Anniversary Tour
On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK will embark on a European Anniversary Tour in 2026. At selected design events across Europe, the festival team — together with local partners — will create temporary interventions and informal meeting formats in off-locations, inviting exchange, networking and offering a preview of the anniversary edition in Vienna.
The Anniversary Tour aims to strengthen existing international collaborations, initiate new partnerships and carry the spirit, curiosity and openness of VIENNA DESIGN WEEK far beyond Vienna.
Through this hybrid format, the project explores new forms of cultural exchange, travel, and temporary presence, while offering an informal preview of the upcoming 20th edition of VIENNA DESIGN WEEK (25 September – 4 October 2026). The tour aims to strengthen international collaborations, create new encounters across the European design community, and extend the festival’s curatorial approach beyond Vienna.
The Stops:
14.3.2026 — Collectible with Bureau Fomo, Brussels
21.4.2026 — Fuorisalone with Laura Karasinski, Milan
30.5.2026 — Křehký Mikulov with Eva Zangerle & Rainer Grilberger, Mikulov
6.6.2026 — World Design Capital 2026 with Tisch 7, Frankfurt am Main
20.6.2026 — Concéntrico with Liza Sočan & Gaja Pegan Nahtigal, Logroño
Funded by the Federal Ministry of Housing, Arts, Culture, Media, and Sport, Section IV - Arts and Culture. Supported by Tectus Insurance Brokers.
VIENNA DESIGN WEEK Anniversary Tour at World Design Capital Frankfurt RheinMain 2026 with Tisch 7
Fourth Stop:Horsing Around – Don’t Hold Back
As part of its 20th anniversary, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK embarks on an Anniversary Tour across Europe. Through temporary interventions, collaborations, and unexpected encounters, the festival makes stops at selected locations — one of them being Frankfurt am Main as part of World Design Capital 2026.
At the invitation of VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, the Viennese collective Tisch 7 takes over Frankfurt’s iconic bar Gute Stute for one evening. Under the title Horsing Around – Don’t Hold Back, an intervention unfolds between installation, social space, object, and performance.
A Trojan horse is coming to Frankfurt — not to conquer the city, but to smuggle young Viennese design into it. Selected objects from Gute Stute were brought to Vienna, transformed by Tisch 7, and returned to Frankfurt as hybrid artefacts. Throughout the evening, these objects are activated, used, altered, and collectively experienced.
Somewhere between irony and sincerity, a temporary situation emerges in which design becomes visible as a social process — shaped by appropriation, interaction, and shared experience. The evening is complemented by food, drinks, music, and spatial interventions.
Tisch 7 is an interdisciplinary collective based in Vienna consisting of Valentin Bauer, Lenz Dreher, Theresa Pöschl, Valentina Lian Sturn, and Leon Theodor. Working at the intersection of design, art, and space, the collective develops projects that deliberately resist easy categorisation. Their practice is site-specific, playful, and process-oriented, focusing less on finished objects and more on transformation, use, and collective experience.
Also joining the event is Frankfurt-based designer Kai Linke, who will present in Frankfurt for the first time the project he developed together with Schnitzstube Stadlhofer as part of the Passionswege programme at VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2025.
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VIENNA DESIGN WEEK Anniversary Tour x Tisch 7
World Design Capital Frankfurt RheinMain 2026
Horsing Around – Don’t Hold Back
6 June 2026, 5pm–2am
Gute Stute
Kölner Straße 42, 60327 Frankfurt am Main
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Kindly supported by LOBMEYR.
Funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport, Section IV – Arts and Culture.
Supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum Berlin.
Third stop: VIENNA DESIGN WEEK Anniversary Tour in Mikulov
A warm invitation to the third stop of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK Anniversary Tour
at the glass and ceramic festival Křehký Mikulov on the Austrian-Czech border.
Together with Eva Zangerle and Rainer Grilberger, we present their installation “Caterina (I.O.U. <3)” —
both sculpture and bar at the same time.
An opening with beer by Grieskirchner, Vodka Wellness and Soda Zitron.
Also: a limited edition of reworked “Alpha” glasses by LOBMEYR by Eva Zangerle and Rainer Grilberger.
