PRIDE started with a riot!
EVENTS
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Generationencafé – Special Edition “Coffee Cake Cunst” (09.06.)
The evening begins with a free guided tour of the exhibition. Afterwards, together with Klub+ RegenbogenTreff – a group for queer seniors – we will engage in conversations about queer visions of the future, memories, hopes, and dreams. Personal stories and poetic contributions will create connections between the past, present, and possible queer utopias.
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Queer Burlesque Show (07.06.)
For this special edition of our regular “Coffee, Cake, Cunst” event, we are delighted to welcome the Klub+ RegenbogenTreff – a group for queer seniors. Together, we will embark on a journey into queer utopias, inspired by our current exhibition Imagining Queer Utopia.
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What’s Missing? Traces of Queerness in Syrian Art History (11.06.)
This lecture explores queer and queer-adjacent expressions in literature, poetry, mysticism, and visual culture from historical Syria and the broader Levant. Moving beyond modern identity labels, it traces how desire, intimacy, gender fluidity, and embodied longing appeared in classical Arabic poetry, Sufi writings, court literature, and urban social spaces such as bathhouses and performance traditions.…
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Empowerment and Political Visibility: Creative Workshop on the Eve of the Pride Parade (12.06.)
Our goal is to strengthen both the individual and collective voice of the LGBTQIA+ community and its allies. Workshop participants will create powerful statements that advocate for diversity, human rights, and social change. This form of creative and political expression is not only an act of empowerment, but also amplifies the visibility and impact of…
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Beyond Civilization: Queere Fluchten in die Natur im frühen 20. Jahrhundert (12.06.)
The lecture by Kamil Karczewski, presented as part of the exhibition Imagine Queer Utopia, explores queer utopias beyond urban spaces and examines why many queer people of the past envisioned their ideal ways of living in the wilderness — within the simplicity and harshness of nature. The lecture focuses on how rural queer utopias emerged…
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