FUNGI: Anarchist Designers
In this exhibition, fungi are for once not at the service of humans, but independent beings with their own agenda, one that is closely intertwined with colonialism and other forms of capitalist exploitation, but which also brings to life a highly distinctive multi-species world. Curated by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing and Feifei Zhou (design studio terriStories).
Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL
22/11/2025–03/05/2026
Cultivating a Relationship with Fungi
Workshop by Peter McCoy as part of the Wiener Pilzfestspiele / Vienna Fungi Festival, curated by Mycelial Space
Viktoria – Space for Artistic Research and Social Design, Vienna, Austria
Sensing Fungi. Invisible Agencies and the Underground
From shamans and witches to lucky New Year’s fly agarics and the psychedelic movement, fungi have always been woven into human culture. Given today’s socio-ecological challenges, they offer a generative ground for rethinking ecological practice and more-than-human coexistence from below.
Conference by the ifk and Mycelial Space / Sarah Kolb & Jutta Strohmaier in cooperation with the Wiener Pilzfestspiele // ifk – International Research Center for Cultural Studies Vienna, AT // October 8–10, 2025
SPORA: Rotting Unconscious
A project by the International Research Center for Cultural Studies Vienna in collaboration with the Co.Lab Mycelial Space and the Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna
October 8 – December 12, 2025 // ifk – International Research Center for Cultural Studies Vienna, AT
Curry Punk & Devil’s Tooth – The Science & Aesthetics of Fungi
Lecture by Alison Pouliot as part of the Wiener Pilzfestspiele / Vienna Fungi Festival
OstLicht Galerie, Vienna, Austria
spotted!
Exhibition project & workshops within the Wiener Pilzfestspiele in cooperation with Mycelial Space
Viktoria – Space for Artistic Research and Social Design // October 7–10, 2025
Wiener Pilzfestspiele 2025
In October, when the mushroom season is approaching its peak, MyPilz will make Vienna the capital of fungi with exibitions, films, talks by renowned scientists and various other events. Welcome to the Vienna Fungi Festival!
Curated by MyPilz, different venues in Vienna, Austria // October 6–12, 2025
Mykoästhetik. Pilze, Kunst und Kino
Is there a structural kinship between the decomposing, networked, and symbiotic qualities attributed to fungi and the evolving concepts and practices of modern and contemporary art?
By Ilka Becker // Berlin: bbooks 2025
Leonardo LASER Talks Linz: Lab Songs Vol. II – Mycelium Labs
Roundtable organized by the department of Interface Cultures as part of the Ars Electronica Festival 2025
University of Arts Linz, Austria
Call for Books // SPORA: Rotting Unconscious
Exhibition project at the ifk International Research Center for Cultural Studies Vienna in collaboration with the Co.Lab Mycelial Space at the University of Arts Linz and the Wiener Pilzfestspiele 2025 // October 8 – December 12, 2025
Call for Books – Deadline: September 20, 2025
Moda interspecie. Funghi e pratiche di reincanto
An investigation into the subsoil of fashion that unveils new perspectives capable of triggering mechanisms of re-enchantment in the designer through the intermediation of fungal organisms.
By Clizia Moradei // Milan: Postmedia Books 2025
Making Kin with/through Fungi: Collaborative Learning in Entangled Environments
Paper by Sarah Kolb in The Journal of Aestetic Education 59/2, eds. Anja Kraus & Eva Cronquist (summer 2025)
Thinking with Plants and Fungi
An interdisciplinary exploration into the mind of nature. Conference recordings are available online.
Harvard University, Cambridge, US // May 15–17, 2025
Funga Obscura. Photo journeys among fungi
Beginning in elemental landscapes of ice and rock, the book traces the evolutionary path of fungi as enablers of life on land, and creators of soils and forests.
By Alison Pouliot // Randwick: UNSW Press 2025
Open Call: spotted!
In the spirit of activating local fungal networks, Mycelial Space invites Viennese exhibition spaces and independent art projects to submit contributions to the Vienna Fungi Festival (October 6–12, 2025).
Call by Mycelial Space / Sarah Kolb and Jutta Strohmaier within the Wiener Pilzfestspiele, Deadline: 18/11/2025
Mykologien durchqueeren. Auf Pilzsuche bei John Cage und Cy Twombly
Essay by Ilka Becker in Fünf Freunde. John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, Munich: Schirmer/Mosel 2025
MushRoom Winter Edition 2025
Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland
MyCera, ein Kompositmaterial aus Ton, Sägemehl und Mycelium
Guest Lecture by Hana Vasatko and Julian Jauk
BASEhabitat studio, University of Arts Linz, AT
Fungi Film Fest 2024
The Fungi Film Fest is the world’s only film festival dedicated to the beauty, weirdness, and human influences of mushrooms, lichens, and micro fungi.
Online / until 13/01/2025
Fungal Turn
Special issue of Interconnections: Journal of Posthumanism, Vol. 3, No. 2, edited by Allison Mackey and Elif Sendur