Associated with the Réseau Varèse Since 2002

Founded in 1988 at the initiative of Claudio Abbado, Wien Modern is Austria’s largest festival devoted to contemporary music, dance and other contemporary forms of expression that are closely related to music (literature, video, plastic arts).

Wien Modern is organised by the City of Vienna Cultural Department, in conjunction with the Wiener Konzerthaus and the Musikverein Wien.

It is held every year in November over a period of three or four weeks and in fifteen different locations.

Matthias Lošek

Artistic director

Matthias Lošek studied German and History in Vienna before working in the fields of opera and theatre production for the Donaufestwochen, Wiener Operntheater and the Elisabethbühne Salzburg.

In 2000 the Bregenz Festival engaged him for the Festival where he worked for 7 years and established the contemporary music series Kunst aus der Zeit (Art of Our Time). From 2004 on he has been personal assistant to the current Artistic Director David Pountney. In 2007 he became a cultural and political advisor for Vienna’s cultural councilor, primarily in the areas of theatre, dance, opera and music.

He is the Artistic Director of Wien Modern since 2010.

Matthias Lošek is a member of the Réseau Varèse since 2010.