This week, we’ve got a new playlist we can’t stop spinning. Perfect for soundtracking your scroll through this dispatch. Hit play and let the vibes do the rest. 🎶

Wong Kar-Wai’s timeless masterpiece returns to cinemas for its 25th anniversary. Set in 1960s Hong Kong, the film follows two neighbors, played by Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung, who form a tender, restrained bond after discovering their spouses are having an affair. A story of longing, elegance, and unspoken desire, In the Mood for Love remains one of cinema’s most beautiful love stories. Cantonese with German subtitles. In the Mood for Love – 25th Anniversary Screening

When: Tuesday, 14 October, 18:00, Filmhaus Spittelberg, Spittelberggasse 3, 1070, Vienna

Visit collage artist Jeff for a captivating and thought-provoking live workshop. Jeff is known for his powerful explorations of fake news and distorted realities. He uses collage as a tool to question what we perceive as truth in today's media landscape. In this interactive event, Jeff will create a live collage in real time, providing insight into his creative process.

When: Saturday 18th of October, 2-4PM, Ohnebutter Showroom Tuchlauben + Apartment, Wildpretmarkt 3, 1010 Wien. See more

Join us for an invite-only aperitivo night hosted by Julia Harrauer in celebration of her ongoing exhibition “What Makes You Laugh, What Makes You Cry.” at Hollerei Gallery. The show explores the shared space between joy and sorrow - how laughter and tears often emerge from the same emotional truth. This intimate evening invites conversation, connection, and reflection through art.

When: Monday 13th of October, 6-9PM, Hollerie Gallery, Hollereigasse 12, 1150, Vienna. We’ve secured 5 spots for HEIMAT members.

Join curator Heike Eipeldauer for a tour of Kazuna Taguchi’s first solo museum show outside Japan. In I’ll Never Ask You, the Vienna-based artist explores fragments, gestures, and gazes inspired by myth and collective memory - works that hover between painting and photography, appearance and disappearance. Free entry.

When: Tuesday 14th of October, 4:30-5:30PM, Mumok, Museumsplatz 1, 1070, Vienna. See more

As part of FOTO WIEN, the gallery presents Kay Walkowiak’s fourth solo exhibition, Misfits, uniting two series — Misfits (2024) and The Call (2023) - to explore the tension between fiction and history. Digitally reassembled ceramic artifacts defy gravity and museological order, while a surreal chain of ringing lobster phones guides viewers through Bangkok’s fading 1960s splendour. Walkowiak’s works move between fiction and nostalgia, revealing how even the most seamless constructions tremble - where decay, memory, and invention coexist in fragile equilibrium. See more.

An evening of food, wine, and conversation. o boufés and Weingut Schödl come together for Real Wine #29, a celebration of honest flavors and thoughtful pairing. The night features four courses from the o boufés kitchen - charcuterie with Filippou’s homemade bread, smoked pike perch with cucumber greens, lamb shank with skordalia and black cabbage, and a Metaxa pear galaktoboureko to finish - each paired with Schödl’s vibrant natural wines from Lower Austria.

Expect generous pours and that particular warmth that happens when good wine and good company meet.

When: Thursday 16th of October at 19PM

Price: EUR 149

No time or energy to hit the gym and the club in the same weekend?
This new workout concept will let you merge movement and nightlife into one experience.

Introducing Heaters: an interdisciplinary event series blending functional training, music, and body awareness.

Founded by two creatives from the worlds of underground techno, dance, and sport, Heaters creates immersive spaces where physical intensity meets collective ecstasy.

Book your spot and dive into a meditative flow of movement—driven by the raw energy of an underground dancefloor.

The next edition of their workout is on Tuesday, October 21st

Friend of HEIMAT, Viktoria Schödl and her siblings run one of Austria’s coolest young wineries. Originally from Lower Austria, Viktoria was living and working in New York when she noticed the growing trend of natural and orange wines. On a visit home, she suggested her family try making skin-contact wines at their small independent vineyard - founded by their father in the 1980s- and they handed her the keys and told her and her siblings to go for it. Since officially launching their own wines in 2018, the trio have transformed Schödl into one of the most exciting names in Austrian wine.

Many of their bottles sell out fast, but their natural Grüner Veltliner - our personal favorite - is still available, and it’s a perfect twist on a classic.

Tucked into Gumpendorferstrasse 33, Osmotheca is Vienna’s destination for rare and artistic perfumes. The boutique feels more like a small museum of scent than a retail shop - a place where you can trace the history of fragrance, discover independent perfumers, and explore compositions that blur the line between craft and art. Whether you’re after a signature scent or just curious, it’s worth lingering. See here.

Each week we give our resident Viennese, Eleonore Marie Stifte the platform complain about something she has no business complaining about, just like a true Viennese.

Viennale kicks off on Thursday, October 16, and you still haven’t bought your tickets? Typical. Before you start complaining that everything’s sold out (again), do yourself a favor and grab some now - preferably for screenings at one of Vienna’s finest (and moodiest) cinemas, Gartenbaukino.

Each Friday HEIMAT sets up shop at Café Sperl for our weekly Stammtisch, where we gather with our favorite advisors from the worlds of art, hospitality, and Viennese culture to drink several Verlängerters, share ideas and get insights for you.

This week’s topic: how does one start collecting art?

We’re talking about someone who’s just come into disposable income and wants to begin curating a collection but feels daunted by the complexity of it all. Julia Harrauer suggested that the most important thing is to sharpen your personal taste - and that you can’t go wrong mixing great finds from Willhaben (often for just a few hundred euros) with works from students at the Angewandte, whose collections are full of fresh, exciting perspectives - often selling their work under €2.000.

Luckily, our art advisor Julia Hurreur is on the case. She’s off to Athens next week to open an exhibition, but when she’s back in late October, she’ll host a Salon with us on how to discover your own taste in art - where to start, what to look for, and why the way you frame a piece can matter just as much as the work itself.

Book We’re Reading: The Beauty of Everyday Things by Soetsu Yanagi celebrates the simple, unpretentious beauty found in ordinary, handcrafted objects, arguing that true art lies in functionality, humility, and the quiet perfection of things made with care and purpose for daily use.

Article: The Cost of Convenience – Nubia Assata argues that capitalism and austerity have eroded our ability to form genuine relationships, replacing community and mutual care with efficiency, isolation, and transactional networking, and that choosing the “inconvenient” act of real connection is a necessary rebellion.

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See you next week,

H