PRIDE started with a riot!
EVENTS
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Kunst Rausch (17.05.)
QUEER MUSEUM VIENNA hast teamed up with Haus of Rausch to welcome you at a colorful art and fleamarket. An afternoon for strolling around, spilling the tea and relaxing. There will be works by queer artists from the scene (prints, stickers, accessories etc.), secondhand clothing, all kinds of curiosities and things that need a new…
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Coffee Cake Cunst – Free Guided Tour (10.05.)
We regularly offer “Coffee Cake Cunst” and free guided tours through the current exhibition. On March 15th it’s that time again! We warmly invite you to visit us and take the opportunity to ask questions and discuss the art on display with others over coffee and cake.
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Queering Black Representation in European Art (07.05. 18:30)
This lecture will explore the ways in which Black people have been represented within the European Art Historical cannon and question the ways in which gender and sexuality are commented on at it’s intersection of racialization.
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Resilient Bodies: Queer Communities and Queer Art in Independent Ukraine (30.04. 18:30)
The talk focuses on queer art created in independent Ukraine, tracing its development from the near absence of openly queer artists in the early years, through more socially engaged and activist practices, to the emergence of a new generation of outspoken voices after Revolution of Dignity in 2014. It also looks at a recent turn…
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Crafting Utopia: Create a beautiful greeting card with a punch press (25.04. 14:00)
Are you in the mood for a relaxed, colorful afternoon full of creativity? Then join our queer papercrafting workshop! Together, we’ll design unique greeting cards using a die-cutting machine – perfect for gifting, sending, or keeping for yourself.
EXHIBITIONS
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Imagining Queer Utopia (26.02.-21.06.)
The new exhibition at QUEER MUSEUM VIENNA opens a space to explore fluid selves and shifting desires. What if, instead of naming or judging, we allowed desires to lead? What if we let ourselves feel life fully, even when it disorients or unsettles us?
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Ugly Things_Unlearning Beauty
What’s classy if you’re rich but trashy if you’re poor? This is one possible translation of the title into meme-fied language. Ugly Things_Unlearning Beauty walks the fine line that distinguishes the affinity for cheap trash from expensive taste, while simultaneously undermining that very dichotomy. We closely examine the authority that decides who and what has…
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Gaps, Leaps, Fractures – Queer Temporalities.
Queer experiences of time deviate from normative and linear rhythms. They are characterized by coming-outs or transitions, have breaks, gaps and leaps. Queer temporalities explore non-linear concepts of time and oppose normative time structures based on reproduction and age appropriateness, among others. The exhibition Gaps, Leaps, Fractures – Queer Temporalities brings together artistic positions that…
PROJECTS & NEWS
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What’s Missing?
This January, we are launching a lecture series on queer art history titled “What’s Missing?” In this series, art historians and artists will explore manifestations of queerness across different cultures and historical periods: from the Western Renaissance and Yugoslav art of the 1970s to contemporary Black African art, and many others.
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EXTENSION of the current exhibition
The current exhibition Schirche Sachen_Schönheit verlernen / Ugly Things_Unlearning Beauty has been extended! This means you have the opportunity to visit it until January 18, 2026, during our regular opening hours. Please note that the QMV will be closed from December 22 to January 7.
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QUEER MUSEUM VIENNA needs your help! Gofundme!
QUEER MUSEUM VIENNA needs your help! Every € helps us to keep the QUEER MUSEUM running – click here to go to our GOFUNDME page: https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-queer-museum-vienna-going