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Eun-Me Ahn: Post-Orientalist Express — ImPulsTanz @ Burgtheater

When

30 July 2026 – 1 August 2026

Where

1st · Innere Stadt

South Korea's most influential choreographer, Eun-Me Ahn, makes her Vienna debut with *Post-Orientalist Express* — an internationally celebrated work that blends opulent imagery, K-pop energy, and futuristic club aesthetics. Described as the "Pina Bausch of Asia," Ahn has designed over 90 costumes for her ensemble, creating a visual and kinetic spectacle that moves between ritual, Western and inner-Asian Orientalisms, and avant-garde performance. This is a rare Vienna first — an artist who has been working for decades and is only now appearing here. ImPulsTanz has put South Korea in the spotlight this year with support from Korea Kulturzentrum Wien. Performances July 30 at 21:00 and August 1 at 19:00 at Burgtheater. Tickets via impulstanz.com.

Eun-Me Ahn: Post-Orientalist Express — ImPulsTanz, Burgtheater, July 30–Aug 1

When

30 July 2026 – 1 August 2026

Where

1st · Innere Stadt

Eun-Me Ahn — South Korea's most influential choreographer — brings her Vienna debut to the Burgtheater for ImPulsTanz, July 30–August 1. Post-Orientalist Express, which premiered in May 2025 to international acclaim, is a choreographic deconstruction of Orientalist imagery and its relationship to Korean identity. The work is funny, political, and formally precise in equal measure. This is the centrepiece of ImPulsTanz 2026's Korea focus, and it fills large spaces without losing intimacy. Tickets via impulstanz.com.

Isle of Summer Vienna — electronic festival, Donauinsel, August 1

When

1 August 2026

Where

22nd · Donaustadt

Isle of Summer is Vienna's new electronic open-air festival, taking over the Donauinsel on August 1 from 11:00 to 23:00. It's a serious lineup across four stages — 30+ international artists including Ben Böhmer (live), CamelPhat, Deborah de Luca, Eric Prydz, I Hate Models, Kobosil, and WhoMadeWho. The programming spans melodic techno, hard techno, and trance, so there's range within the sound. The festival is located on the southern section of the Donauinsel, near the Brigittenauer Brücke, south of the Georg Danzer Steg — a specific footprint, not the main Donauinselfest territory. This is the Vienna debut of the Isle of Summer format (the main festival runs in Munich). The combination of a serious electronic lineup and the Danube Island setting in the height of summer is the angle. The space and the season matter as much as the music. Tickets are available now via isleofsummer.at. Check the site for current pricing.

Altroché — Italian micro-bakery pop-up, Neustiftgasse, the 7th

When

17 June 2026 – 31 July 2026

Where

7th · Neubau

Francesco Fusaro, an Italian baker committed to sourdough and handcraft, has opened Altroché as a pop-up on Neustiftgasse 81 in the 7th. The range is proper Italian bakery: vegan cornetti, Bari-style focaccia, pizza slices, sourdough bread — all made on fermentation principles by one person. The 7th has no shortage of cafés, but a serious micro-bakery run on sourdough discipline is different. Fusaro plans a permanent Vienna location after the pop-up closes at the end of July. Open now through July 31.

Leones Gelateria — Pop-Up (2nd District)

When

30 July 2026 – 31 August 2026

Slow-food gelateria making traditional Italian ice cream from fresh, natural ingredients — no additives. The 2nd district pop-up location runs through the end of August, open daily 12pm–9pm. Vegan options available (the vegan dark chocolate is worth the trip alone). €4–6 per scoop. It's the kind of place where the vanilla is made from real vanilla beans, and the coconut from real coconut milk. Evening gelato in the 2nd district is a cooler retreat than the crowded 1st, and the slow-food ethos means you're not just eating ice cream — you're eating something that was made to taste like itself.

Sekki Pop-Up — The Leo Grand, Bauernmarkt, the 1st

When

26 June 2026 – 31 August 2026

Where

1st · Innere Stadt

Sekki is a three-month summer pop-up from Lucas 'Lucky' Shong and Jake Bergholtz, two of Vienna's most respected young chefs. They've taken over the evening service (Friday to Sunday, 6pm–midnight) at The Leo Grand's restaurant on Bauernmarkt 1 in the 1st district, running through the end of August. The menu is deliberately unpretentious — Kittseer sourdough, duck-butter, liver crème brûlée, Bergholtz's grandmother's apricot dumplings, Korean fried chicken — built from the network and experience both have accumulated across Vienna's best restaurants. The space itself is baroque and slightly kitschy; they're leaning into that rather than against it. It's the kind of kitchen that works best as a temporary thing, which is precisely why it's worth finding now.

FUTURAMA°LAB: Casa [Senza] Alberi — Otto Wagner Areal, opens June 10

When

10 June 2026 – 31 July 2026

Where

14th · Penzing

Casa [Senza] Alberi — A Treehouse with[out] Trees, A Bird's Nest with[out] Birds — opens at Pavillon 21 on the Otto Wagner Areal on June 10. Rainer Prohaska, FUTURAMA°LAB, and Kollektiv Kaorle have built a walkable installation from reused materials: fantastical structures between treehouse, bird's nest, and architectural sculpture that invite you to climb, sit, and move through them. The work explores communal living, building, and how we appropriate and inhabit space — questions that feel urgent when the city itself is changing. The Otto Wagner Areal is the right setting. The complex — a former psychiatric hospital designed by Otto Wagner in 1907 — remains one of Vienna's most extraordinary places: a sprawl of pavilions and gardens in the 14th that feels apart from the city's rhythm. Free entry to the park. The installation runs through July 31.

