Featured Events

ViennaUP 2025: The Startup Festival You Don’t Want to Miss
Attention all pioneers, entrepreneurs and investors! Interested in exploring European markets? ViennaUP is back in 2025, as the ultimate startup festival taking place in the Austrian capital from May 6-18 2025.
EU Open House
EU Open House will officially take place on Saturday, May 10! We are pleased to share that the Embassy of Austria will once again be part of this much-loved spring event with the EU Delegation in the United States.

2025 Annual Botstiber Lecture: Fake News — Hard Facts — True Lies? How News Media Influence Public Opinion in Austria and the United States
Hannelore Veit will deliver the 2025 Annual Botstiber Lecture on Austrian-American Affairs. Among her many accomplishments, Ms. Veit anchored the top-rated Austrian news program Zeit im Bild (1993-2012) and later served, from 2013 to 2020, as the Washington, D.C., Bureau Chief for Austrian Public Broadcasting (ORF).

Springtime | Johanna Rosa Falkinger & Daniela Fietzek
The ACF DC welcomes soprano Johanna Rosa Falkinger and pianist Daniela Fietzek for a concert celebrating spring and the rhythms of nature.

The Sound of Entanglement | JHU Science Diplomacy Summit 2025
The Johns Hopkins University (JHU) in collaboration with the Austrian Cultural Forum Washington DC (ACF DC) proudly presents the performance lecture The Sound of Entanglement during this years’ Science Diplomacy Summit at the JHU Bloomberg Center.

Austria @ JHU Science Diplomacy Summit 2025
Join us at the JHU SCIENCE DIPLOMACY SUMMIT 2025!




New York: TECHNOFLOWS Exhibition
The Austrian Cultural Forum New York presents TECHNOFLOWS: Luiza Crosman and Christoph Weber, an exhibition exploring climate governance, planetary forecasting, and resource extraction through the lens of the technosphere — an interconnected system of autonomous technologies shaping Earth.

Washington DC: Viennese Ball at the Embassy of Austria
In cooperation with the International Club of DC, you are cordially invited to experience a magical evening at the Embassy of Austria for an unforgettable evening celebrating Viennese music, wine, dinner, desserts and dancing.

Dance, Dance, Otherwise We Are Lost | Klaudia Tandl & Gisela Jöbstl
The ACF DC welcomes mezzo-soprano Klaudia Tandl and pianist Gisela Jöbstl for a concert celebrating the many varieties and facets of dance with the program “Dance, Dance, Otherwise We Are Lost”.





BRUCKNER AND BEYOND: AUSTRIAN ORGAN MASTERPIECES
Marking the bicentenary of composer Anton Bruckner’s birth, Austrian concert organist Lukas Hasler presents an afternoon of organ works celebrating Austria’s musical legacy, featuring works by Bruckner, Mozart, Planyavsky, and Liszt, with additional music of Mendelssohn, J.S. Bach, and Beethoven.

CHAOS STRING QUARTET | MUSIC & CHOCOLATE SERIES
Join the Austrian Cultural Forum DC for a musical journey with a taste of Austrian chocolate and wine during the EUNIC (EU National Institutes for Culture in Washington DC) series Music and Chocolate: Tastes & Sounds of Europe.


Washington, DC: Rising Voices Youth Voting Documentary Screening
The Austrian Press & Information Service and the Bertelsmann Foundation are proud to present a screening of the short documentary Rising Voices. The film explores how young people in Vienna, Austria participate in local politics.

GoUSA Silicon Valley | Austrian Start-up Demo Night 2024
8 incredible Austrian Start-ups have been selected to participate in this years two-week GoUSA Silicon Valley Startup Landing Zone program at Open Austria in San Francisco, which kicked off on October 28.

Washington, DC: Viennese Ball at the Embassy of Austria
In cooperation with the International Club of DC, you are cordially invited to experience a magical evening at the Embassy of Austria for an unforgettable evening celebrating Viennese music, wine, dinner, desserts and dancing.

New York: Uni Wien Alumni Chapter: Art & Networking Event
Are you a fellow alumni of the University of Vienna and you live in New York or close by? You can reconnect with fellow alumni and friends of the University of Vienna through the University of Vienna Alumni Chapter New York.

New York: Judith P. Fischer and Uwe Hauenfels: Across Time. Form and Space.
The Austrian Cultural Forum New York (ACFNY) proudly announces the opening of the exhibition “Judith P. Fischer and Uwe Hauenfels: Across Time. Form and Space.”






EuroAsia Shorts Festival | Closing Night
Join us for the closing night of the EuroAsia Shorts Film Festival 2024 at the Embassy of Austria.

A(R) Talk 09: 100 Years Neue Galerie Vienna
Americans today associate the name Neue Galerie with New York’s Museum of Austrian and German Art, founded by Ronald Lauder in 2001. However, the New York museum has a historical namesake, Otto Kallir’s Neue Galerie, which opened its doors in Vienna in November 1923.

Blockchain revisited: A Tool for Social and Environmental Change?
Daniela Gandorfer, founder of the Logische Phantasie Lab and Lecturer of Law at University of Westminster, London, will hold a capturing keynote and will give inspiring insights into her work.

Information Session: Austrian Citizenship for Persecuted Persons and their Descendants
This is a general info session for those who have not yet started the process.