“Die Wurzel aus wir” (The Root of We) On Radicality and the Future 23 to 25 October 2026, Melk Abbey & Tischlerei Melk Kulturwerkstatt

Application deadline extended! Together with Weitblick GmbH, we invite people aged 18 to 30 to apply by 9 October. The scholarship holders become part of the Days of Transformation at Tischlerei Melk – and explore in the Weltklimaspiel© (World Climate Game) how closely the climate crisis, democracy and the future are interwoven. Apply now and be part of it!

A festival for people and nature. “Stimmen der Wildnis” (Voices of the Wilderness) celebrates a successful premiere and founds a parliament for nature. A look back at the festival.

The Days of Transformation 2025 bring the acclaimed staged reading with Samuel Koch to Theater in der Josefstadt: “Endlich Schluss” by Peter Turrini on 31 March 2026 in Vienna.

Sharpen your senses as we bring a new festival to life in St. Pölten with “Stimmen der Wildnis” (Voices of the Wilderness)! From 24 to 26 April 2026, we weave the sounds of nature into a canon of talks, workshops, concerts and encounters. At Glanzstoff, Sonnenpark and Museum Niederösterreich, we will listen closely … and give nature a strong voice in the middle of the city.

ACHTUNG: not a warning, but an invitation to turn towards one another. A look back at the Days of Transformation 2025.

Maria Mayrhofer is the author of “Geborgte Zeit – Anstiftung zum Handeln” (Borrowed Time – A Call to Action), GLOBART's Festschrift 2025.

Together with Weitblick GmbH, we warmly invite people aged 18 to 30 to apply by 30 July! The scholarship holders take on the roles of global players in the game for our future. Will they manage to establish an economically, ecologically and socially sustainable social and economic order within one “century”?

Seen from today, the frescoes in the garden pavilion of Melk Abbey are exoticist images of longing for distant lands. Facing them is Nigl's Crowd. It stares, demands and observes – claims attention and throws the viewer, multiplied, back on themselves. The installation thus stirs the wide spectrum of xenophobic and xenophile nuances in our DNA. Nigl's Crowd, it seems, has always been there. Everywhere. You are warmly invited to the opening on Friday, 29 August 2025, 3 pm!

This year's festival, the first under the artistic direction of Fabian Burstein, ventures across the border between alarmism and social cohesion with its annual theme ACHTUNG (attention/respect). With the start of advance sales, we can already announce the first big names in the programme!

From 25 June 2025, numerous works from the collection of Art Brut collector Hannah Rieger are on display, curated by Hans Hoffer. If you cannot make the opening on 25 June, you can visit the exhibition until 1 September 2025 (as part of a tour of Melk Abbey) or browse the online catalogue!

Together with Missing Link Media, we celebrated the art of good conversation in Vienna's Wieden district on 13 & 14 June 2025! With live podcast recordings and workshops by podcast hosts, we celebrated encounters in which people discuss, research, interview, mediate and empower. Featuring Beatrice Frasl, Michael Nikbakhsh, Anneliese Rohrer, Peter Hajek, Solmaz Khorsand, Georg Renner, Renata Schmidtkunz and many more.

From 25 to 27 October, we faced the provocative question at Melk Abbey of whether mistrust can also be a productive force. Together with scientists, activists and artists, we examined our critical relationship with the world. We look back with great joy on a festival full of inspiring exchange and enriching encounters!

Together with Barbara Prainsack, expert in health, science and technology policy, host Ilija Trojanow explored the utopian potential of our working world. What do we work for, and how? How is the value of work measured? Under which conditions could an unconditional basic income become reality?

How can young people be supported in facing the challenge of the climate crisis with hope and determination? As part of the Summer Campus of KPH Vienna/Lower Austria, Globart, in cooperation with Weitblick GmbH, once again offers the chance to experience the innovative World Climate Game first-hand and discover the potential of “game-based learning”. Registration now open!

15–17 November 2024 at the METRO Kinokulturhaus. To mark 100 years of radio, Globart curated this “cinematic declaration of love”: 10 films from 100 years – and renowned international film guests. A project by Filmarchiv Austria, Ö1 and Globart. Watch the trailer here!

Our ideas of energy are shaped by a loud, pounding machine age. In her precise, contemplative works, Judith Fegerl counters them with silent processes of exchange. Energy flows and may invisibly change its form: from 11 October in the abbey pavilion!

As part of the “Days of Transformation”, together with BAIT & Digitaler Kompass, we invite twenty young people to discover and try out for themselves how news is made and how innovative journalism works!

Three days as fulfilled as they were fulfilling at “Tipping Time – Civil Society Climate Conference”: from 9 to 11 May 2024, Sonnenpark St. Pölten was a place of intense encounter between science, art and activism.

The “Day of Initiatives” is at the heart of “Tipping Time”: we celebrate the power of courage, community spirit and change. Civil society initiatives from the St. Pölten region focusing on climate change come together to present their concerns, visions and plans. On 11 May at Sonnenpark St. Pölten, admission free!

Edgar Honetschläger's installation in the pavilion of Melk Abbey: a withered wild herb drifts in a paper boat across a sea of down – a counter-image to the colonial fantasies of Johann Wenzel Bergl's frescoes.

Globart-Stipendienprogramm für die Tage der Transformation 2023. Von 30. August bis 03. September 2023 im Stift Melk.

Wir blicken zurück auf ereignisreiche, spannende Tage mit intensiven Diskussionen und Begegnungen von Menschen aus Wissenschaft, Kunst und Zivilgesellschaft.

Die „Tage der Transformation“ führen die Tradition der „Globart Academy“ fort und ermöglichen einen Austausch zwischen Theorie und Praxis.

Ein Theaterstück als Spurensuche im AKW Zwentendorf

Elisabeth von Samsonow's two-part installation of sculptures, objects and pictures in the baroque garden pavilion of Melk Abbey, October 2022.

Die GLOBART Academy startet 2019 die Triade LEBEN MACHT SINN: ein dreijähriges Programm mit Lectures, Installationen und Dialogräumen zur Stärkung der Zivilgesellschaft.