artacts '26 - Exhibition “Return To Forever”
With a strong, decades-long tradition, artacts opens the European festival season at the beginning of the coming spring. Reflecting the traditions of Black Music and Free Improvisation, this year's program once again reads excitingly, but always connected with the ambition to reach new sound experiences and forms of music-making on strong foundations.
Artacts '26 will take place from March 5 to 8, 2026.
7:00 PM: Georg Graewe & Sonic Fiction Orchestra (Germany, Austria, Australia) Frank Gratkowski – clarinets Maria Gstättner – bassoon Martin Siewert – guitars, electronics Maura Knierim – harp Joanna Lewis – violin Laura Strobl – viola Melissa Coleman – cello Joe Williamson – double bass Valentin Duit – drums Georg Graewe – piano, composition
afterwards: Anker/Cleaver/König (Denmark, USA, Austria) Lotte Anker – saxophones Gerald Cleaver – drums Lukas König – drums, electronics
afterwards: Into the Wide (Austria) Thomas Berghammer – trumpet Gunter Schneider – contra guitar Gerhard Laber – percussion, electronics
afterwards: Hiby/Nebbia/Biłat/Hession (Germany, Argentina, Poland, UK) Hans Peter Biłat – cello Paul Hession – drums
Info, Tickets: www.artacts.at / info@artacts.at
