workshop and presentation of plant-based photo developers
Felix Gaulhofer/ Malin Walleser: LB24_context_data (outdoor installation)

Program Saturday:
14:00 Opening
14:30 Photo Workshop with plant-based photo developers (Claudia Rohrauer – limited number of participants, please sign up before August 21st through post@claudiarohrauer.info
15:00 Nature Walk with the Landschaftspflegeverein (Landscape Conversation Assiciation)
15:00 SOUNA heat wave (Sauna-Sound Art Installation: Golden Diskó Ship and Kollektiv RISS) until 20:00
17:00 My Water is Your Water (Workshop in Art & Activism: Mekhala Dave / Jakob Kukala, EN)
19:00 Dinner
20:00 Continuum of Resilience (Djonni Laser live)
21:00 Performance (Heidi Trimmel)
22:00 Echoes of Resilience (Nadeshda)

Program Sunday:
12:30 Tour of the exhibition
14:00 Activism & Resilience (Interactive lecture: Irene Nemeth)
15:00 SOUNA heat wave (Sauna-Sound Art Installation: Theresa Stroetges/ Wiebke Frerichs/ Malin Walleser) until 18:00
15:30 Becoming symbiotic (Performative exploration with multispecies habitat interventions: Isa Klee)
18:00 Open discussion (with Heidi Trimmel/ Mekhala Dave)

Program:
Marie Vermont – The common landscape of Lindabrunn
Marie Vermont’s Allmende [Common Land] refers to the common landscape, which can be simultaneously entered and inhabited by various living beings without consumption. Insect larvae next to car tires, knotweed, bones, berries, cans, birds, building rubble and animals, between wind, weather and displacement. Since 2021, the Allmende series with several hundred watercolors in small and large format has been created from stays in these public, undesigned non-places. During the symposium The Limits of Resilience, a series of paintings and an audio cassette from the common landscape of Lindabrunn will be produced based on the series.

Jakob Schauer – 7 horns and a semi-dry grassland
The 7-channel sound installation combines all the ambient sounds of the semi-arid grassland on the former communal land with an electronically generated sound structure. The listening experience extends over large parts of the site, with the fusion of synthetic and “natural” sounds at the center of attention.Carefully selected sounds test the limits of the differentiability of our perception in the site-specific sound installation.
Heidi Trimmel – System mapping the human-environmental system
Heidi Trimmel creates a system-analytical map of the human-environment relationship in which decisive variables are defined and linked. Balancing and reinforcing cycles become visible. This map forms the basis for discussion about where forces should best be focused or released in order to achieve a (re)integration with nature. In Heidi’s opinion, a renegotiation of the social contract that forms the basis of modern society must also include animate and inanimate nature.
Hannah Todt – The difference between everything
The residency at Lindabrunn offers the opportunity to consider resilience as fluctuating, and to understand change not in terms of progress, but to focus on its malleability, which is not necessarily purposeful. Our imagination should be mobilized through non-scientific research and playful experimentation to enable a relationship with our environment that moves beyond the antagonistic relationship between harnessing and canonizing nature. Improvised gestures form a site-specific installation that builds on the existing landscape and refers to the structures and materials found in Lindabrunn.
Claudia Rohrauer
Workshop and presentation of plant-based photo developers
The workshop offers an insight into alternative and sustainable processes in the analog photo lab. The central feature is the ability of plants to act as developing agents through the phenols and polyphenols they contain and to reduce silver salts to metallic silver. During a walk, plants growing on site will be collected to serve as source material for image production: the phytogram technique will be presented, in which plants develop their own image in the form of a silver image through direct contact with the film material. The photo documentation of the walk will then be developed in a plant-based solution. The joint process with a performative character opens up a field for an exchange about the relationship between environment, material resource and image production as well as the depicted and the depicted.
Previous knowledge of photography is not a prerequisite, but can be an advantage.
Please register in advance by 21.8. at post@claudiarohrauer.info

Landschaftspflegeverein – Nature Walk
The Symposion in Lindabrunn is the largest contiguous dry grassland area on the southern thermal line with rarities such as fly orchid and yellow flax. The area has been used by artists since 1967, creating a unique symbiosis of nature and art and preserving the dry grasslands, which are also used as a recreational area, to this day.Website: https://landschaftspflegeverein.at

Felix Gaulhofer / Malin Walleser
Data collected, saved, postponed. Observed, measured and structured values on a specific issue. Raw data systematized, analysed and interpreted. The context is the purpose. The processing is its meaning. Subjective data processing is distorted. And what does it look like there? Is it the utopia that awaits there, or the gloomy downfall? Have we taken it too far? Opportunity squandered. The frenzy of adaptation and the hysteria of change may heal us or destroy us. Perhaps we will only know when we have gone one step too far.
Artistic processing of data collected according to scientific methodology.

