GAST — Vienna Design Week

The former ‘Guest Country’ format was organised under the title GAST for the first time in 2022. Since then, not only countries can be ‘guests’ at the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, but also, for example, cross-border regions, districts or cities. However, the core of this central festival section remains the same: a detailed insight into the creative work of a GAST.
The GAST has the opportunity to show exhibitions on current design positions and also to position themselves in the programme in other ways. GAST designers are increasingly being invited across all formats.

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Stefanie Freynschlag

GUEST COUNTRY EUROPE

On the EU Village Square: Karoline Edtstadler is paying a visit. The Federal Minister for the EU and Constitution is chatting with a focus group about the power of design, about their needs and concerns. The meeting is part of the Conference on the Future of Europe and the participants find it…

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Kramar

GUEST COUNTRY Switzerland

Grüezi, Ciao, Salut, Allegra! Alongside the Focus District and the Festival Headquarters, the Guest Country is a further thematic cornerstone upon which a considerable part of the festival program is built every year. And, with this changing focus, each year’s VIENNA DESIGN WEEK offers a richly…

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Phillip Podesser

Guest Country Finland

Tervetuloa Suomeen! Through its changing focus, the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK provides a detailed look at thedesign creations of a different European country each year. The current guest: Finland. The home of trend setting brands, Nordic luminaries, and iconic classics, this design nation, which…

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Kramar

Guest Country Poland

Witamy w Polsce! Through each year's changing focus, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK provides a detailed look at the design creations of a different European country. In 2018 Poland has not only been Guest Country at VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, it has also celebrated the 100th anniversary of regaining its independence.

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Kramar

Guest Country Romania

Salut, România! With its changing focus, year after year the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK gives us richly detailed insights into the creativity of another European country. The spotlight onto Eastern Europe illuminated a multifaceted landscape – both in topography and in design! Whether crafts produced in…

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Kramar

Gastland Tschechien

Auf Wiedersehen! Na shledanou! Mit ihrem wechselnden Schwerpunkt gewährt die VIENNA DESIGN WEEK Jahr für Jahr detailreichen Einblick in das gestalterische Schaffen eines anderen europäischen Landes. 2016 war das unser Nachbar, Tschechien. „Ahoj“ sagten wir aber nicht nur einer jungen Generation…

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/WUR

Guest Country

Through its changing focus the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK each year opens up an in-depth and detailed view of the creative design scene of a European country. This year, the festival presented design from France, the guest country of 2015. Especially evident was the acute awareness for materials and…

Guest Country Spain 2012

Ecstatic colour, temperament and passion are the attributes (clichés?) people are fond of associating with Spanish design. However, there is an incredible diversity in the design of native Spaniards and we choose the word “diversity” deliberately, because many of them now work in Milan (like…

Guest Country Poland 2011

Peppy, dynamic, internationally oriented and sufficiently radical to be open to change – this is how we might describe the contemporary Polish design scene. It is at home in several centres all at once: Warsaw, Cracow and Lodz, each with its own educational facilities. Lodz also has a design…