The initiative Queer Museum Vienna was founded by:
Florian Aschka | artist, cultural worker, socialite, bavarian trophy wife, co-founder of the QMV | specialized in: welcoming people and plotting new projects
Larissa Kopp | artist, mediator | responsible for: mediation, financing, cooperatoins, programming
Berivan Sayici | artist| photography, performance, installation, electronic music
Thomas Trabitsch | artist, curator, cultural worker | interested in physical/social roomproduction and their capitalization, subversive strategies in spaceproduction especially in a queer-feminist context | responsible for: curation, programming, mediation
Other active members in the collective are:
Daria Sander | political science, sex ed | responsibilities at the museum: text writing and translation, website and newsletter, mediation
Sophie Ollmann | art historian, cultural manager, art mediator | responsibilities at the museum: website, newsletter, financing, mediation, PR
Shokha | queer history, archives, digital humanities
Amelia Hamerlynck | anthropology degree-haver, part time poet and burlesque artist, aspiring fulltime Museumsmaus | responsibilities at the museum: social media management, graphic design, bartending, mediation
Esther | history, cultural studies | interested in: writing texts, planning events, crafting workshops
Michał Rutz | artist, philosopher, and stripper | queer and affect theory, queer theology, painting | the curator of the exhibition Imagining Queer Utopia
Pandora Köhler | art conservator, art historian | specialized in: ceramics, metals and organic materials | responsibilities at the museum: object collection, library, archival documents, organisation and realisation of events
Nargis Kurtkaya
Panagis Marketos
Al Orlov
For safety reasons, some members cannot be named due to the current political situation and the increasing repression against queer people.
Former members of the collective:
Wilhelm Binder
Jurre van den Brink
Rodrigo López-Bernez
Melissa Leicht
Ana Sofia Matos
Sophia Oberrauch
Kaja Piecyk
Romualdo Ramos
contact: team@queermuseumvienna.com