SOUNA – heat wave

Mekhala Dave – My Water is Your Water
A Workshop in Art and Activism
In combining each of their situated practices, the artist Jakob Kukula and the ocean law & policy researcher Mekhala Dave invite you to a workshop on celebrating water: its symbolic, political and spiritual essence. In a world facing climate change, water is witnessing relentless impacts. Human actions from colonial times and to present day negligence from neoliberal systems have raised pollution, contamination and scarcity of water that is a global crisis to many vulnerable communities that depend on it. With more claims on property and privatization, the access to ample water is increasingly restricted. Our connection with water is also compromised.
In anthropocentric conditions, how can we unlearn our ways and take action? By taking water as inspiration and guidance, we can aim to unlearn in plurality of exchanges on how to flow with water and in the porosity of water, to collectively think of possibilities for resistance for our water bodies ‒ ice, rivers, lakes and ocean from different strategies that arise across rituals, movements, activist and artistic practices. From rooting in localized, place-based struggles to the global commons, we will respond from critical moments and activations surrounded by the artwork Loose Harbour (2017) from the artist Leo Schatzl that touches Symposium Lindabrunn’s history of crossing into watery worlds.

Djonni Laser aka Johanna Walleser – continuum of resilience
The communication center, which looks like a classic amphitheater made of natural stone, is intended to be the stage and thus the experiential space for the live performance in the open air. Visible but decentralized, the so-called arena will be played with Djonni Laser’s instruments and the corresponding equipment. The focus will be on the idea of a place of gathering and exchange. The listeners sit in a circle on different levels and can experience the intensity and quality of the sounds from each position through specially aligned loudspeakers. Neoclassical, partly polyrhythmic piano playing based on “continuous music” is accompanied by spherical, noise sounds and the voice sometimes serves as noise, sometimes as an instrument. The focus is on the sound experience. Resilience should be experienced as an empowering state in the group process. An emotional and real borderline experience and border crossing is approached in a musical way in order to generate the moment of a shared, profound process.
Heidi Trimmel
Live performance
Nadeshda aka Andreas Haslauer – Echoes of Resilience
A cassette loop performance deals with the exploration of the resilience of cassette tapes. It attempts to break the boundaries of the medium (on a mechanical and musical level). I am trying to reach a point where the emotional and beautiful endurance of the music and recordings evolves into a fractured and harsh sound. A performance that creates a sense of tension in which the hypnotic and continuous sound of repetition, despite the breaking of the recordings and a fit of discomfort, retains its beauty.
Irene Nemeth – Activism & resilience (interactive lecture)
…using the example of a local initiative against a road project, the Wiener Neustadt eastern bypass
The lecture moves from the definition of the term and general considerations on activism and resilience to a specific project where people have become active. After a brief review of the history of the controversial road project and the legal steps, we will look at the initiatives that have been formed, the activities that have been undertaken and the creative inputs that have emerged. We look at how cooperation between a citizens’ movement and activists can work,what synergies there are and where sticking points or conflicts can arise, we report on strategies and speculate whether or where the term “resilience” can be applied at all, and by dealing with this project, hidden talents came to light among the protagonists. Whether thiscreativity already touches on the field of art remains to be seen.
Isa Klee – Becoming Symbiotic
Performative exploration with multispecies habitat interventions
The performative walk focuses on species living on site, such as the toadflax bee, which nests on the dry grassland in early summer. The aim is to become symbiotic with the landscape and its more-than-human inhabitants; as part of the performative exploration, Klee encourages visitors to experience their own role in the ecosystem anew through habitat interventions for other species. Yellow cloths and building materials – as used for constructive activities in urban development – as well as found, renewable raw materials on site will be used. Human interventions in the landscape will be thematised and reflected upon, and new approaches to sculpture and landscape will be explored. (Please bring yellow scarves and cloths made from natural materials).

