Upcoming
03. July – 30. September 2024 | Artist in Residence Programme Zvjezdane staze [Mijakovići, BiH]
What originally began as a rather vague idea has evolved into a bold endeavor. In the middle of the mountainous landscape of central Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the municipality of Vareš, lies the remote village of Mijakovići. This quiet place near the historical remains of Bobovac is where the Artist in Residence Programme Zvjezdane staze’s journey begins…
Location and Time: Mijakovići, Bobovac, Vareš…, Bosnia and Herzegovina
In cooperation with VaClaF: Vareš Classic Festival [Udruga prijatelja glazbe Emil Milo Cipra Vareš] and sp ce – Austrian Non-Profit Organization for Art and Transdisciplinarity
Support: Culture Moves Europe, Goethe Institut, Austrijski kulturni forum Sarajevo, Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport (BMKOES), Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien (MA 7), SKE Fonds Austria, Opština Vareš, Adriatic Metals BH d.o.o, Federalno ministarstvo kulture i sporta Federacije Bosne i Hercegovine, Ministarstvo civilnih poslova Bosne i Hercegovine, Fondacija za muzičke, scenske i likovne umjetnosti FBiH
15. July 2024 | AiR Zvjezdane staze & VaClaF XII
Nowhere Plain (Utopia Planitia) [Intermedia Composition for Violin, Sound Projection & Space Exploration]
Violin: Andrea Nikolić
Location: Župna crkva Borovica [Borovica, Bosnia and Herzegovina]
Produced by Air Zvjezdane staze & VaClaF: Vareš Classic Festival
18. July 2024 | Tuzla Guitar Week [Tuzla, BiH]
Aus Prin/c/z/ip (for guitar, string quartet, sound projection and video)
Guitar: Sanel Redžić | CIPRA Quartet
Location and Time: Dom prirode Ilinčica, 20.00 h
23. July 2024, 20.00 h | | AiR Zvjezdane staze & VaClaF XII | Park OŠ Vareš
Aus Prin/c/z/ip (composition for oboe, guitar, string quartet, sound projection and video) | Commisioned by WISE: Wien – International Soloists Ensemble
Guitar: Sanel Redžić | CIPRA Quartet
Location and Time: Medieval ruins of Bobovac, 20.00 h
26. July 2024 | Slovo Gorčina Festival
[ΔE×Δt≥ħ/2×(1-(v^2/c^2))×∞ ]o nadi]: Intermedia music theatre for Radimlja necropolis
Location: Radimlja UNESCO World Heritage Site [Stolac, Bosnia and Herzegovina]
Duration: ca. 70 min
Produced by Fondacija Mak Dizdar Sarajevo, Festival “Slovo Gorčina”
Festival Website: https://slovogorcina.ba/
30. July – 02. August 2024 | AiR Zvjezdane staze & VaClaF XII
URZS_INKUBATOR Accordion 2.0
Accordion: Goran Stevanović
More information tba. soon!
03. – 10. August 2024 | AiR Zvjezdane staze & VaClaF XII
AUDIO GHOSTS @ AiR Zvjezdane staze 2024
URZS_INKUBATOR: AUDIO GHOSTS Illusive perceptions – Perceptual illusions/ Sound Art with Bernhard Gál and Veronika Mayer
Between August 4-10, 2024, Austrian sound researchers/composers Bernhard Gál and Veronika Mayer will present their artistic research activities with concerts, a soundwalk and a public presentation at the VaClaF Festival in Vareš, as well as holding a workshop for our guest artists. More information tba. soon!
September 2024 | VaClaF XII on Tour!
More information tba. soon!
10-14 October 2024 | shut up and listen! Festival
Organizer: sp ce – Association for the Promotion of Art and Transdisciplinarity, in collaboration with echoraum
Artistic director: Bernhard Gál
Co-curator: Belma Bešlić-Gál
Location: echoraum (Sechshauser Str. 66, 1150 Vienna)
Support: BMKÖS, MA7, SKE
15. October 2024, 20.00 h | Bank Austria Salon, Vienna
Echoes from Vares | WISE: Wien – International Soloists Ensemble
More information tba. soon!
