PRIDE started with a riot!
EVENTS
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Teaser for Pride Month: Burlesque Workshop and Show (05.06.-07.06.)
Are you a queer cutie interested in the titillating art of striptease? Queer Museum Vienna will be kicking off Pride Month this year with a burlesque workshop and show! Monstera del Iciosa, world-famous (in their imagination) drag and burlesque artist, will be teaching a three-day intensive weekender workshop on June 5th-7th, 2026. On the evening…
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Forum Queer Ecologies (21.05.)
The forum offers an opportunity for open discussion and shared reflection on the themes explored in the exhibition. By contributing their own interests and experiences, participants shape the direction of the conversation. The exhibition I Wish We Had More Time challenges human-centred perspectives on nature and moves beyond binary and heteronormative ways of looking at…
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balcony air (23.05.)
At balcony air, the balcony of the former administration building in the Otto Wagner Areal will become a stage on Saturday, May 23, and Saturday, June 6: Artists will perform solo or in small groups on the balcony overlooking the lawn, where you can spread out, relax, listen, and just be. Starting at 3 p.m.,…
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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.
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