References:
Adger, W.N. (2000): Social and ecological resilience: are they related? Progress in Human Geography 24: 347–64.
Folke, C., Colding, J. And Berkes, F. (2009): Synthesis: building resilience and adaptive capacity in social-ecological systems. Chapter 14 in Navigating Social-Ecological Systems Building Resilience for Complexity and Change, pp. 352-387. Cambridge University Press.DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511541957.020
Holling, C.S. (1973): Resilience and stability of ecological systems. Annual Review inEcology and Systematics 4: 1–23.

Open Think Tank
2024-09-16 08:00 - 2024-09-27 17:00 (Europe/Paris)
In the dense annual program of Symposion Lindabrunn, this period is reserved this year for spontaneous developments, process-oriented think tanks, in-depth discussions and further networking from the annual themes. In the open development space, the production workshops and technical equipment as well as the environment of the Symposion Lindabrunn association can be used by members, cooperation partners and qualified art groups.

Member exhibition
2024-09-27 16:00 - 2024-10-20 17:00 (Europe/Vienna) | Symposion Lindabrunn, Steinbruchstraße 25, Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn, 2551
Member´s exhibition of Verein Symposion Lindabrunn outdoor and indoor in the exhibition space.
With:
FX + Metafunk
Christian Kvasnicka
Lanzmaier + Zißler + Kohlweis
Korinna Lindinger
Verena Mayrhofer
Wendelin Munter
Petra Mühlmann-Hatzl
noid+ Caddy + Flunger
Leo Schatzl
Christine Schörkhuber –
Malin Walleser
Gabriele Wagner
Performance:
Leonie Spitzer

Fazit 24
2024-10-19 14:00 - 2024-10-20 17:00 UTC | Symposion Lindabrunn, Steinbruchstraße 25, Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn, 2551
Sa,19.10.: Exhibition Open
So, 20.10. 15:00 Finissage with Artist talk, Performance & Chill out with Guests
The exhibition provides insights into the diverse work of the people associated with the Symposion. Stone sculpture and fine art, textile works,kinetic art, sound installations and video from different generations of the association’s history are on display.Also taking part are:
FX + Metafunk, Christian Kvasnicka, Lanzmaier + Zißler + Kohlweis,Korinna Lindinger, Verena Mayrhofer, Wendelin Munter, Petra Mühlmann-Hatzl, noid+ Caddy + Flunger, Leo Schatzl, Christine Schörkhuber, Malin Walleser, Gabriele Wagner
Performance:Leonie Spitzer

Winter break
2024-11-01 - 2025-03-22 | Symposion Lindabrunn, Steinbruchstraße 25, Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn, 2551
Events will take place again from April 2024. You can also take a walk and stroll in winter: with the mobile art application Symposion Lindabrunn Digital

That was 2024
2024-12-31 08:00 (Europe/Vienna) | Symposion Lindabrunn, Steinbruchstraße 25, Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn, 2551

Save the House - Call for Donations
2025-03-03 - 2025-06-27 | Symposion Lindabrunn, Steinbruchstraße 25, Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn, 2551
Crowdfunding
Most of you will have noticed over the last few months that the clubhouse is in dire need of renovation and we have a lot of work to do. A lot of energy, lifeblood and volunteer hours have gone into maintaining the building. Students from the design.build studio, a course at the Vienna University of Technology under the direction of Peter Fattinger, have been developing a new concept for the front part of the Vereinshaus since last year and will be implementing it between April and June.
Two new exhibition spaces will be created, and in the following year we will devote ourselves to renovating the rear section.
But it also takes money and sponsorship to pay for our material costs.
♥ We kindly ask for your support and donations
Crowdfunding
Verein Symposion Lindabrunn
Raika Enzesfeld
IBAN: [REDACTED]
BIC: RLNWATWWBAD

Nature Conservation Day of Action
2025-03-22 10:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Vienna) | Symposion Lindabrunn, Steinbruchstraße 25, Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn, 2551
The Symposion in Lindabrunn is the second largest contiguous area of dry grassland on the Thermenlinie after the Perchtoldsdorfer Heide, with numerous rare animal and plant species such as the large cowbell, spring adonis, Austrian wreath gentian, yellow flax, the rare quendel snail and the yellow flax bee, which was only discovered in 2020. In addition to sheep grazing, regular scrub clearance is of great importance for conservation. Help preserve this outstanding natural area!

