Institutions
Following Institutions offer an internship/coached work experience for one cultural worker from South Africa in 2025.
— institutions
January/February 2025
/TrickyRealities
March/April 2025
/Viennese festival
May/June2025
/The Association of Visual Artists
May/June2025
/Vienna International Dance Festival
September/October 2025
/ArtSocialSpace
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Your profile
Interest/experience in the field of animated films and cinema
interest in/engagement with topics such as diversity and intersectional feminist discourses, as well as the intersections of art and socio-political topics.
Interest in queer and/or BPoC perspectives is welcome.
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Our Office
The office is located in the MuseumsQuarter.
Tricky Women /TrickyRealities
focuses on animated films made by women and/or genderqueer artists and therefore fills a unique position within the international festival landscape. Since 2001 TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES takes place every year in March in Vienna around the date of the International Women’s Day. Besides the competition the festival shows themed programs and retrospectives to present an exciting overview of the animated cinematic art of female/genderqueer artists from around the world and Austrian filmmakers as well. Historical curiosities and contemporary productions are part of TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES’ programming. From gender equality to digitalization, from human rights to the working world to social, economic and ecological questions – for twenty-four years, Tricky Women/Tricky Realities has been exploring social and political issues from a feminist and artistic perspective and offering new ways of highlighting social inequalities.
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Your responsibility
- Open Call Project Coordination and Archiving
- Kick-off meeting organization and correspondence
- Support for external exhibition collaboration
- social media support
- supporting the press section
- Website support
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Your profile
We welcome applicants that are interested in PR and project communication/curatorial assistance
Fluent English required
WienWoche
WIENWOCHE is a Viennese festival that experiments with merging creative practices and activism in different scales and formats and from different sides of art and social movements. Since its beginning in 2012, WIENWOCHE has taken place in September every year. WIENWOCHE sees cultural work as engagement in social, political and cultural debates, with the aim of advancing them and making them visible. WIENWOCHE intends to push the boundaries of cultural and artistic practices and make them accessible for all social groups living in Vienna.
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Your responsibility
- Assisting in the development of exhibitions, publications, and events with accompanying scholarly contributions, in close consultation with the curators and the artists invited by the board
- Assisting in the management of projects, as well as supporting artists during the realization of their exhibitions: processing loans, handling transportation issues, and researching the production of artworks and their associated expenses
- Support the production and editing of curatorial and other texts related to the exhibitions
- Assisting in the production and edit of both texts and other forms of mediation such as podcasts
- Contribute to efforts to attract strategic partners and sponsors
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Your profile
- You have an academic degree in curatorial studies, cultural studies, art history, or another field in the humanities, or have equivalent practical experience
- You possess deep knowledge of current discourses in contemporary art and extensive familiarity with the international arts scene
- You have gained first-hand professional experience in curating and cultural education
- You have outstanding communication skills, confidence, and are able to think and work in a team in English. German language skills are a plus, but not necessary, as some internal meetings will be held in German
- You are sensitive to diversity, inclusion, and anti-discrimination concerns
- You are proficient in the use of MS Office
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We offer
- workplace with interesting and varied responsibilities at an international exhibition institution
- To work together with a motivated team
The Secession strives for a diverse and socially representative team structure. We accordingly encourage individuals regardless of cultural or social background, age, religious belief, worldview, disability status, or sexual identity to apply.
Secession
The Association of Visual Artists Vienna Secession operates an independent and internationally recognized exhibition gallery. Its home is an icon of art nouveau architecture. In addition to the permanent presentation of Gustav Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze, its programming includes between ten and fifteen exhibitions of contemporary art per year, as well as by numerous publications, lectures, and discursive events. In cooperation with the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport (BMKOES), the Secession is looking for a Fellow from the beginning of May until the end of June 2025 to support the exhibition office in the area of curatorial research and production.
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Your responsibility
The grant holder will work in the workshops and research department.
As an assistant to the artistic director of the department, the grant holder will take care of e-mail communication and the online archive of our workshop teachers.
Through direct communication with our workshop teachers, the grant holder will help with travel planning for the festival period.
By accompanying the artistic director of the workshops and research department to internal and external meetings, the grant holder will also actively participate in the planning of the Workshop Festival 2025.
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Your profile
- Fluency in English, knowledge of German is an advantage.
- Experience in festival work and planning as well as interest and/or knowledge in the field of contemporary dance are highly recommended.
ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival
Founded in 1984 by Ismael Ivo and Karl Regensburger, ImPulsTanz has become one of the world's largest festivals for contemporary dance and performance. Every summer it presents a unique density of more than 50 productions, 220 workshops and research projects, a daily music program as well as films, music videos, installations and book presentations to more than 150,000 visitors. In addition, it hosts various education and training programs for dance students and young artists with rotating mentors and coaches.
