Austrian Cultural Forum New York

📚 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.

🎻 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

🎬 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

🎭 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

🎻 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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ACFNY EVENT: 🎶 Duo mina mas presents “Risse. Eine Verdichtung” at the Forum

🗓 June 11 | 6:30 PM
📍 Austrian Cultural Forum New York | 11 East 52nd Street
🎟 Tickets available (Link in Bio - RSVP required)

In “Risse. Eine Verdichtung,” Austrian duo mina mas reimagines the classical art song for the 21st century through an interdisciplinary concert experience blending historical repertoire, electronic soundscapes, improvisation, and newly composed material.

Soprano Michaela Resch and pianist Irina Fuchs interweave works by Schubert, Clara Schumann, Schoenberg, Sibelius, Kaija Saariaho, and others with original compositions and interventions by mina mas, creating a dense musical reflection on freedom, crisis, overload, and human connection in the digital age.

Rooted in feminist perspectives on the "Lied" tradition, the program questions rigid historical gender roles and opens new perspectives on one of classical music’s most intimate forms.

Image: Florian Voggeneder

🎬 ACFNY Recommended – NEW NEWS FROM ANOTHER HOME ✨ at

🗓 June 5, 2026 | 6:30 PM & 9 PM
📍 Anthology Film Archives | 32 2nd Ave |
🎟 Tickets available via: anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings

Austrian-Bulgarian filmmaker Borjana Ventzislavova presents the U.S. premiere of her latest experimental feature NEW NEWS FROM ANOTHER HOME in person at Anthology Film Archives.

Nearly fifty years after Chantal Akerman’s iconic NEWS FROM HOME, Ventzislavova revisits the original film’s New York locations through a deeply personal lens shaped by migration, memory, and family history.

Combining present-day images of New York with intimate emails exchanged between mother and daughter, the film reflects on emotional distance, post-Communist realities, and the lasting impact of political trauma across generations.

Moving between Austria, Bulgaria, and New York, the film becomes a haunting dialogue across time — exploring how cities, families, and identities transform under history, technology, and displacement.

🎥 2024 | New York, Austria & Bulgaria | 87 min
🎤 Filmmaker in person
Image: Sixpackfilm

🎬 ACFNY SUPPORTED: Austrian Film in NYC – THOSE NEXT TO US

🗓 June 5, 2026 | 4:30 PM
📍 Theater 1 at The Producers Club | 358 West 44th Street, NYC
🎟 Tickets: nycindieff.com/films/those-next-to-us/

The documentary "Those Next to Us" (2023, 30 min) by Austrian filmmaker Bernhard Hetzenauer will screen as part of the 18th Annual New York City Independent Film Festival.

Through haunting static images and the testimony of survivor Germán López Rosales, the film revisits the tragic 2017 human smuggling operation from Laredo to San Antonio, Texas, during which ten migrants lost their lives inside an overheated tractor-trailer.

Juxtaposing peaceful landscapes with devastating narration, Those Next to Us explores invisibility, memory, migration, and the human cost behind militarized borders. Don’t miss this powerful and deeply moving cinematic experience.

Images: sixpackfilm