design.build Studio - New construction of the Clubhouse facade
2025-04-01 - 2025-06-27 | Symposion Lindabrunn, Steinbruchstraße 25, Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn, 2551
The Symposion Lindabrunn Clubhouse is a wooden barrack from the 1980s and has proven itself as a creative space over the decades. Despite its robustness and repairability, the building is now badly affected by its age, exposed location and the weather. Its structural condition now presents the association with considerable infrastructural and resource-related challenges.
At the same time, however, an architectural adaptation offers the opportunity not only to improve the usability of the building, but also to expand the possibilities for events and artistic performances.
A collaboration with design.build studio of the Vienna Technical University which has started in autumn 2024 provides pioneering solutions.

https://www.design-build.at/
This practice-oriented teaching format for architecture students makes it possible to work on real construction tasks in all their complexity. The students go through the entire process, from the initial design idea to the actual construction, working as a large team. They experience how design and craftsmanship go hand in hand – an approach that differs from the usual separation of disciplines in architectural practice.
Directed by Professor Peter Fattinger, the design.build studio has realized projects of international relevance for over two decades, including temporary installations in public spaces and permanent educational and community buildings in Austria, South Africa and Indonesia. Their work has been presented in renowned exhibitions worldwide, for example at the Architecture Biennale in Venice, the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt, the Center for Architecture in New York City and the Architekturzentrum Wien.
The current annual project for 2024/25 is dedicated to the comprehensive adaptation of the Clubhouse at Symposion Lindabrunn. The plans include the renovation of the façades, the redesign of the entrance area and forecourt as well as a protective canopy. The front area of the building is to be given a new quality as an interface to the public space, with exhibition options and flexible solutions for events.

The conceptual phase began in October 2024 and a final design will be developed in a collaborative process by the end of the year, which will be worked out in detail from January 2025. From the beginning of April to the end of June 2025, the students will then work on the practical construction work on site. The construction process will be carried out in close collaboration with the carpenters from Kollektiv Riss, who already successfully completed the refurbishment of the association’s exhibition space in 2022.
The cooperation between Symposion Lindabrunn and design.build studio creates sustainable added value. Instead of a mere refurbishment, innovative and forward-looking concepts are being realized that unfold the potential of this unique location. Not only will the building be adapted, but the connection between art, architecture and public space will also be strengthened.

Literaturspaziergang '25
2025-05-11 15:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Vienna) | Symposion Lindabrunn, Steinbruchstraße 25, Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn, 2551
Beatrice Simonsen curates a walk between reading and performance for the fifth time.
Since 2021, readings and performances have led across the green meadow to the artworks of the Lindabrunn Symposium in spring.
The authors draw on the synergy between art and literature and present their own interpretations of the sculptural heritage. Duration of the walk approx. 1.5 hours.
Starting point for the walk: Hernsteiner Straße parking lot shortly after the end of Lindabrunn, municipality of Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn zip code.

Strategies of Synergy - Production Visit
2025-05-13 16:00 - 2025-05-18 17:00 (Europe/Vienna) | Symposion Lindabrunn, Steinbruchstraße 25, Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn, 2551
Department of Art and Intervention/Environment at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna; Head: Judith Huemer.
In 2023-25, the Department of Art and Intervention at the Academy of Fine Arts is working on sculpture symposia. During a one-week research visit at the Symposium Lindabrunn, students will work on site and deal with the contextualization of classical sculpture in contemporary contexts, they will address the symbiosis between the works and the natural structures embedded in them and illuminate the symposium with the term “conceptual landscape”.

Strategies of Synergy - Final Presentation
2025-05-17 16:00 - 22:00 (Europe/Vienna) | Symposion Lindabrunn, Steinbruchstraße 25, Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn, 2551
Department of Art and Intervention/Environment at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Head: Judith Huemer. One of the focal points of this study program is the study of sculpture symposia. During a one-week research visit, students work on site and present their results at this final event.

Touching Time in the Memorial - Kunst ist Klasse
2025-06-20 17:30 - 20:00 (Europe/Vienna) | Symposion Lindabrunn, Steinbruchstraße 25, Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn, 2551
Special Project within the framework of OEAD Funding Kunst ist Klasse
Touching Time in the Memorial is a project of pluralistic remembrance. Young people work with artists from the Symposion Lindabrunn association to create and design a sculpture of many monuments to commemorate the concentration camp in Hirtenberg, Lower Austria. Women from all over Europe were exploited here for the local munitions factory in the immediate vicinity of the symposium. Under the project management of Petra Mühlmann-Hatzl, artist and VSL board member, art mediator and educator at _dieARTE and at BG Neunkirchen, pupils at MS Hirtenberg and VSL artists learn about the history of their region and develop individual and collective references in their own monuments.
Many students have transnational references to history, for some war is not a past but a present family reality. Workshops with artists who have dealt with intercultural perspectives of historiography and monuments as cultural and artistic settings in their work and in some cases also from their biographies, create an awareness of design and symbolism based on the subcamp stele and the sculptures at the Lindabrunn Symposium. In June 2025, Touching Time in the Memorial will be presented at the Lindabrunn Symposium. The sculpture of the many monuments will be exhibited in the Lindabrunn Symposium sculpture park over the summer and will subsequently be on display at the Hirtenberg secondary school. The project and process will also be documented and published by all participants on the Digital Holocaust Memorial platform.
Funded by:

