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WUK is an acronym and stands for “Werkstätten- und Kulturhaus”, roughly meaning “House for Workshops and Culture”. The building is laid out on 12,000 square metres and includes a stage, a concert hall, an exhibition hall and photo gallery, workshops and studios, work spaces for socio-political groups, a place for education and counselling, a senior citizens’ centre and school, rehearsal studios for music and dance, an intercultural centre, work stations and a party space.

The WUK is a place for study, for trying and doing things, for participation and sharing. The WUK creates leeway for creativity. It is a laboratory and a place of practice in one.

Measured in terms of square metres and versatility, the WUK is one of the largest socio-cultural centres in Europe. More than 200,000 people visit and make use of the WUK every year.


Upcoming events at the WUK

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Anne Glassner and Lisa Spalt: Dream Cell

Vienna Art Week, Independent Spaces

The phone booth becomes a dream cell: a place of retreat, poetic transformation and the collective power of imagination. The dream cell is a sleeping area, projection surface as well as a poetic workshop. It invites the audience to enter a state between waking and dreaming - a space in which reality and imagination merge.

12th of Nov 2025 - 31st of Jan 2026
Kunstzelle

KunstAusstellung

NARRATIVE I

TOPOGRAFIEN DER ERINNERUNG

Der Themenschwerpunkt Narrative widmet sich der Beschäftigung mit narrativen Strategien und Strukturen in der zeitgenössischen Foto- und Videokunst.

Mo 1.12.2025 bis Sa 17.1.2026
Fotogalerie Wien

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The exhibition project Botanizing the Asphalt explores the political role of light in urban spaces at night. Examining the materiality of night and its sensorial, normative, and atmospheric aspects, the potential of the nocturnal as a community meeting space unfolds against the backdrop of pressing social, ecological, and political contexts.

Thur 6.11.2025 until Sat 13.12.2025
kex—kunsthalle exnergasse

Weiblich und männlich gelesene Demonstrant*innen halten rote Stoppschilder mit der Aufschrift 'STOP ZWANGSRÄUMUNGEN' vor einem weißen Gebäude mit Fenstern.
Gesellschaft & PolitikDemokratieDiskussionFilmVermittlung

Sold City - Wenn Wohnen zur Ware wird

WUK-Attac-Filmabend

Der Dokumentarfilm „SOLD CITY“ zeigt Ursachen des Immobilienbooms seit den 2000er-Jahren, wie Betroffene, z.B. Mieter*innen, ihn erleben und wie wir uns gegen die Vernichtung bezahlbaren Wohnraums wehren können.

Th 4.12.2025
Foyer

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