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The Austrian Cultural Forum hosts more than 100 free events per year, including exhibitions, concerts

With its architectural landmark building in Midtown Manhattan the Austrian Cultural Forum New York is the cultural embassy of Austria in the United States. It hosts more than 200 free events annually and showcases Austrian contemporary art, music, literature, and academic thought in New York. The Austrian Cultural Forum enjoys long-standing and flourishing partnerships with many venerable cultural and academic institutions throughout New York and the United States.

06/06/2026

🎬 ACFNY Recommended – : RETROSPECTIVE & CARTE BLANCHE ✨ at

🗓 June 13 & 14, 2026 | 7:30 PM
📍 Anthology Film Archives | 32 2nd Ave, NYC
🎟 Tickets available via: anthologyfilmarchives.org

Experience the first comprehensive U.S. survey of Austrian experimental filmmaker Viktoria Schmid, one of the most distinctive voices in Austria’s contemporary avant-garde film scene.

Presented as part of her residency at Deutsches Haus at NYU, awarded through the Viennale Erste Bank Film Award, this two-night retrospective brings together Schmid’s films alongside works by artists, mentors, and inspirations spanning more than a century of cinema history.

Working across 16mm and 35mm film, Schmid’s visually striking works explore the relationship between light, time, memory, and the materiality of film itself. From "FOODFILMS" and "KATHARINAVIKTORIA" to her award-winning recent work "ROJO ŽALIA BLAU", her films reveal extraordinary ways of seeing the world through the lens of experimental cinema.

Curated by Schmid herself, the programs place Austrian filmmaking in dialogue with international pioneers and contemporaries, offering New York audiences a rare opportunity to discover one of Austria’s leading experimental filmmakers.

🎥 First comprehensive U.S. retrospective
🏆 Viennale Erste Bank Film Award recipient
🇦🇹 Austrian Filmmaker in Residence at Deutsches Haus at NYU

06/05/2026

Happy Friday! ☀️ A month of music, performance, and cultural exchange await you at the Forum.

From contemporary concerts and live performances to discussions and community events — discover Austrian culture in New York throughout June.

Join us at ACFNY and beyond as we celebrate artistic innovation, international collaboration, and the connections that bring audiences together.

All events are free and open to the public. RSVP is required. Link in Bio 🇦🇹✨

06/04/2026

⚽ ACFNY RECOMMENDED: Family Fan Fest NYC by

🗓 June 13, 2026 | 2–5 PM
📍 German House of Soccer, Manhattan
🎟 Ticket Link in Bio
🎟 Use promo code AUSTRIA for $5 off tickets

Join CityKinder for a family-friendly World Cup celebration at the German House of Soccer in Manhattan!

Designed for German-speaking families and expats, the Family Fan Fest NYC brings together live soccer, activities for children, great food, and community connections in a festive World Cup atmosphere.

Expect:
⚽ Live match viewing: Switzerland vs. Qatar
🎉 Kids’ activities and family programming
🥅 Mini soccer workshops
🎁 Raffle prizes and goodie bags for all families
🥨 German food and drinks
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Networking with German-speaking families and expats

Don't miss this special opportunity to celebrate the World Cup with the German-speaking community in New York City.

06/03/2026

⚽ ACFNY goes World Cup – Austria vs. Argentina at the German House of Soccer 🇦🇹🇦🇷

🗓 June 22, 2026 | 1 PM (Kick Off)
📍 German House of Soccer, Chelsea Industrial (535 West 28th Street)
🎟 Free admission, registration required (Link in Bio)

Join us and our partners for a special FIFA World Cup 2026 watch party as Austria takes on Argentina at the German House of Soccer in Manhattan.

Hosted by the German Football Association (DFB), together with a wide network of cultural and educational partners, the German House of Soccer brings World Cup excitement to New York with public screenings, live events, fan activities, food, drinks, and special guests throughout the tournament.

✨ On June 22, enjoy a full day of programming as part of "Germany Day," culminating in a special live performance by Conrad Taylor.

⚽ Watch Austria take on Argentina alongside football fans from around the world
🍻 Experience the atmosphere of a German-style fan zone in the heart of NYC
🎶 Enjoy live entertainment, special guests, and World Cup festivities throughout the day

As the German House of Soccer hosts events every day during the tournament, please make sure to register specifically for June 22.

06/02/2026

🎬 ACFNY Supported – The 2551 Trilogy 🔥at

🗓 June 12–13, 2026
📍 Bird & Betty’s | 529 Dock Rd | Beach Haven, NJ
🎟 Tickets via: lighthouseff.com

Austrian artist and filmmaker Norbert Pfaffenbichler brings his nightmarish and visually staggering 2551 Trilogy to this year’s Lighthouse International Film Festival.

Blending avant-garde cinema, dystopian sci-fi horror, silent film techniques, industrial metal aesthetics, and surreal underground worlds, the trilogy follows the Apeman and The Kid through a brutal labyrinth of mutants, masked figures, police oppression, and occult horrors.

Filmed in abandoned WWII bunkers in Vienna and told entirely without dialogue, the films channel the spirit of David Lynch, the Brothers Quay, MAD GOD, and ERASERHEAD into a singular cinematic experience unlike anything you’ve seen before.

🎞 Screening Schedule:
• June 12 | 11 AM – 2551.01: The Kid
• June 12 | 12:50 PM – 2551.02: The O**y of the Damned
• June 13 | 11 AM – 2551.03: The End

Named “The Coolest Film Festival” by MovieMaker Magazine, the Lighthouse International Film Festival celebrates bold, innovative, and thought-provoking independent cinema from around the world.

