OPENLOT
The Space is Yours
Let's move in together
"Space is truly available only if it is changeable."
- Vladimir Miller
We’re currently hosting OPENLOT – a funded and therefore free, shared space in Vienna for anyone doing artistic, cultural, or experimental work & research.
🩷 You don’t need to apply.
🩷 You don’t have to pay.
🩷 You can come for a few hours, stay all day,
or join for three weeks.
It’s a studio, rehearsal space, workshop, atelier, residency, testing ground – whatever you need it to be. Bring your project, your sketchbook, your camera, your dancing shoes, your instrument, your questions.
This year OPENLOT takes place from:
02.-22. June 2025




//WHAT
OPENLOT, our most radical format, is a self-curated, communal research environment based on Vladimir Miller’s “Polyset”, where artists and researchers co-create and reshape their practices in a shared work space. It disrupts traditional structures by rethinking boundaries between disciplines. OPENLOT is an experiment where anything can happen but nothing has to.
//WHY:
New art needs new space - using the same spatial structures leads to repetitive methods and similar results. To counteract this, we open up Das LOT to everybody without the pressure of delivering results. By disrupting already established structures, this format helps us avoid becoming too institutionalized. Last but not least there is no space like this in Vienna offering artists collective work space without any fee, appointment or application.
//HOW:
For one month each year, Das LOT transforms into an open, free communal environment where artists and researchers of all disciplines can work independently within a collaborative community. Participants negotiate ways of working together, share materials, and access a small budget, all in a space free from external events and open to any practice. By disrupting traditional practices, we explore what a transdisciplinary space can actually look like, creating a cozy, atelier-like network that encourages creative freedom and helps us avoid institutionalization. All you need to join is time to work and an openness to new experiences.

OPENLOT starts as an empty space and empty timetable — both are shaped by you and others over time. It's a yearly format based on a method (developed by artist Vladimir Miller). If you want to dive deeper and learn more about the format - check out our handout:
Its all about inviting others!
If you’ve been needing space to just try things out – this is it. No pressure. Just come by. Bring a friend if you want. Guests become hosts and can invite others – that’s how we grow.
Here you can have access to our invitation text, if you wand to invite others.