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Your responsibility
- We welcome applicants that are interested in community-based artistic practices and discrimination-critical cultural work.
- The offered internship is at the interface of production and co-curatorial work in the frame of the regular program of Brunnenpassage with special focus on CTM project activities.
- We offer experience in working in a diverse team. You will gain experience in planning, co-curating and producing events ranging from workshops, lectures, film screening, concerts, performances, installations etc., centering underrepresented perspectives in the arts.
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Your profile
- Working with the curatorial team of Brunnenpassage (outside-eye input and reflection, proposing and following through with formats)
- Participating in weekly team meetings
- Communication and project management (with artists and cooperation partners, interface to production and social media)
- Assist with the coordination and execution of events
- Possibility of relating your practice and expertise to the socio-political context of Brunnenpassage and its environment/neighbourhood
ArtSocialSpace Brunnenpassage
Since its opening in 2007, ArtSocialSpace Brunnenpassage operates as a laboratory and venue for transcultural and participatory art. Brunnenpassage aims to provide access to contemporary art for all communities and to encourage active participation in the arts. It is strategically located in Vienna's 16th district, at the Brunnenmarkt, a market area characterized by a high percentage of socially disadvantaged residents and people with migration experience. More than 400 events take place annually, ranging from performance and dance to music formats, exhibitions and film. The overall concept is specifically designed to promote artistic practice and production that allows for complex and multiple perspectives and thus does justice to the social plurality of society. Participatory productions emerge from the daily relationship with the environment in co-creation with local communities and professional artists, often in collaboration with established arts and cultural institutions. In 2023 Brunnenpassage launched the four-year Creative Europe Project Cultural Transformation Movement CTM. Together with four partner centers - Trans Europe Halles (Sweden), Kunstencentrum Vier Nul Vier (Belgium), Izolyatsia (Ukraine) and Zo Associazione Culturale (Italy) - Brunnenpassage is joining forces to bring about changes towards more diversity and social justice in the local and European cultural sector and, above all, to strengthen marginalized positions in artistic decision-making and production processes. CTM aims to diversify artistic production starting from within the organizational structures. https://www.teh.net/inititatives/the-cultural-transformation-project-and-movement/
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Detailed internship program
The intern’s weekly program consists of assisting the children’s group leaders with various tasks (organizing workshops, setting up activities, supervising children, and interacting with museum visitors). The intern will participate in both the indoor and outdoor activities of the museum and will take part in the program of the ZOOM Studio, ZOOM Exhibition, ZOOM Animation and other laboratories organized by the museum, depending on the organization of the activities. The intern will be available to help organize and work on new workshops and events organized by the museum. The ZOOM Children’s Museum will provide an initial training period in which the intern will be supervised by museum staff and activity organizers to learn the skills used in the workshops and activities offered by the museum. In addition, the intern will be accompanied in the different activities proposed and will be tutored by professionals from the different sectors and museum staff. Knowledge, skills and competences to be acquired by the end of the internship: Organize workshops and laboratories that focus on creativity and experimental practices. Communicating concepts and ideas to children in a way that emphasizes critical thinking and experimentation. Skills related to group work aimed at the achievement of learning by the child visitors: teaching artistic practices, individual capacities and possibilities of expression, discovery of personal creative potential. Practicum goals: Ability to work independently in assigned roles, understanding of concepts covered in workshops and ability to share them with museum guests. Ability to interact with museum guests, especially children and families visiting and participating in organized activities.
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Your profile
- Required language skills: English, minimum level B2 and preferably basic knowledge of German.
- Required social skills: Preferably, the trainee already has some experience in working with children.
- Required academic skills: A background in art, art history or cultural studies is helpful but not essential.
ZOOM Children's Museum
ZOOM Children’s Museum Vienna was founded in 1994 as the first children’s museum in Austria. In 2001, ZOOM moved to its current location in Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier, making it not only a focal point for children’s culture in Vienna, but also part of one of the world’s largest cultural complexes. Its unique location in the heart of an extraordinary cultural district has had a major influence on ZOOM’s orientation: More arts-oriented than many other children’s museums, ZOOM has become a center for interaction between children and artists. Artists from a variety of disciplines work with children on topics related to science, everyday culture, sociology, philosophy, and, of course, art. Artists and scientists work together to develop the programs that ZOOM offers.
At the ZOOM Children’s Museum Vienna, children are welcome to ask questions, touch and feel, investigate and play to their hearts’ content. At ZOOM, play comes first and makes learning an individual process that encourages children’s creativity. The way children acquire knowledge is very different from that of adults. The exhibitions and workshops at ZOOM are designed and themed to meet the special needs of children. Children from 0 to 14 years of age are the center of attention.