06/01/2026

📚 ACFNY RECOMMENDED – ✨ Bearing Witness Across Generations: The Austrian Heritage Collection at 30

Hosted by the Leo Baeck Institute New York
🗓 June 15, 2026 | 🕕 6 PM
📍 Leo Baeck Institute New York | 15 West 16th Street
🎟 Free Admission - RSVP Required (Link in Bio)

Marking its 30th anniversary, the Austrian Heritage Collection reflects on three decades of documenting the stories of Austrian-Jewish emigrants who fled N**i persecution and rebuilt their lives in North America. Since 1996, "Gedenkdienst" volunteers have conducted more than 1,000 oral history interviews, preserving voices and histories that for many years received little public recognition.

As the era of firsthand witnesses comes to an end, the project increasingly turns toward the second generation. Nina Glueckselig, Leonie Eidinger, and Beatrice Segal share the stories of their families while reflecting on memory, intergenerational responsibility, and the future of Holocaust remembrance.

Image: Ruben Braunschmid | Gedenkdiener in 2014/15 attending a meeting of the Stammtisch with several Holocaust survivors.

05/31/2026

🎻 ACFNY RECOMMENDED: Marta Beauchamp () in Residence at NOoSPHERE Arts ()

🗓 June 1–28, 2026
📍 Governors Island, NYC
🎟 Open Studios every Saturday & Sunday, 11 AM–5 PM

Vienna- and Linz-based sound artist, musician, and artistic researcher Marta Beauchamp joins NOoSPHERE Arts’ 2026 Artist-in-Residence program on Governors Island this June.

Working across sound art, music, sculpture, and installation, Beauchamp creates immersive environments where objects become instruments and performance becomes a way of exploring rhythm, movement, and transformation.

Don't miss her featured performances:

🗓 June 5 | 7 PM
📍 Freddy's Bar, Brooklyn
A solo concert featuring music from her upcoming release "six songs for friends" and the cello-and-jump-rope composition "hardly skips a beat".

🗓 June 20 | 3 PM
📍 NOoSPHERE Arts Open Studios, Governors Island
Experience beat bound, a playful and inventive performance for cello and jump rope exploring sound, movement, and coordination.

Image: Wolfgang Sünder

05/30/2026

🎬 ACFNY Recommended – World Premiere of "Noga" ✨at

🗓 June 3–14, 2026
📍 Tribeca Film Festival
🎟 Tickets via: tribecafilm.com/films/noga-2026

Directed by Austrian filmmakers Jono and Benji Bergmann, Noga follows internationally acclaimed Israeli alternative pop artist Noga Erez at a pivotal moment in her life and career.

🎞 Screening Schedule:
• June 7 | 8:15 PM – OKX Theater at BMCC TPAC
• June 8 | 8:15 PM – AMC 19th St. East 6
• June 11 | 9:15 PM – AMC 19th St. East 6

Praised by Billie Eilish, collaborating with Missy Elliott, and opening for Florence + the Machine at Madison Square Garden, Noga Erez is on the verge of global superstardom when the events of October 7, 2023, and the outbreak of war force her to confront questions of identity, politics, artistic responsibility, and personal vulnerability.

Produced largely out of Austria with support from the Austrian Film Institute, the documentary offers an intimate and unfiltered portrait of an artist navigating fame, activism, love, and creative expression in an increasingly polarized world.

🎶 Following the world premiere screening, Noga Erez and longtime collaborator Ori Rousso will perform a special live acoustic set.

Image: Courtesy of the filmmakers

05/29/2026

🎭 ACFNY EVENT – ORLANDO TRIP by Fox On Ice ✨.on.ice

🗓 June 25, 2026 | 6:30 PM
📍 ACFNY
🎟 Free admission, RSVP required (Link in Bio)

Join us for ORLANDO TRIP, a genre-defying performing arts concert by Vienna-based collective "Fox On Ice". Blending music, spoken performance, film, and visual storytelling, the production reimagines the legendary figure of Orlando through a contemporary European lens.

✨ About the Event
Inspired by the works of Ludovico Ariosto and Virginia Woolf, ORLANDO TRIP explores fluidity, transformation, and the crossing of borders through twelve songs, intermezzi, and cinematic sequences. Moving seamlessly between myth and reality, masculinity and femininity, stage and screen, the performance creates an immersive world where identities are constantly reshaped.

Created by Austrian/Italian artists Anna Luca Poloni and Christian Mair, Fox On Ice works at the intersection of music, literature, film, and theatre. Their internationally acclaimed productions have been presented at theaters and festivals across Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East.

Image: Ludwig Drahosch

05/28/2026

🎻 ACFNY EVENT – Vienna Meets New York ✨🎶 Dominik Wagner & Mark Livsh*ts in Concert

🗓 June 16, 2026 | 6:30 PM
📍 ACFNY
🎟 Free admission, RSVP required (Link in Bio)

Join us for an exceptional evening featuring internationally acclaimed Austrian double bassist Dominik Wagner and GRAMMY-nominated pianist Mark Livsh*ts. Following their celebrated collaboration at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, the duo returns with a program that bridges European tradition and American musical flair.

✨ About the Concert
From Bach’s elegant Gamba Sonata in D major to Frank Proto’s virtuosic A Carmen Fantasy, Saint-Saëns’ electrifying Danse bacchanale, and Gershwin’s iconic Rhapsody in Blue, the evening showcases the extraordinary expressive range of the double bass across centuries and styles.

🎙 Featuring
Dominik Wagner, award-winning Austrian double bassist, professor, and one of the leading soloists of his generation

Mark Livsh*ts, GRAMMY-nominated pianist, chamber musician, and sought-after collaborator performing on international stages worldwide

📸 Images: Maria Frodl & Courtesy of the Artist

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