Architektur.Film.Sommer 2026 — Demokratie Bauen, AzW Courtyard

When

5 August 2026

Where

7th · Neubau

The Architekturzentrum Wien's open-air film festival returns in August with the theme 'Demokratie Bauen' — exploring how architecture shapes democracy and how cities can plan more justly. The courtyard of the AzW, tucked inside the MuseumsQuartier complex, is one of Vienna's better-kept outdoor screening spots: intimate, not crowded, the light fading into the evening while you're still seated. Two nights: August 5 at 20:30 (An den Grenzen der Demokratie) and August 12. Free admission. This is the kind of event that reads dry on paper and turns out to be the best evening of the month — the sort where you arrive thinking you'll stay for the film and leave at midnight still talking about what you saw.

ImPulsTanz Flea Market — Bender Vintage, July 2026

When

9 July 2026 – 9 August 2026

ImPulsTanz runs a flea market with Bender Vintage every day of the festival, starting at 14:00 before the daily performances. You'll find vintage clothing, Wuhl-Stände, and ImPulsTanz merchandise — the kind of browsing that doesn't require a ticket or advance planning. It's a low-barrier entry to the festival itself: you can arrive just to look through racks, and if something in the program catches your eye afterward, you're already there. The combination of serious contemporary dance culture and a vintage market is specific to this place. Check impulstanz.com/en/events/fleamarket for exact dates and location (likely the MQ area or main festival venue).

Spring Wind: The Awakening at Urania / Stadtkino

When

14 July 2026 – 19 August 2026

Where

1st · Innere Stadt

A year-long documentary following Péter Magyar's challenge to Viktor Orbán. Shot in intimate moments and public rallies, it captures a country deciding who it wants to be. The film was released free online in Hungary ahead of the election and watched 3.3 million times; Magyar's Tisza party won 137 of 199 parliamentary seats. For Vienna's international community, it's a rare chance to see Hungary's political upheaval from the inside, in Hungarian with English subtitles. Screening at Urania tonight (July 14), then continuing at Stadtkino from July 23 through August 19.

frame[o]ut Open Air Cinema 2026 — MuseumsQuartier

When

10 July 2026 – 29 August 2026

Where

7th · Neubau

Vienna's best free cinema returns to the MuseumsQuartier on July 10, running every Friday and Saturday at Hof 8 until August 29. This year's theme is 'Confrontation' — and frame[o]ut has been doing this long enough that the theme is a genuine curatorial frame, not a marketing label. The MQ courtyard, surrounded by the Kunsthalle and MUMOK, fills up with people who came for the film and stayed for the evening. Films are shown in original version with subtitles. If it rains, screenings move to MQ Arena21. Free entry, no reservation needed — just show up. The specific July program was not yet published at time of writing; check frameout.at for the weekly lineup. This is one of the most reliably good evenings Vienna offers in summer, and it costs nothing.

Kino am Dach 2026 — Mind Games season

When

4 July 2026 – 12 September 2026

Where

7th · Neubau

Kino am Dach is back for its 23rd season on the roof of the Hauptbücherei — the main library on Urban-Loritz-Platz, accessible by lift straight from the U6 platform. This year's theme is MIND GAMES: the fragile construction of truth, conspiracy and illusion, reality and its manipulation. The July lineup mixes classics — Pi, Black Swan, Total Recall, Funny Games, Se7en — with new releases like Sentimental Value, Father Mother Sister Brother, and The Housemaid. Films start at 21:00, ticket pickup from 20:00. The rooftop setting is genuinely special: open sky, city views, the library's modernist geometry below you. It's the kind of place where you notice the air is different. The city feels smaller from up there. Tickets are €12 (€11 concessions). Bring a blanket — evenings get cool, and you'll want to stay longer than you planned.

Schelato — Ice Cream Lab & Tasting

Organic ice cream made in a cellar laboratory downstairs. The flavours are outlandish — beetroot and poppyseed, avocado, salted caramel — and each one lands harder than you'd expect. The space sits on Lerchenfelder Straße in the 8th, where the sunset hits the storefront like it was planned that way. Open daily 12–8pm. €4–6 per scoop.

Eissalon Tichy — Vienna's Iconic Ice Cream

Where

10th · Favoriten

Eissalon Tichy has been serving ice cream from Reumannplatz since before living memory. The place is famous for the Eis-Marillenknödel — an ice cream version of the Austrian apricot dumpling — and daily rotating specials that change constantly. Around ten flavours rotate daily, often including their signature creations like Spaghetti Eis. Motherly waitresses in white-and-pink-striped dresses serve you from a counter that feels like a time machine. Open March through October, 10am to 11pm. This is where Vienna goes when the temperature hits 37°C.

Danilo Fusco Gelato & Coffee

Where

1st · Innere Stadt

Danilo Fusco makes authentic Italian gelato in the 1st district — the kind that tastes like real dessert, dense and smooth. The matcha affogato and pistachio affogato are standouts. Open through August. The 36°C heat makes this a practical destination, but you'll stay for the gelato.