Enchanted 
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Enchanted Garden is a trans-media platform celebrating the garden. In an annual gathering we bring together ideas and impressions about this topic from different approaches and disciplines. Originally conceived as a film festival, other art forms – performance, photography, music, etc.—were later integrated.

It is in the nature of the garden to be a shape-shifting place – which is one reason why we want to make this our concept. As we contemplate it for its beauty, it does not cease to grow – ever expanding, weaving, whispering, deceiving, listening, understanding. While the first edition was a three-day event in the city of Vienna, with a programme including an exhibition, performances, concerts and workshops, the second took place in the Gesäuse National Park, a less tamed landscape, with film screenings, artist talks and hands-on workshops under the stars. An exhibition in the forest followed 2025.

ENCHANTEMENT (n.)


c. 1300, enchantement, „act of magic or witchcraft; use of magic; magic power,“ from Old French encantement „magical spell; song, concert, chorus,“ from enchanter „bewitch, charm,“ from Latin incantare „enchant, cast a (magic) spell upon,“ from in- „upon, into“ (from PIE root *en „in“) + cantare „to sing“ (from PIE root *kan- „to sing“). Figurative sense of „allurement“ is from 1670s. Compare Old English galdor „song,“ also „spell, enchantment,“ from galan „to sing,“ which also is the source of the second element in nightingale.

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


✦✰⁑TICKETS⁑✰✦

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


Get your tickets HERE. 
If the prizing is unaccessible for you, there is a limited amount of soli-tickets. Please reach out to us by email: enchantedgarden2024@gmail.com with the subject “soli ticket”.

 


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