Vienna Peace Conference 2025

Times they are changing. No space for art?

December 5, 2025
SO/ Vienna, Austria

Keynote by Masako Wada - Nihon Hydankō (Nobel Peace Price Laureate 2024)

„For demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again.“

Vienna Peace Conference 2025
“Times they are changing. No space for art?”
S/O Vienna Hotel, Conference Space “Marcel Breuer”
Vienna, Austria · 5 December 2025

SPEAKERS
Masako Wada
Wolf Prix
Peter Noever
Wolfgang Lamprecht
Elfie Semotan
Fabian Sommavilla
Akiko Soga

HOST / VENUE
S/O Vienna Hotel
Host: Christian E. Klaus

KEYNOTE (TOKYO / ZOOM)
Masako Wada — Nihon Hidankyō (Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2024)

MODERATION
Fabian Sommavilla

COMMUNICATION
Wolfgang Lamprecht (Head for Communication)

OFFICE / PRODUCTION
Charlotte Sucher
Diana Terenteva (Coop Himmelb(l)au)

SPECIAL THANKS
Österreichische Botschaft Tokio
Österreichisches Kulturforum
Mag. Arno Mitterdorfer (Botschaftsrat, Direktor – Österreichisches Kulturforum)

MUSIC
“Privilege” — Patti Smith (minor use)

CURIA ART — MEMBERS 
Marina Abramović Ferran Adrià Acosta Nobuyoshi Araki Georg Baselitz Wolf dPrix VALIE EXPORT Michael Haneke Michel Houellebecq Magdalena Jetelová Martha Jungwirth Anselm Kiefer Franz Koglmann Peter Kubelka György Kurtág Helmut Lang Thom Mayne Eric Owen Moss Olga Neuwirth Peter Noever (Chair) Arvo Pärt Carl Pruscha Steve Reich Gerhard Rühm Eva Schlegel Franz Schuh Kurt Schwertsik Elfie Semotan Peter Sloterdijk Kiki Smith Patti Smith

PHOTO
©Daniel Leiter

Website: Kurien der Wissenschaft & Kunst