Inauguration! Housewarming
2025-06-28 14:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Vienna) | Symposion Lindabrunn, Steinbruchstraße 25, Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn, 2551
Presentation to mark the completion of the Clubhouse facade redesign with design.build.studio

Metafunk Production Visit
2025-07-04 - 2025-07-06 | Symposion Lindabrunn, Steinbruchstraße 25, Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn, 2551
The radio station at the container at the symposium is operated by the Metafunk collective. Every year, workshops and meetings for friends of wireless communication are held at the symposium.

Der Bloede Dritte Mittwoch Zweite Samstag #150
2025-07-12 18:30 - 23:00 (Europe/Vienna) | Symposion Lindabrunn, Steinbruchstraße 25, Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn, 2551
Sommer Open Air
12.07.2025, 18:30
*** Téphra // Hvizdalek & Roisz [Concert]
*** ANGST // giggidalessio [Performance]
*** Glashaus // Die Brrrds+Y [Concert]
*** Gelb // Buenoventura [Concert]
Oh my got!! how to get there??
see answers ganz below !!
*** Téphra // Hvizdalek & Roisz [Concert]

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Tephra: Hvizdalek & Roisz © Hvizdalek & Roisz
The new duo of Agnes Hvizdalek and Billy Roisz – Téphra – interweaves abstract voice particles, noises and glitch electronics into a multi-layered wall of sound in their performance. Fragility and instability are not weaknesses in their performance, but strengths.
Téphra divides, chops, crumbles, fizzles out, smashes, vaporizes, disperses.
Téphra puts together, layers, merges, compresses.
Agnes Hvizdalek – voice
Billy Roisz – electronics & other devices

