PRIDE started with a riot!
EVENTS
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Beauty, Trash, and Dirt: 40 Years of Art at The Gay Museum Berlin
What is gay art? When is it just gay, and when is it also art? What counts as camp, what as kitsch, what is trash, and what is transgressive? And who actually decides what belongs in the canon and what can be discarded?
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Finissage: Bad Taste Party
We’re celebrating the end of Ugly Things_Unlearning Beauty with a Bad Taste Party, an often underrated genre. Bring ugly things, celebrate their beauty, and embrace the grotesque. If there isn’t much else to celebrate these days, here’s to happy endings!
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Where Have All The Lesbians Gone – Female Sexuality For The Male Gaze
This January we are launching a lecture series on queer art history entitled “What’s Missing!”. In this series, art historians and artists will highlight manifestations of queerness across different cultures and historical periods: from the Western Renaissance to Yugoslav art of the 1970s, to contemporary Black African art, and many others.
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Film Screening & Reading
On December 13, we will be showing “It’s Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, It’s the Situation in Which He Lives.” A film by Rosa von Praunheim from 1971, set in Berlin, which has aged rather well. Before the screening, Kenneth Constance Loe, who is represented in various parts of the exhibition with text-based works,…
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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 the 14th of December! 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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Imagining Queer Utopia
From 26th of February to the 21st of June 2026: This utopia has no center — no head, no authority. Humans do not occupy a privileged position above the world; they are neither its rulers nor its measure. They exist as part of a collage of bodies, materials, and forces — entangled, interdependent, and constantly…
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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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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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Announcement of our Winter Break
The QUEER MUSEUM VIENNA will be closed for winter break from December 22 through January 7. Starting Thursday, January 8, you can continue to view the current exhibition during our regular opening hours, as it has been extended until January 18!
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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