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VIENNA DESIGN WEEK Anniversary Tour
“Caterina (I.O.U. <3)” as part of Křehký Mikulov
Stucco Hall, Namesti 6, Mikulov, Czech Republic
30 May, from 15:00
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Mikulov can easily be reached from Vienna by train:
From Vienna Central Station for example:
13:10 RJ250 towards Berlin Hbf
14:39 RGJ1034 towards Praha-Zahradni Mesto
15:10 RJX56 towards Praha hl.n.
The exhibition venue is a 17-minute walk from the station.
Last connection from Mikulov towards Vienna: 21:54
We’re looking forward to seeing you there!
Best regards,
The VIENNA DESIGN WEEK Team
Funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport, Section IV – Arts and Culture
Supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum Prague
PS: The full programme of Křehký Mikulov.
Second stop: VIENNA DESIGN WEEK Anniversary Tour in Milan
As part of its 20th anniversary, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK stops in Milan during Fuorisalone and, together with Viennese designer Laura Karasinski, invites guests to Bar Laura. Known for her distinct approach to hosting and her strong network in Milan, Karasinski creates the framework for an intervention that moves deliberately between social space and design format.
For one evening, a Milanese bar becomes a temporary place of exchange: an aperitivo as a curated setting that activates the international network of VIENNA DESIGN WEEK and makes design tangible in its communicative and connective dimension.
While Fuorisalone is shaped by speed and hyper-commercial dynamics, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK sets a conscious counterpoint — with an intervention rooted in proximity, conversation, and hospitality. With a sense of Viennese ease and quiet confidence, Bar Laura subtly integrates itself into Milan’s urban fabric, opening up space for encounters beyond conventional exhibition formats.
With objects by: ADAMGEAORG, Onka Allmayer-Beck, Arthur Arbesser, BCXSY, Marco Dessi, Oswald Haerdtl, Josef Hoffmann, Vera Liskova, Johanna Pichlbauer, Hans Harald Rath, Swedish Girls (Mira Bergh & Josefin Zachrisson), Thomas Waidhofer, Christoph Wimmer-Ruelland, Anna Zimmermann
Sacher cubes and Lobmeyr cups available while supplies last
Photo documentation: Apollonia Bitzan
Bar Laura
21.4.2026, 16.30–20 Uhr
FIRST STOP:
I ♥ Vienna (and I’m in Brussels)
VIENNA DESIGN WEEK x Bureau Fomo
Collectible, Brüssel
14. März 2026, 17:00–22:00
Vitesse Sainctelettesquare 8, Brussels, Belgium 1000
To celebrate its 20th edition, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK embarks on an Anniversary Tour exporting its unique spirit to selected design events across Europe. The first stop: Collectible Brussels, in collaboration with the Vienna-based curatorial duo Bureau Fomo. For one evening, Vitesse Lab will turn into a temporary Viennese “Souvenir Stop and Shop” — somewhere between exhibition, retail space, and a place to meet and hang out.
Together, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK and Bureau Fomo invite you to an evening featuring limited-edition souvenirs and unique design objects. Curated by Bureau Fomo the event brings together presentation, exchange, and relaxed socialising — with a small bar serving Austrian drinks (Weißer Spritzer! home-made Schnaps!) and a typically Viennese relaxed socialising.
Featuring special 1-of-1 souvenirs, available exclusively during the event, by:
Alexandre Delasalle, Anna Zimmermann, Bernhard Fuchs, Bureau Parso, Chun, Flora Manon Lechner, Franz Ehn, Hannah Kuhlmann, JB Gambier, Johanna Pichlbauer, Klemens Schillinger, Laura Dominici & Basil Schu, Laurids Gallée, Leto Keunen, Olga Flór, Pierre Castignola, Soju Studio, Tim Teven, Torte 0.0, and Xenia Lesniewski.
Display windows by Christoph Wimmer-Ruelland, Original LOBMEYR pendants as Souvenirs.
Come for the Souvenirs, stay for the Viennese Spritzer and Schnaps
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When will you realize, Vienna waits for you
Vienna waits for you
Vienna Calling
Kisses from Vienna
I ♡ Vienna
The stop in Brussels is supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum Brussels. 