Téphra is fragmental material produced by a volcanic eruption regardless of composition, fragment size, or emplacement mechanism . The word téphra (τέφρα ) means “ash”. (Wikipedia)
http://agneshvizdalek.at/
*** ANGST // giggidalessio [Performance]
giggidalessio is a NO CONCEPT Duo. Their concept is fun, randomness, serious irony and not having a concept. They mix performance, music, obsessive repetitions and new media.
giggidalessio are Stefano D’Alessio & Luigi Guerrieri
https://cargocollective.com/stefanodalessio
https://www.luigiguerrieri.com/content/
Realised with the kind support of Bears in the Park and ImFlieger.
giggidalessio © Stefano D’Alessio
*** Glashaus // Die Brrrds+Y [Concert]
Die Brrrds +Y
Die BRRRDS schwärmen seit 2022 durch die endlosen Biotope von Improvisation, Konzept und Komposition. In ihrer flötenden Feldforschung erkunden sie kollektive Bewegungen, sowohl in der Gesellschaft als auch in der Natur und übersetzen diese in flirrenden Klang. Mitunter befinden sie sich in einem Gewächshaus und vertonen dieses frei nach ihrem inneren Blick, sei es durch eine Lupe oder auch mal im Zeitraffer.
BRRRDS + Y sind Christine Gnigler, Maja Osojnik und Sara Zlanabitnig (diverse Block- und Querflöten) & Milena Georgieva aka Yuzu (Live-Elektronik und Synthesizer).
https://www.christinegnigler.com/https://maja.klingt.org/
https://sarazlanabitnig.com/
https://milenageorgieva.xyz/Yuzu
Video still © Brrrds +Y
*** Gelb // Buenoventura [Concert]
Gelb ist eine intuitive, minimalistische Gitarren-Platte voller hypnotischer Schleifen, glitzernder Details und organischer Energie. Die E-Gitarre steht klar im Zentrum – nicht als klassisches Rock-Instrument, sondern als klangliches Forschungswerkzeug. Loops, Bleeps, Glitches und schlichte, markante Melodien verdichten sich zu Tracks, die ebenso ruhig fließen wie aufblühen können – irgendwo zwischen psychedelischer Sound Forschung und technoider Struktur.
Gelb ist die Destillation jahrzehntelanger Beschäftigung mit elektronischer, experimenteller und minimalistischer Musik – nur eben gespielt auf der Gitarre, dem Instrument, das Bernhard Hammer am besten kennt und auf dem er am direktesten sprechen kann. Der Titel Gelb steht für Aufmerksamkeit, für markierte Gedanken und leuchtende Ideen – wie ein Textmarker auf Papier. Entstanden in ein paar Monaten, zuerst ohne klares Ziel, ist Gelb ein Ausdruck purer musikalischer Neugier. Live wird diese Energie mit Gitarre und Effektgeräten direkt auf die Bühne übertragen – spontan, roh und frei.
Gelb is a first solo album (Release May 23, 2025) for the Viennese musician Bernhard Hammer (Elektro Guzzi, Monochord, Maraskino) releases under his pseudonym Buenoventura – a fictional character as mysterious as he is colorful: ex-sailor, raver, punk, music lover.
https://buenoventura2.bandcamp.com/album/gelb-2
https://www.elektroguzzi.net/buenoventura
how to get there??
Öffentlich:
•⁠ ⁠Mit REX 3 von Wien Hbf (16:09 oder Wien Meidling 16:15) nach Leobersdorf (16:43)
Umsteigen in den Bus 512 (16:45) nach Lindbrunn Angergasse (an 17h)
5 min Fußweg Angergasse / Kirschgasse / Skulpturenpark bis zum Vereinshaus VSL
Öffentlich und Fahrrad:
•⁠ ⁠Mit REX 3 von Wien Hbf (16:09 oder Wien Meidling 16:15) nach Leobersdorf, Anschluss nach Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn Bahnhof (R96, ab 17:14 an Enzesfeld 17:21)
15min Fahrrad zum Vereinshaus
oder gleich mit dem Fahrrad ab Leobersdorf ~30min
oder gleich mit dem Fahrrad ab Wien ~3h30
Mit eigenem Auto, Wegbeschreibung: https://symposion-lindabrunn.at/anfahrt/
Rückfahrt:
•⁠ ⁠Shuttle zum Bahnhof Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn zum Zug nach Wien 22:38 (an Wien Hbf 23:56) oder 23:38 (an Wien Hbf 0:56) bitte bei uns anmelden
⁠Camping ist möglich !! (just bring a tent)

Sommerkunstakademie '25 - Summer Art Academy
2025-07-14 08:00 - 2025-07-19 17:00 (Europe/Vienna) | Symposion Lindabrunn, Steinbruchstraße 25, Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn, 2551
The popular Summer Art Academy has already become an institution at Symposion Lindabrunn and teaches artistic skills to children, young adults and families.
The program of this cooperation with _dieARTE includes artistic workshops for children, young adults and families.
Participöants get to try out new techniques, develop their artistic skills and expand their knowledge. The grand finale of the summer academy is a public presentation in the communication center and on the VSL exhibition areas.
Detailed program and registration on
_dieArte

Sheri Avraham - Production Visit
2025-07-22 08:00 - 2025-08-04 17:00 (Europe/Vienna) | Symposion Lindabrunn, Steinbruchstraße 25, Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn, 2551
Sheri Avraham is an artist, curator, director and performer. In her work in the fields of photogram, installation, video and performance, she reflects on contemporary forms of artistic expression and production. As a board member of the IG bildende Kunst, she is also active in cultural politics. During her production residency at Symposion Lindabrunn, she would like to work with colleagues on the choreography for a performance piece and gain new impulses in her engagement with stone and nature.
At a “Salon im Grünen” at the end of her stay, she will provide insights into her working methods and the development of the piece.

