Everything you need to do this week & weekend in Vienna

Vienna’s fantastic arts and culture scene will be on display as part of the city-wide Kultursommer festival. With a diverse (and huge) programme, there’s something to see for everyone – and we mean everyone! If you’re a culture vulture and you know what’s good for you then be sure to check out the programme.

If chilling under the stars with some REALLY good electronic music sounds like your kind of night, then you’ve REALLY got to be at this event! Check out the French cult duo AIR at METAStadt, bringing their iconic ‘Moon Safari’ album to life. They’ll be joined by British electronic producer BERLIOZ and Austria’s own indie-pop sensation LEYYA.

You’ll be able to enjoy the ultimate summer feeling in Vienna at the SalsaStation Openair event happening at the Summer Station every Thursday during summer. A mix of great music, good atmosphere and delicious drinks will make this evening special. Plus, there’ll be a BachaTango and a salsa beginner workshop that will prepare you for your dance floor session during the evening.

We always get excited when concerts and open-air happenings are taking place at Karlsplatz! Nothing makes us more aware that we live in a hip urban city that has a long history of getting drunk and dancing wild to concerts. And our favourite four-day festival that has us doing exactly that described above is the poppety-Popfest! This festival is the number one to be at if you want to get deep and intimate with the local music scene, with big to up-and-coming local bands taking to the stage every year. Check out the detailed programme for this year.

Important notice: This event’s name refers solely to the music genre and is in no way an allusion to glorification of illegal substances. Cool? Cool!

Now that that’s settled, let’s talk about the event itself. There will be two main stages: LASTERFLOOR, hosted by Step To Tek with performances by ACIDWAVE, and LUSTERFLOOR, presented by Herzfrequenz with beats from acid house to acid techno. Plus, there’ll be a cheeky shopping spot with unique accessories and clothing, free ice cream (while supplies last), and a cozy outdoor chillout zone.

If perfect summer days in Vienna make you wanna dance, stop by this pop-up in Museumsquartier. Swivelbird is a brand that makes comfy tops and skirts that go ‘swoosh’ when you twirl. They’re intended for dancers, but casual twirlers can wear them too. So, if you’re in the mood to promise yourself you’ll go to those dance classes, drop by this pop-up to try on some flowy skirts and have some cheeky drinks.

Friday Nightskating is back for the season! Ring-a-ding-ding (that’s your bike bell resounding amongst hundreds of others on the night skate). This is a recurring summer event in Vienna that is a whole lot of fun!

Plus: All the routes are different every time, so you might discover some places you’ve never been to before in Vienna.

If you have kids you already know they come with lots of stuff! One of the best feelings can be getting a lot of that stuff used. You can get some incredibly good quality stuff which hasn’t even been used very much for very cheap at flea markets! And one of the biggest perks to this is getting all sorts of stuff in one place rather than running around to a million stores in one day. So head out to this flea market and get all the stuff!

This reading happening at the JO&JOE rooftop works a little bit different than your usual readings, because the presented texts will come from the audience (yes, that includes you). Excerpts from a novel, chat histories, the diary you kept in elementary school – everything goes. The audience (yup, you again) will then decide whether they liked the text itself or the recital of it better. And so either the person on stage or the one who brought the text (you guessed it, that could be you) will receive a glass of spritzer as reward. Definitely sounds like an evening of good fun!

Ah, the joys of living in Vienna! There is something quite unique going on every summer in this city’s heart, right at the Rathausplatz. From July to September a great variety of concerts ranging from classic ballets, operas and Jazz to Pop and dance will be shown on a huge screen in front of the Rathaus. For free, we might add.

There’s a huge screen installed in front of the beautiful town hall, with enough seats to accommodate a small village from Vorarlberg. The films begin at sundown. However, from 11am onwards, there are a plethora of food stands featuring cuisine from around the globe. We feel like you can find nearly anything from every corner of this world there. It’s a culinary heaven!

So enjoy sitting in the shade, have a Spritzer and wait for the film to begin. Throughout the summer, most films will be played twice. Most nights, there are also live performances of some sort before the screenings. Check out the full programme.

This concert will be a special night for anyone who loves hearing people singalong to songs in a Viennese dialect, all night long. There will also be artists from all sorts of performance fields on stage, like cabaret artists and singers of the Wienerlied and Gstanzls, and they are all unapologetically Viennese and will leave their grumpiness at home, just for you.

Vienna’s dance festival of all dance festivals, ImPulsTanz, is back and they’ve sure got a lot of workshops and performances lined up that are worth doing your happy dance about. So get your dancing pants on and get yourself tickets for one of the shows / register for one of the classes. Check out the full Impulstanz programme here.

It’s that time again when the beloved city’s beer brewery, Ottakringer Brauerei, comes to life for summer, as they’ve set up the Ottakringer Bierfest.

Most importantly, if you ask us, there will be lots of beer flowing – different kinds of beer produced in their brewery, to be specific.

To check out what will be happening, have a look at the programme for more details.

Like every summer, there’s the event ‘Reading in the Park’ happening, where young kids from three to ten years are invited to immerse themselves in the exciting world of books. They can read, play, paint and also borrow books at these park events, as part of the daily play and leisure programme on offer. It will take place in various parks all over Vienna, so be sure to check out the info page for details.

When?
July 1 – August 8 and August 19 – 29, 2024
Monday – Thursday 2:00pm – 6:00pm
(cancellations possible in case of rain)

Summer time is open air cinema time! We have put together the ultimate guide to Vienna’s open air cinemas for you! So don’t forget to get some popcorn and enjoy watching movies under the starry sky.

When a former royal garden opens up for the entertainment of us peasants, like the garden of the Palais Schwarzenberg is doing for the summer-long Theater im Park, it might be time to dust off that suit and dress you got in the back of your closet. Ok, you won’t need to dress up for this as it’s a nice casual affair. A good dose of culture, theater and cabaret is going to be served up to you right in the park under the stars if you buy a ticket for one of the shows going on all summer. Check out their programme!

Warmer days are here, and that means that all the artsy crowd in Vienna (and let’s be honest, all the regular crowd too) are going to hang out on the ALBERTINA Bastei terrace with a spritzer in hand, soaking in the view of the Vienna State Opera and nodding their heads to DJ beats.

The Volksgarten is inviting to their ‘Technocafe’ every Tuesday. If you’ve heard of this party before, you will be super excited. (Cause we are too!) And guess what: There will be drinks and lots of techno! More details are on their FB page.

Looking for some unique treasures or just love the thrill of the hunt? Then come join the wildest flea market in all of West Vienna! Get ready for some serious bargain hunting and rummaging fun. Go snag some amazing finds!

A flea market is twice the fun when it takes place in the right setting. And what would complement all those vintage items more than the industrial charm of an old factory building, right?

The METAStadt is back with its weekly flea market this weekend.

With so many culture events taking place – be it exhibitions in museums, powerful plays on theatre stages, art shows that scratch that inspiration itch – getting your daily dose of culture in Vienna is easy-peasy. That is, if you have our awesome art and culture guide, which tells you all about the best events happening in Vienna right NOW (or soon-ish). If you think we’re missing any important ongoing culture events, drop us a message Instagram, or the good old, oldschool way, via mail.