Wednesday, 13 November | Friday, 15 November | Saturday, 16 November

Manos Tsangaris host
Bernhard Günther host
Eva Maria Müller coordination littlebit GbR
Markus Oppenländer production technics littlebit GbR
Ulli Napp technical direction

Talks, readings, performances and drinks
Manos TSANGARIS Applause shower. Interactive installation (2001)
Scandal window. Interactive installation (2024)

Free admission

When Manos Tsangaris composes, not only do sounds and words find new forms, but spaces and audiences do, too. Born in Düsseldorf in 1956, the composer, percussionist, artist and lyricist (who has just been honoured with the Mauricio Kagel Music Prize and been elected President of the Berlin Academy of the Arts) brings together his exploration of Arnold Schönberg in a large, new and walkable group of works at Wien Modern.

At a total of four locations around Karlsplatz, Arnold Elevators will become a festival within a festival between November 13 and 21, with PHACE, Studio Dan and numerous soloists and objects: Blicke in the Secession (November 13–15) invites you to explore six locations on an individual tour from the basement to the roof, from the goods lift to the conference room. Schönberg's fascination with looks, glances, and views (“Blicke” in German) leads us step by step to a polyphony of musical-theatrical points of view. Schönes Wetter in Gmunden (November 19–21), a series of six “public private performances” in different parts of the Brahms Hall in the Musikverein, each for nine listeners, leads into one of the most dramatic and momentous episodes in Schönberg's biography. At the Double Portrait with Arnold in the Neuer Salon of the Wiener Konzerthaus (November 19–21), the audience swaps places during the interval. And on three evenings, the Arnold Schönberg Centre becomes a Metabolic Salon with a wide variety of discussion partners.

Event Wien Modern in cooperation with Arnold Schönberg Center
With the kind support of Stadt Wien Kultur as part of Schönberg 150