November 2024 | Prostorъ
Prostorъ / Uncovering the Existential Thr ough My Everyday Temporality: An Artistic Journey [Unendliche Weiten des Haushalts]
New composition (Music theatre) for ensemble, audiovisual projections, objects, AI MNIJF_TYFA and a performer
Details tba soon
Archive 2024
24. April 2024, 19.00 h – Eröffnung | VDONAUKANAL – Public space for augmented and virtual art in Vienna 2024-2026 | Bin im Ozean! – 425 Jahre Sehnsucht am Donaukanal
∞(Δt)^10n+ħ05 [Welcome to Aionthos] / Audiovisual Installation_Digital artifact in collaboration with Catherine Spet
Location: Schemerlbrücke, 1190 Wien/48°15’31.9″N 16°22’08.4″E
Virtual Reality Art space, Vienna 2024 – 2026 / The project of KulturEins (K1) in cooperation with Viennese districts (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 9th, 11th, 19th, 20th)
https://www.vdonaukanal.eu/
Support: Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport (BMKOES), Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien (MA 7), Basis Kultur Wien, Kultur Innere Stadt, Hafen Wien, kulturimdritten
24. April 2024, 19.30 h | VDONAUKANAL – Public space for augmented and virtual art in Vienna 2024-2026 | Bin im Ozean! – 425 Jahre Sehnsucht am Donaukanal
ECHOS DER ZEIT – Eine musikalische Reise durch Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft
Location and time: Bezirksmuseum Döbling, 1190 Wien, 19.30 h
Virtual Reality Art space, Vienna 2024 – 2026 / The project of KulturEins (K1) in cooperation with Viennese districts (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 9th, 11th, 19th, 20th)
https://www.vdonaukanal.eu/
17. Mai 2024, 19.00 h | „Virtuos: Lebensreise“ – Eröffnung des 5. CRO-ArT Festivals der Neuen Musik und Kunst in Wien | Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Wien
Aus Prin/c/z/ip (new composition for oboe, guitar, string quartet, sound projection and video) | Commisioned by WISE: Wien – International Soloists Ensemble
Oboe: Ivana Nikolić | Guitar: Sanel Redžić | CIPRA Quartet
Location and Time: Ruhmeshalle, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum (Arsenal 1, 1030 Vienna), 19.00 h
Produced by WISE: Wien – International Soloists Ensemble / SKE Fonds
28/29 May 2024, 18-22 h | Rat der Republik – Wiener Festwochen
Ratsmitglied Belma Beslic-Gal
KUNST, KAPITAL UND MACHT: Hearings Woche 2
Location and Time: Volkskundemuseum, Vienna
07. Juni 2024, 18.00 h | „Vdonaukanal“ – Guided Tour | Schwimmende Gärten, 1010 Wien
∞(Δt)^10n+ħ05 [Welcome to Aionthos] / Audiovisual Installation_Digital artifact in collaboration with Catherine Spet
Virtual Reality Art space, Vienna 2024 – 2026 / The project of KulturEins (K1) in cooperation with Viennese districts (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 9th, 11th, 19th, 20th)
15. Juni 2024, 19.30 h | Utopia Planitia | Jesuitenkirche Wien
Nowhere Plain (Utopia Planitia) [Intermedia Composition for Violin, Sound Projection & Space Exploration]
Violin: Andrea Nikolić
Abschlusskonzert des 5. CRO-ArT Festivals „Dreams to Come True“
Produced by WISE: Wien – International Soloists Ensemble / Jesuitenkirche Wien / sp ce – Austrian Non-Profit Organization for Art and Transdisciplinarity / MA7 Wien / BMKÖS /
27. June 2024 | Sounding Spomenik Ljubljana
Unheard Stories: Sonic Aspects of Yugoslavia’s Brutalist Monuments – Lecture, Artist Talk
With Anton Iakhontov a.k.a. Patrick K.-H. [Sound projection, Live-Visuals], Jernej Babnik Romaniuk [Field Recordings], Laszlo Juhasz [Curator, Project management], Nataša Serec [Curator, Project management]
Location and Time: Alkatraz Gallery [Ljubljana, Slovenia]
Produced by: Inexhaustible Editions | SKICA | KUD Mreža | ON Rizom
Archive 2023
01 June 2023 | Ouroboros
Premiere: Semmelweisklinik Kunst-und Kulturzentrum, Vienna [01/06/2023]
Additional performances: 02/03_June_2023
mOthers.beasts | Ouroboros _ Intermedia Dance Theatre
Comissioned by: house of motion Verein für die bewegte Kunst
Duration: ca. 70´ min.
