VORBRENNER is a contemporary art platform that promotes process-oriented work across all disciplines and genres. It offers short-term opportunities for collaboration for both collectives and individual artists in search of new insights and contemporary forms of expression that engage with an interdisciplinary concept of art and science.
The focus is on a movement that is curious, experimental, researching, and developing, that welcomes the unfinished, the paradoxical, and the fragmentary. For exploratory trials of such nature, VORBRENNER provides the BRUX premises along with infrastructure and financial resources.
The project calls for interdisciplinary projects with an experimental approach that work within the intersections of architecture, visual arts, film, photography, literature, music, performance, theatre, virtual/extended reality, and beyond. The projects can be performative, an installation, or participatory, with no specific content requirements.
Together, the VORBRENNER projects form an annual programme implemented in the months of April, June, September, and October. The duration of usage is determined by the programme overall and the individual projects. In recent years, the spaces have been used for periods of one to four weeks. The premises are versatile, serving not only as a venue but also as a space for experimentation, a laboratory, a workshop, and more.
VORBRENNER has at its disposal an annual fund of 40,000 EUR for developing new projects (funded by the City of Innsbruck and the Province of Tyrol). This amount is available to the projects and their applicants and will be distributed among the various projects and receive funding in the form of money, space, technology, PR, and consultation. VORBRENNER is a yearly programme, and multiple projects are selected to be completed in four months. In recent years, around eight to nine projects have been chosen each year.
