SONIC GROUNDS – Edition 2
Site-specific sound performances
Thursday, 02.04.2026 | Funkhaus, Argentinierstraße 30B
Open Studios 17:30
Performances 19:30
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SONIC GROUNDS is an experimental music format combining site-specific concerts, performances and open studios at the Funkhaus. Each edition is developed in dialogue with the building’s architecture and brings together NeverAtHome’s in-house artists with local or international musicians.
Edition 2 features pianist and composer Julian Bazzanella with his improvisation-driven solo project –BREATH please BREATH–, followed by recorder player Dora Donata Sammer, who explores the sonic possibilities of the instrument in her program „From Imitation to Illusion“. Both performances are accompanied by Analog Visuals Vienna, creating live analog light projections that interact with the music in real time.
17:30-19:30
On April 2nd, visitors are invited to explore the creative spaces of the NeverAtHome artist community through guided studio tours at 17:30 and 18:00. Free of charge, these tours offer a unique opportunity to step inside working studios at Funkhaus.
Following the tours, the evening continues with the experimental music format Sonic Grounds.
14:00-16:00
The art installation (no) Funny Games hosts this ceramic workshop and invites participants to explore basic ceramic techniques and model objects from clay. The focus lies on creating functional pieces such as bowls or candle holders though figurative objects are equally welcome.
The installation itself, the Karlsplatz temporarily covered in sand, forms the conceptual and material starting point for the works. Sand taken directly from the installation will be incorporated into the clay so that each participant quite literally takes a part of the artwork with them. Participants are encouraged to work with the textures and traces of the site: using the sand’s surface structure as an imprint, embedding sand into the material, or creating impressions from objects found in the installation.
Optionally, the finished pieces can be fired and glazed for €23, resulting in durable, dishwasher-safe objects.open to everyone who would like to get their hands dirty with clay, no prior knowledge needed
This workshop is part of the Klima Biennale Wien
Registration via Klima Biennale
NeverAtHome welcomes Vittoria de Franchis (Bruxelles, 1993) for a short-term residency in Vienna this April.
Vittoria is a curator and voice researcher based between London and Rome. She is currently Curator at the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation where she has established a new programme of exhibitions in the London space, initiated the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation Prize at Frieze London and launched a new series of sound editions. Since 2023 she runs gggglllloooossssaaaa, a worldwide programme of interdisciplinary events in apartments focusing on voice, text, sound and performance. Between 2023 and 2025, she was part of the curatorial team at CIRCA, and from 2016 to 2021 at Terraforma and Threes Productions.
During her time in Vienna, in collaboration with NeverAtHome, she will develop a new edition of @gggglllloooossssaaaa
Supported by Istituto Italiano di Cultura Vienna (@iicvienna)
A series of interdisciplinary events taking place in apartments across different cities around the world since 2023. Founded by curator and artist Vittoria de Franchis, each event invites artists, collectives, and platforms active in the city in which it unfolds to present a site-specific performance or intervention, with a focus on practices that experiment with voice, text, language, and narration.
Conceived to happen on Sunday afternoons, gggglllloooossssaaaa inhabits domestic spaces—often historical or artist-owned apartments—fostering unexpected intersections between practices and communities, and cultivating a sense of intimate participation. Each event unfolds over four hours, with audiences entering before the first act and discovering a sequence of live works—music, readings, performances, and food—as the program gradually reveals itself.
Since its inception in New York in the historical Spring Street apartment of Rip Hayman, the series has travelled to Milan, Rome, Palermo, Athens, London, Ortigia, and Amsterdam, presenting sixteen episodes and featuring more than one hundred artists and platforms.
The edition of gggglllloooossssaaaa in Vienna arises from the city’s thriving contemporary artistic community, marked by a strong network of artist-run initiatives and a historically layered engagement with performance and language-based art.
Supported by Istituto Italiano di Cultura Vienna (@iicvienna)