Im CUBO: Claudia Rohrauer
2025-08-03 - 2025-08-20 | Symposion Lindabrunn, Steinbruchstraße 25, Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn, 2551
Analogue Fieldwork
The installation at CUBO provides an insight into an artistic and research-based exploration of the potential and possibilities of sustainable analog darkroom practice and plant-based developers as an alternative to conventional photographic chemicals. The central starting point is the property of plants to act as a developer substance through the phenols and polyphenols they contain and to be able to reduce silver salts to metallic silver. The resources, materials and materiality of image production are up for debate.
The environment and surroundings in Lindabrunn become accomplices and co-producers of photographic image production; as an artist, I hand over control of the processes to plants, weather, light, temperature and, last but not least, to chance, which may bring about chemical reactions between the light-sensitive photographic material such as film and paper and the plant phenols that cannot be calculated in advance. What is depicted and what is depicted grow together in the picture plane. Process documentation and final results meet on an equal level.
Artist: Claudia Rohrauer
website: http://www.claudiarohrauer.info

Salon im Grünen - Opening CUBO, Hörzelle
2025-08-03 16:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Vienna) | Symposion Lindabrunn, Steinbruchstraße 25, Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn, 2551
Art in the open natural space – two new exhibition formats at Symposion Lindabrunn!
For the first time, two new projects allow visitors to experience contemporary art in the open natural space at Symposion Lindabrunn alongside the stone sculptures.
They will be opened on 03.08. at 16:00.
The listening cell offers sound art with a view and was developed from a converted telephone booth. Here you can listen to four different radio plays and pieces of music that change throughout the year.
The Cubo is a new exhibition space in the grounds where young and established artists can show their work for most of the year.
Claudia Rohrauer, who has been conducting intensive research into the use of plant-based photo developers for years, will kick things off. In her solo exhibition at Cubo, the young artist will be showing large-format photos that were taken on site and developed using extracts from the plants.
Another premiere is the “Salon im Grünen” format immediately afterwards.
The focus is on the exchange with individual artists in a relaxed, open space for discursive discussion, exchange and in-depth insights.
Performance artist Sheri Avraham, who spent two weeks working on the symposium, will be a guest here.
A varied afternoon of art, intensive exchange and leisurely chatting and strolling in the natural area awaits visitors.
This project was made possible thanks to the support of
Art in Public Space Lower Austria
BMWKMS, Cultural Initiatives Section
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Reni Hofmüller - Production Visit
2025-08-04 - 2025-08-17 | Symposion Lindabrunn, Steinbruchstraße 25, Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn, 2551
Reni Hofmüller focuses on art in technological contexts and explores the relationships between art, technology and society. Sound has long been her main artistic tool, but she is equally interested in going on walks or finding new networks and people to engage with her surroundings. She is one of the founders of esc medien kunst labor Graz, works at Radio Helsinki, the non-commercial community radio station in Graz, as well as mur.at.
Hofmüller is a member of the Institute for Media Archaeology and has been singing in the feminist post-punk band Lonesome Hot Dudes since December 2014. Embedded in feminist technology collectives, she is involved in the ecletic tech carnival, the TransHackFeminist Meeting and is concerned with the concept of feminist servers.
During her production visit at the symposium site, she will work on an earth antenna and explore sounds based on her preoccupation with the material copper and the medium of radio.

Salon im Grünen - Salon in the Greenery
2025-08-17 16:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Vienna) | Symposion Lindabrunn, Steinbruchstraße 25, Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn, 2551
Salon im Grünen is a new format which expands the program with artist talks, work-in-progress presentations and exhibition openings. Focussing on exchanging views with individual artists in a relaxed, open space for discursive debate, exchange and in-depth insights, the program includes production residencies by guest artists and groups as well as exhibitions in the Schauraum or the Hörzelle.

Symposion Informationsträgerinnen - Information Carriers
2025-08-18 - 2025-08-28 | Symposion Lindabrunn, Steinbruchstraße 25, Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn, 2551
As part of the “Information Carriers” project, individual metal sculptures and a joint educational concept on art and nature will be created in collaboration with VSL artists, biologists from the landscape conservation association and people from the municipality of Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn.
At a welding workshop and symposium lasting several days in August, sculptures will be developed that will carry information about the site in future.
This is the perfect opportunity for anyone who wants to learn how to weld really well, who wants to explore and develop their artistic skills with metal, and anyone who is already a professional but simply wants to take part and enjoy a fun week with nice people in beautiful surroundings. Please register with info (at) symposion-lindabrunn.at
Financed by the municipality of Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn and Leader Region.