Sponsored by: City of Vienna Culture | Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Civil Service and Sport | District of Währing | SKE austromechana
19 June 2023 | flut
Performance: CMS – Computer Music Studio, Anton Bruckner Private University, Linz [19/06/2023]
flut | for bass flute and quadrophonic sound projection [2011]
A collaborative composition by Belma Bešlić-Gál & Bernhard Gál
Austrian Composers Week 2023
Die Austrian Composers Association – Vereinigung Österreichischer Komponistinnen und Komponisten (ACOM)
Curated by Andreas Weixler
Bass Flute: Doris Nicoletti
20-21 September 2023 | AUSTRIAN MUSIC THEATRE DAY 2023
»FLUID SPACES – Neues Musiktheater in der Ära von Machine Learning« – Musiktheater-Konferenz
Presentation: 21. September 2023, 14:30 | Artist Pitches “MADE IN AUSTRIA”
Moderated by Ulla Pilz
Nominated by Irene Suchy (Austrian Broadcasting Service), Manuela Kerer (Conservatory “Claudio Monteverdi”), Bernhard Günther (WIEN MODERN) and Georg Steker (MUSIKTHEATERTAGE WIEN): Belma Bešlić-Gál | Angélica Castelló | Matthias Kranebitter | Brigitte Wilfing & Jorge Sànchez Chiong
Organizer: MUSIKTHEATERTAGE WIEN in cooperation with mica – music austria
Venue: AMTSHAUS ALSERGRUND, Währinger Straße 43, 1090 Vienna
12-14 October 2023 | shut up and listen! 2023 | ˈkaːɔs
shut up and listen! 2023 – Transdisciplinary Festival for Music and Sound Art
Organizer: sp ce – Association for the Promotion of Art and Transdisciplinarity, in collaboration with echoraum
Artistic director: Bernhard Gál
Co-curator: Belma Bešlić-Gál
Location: echoraum (Sechshauser Str. 66, 1150 Vienna)
Cooperations: Anton Bruckner Private University, Inst. f. Composition, Conducting and Computer Music, Linz University of the Arts, Master’s program Postdigital Lutherie
Support: BMKÖS, MA7, SKE
13 October 2023_20.00 h | shut up and listen! 2023 | Lacus Temporis
Artistic Research Project: Lacus temporis. Composition and performance practice in weightlessness [2002-] | Lecture Performance
Composition, Concept, Performance: Belma Bešlić-Gál
Stage Design: Lisa Horvath
Duration: ca. 30 min
Produced by sp ce | In cooperation with echoraum
Festival Website: www.sp-ce.net/sual/2023/
13-19 October 2023 | VaClaF XI – Back to the Roots
VaClaF XI 2023 | Vareš Classic Festival / International Chamber Music Festival | Vareš, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Gorje [A journey through the unknown mountain] – for oboe and string quartet
New composition for WISE: Wien – International Soloists Ensemble
VaClaF Artistic Director: Andrea Nikolić
13.10.2023 | Radnički dom Vareš, 19:00h
14.10.2023 | BNP Zenica, 19:00h
15.10.2023 | Umjetnička galerija BiH Sarajevo, 19:00h
16.10.2023 | Muzički centar Pavarotti Mostar, 19:00h
17.10.2023 | Međunarodna galerija portreta Tuzla, 18:00h
Festival Website: www.vaclaf.com/
30 October 2023 | WISE REBEL CRO-ART FESTIVAL 2023!
Gorje [A journey through the unknown mountain] – for oboe and string quartet
New composition for WISE: Wien – International Soloists Ensemble
ERÖFFNUNGSKONZERT | Ehrbar Saal Wien, 19:00h
05 November 2023 | echo_von_nichts | OBHUT
Yiddish and Hebrew lullabies, musical prayer from the Warsaw Ghetto | Compositions by Hanns Eisler, Arvo Pärt, Tarquinio Merula, Darius Milhaud, Belma Beslic-Gál, Franz Schubert and Giacinto Scelsi
echo_von_nichts (Ensemble für stille Musik): Ingala Fortagne (Sopran), Pina Rücker (Quartz glass shells) | Belma Bešlić-Gál (Piano/Composition), Max Oelz (contrabass)
Location: BRICK 15, 1150 Vienna
01 December 2023 | Vernissage Inexhaustible Editions: SOUNDING SPOMENIK
Unheard Stories: Sonic Aspects of Yugoslavia’s Brutalist Monuments – Lecture, Artist Talk
With Tadeja Žele [Violoncello], Vida Vatovec [Altsaxophon], Anton Iakhontov a.k.a. Patrick K.-H. [Sound projection, Live-Visuals], Jernej Babnik Romaniuk [Field Recordings], Laszlo Juhasz [Curator, Project management]
Location and Time: echoraum (Sechshauser Str. 66, 1150 Vienna), 19.00 h
Produced by: Wien Modern | echoraum | Inexhaustible Editions | SKICA | KUD Mreža | ON Rizom
03 December 2023 | CRO-ArT Festival 2023: “I Dream a World”
Panel discussion and CD presentation “Ins Offene” for Gerd Kühr (Col Legno)
Pianists: Christoph Renhart, Stipe Bilić, Anton Bashynsky
Composers: Belma Bešlić Gal, Gabriele Proy, Meinhard Rüdenauer
Oboist Ivana Nikolić
CIPRA Quartet (Ensemble in Residence VaClaF & CRO-ArT 2023)
Moderation: Andrea Nikolić
Location and Time: Kleiner Ehrbar Saal (Mühlgasse 30, 1040 Vienna), 19.00 h
Produced by WISE: Wien – International Soloists Ensemble in partnership with the Croatian Cultural Association Napredak Vienna.
Support: The Croatian Ministry of Culture and the “Ured za Hrvate izvan Republike Hrvatske”.