Europe knows too little about its artists. We want to make voices, works and stories visible and audible across borders.
A huge white rhinoceros blocks the way inside St Nicholas Church in Zeitz. Itamar Gov’s installation connects Albrecht Dürer’s famous woodcut with Eugène Ionesco’s play and asks how images and conformity can shape our sense of reality.
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For many people, Notting Hill is first of all a film location. Today, however, the street belongs to the children first: on Carnival's 60th anniversary, music, Caribbean tradition, memory and a new generation come together.
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Forgeries, fossils, the black market and confiscated art: during the Long Night of Museums, Berlin becomes one enormous investigation scene tonight. But what can a museum object actually reveal about a crime?
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Four colourful parades, enormous creatures above the streets and a child emerging from a mound of dust: with “From Black to Rainbow”, Heerlen opens the 35th edition of Cultura Nova today.
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Orestis Pangalos has been part of the Greek graffiti scene since 1993. An exhibition in Thessaloniki now presents what he has collected over decades – and asks how we can preserve an art form whose impermanence is part of its nature.
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A South Korean pianist makes his Swedish debut, a French composer brings Basque roots together with jazz, and a Czech orchestra brings Smetana’s “Má vlast” to Stockholm. In the famous Vltava melody, Swedish listeners may hear something surprisingly familiar.
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On what would have been Hayko’s 53rd birthday, a previously unreleased composition by the Armenian singer and composer receives its world premiere. “Ararat” bears a name of enormous significance to Armenia – but what Hayko intended to express through the work is still unknown.
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On 24 August, Ukraine marks 35 years of independence. In Lviv, two very different music projects explore what cultural self-determination can mean: one looks back at suppressed history, while the other allows old songs to live on in a new sound.
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The Republic of Moldova is small, yet remarkably diverse in culture and language. At the Tezaur Național festival this weekend, music, traditional dress, crafts and food come together – showing how traditions can be passed on when they are no longer an everyday necessity.
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In Iceland, the children’s book is called “Tjörnin”. In Germany it became “Ein Teich für uns”, in the Netherlands “De vijver” and in Lithuania “KŪDRA”. The pond remains the same, but translators help its story reach new readers.
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Fourteen international artists are making not only their destinations but also the routes towards them part of their work. On Friday, the exhibition “COLLECTIVE ROUTES – 100000KM OF INSPIRATION” opens in Oulu.
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A suitcase can contain clothes, documents and a few personal belongings. But what is left behind when home cannot travel with us? In Andorra, “La maleta d’Ucraïna” raises questions about origin, memory and what people still carry with them.
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The Grand Palais in Paris is presenting the first major French exhibition devoted to Swedish artist Hilma af Klint. Her abstract paintings began as early as 1906 – years before art history came to associate the beginnings of abstraction with names such as Kandinsky or Malevich.
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On 18 August, a festival without a central jury begins in Tallinn. At Tallinn Fringe, artists and venues find each other directly – and for one month the whole city becomes a stage for independent art.
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They come from different countries, speak different languages and began their musical training in different places. On 17 August they will sit together on a stage beside Lake Ohrid.
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Folk-dance groups from several continents join hands in Nice. On 16 August, their farandole leads into the garden of Villa Masséna — a gesture of peace beside the names and portraits of the 86 victims of the 2016 attack.
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Riga is turning 825. Yet the city on the Daugava did not begin with its official foundation in 1201. Its birthday celebration tells of trade and conquest, changing rulers and a city that now wants to bring its many stories into conversation.
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One of Southeast Europe’s most important film festivals grew out of a basement cinema in besieged Sarajevo. On 14 August, its 32nd edition opens with Thomas and Erika Mann travelling through the ruins of Germany in 1949.
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13 August marks 65 years since construction of the Berlin Wall began. An installation changes with the viewer’s position, 140 biographies restore the victims’ stories, and two guitars turn division into music.
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On 12 August the Sun will darken over parts of Spain. In Catalonia, a Jordi Savall Festival evening brings the rare celestial event together with the intimate sound of a theorbo.
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The Rossini Opera Festival opens in Pesaro today with “Le Siège de Corinthe”. Rossini dismantled one of his own Italian operas and rebuilt it for Paris, adding a French text, new music, large choral scenes and a story charged with political relevance in 1826.
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At the Jordi Savall Festival, Euskal Barrokensemble recalls Juan Sebastián Elkano, who brought the Victoria back to Spain in 1522 and completed a voyage that changed humanity’s image of the world.
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WarszeMuzik brings chamber music to surviving Warsaw courtyards and the Umschlagplatz memorial. The history of Jewish life, the destruction of the Second World War and the everyday life of the present-day city become audible together.
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A painting long catalogued as anonymous in the storage of Norway’s National Museum is now recognised as a work by the Flemish painter Clara Peeters. Curator Cynthia Osiecki followed a trail of wood, grapes, hazelnuts and tiny reflections.
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At the National Eisteddfod, one of the great poetry prizes is not a trophy but a specially made chair. Winning it requires an anonymously submitted poem written according to the rules of Welsh strict metre.
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Rapper Demi Portion created a festival in his hometown of Sète that brings established names together with new voices in French hip-hop. In 2026, it celebrates its tenth anniversary.
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The musician from County Tyrone has helped shape traditional Irish music for decades. At Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in Belfast, Cathal Hayden receives the Flanagan Award.
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The great guitarist from Granada combined flamenco’s deep roots with an extraordinary openness to new musical paths.
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