Im CUBO : Karin Frank
2025-08-23 - 2025-09-23 | Symposion Lindabrunn, Steinbruchstraße 25, Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn, 2551
The two wooden sculptures, which focus on the physical work involved in stone carving, were created during the “50 Years of Lindabrunn Symposium” in 2019 in the area where the Cubo now stands, and are now being exhibited publicly for the first time in a long time.
The artist Karin Frank works almost exclusively in wood and paints her sculptures. They are mostly figurative, realistic, but never hyperrealistic. Frank is known for her ability to depict movement in static sculptures. The toy-like appearance of the sculptural works only appears to contradict their unvarnished content. Many of the more than 200 sculptures of all sizes created in this way can be found in private and public collections, mainly in German-speaking countries. In 2005, she received the State Scholarship for Fine Arts.
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https://www.karinfrank.at/
Karin Frank
Futurologisches Symposium
Bildhauer

Nature Challenge
2025-09-05 19:00 - 2025-09-06 22:00 (Europe/Vienna) | Symposion Lindabrunn, Steinbruchstraße 25, Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn, 2551
Landschaftspflegeverein Thermenlinie – Nature Challenge
Together, non-specialists, experts and nature educators explore the biodiversity at Symposion in Lindabrunn with the help of the international nature research app iNaturalist.
The Symposion Lindabrunn association approaches the topic from an artistic perspective with performative and installation-based contributions.

Symposion 20 Years of Buried Alive
2025-09-20 15:00 - 2025-09-21 19:00 (Europe/Vienna) | Symposion Lindabrunn, Steinbruchstraße 25, Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn, 2551
20 Jahre „Buried Alive“ – Anniversary of monochrom’s legendary Performance-Projekt

Twenty years ago, the art collective monochrom literally dug itself into the collective memory: for the performance “Buried Alive,” it invited over 800 people worldwide to be buried alive since 2005 – a radical experiment between borderline experience, ritual, and media criticism.

In 2025, the project will celebrate its 20th anniversary. Reason enough to put this spectacular, much-discussed work back in the spotlight.
“Buried Alive” is more than a test of courage. The performance addresses both the fascination with and fear of death, as well as the need to reenact historical burial rituals. In a specially constructed safety coffin, the audience is buried alive—voluntarily and individually. What appears to be a macabre thrill turns out to be an artistic investigation: Where does entertainment end and existential reflection begin? How are media images of danger and extreme sports transformed into art?
With “Buried Alive,” the Viennese collective monochrom, internationally known since the 1990s for its mixture of media art, theory, and subversion, makes it clear that performance art does not only take place on stage, but in the body, in the mind, and in social discourse.
2025 is the year: 20 years of Buried Alive. We will celebrate this milestone birthday where the project has found a permanent home since 2013: at the Lindabrunn Symposium, where monochrom operates a permanent installation—for all those who don’t want to wait until life takes them underground.
On September 20 and 21, 2025, the collective invites you to the “20 Years of Buried Alive Symposium”: two days full of lectures, music, re-performances, and discourse burials. Expect critical theory, eerie nostalgia, and the opportunity to lie down for a trial run.
“Buried Alive” was never just a macabre joke. It is an invitation to reflect on fear, desire, media hysteria, and ritual—while listening to earth being shoveled over you.
Exhibition Buried Alive feat. Black Ferk Studio
In addition to an exhibition on Buried Alive, there will be an exhibition by Matthias Mollner featuring current photographic works from his series on people affected by ME/CFS and complex chronic illnesses. The photos, which will also be featured in the book Fighters in the Crash Zone to be published in the fall, will be presented to the public for the first time at the Lindabrunn Symposium.
Burning Ferk“ Ritual in Lindabrunn
As part of the celebrations, there will be a ritual burning of messages to Judith Schoßböck in the “Burning Ferk” on Sunday, September 21, at 4 p.m., which were written at “Judy in the Sky” or sent in advance. Everyone is welcome, and we would be delighted if you could join us for this special moment! Following the ritual, the “Burning Ferk” will be set up outdoors at a location that is special to Judith Schoßböck.
Schedule at Symposion Lindabrunn, Steinbruchstraße 25, 2551 Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn
Saturday 20. September
15:00 Exhibition Opening Buried Alive feat. Black Ferk Studio
16:00 – 18:00 Performance Buried Alive
19:00 live concert wetter
21:00 Reading Roland Gratzer
Sunday 21. September
12:00 – 20:00 Exhibition Buried Alive feat. Black Ferk Studio
12:00 – 15:00 Performance Buried Alive
16:00 Burning Ferk Ritual

Inauguration!
2025-10-03 16:00 - 22:00 (Europe/Vienna) | Symposion Lindabrunn, Steinbruchstraße 25, Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn, 2551
Opening ceremony of the new building section and closing ceremony of the design.build.studio project Symposion Lindabrunn.
We thank all supporters!
