The visual identity of Jazz à Vienne 2026

This anniversary edition marks the beginning of a unique partnership between Jazz à Vienne and the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.

A partnership between Jazz à Vienne and the Annecy International Animation Film Festival

This anniversary edition marks the birth of a new partnership between Jazz à Vienne and the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. Created 65 years ago, this festival has emerged over the years as the biggest global event dedicated to animation. Together, both festivals start a dialogue between music and image, improvisation and visual creation as well as stage and screen. The first result of this collaboration is the visual identity of Jazz à Vienne 2026, entrusted to Lucrèce Andreae, from the creative pool of the Annecy Festival, where her work was selected for the competition and given a Special Jury Award in 2011 and an Audience Award in 2017.

The illustrator Lucrèce Andreae

Lucrèce Andreae cultivates her love for animated films going to Gobelins Paris and La Poudrière schools. Her first film, Grandpa Walrus, which wins the César Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2018, is enthusiastically received by the film world. Loving and crude, it describes characters who are lost in the face of death and plagued by the ghostly apparition of their buried feelings. In 2020, the Flipette et Vénère comic book is a good opportunity for Lucrèce Andreae to examine her political ideas and her intricate relationship with the modern world. We discover what becomes her touch: a freshness when addressing intimate and deep matters. She is currently working on an animated feature film for children as well as an autobiographical graphic novel.

The 2026 poster

In my work, I like to talk about people. Not really about extraordinary people, but rather about anonymous people, normal people, and about relationships developing between them. So, my initial idea when I started the poster was to represent the audience and not the musicians. Turning one’s back to the stage and looking at the effect created by the concert on people: joy, excitement, emotional release, abandon, temporary oblivion of the rest of the world and one’s worries, loneliness and harmony. Jazz à Vienne is an experience defined by music made by a collective, all together, where we are all close to each other, drown in the sound and the crowd. Invited to the All Night party for the closing event of the 2025 edition, I went right in the middle of the mosh pit and I looked at the people. I tried to translate the precise moment when we take our eyes off the stage and we get carried away by the sound.

Lucrèce Andreae

Each edition of Jazz à Vienne is a new adventure that the festival teams prepare with care, with you, our dear audience, in mind. Your loyalty and enthusiasm inspire us to create unique moments, marked by the presence of renowned artists, musical discoveries, and exclusive concerts. It is by bringing together all these elements that make up the essence of the Jazz à Vienne festival that we invite you to join us for this 45th edition.

During these fifteen days of music and festivities, numerous concerts and shows will offer a wide variety of musical styles, allowing everyone to experience unique moments that continue to make Jazz à Vienne an unmissable festival, faithful to its values of openness to all audiences and firmly rooted in its territory.

From June 25 to July 11, 2026, take a journey into the world of jazz in the heart of the famous ancient city of Vienne!