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Live Art Work
Austrian Premiere
04.03. –
07.03. 2026

TINO SEHGAL

This Variation

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© Wolfgang Tillmans

Tino Sehgal’s This Variation is a choreographic masterpiece that rocked the dOCUMENTA (13) at its premiere in 2012. Called “addictive” by The Guardian, it left visitors “breathless and overwhelmed” and continues to do so. For the first time now in Vienna, this intriguing work takes shape in the shared space of a dark room. Immersed in sound, visitors are guided by shifting energetic intensities as dancers appear, recede, and reorganize. There is no stage, no objects, and no single viewpoint – only an unfolding choreography made to be experienced from within. Moving between intimacy and intensity, using rhythm, proximity, voice, and speech, This Variation builds a world that, like the biological world, repeats form with infinite variation. The work is less something to watch than something to enter. Here, one’s own attention and presence influence the flow and dynamic of a dance that is at once formally organized and yet porous and responsive.

Duration

60 Min

Location

TQW Studios

Price

-

Additional Information

There is no designated seating for the audience: you are free to move around. The production unfolds in darkness with a special focus on the sensory experience. The audience can stay as they please.

  • Dates

    • WED
      04.03.

      Tino Sehgal

      This Variation

      18:00 – 19:00

      TQW Studios

      Additional Information

      There is no designated seating for the audience: you are free to move around. The production unfolds in darkness with a special focus on the sensory experience. The audience can stay as they please.

    • WED
      04.03.

      Tino Sehgal

      This Variation

      19:00 – 20:00

      TQW Studios

      Additional Information

      There is no designated seating for the audience: you are free to move around. The production unfolds in darkness with a special focus on the sensory experience. The audience can stay as they please.

    • WED
      04.03.

      Tino Sehgal

      This Variation

      20:00 – 21:00

      TQW Studios

      Additional Information

      There is no designated seating for the audience: you are free to move around. The production unfolds in darkness with a special focus on the sensory experience. The audience can stay as they please.

    • WED
      04.03.

      Tino Sehgal

      This Variation

      21:00 – 22:00

      TQW Studios

      Additional Information

      There is no designated seating for the audience: you are free to move around. The production unfolds in darkness with a special focus on the sensory experience. The audience can stay as they please.

    • THU
      05.03.

      Tino Sehgal

      This Variation

      18:00 – 19:00

      TQW Studios

      Additional Information

      There is no designated seating for the audience: you are free to move around. The production unfolds in darkness with a special focus on the sensory experience. The audience can stay as they please.

    • THU
      05.03.

      Tino Sehgal

      This Variation

      19:00 – 20:00

      TQW Studios

      Additional Information

      There is no designated seating for the audience: you are free to move around. The production unfolds in darkness with a special focus on the sensory experience. The audience can stay as they please.

    • THU
      05.03.

      Tino Sehgal

      This Variation

      20:00 – 21:00

      TQW Studios

      Additional Information

      There is no designated seating for the audience: you are free to move around. The production unfolds in darkness with a special focus on the sensory experience. The audience can stay as they please.

    • THU
      05.03.

      Tino Sehgal

      This Variation

      21:00 – 22:00

      TQW Studios

      Additional Information

      There is no designated seating for the audience: you are free to move around. The production unfolds in darkness with a special focus on the sensory experience. The audience can stay as they please.

    • FRI
      06.03.

      Tino Sehgal

      This Variation

      18:00 – 19:00

      TQW Studios

      Additional Information

      There is no designated seating for the audience: you are free to move around. The production unfolds in darkness with a special focus on the sensory experience. The audience can stay as they please.

    • FRI
      06.03.

      Tino Sehgal

      This Variation

      19:00 – 20:00

      TQW Studios

      Additional Information

      There is no designated seating for the audience: you are free to move around. The production unfolds in darkness with a special focus on the sensory experience. The audience can stay as they please.

    • FRI
      06.03.

      Tino Sehgal

      This Variation

      20:00 – 21:00

      TQW Studios

      Additional Information

      There is no designated seating for the audience: you are free to move around. The production unfolds in darkness with a special focus on the sensory experience. The audience can stay as they please.

    • FRI
      06.03.

      Tino Sehgal

      This Variation

      21:00 – 22:00

      TQW Studios

      Additional Information

      There is no designated seating for the audience: you are free to move around. The production unfolds in darkness with a special focus on the sensory experience. The audience can stay as they please.

    • SAT
      07.03.

      Tino Sehgal

      This Variation

      18:00 – 19:00

      TQW Studios

      Additional Information

      There is no designated seating for the audience: you are free to move around. The production unfolds in darkness with a special focus on the sensory experience. The audience can stay as they please.

    • SAT
      07.03.

      Tino Sehgal

      This Variation

      19:00 – 20:00

      TQW Studios

      Additional Information

      There is no designated seating for the audience: you are free to move around. The production unfolds in darkness with a special focus on the sensory experience. The audience can stay as they please.

    • SAT
      07.03.

      Tino Sehgal

      This Variation

      20:00 – 21:00

      TQW Studios

      Additional Information

      There is no designated seating for the audience: you are free to move around. The production unfolds in darkness with a special focus on the sensory experience. The audience can stay as they please.

    • SAT
      07.03.

      Tino Sehgal

      This Variation

      21:00 – 22:00

      TQW Studios

      Additional Information

      There is no designated seating for the audience: you are free to move around. The production unfolds in darkness with a special focus on the sensory experience. The audience can stay as they please.

  • Supporting Program

    • WED
      04.03.

      17:30 – 17:50

      Introduction

      In English

      Time

      17:30 – 17:50

      Location

      TQW Studios

      Duration

      20 Min

      Price

      Free admission

    • THU
      05.03.

      17:00 – 17:30

      Artist Talk

      In English

      Time

      17:00 – 17:30

      Location

      TQW Studios

      Duration

      30 Min

      Price

      Free admission

  • Artist Bio

    Tino Sehgal

    is an artist of German and Indian descent, based in Berlin. Renowned as one of the most important artists of his generation, Tino Sehgal’s critical acclaim derives from his radical artistic practice that takes the form of “constructed situations”: live encounters between visitors and those enacting the work. Their ephemeral beauty rests in the fleeting specificity of the encounter, where players often engage visitors through active participation in constructing the piece. Sehgal’s abandoning of material production in favor of lived experience is nevertheless achieved with a sensitivity to classical considerations of form, composition, and space, grounded not only in the history of dance but also western traditions of sculpture and installation. Sehgal’s work has been presented internationally in prestigious institutions in both visual art and dance contexts. In 2016, he was the mentor of danceWEB at Impulstanz and the recipient of the Golden Lion at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. His work was last shown in Vienna at the Kunsthistorisches Museum as part of the Beethoven moves exhibition in 2020. 

  • Credits

    Dancers Cathy Walsh, Claire Viviane Sobottke, Descha Daemgen, Florian Lenz, Louise Höjer, Margherita D’Adamo, Martin Hansen, Moss Beynon Juckes, Nestor Garcia Diaz, Thomas Proksch