IN THE FIELD 2025
A scholarship programme of the Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen) | Free Republic of Vienna
Wiener Festwochen is calling for applications for 15 scholarships for artists and cultural workers from Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Slovakia and Hungary under the heading In the Field. In the framework of a ten day programme, In the Field will facilitate transregional networking and transfer of knowledge in the context of an international theatre festival, bringing together participants from a 300 kilometre radius around Vienna.
In 2024 The Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwochen) declared themselves the Free Republic of Vienna, radically daring to attempt the reinvention of an arts and culture festival. Between 16 May and 22 June 2025, the Free Republic of Vienna will enter its second year under the title Republic of Love.
The second edition addresses emotions and relationships that connect us with the world, and will be no less political than in its foundation year. In over forty theatre and music productions, installations and community projects, we will explore countless expressions and forms of love and cast a light on its utopian as well as darker power.
In times of social division, individualisation and violence In the Field seeks out what connects us, artistic approaches that can soften hardened positions in art and society, that can enable and devise encounters. The scholarship programme is therefore particularly aimed at artists and cultural workers at the start of their careers whose practice is located at the intersection of art and community work/participation.
This year the artist, choreographer, professor and designated artistic director of Tanzquartier Wien, Isabel Lewis, will accompany In the Field as the mentor. The recipients of the scholarship will visit performances, rehearsals and artistic-discursive formats as well as meeting artists and experts together every day. In workshops designed by the participants, they will share experiences, knowledge and practical skills. In the Field also shines a spotlight on local developments by connecting the scholarship holders with important agents in the Viennese cultural landscape.