Astrid
Rieder
Current Activities of Trans-Art
do trans-Art_122
Thursday, 13th August at 7:30 PM
with Manuel de Roo, Guitar
at Atelier Astrid Rieder, Bundesstraße 37, 5071 Wals
The 122nd do trans-Art Performance featuring Manuel de Roo and Astrid Rieder could hold some surprises. After all, no one knows what sounds spring to mind as this versatile Dutch guitarist, composer and music teacher improvises, or how he will interact with Astrid Rieder's large scale abstract drawing. His many years' experience playing in ensembles and orchestras (Bamberger Symphoniker, Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Österreichisches Ensemble für Neue Musik, etc.), with a reperoire ranging from Alban Berg to Bernd Alois Zimmermann, is of only limited help when it comes to the trans-Art venture.
Admission: €10
The dialogue between music and drawing, as well as between science and art, will also be the focus of the 4th SUMMIT of trans-Art, which will take place from September 10 to 11, 2026, at Atelier Astrid Rieder.
4th SUMMIT of trans-Art 2026
Artistic and academic symposium
on the topic of Space
to be held on 10 and 11 September
at Atelier Astrid Rieder, Bundesstraße 37, 5071 Wals
PERFORMANCESERIES: "do trans-Art" 2026
with Astrid Rieder
10 years do trans-Art with Astrid Rieder – 2016–2026
10 years – 115 do trans-Art performances – always on the 2nd Thursday of each month
Astrid Rieder's studio in Wals near Salzburg is a place of encounter, interaction, sound, and drawing — a “free space” for artists to meet in the here and now — but also a “free space” for performance visitors, where they can simply BE, without prior knowledge, without the pressures of everyday life and time.
Astrid Rieder's consistently pursued concept shows the “lively dialogue between two art forms” – between musician and visual artist – an interdisciplinary exploration and an open and non-judgmental engagement between new improvised music and abstract drawing. Astrid Rieder's audiovisual trans-art performance is carried by musical and graphic improvisation, without prior agreement, without sheet music, without predictability of what arises spontaneously. The artist calls this moment of “flow” that could develop “compositiongraphiquemusicale.” The essence of the performance is the live experience. What remains is an audiovisual work of art consisting of a large drawing, a documentary video, and an audio recording. In Astrid Rieder's radio program Atelier für neue Musik / trans-Art on Radiofabrik and RadioFro, the recorded sounds of the performance are regularly broadcast along with an interview with the musicians. The videos are presented on FS1 and on Astrid Rieder's own YouTube channel.
do trans-Art_115 | Thu. 8th January with Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka, double bass
do trans-Art_116 | Thu. 12th February with Karen Schlimp, piano
do trans-Art_117 | Thu. 12th March with Danial Moazeni, tar (long-necked lute)
do trans-Art_118 | Thu. 9th April with Madeleine Dietrichstein, saxophone
do trans-Art_119 | Thu. 14th May with Karina Benalcázar, soprano
do trans-Art_120 | Thu. 11th June with Celina Hubmann, voice and sound bowl
do trans-Art_121 | Thu. 9th July with Mariana Ungureanu, elektronics
do trans-Art_122 | Thu. 13th August with Manuel de Roo, guitar
do trans-Art_123 | Thu. 10th September with Anna Sophia Defant, piano
do trans-Art_124 | Thu. 8th October with Burkard Stangl, electronics
do trans-Art_125 | Thu. 12th November with Angela Koppenwallner, piano
do trans-Art_126 | Thu. 10th December with Jakob Widerin, guitar
Date: on the 2nd Thursday of every month
Time: 7:30 PM
Place: trans-Art studio Astrid Rieder, Bundesstraße 37, 5071 Wals, 2nd floor
Admission: 10€
"trans-Art on the road"
Sunday, 05 July 2026 at 3.00 pm for a special art performance:
We cordially invite you to the Klangspaziergang um den alten Dorfkern von Kleinmachnow (Berlin) (Zehlendorfer Damm 209, 14532 Kleinmachnow) on Sunday, 05 July 2026 at 3.00 pm for a special art performance:
“If the world can save anything, it is dialogue that strives for understanding.”
We will take a walk to four special, partly historic sites in this area with medieval roots, centered around the village church dating from 1597. Anyone interested is free to stroll at their leisure along beautiful paths, through the Medusa Gate of the old Hakeburg - built around 1600 - through the former estate park, to the imposing remains of the old Hakeburg's foundations and along the lake, listening, looking, lingering, returning or moving on. At each stop, there will be four performances of rousing contemporary music and texts, as well as my trans-Art on the Road performance with Simone Heilgendorff.
We look forward to seeing you at the Klangspaziergang in Kleinmachnow.
Presentation of works at the annual exhibition
of the IG bildenden Kunst (Association of Fine Arts)
Exhibition of the large-scale drawing and film about the trans-Art performance
at the 13th {Re} Happening in Black Mountain, NC, USA, with Erik Spangler, electronics, in May of this year
Exibition
"trans-Art in Black Mountain"
PROGRAM:
2ND & 3RD OCTOBER open hours 12PM – 7PM
Exhibition of large-scale drawings and a video installation about Astrid Rieder's trans-art performance in Black Mountain 2025
2ND OCTOBER
6PM–Presentation of the conference proceedings SUMMIT of trans-Art 2024 with accompanying words by Andrea Lehner-Hagwood
7PM – trans-Art Performance by Astrid Rieder und Paul Eiser, saxophone
3RD OCTOBER
4PM – Photo presentation by Astrid Rieder on Black Mountain Presentation by Werner Raditschnig: “John Cage – Emancipation is reasonable”
Open dialogue with the audience until 7PM
PODCAST: "Atelier für neue Musik/trans-Art"
each 1st and 3rd Saturday per calendar month at 11AM
Saturday, 1st August
acoustic part – do trans-Art_121 performance with Mariana Ungureanu, electronics
at my studio in Wals/Salzburg
Saturday, 15th August
acoustic part – trans-Art on the Road at the Klangspaziergang in Kleinmachnow (Berlin) with Simone Heilgendorff, viola
each 2nd and 4th Tuesday per calendar month at 11pm
Tuesday, 11th August
broadcast overtake: acoustic part – do trans-Art_121 performance with Mariana Ungureanu, electronics
at my studio in Wals/Salzburg
Tuesday, 25th August
broadcast overtake: acoustic part – trans-Art on the Road at the Klangspaziergang in Kleinmachnow (Berlin) with Simone Heilgendorff, viola
Here is the link to all the radio shows that have been broadcast so far:
Here you can find videos of individual trans-Art performances:
