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OPEN CALL  (Ambient Garden)


For our upcoming ambient festival (may 22nd-23rd, 2026), we are calling for multimedia artists who want to participate in a group exhibition.

We are especially looking for sound installations, but welcome any other form of media fitting the theme of Ambient Garden.





HOW TO SUBMIT


Please send your application with a description of your planned idea to: 

enchantedgarden2024@gmail.com

Around 10 works will be selected by the beginning of march.  

Deadline:  23.02.2026



We are looking forward to co-create an ambient garden with you!

AMBIENT GARDEN (Festival)
22.-23.5.2026
Semmelweißklinik (Vienna)


Come with us into the Ambient Garden. A tree by the urban river lets its branches wander. Can you hear them splashing softly? A leaf has just been crushed in my hands. The sap clings to my skin. I lick it carefully—it's sweet and gentle and exciting and sour and bitter and smoky. We lie down on the grass and watch the clouds drift by. Can you see it too? There it is, a light blue fluffy seahorse! We take a long moment to rest here. Now we are completely surrounded, comfortably warm, also a bit scared, full bodily immersed. Can you hear it too?

Ambient Garden is a two-day festival focusing on (experimental) ambient music. A sound garden will be created for you to dive in, get curios, float away, and rest.

⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ concerts • exhibition • performances ⋆.ೃ࿔*:･


in collaboration with Sandkastensyndikat


 


ARCHIVE

Touching Grass Exhibtion 

August 29th, 2025 // Vienna, Austria


We say nature heals. We say “touch the grass”. Nature softens the weight we carry, the invisible heaviness of anxiety, fear, sadness, feelings that we carry around. When you are feeling overwhelmed, down, anxious, or depressed, when everything feels too much, going into nature - touching trees and plants, swimming in the icy cold water, being away from people, disappearing - often brings relief, but it’s not just nature itself that heals and soothes us. In nature, there are no social expectations, no roles, no norms. There are no names, no pronouns, no right ways to behave. Nature offers freedom - from performance, from rules. It allows space to be who we are. Who we want to be. Who we are becoming. Who we imagine ourselves to be. A man, a woman, a person, a living body. Alone and in tune with oneself. No one needs to call a name and it’s enough to just be.

Can we become “one with nature“ again? Have we ever been separated? Do we want to be? Nature has long been seen as a healer, a parent, a caretaker, an infinite giver - do you remember the children’s story “The Giving Tree”? - but we are or can be a part of nature too - see it as our equal, a friend, a lover. Nature cares for us, can we take care of it in return? Can we meet it as our equal? 


2025 version of the Garden was showing itself in the form of an outdoor exhibition, curated by Elias Strebkov and Johanna W. Olivier.








IMAGES FROM THE ARCHIVES