PRIDE started with a riot!
EVENTS
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Uglify/Beautify Craft Club
On the 30th of November, we invite you to Queer Museum to bedazzle and glitterify objects, and to make lafufu-style bagcharms together with us. Do you own something that is in need of bedazzling? Then bring it with you to give it a glittery final touch. Feel free to show up without bringing something as…
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Free Guided Tour + Coffee Cake Cunst
We regularly host “Coffee, Cake and Art” events and offer free guided tours of the current exhibition. The next event is on 23 November! We cordially 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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Naked in the museum
Why do we see so many naked bodies on canvases in museums, but never any in the room? There is a curious tension in museums: houses of images full of bodies, yet stubbornly void of embodiment. We are surrounded by nakedness, but we are never naked ourselves. What happens when the body steps out of…
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Breaking the Habitus: Queering the Museum by QUEER MUSEUM VIENNA
As part of VIENNA ART WEEK, the QUEER MUSEUM VIENNA invites you to the event “Breaking the Habitus,” which links queer theory and museum work. The event will reflect on how institutional structures and routines can be critically questioned and rethought through collaborative learning, exchange, and alternative forms of knowledge. The plenary session opens up…
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FREE GUIDED TOUR + Coffee, Cake, Cunst
We regularly offer “Coffee Cake Cunst” and free guided tours through the current exhibition. On 26th of October it’s that time again! We cordially 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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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…
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4T – The Trans Body Rights Ar/ctivist Archive
“4T – The Trans Body Rights Ar/ctivist Archive” stands against transphobic backlashes and discrimination, shows different trans realities, the fights for rights and art as activism. With many different voices, multimedia and, in some cases, participatory formats, the exhibiting artists and activists cheerfully present trans/tin perspectives and their right to self-determination. The exhibition “4T” celebrates…
PROJECTS & NEWS
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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
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Cruising the Painted Landscape
The exhibition “Cruising the Painted Landscape” explores the intersection of queer culture and art by “cruising” our way through the cultural landscape. Created by students from the University of Art and Design Linz under the direction of Dimitrios Mavroudis, the exhibition explores the connection between identity, body image and the reclamation of urban spaces. Visitors…
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The heART of queer joy
The photo exhibition “the heART of queer joy” by INSELMILIEU Reportage captures the feeling of queer joy in all its facets. It is an exploration of what often remains invisible.