The initiative Queer Museum Vienna was founded by:
Florian Aschka
Florian Aschka has worked as a cleaner, library assistant, nude model and in various positions in museums in order to make his artistic work possible. Collaborative processes are an essential part of his artistic practice. The investigation of queer* strategies is a focus of his work. He sees solidarity networks as a counter-model to neoliberal structures in which challenges and problems are shifted onto the individual. He studied at the Academies of Fine Arts in Nuremberg and Vienna and at the University of Applied Arts. Works and performances in which he has participated have been shown at AMOQA Athens Museum of Queer Arts, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow, VBKÖ Vereinigung Bildender Künstlerinnen Österreichs, Marburger Kunstverein, Wien Museum MUSA, NGbK neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst Berlin and Künstlerhaus Wien.
Larissa Kopp
Larissa Kopp was born in Deggendorf in 1985. One focus of her artistic practice is collaborative processes and the collective development of forms of artistic expression and presentation. Together with various artist collectives, she has developed a number of projects in recent years and participated in a wide range of exhibitions, e.g. at Kunsthaus Graz, MUSA Wien, brut Wien, Athens Museum of Queer Arts, defibrillator gallery Chicago, and many more. In 2018, she curated the exhibition “Bodies and Inhabitants” at the Sigmund Freud Museum, which featured works by queer artists. Another focus of her work is the development and implementation of new approaches and forms of art education and working with diverse museum visitors. She can draw on 15 years of experience working in various museums.
Berivan Sayici
Berivan Sayici was born in 1985 in vienna. She studied at the university of applied arts and the academy of fine arts. In 2008 the artist spend one semester studying at the art institute bournemouth. In 2010, the artist received the Wolf – advancement award and in 2012 the STARTstipendium for photography from the BMUKK, in 2014 the city of vienna purchased some of her work for their photography collection. The versatile artist works in all different kinds of media ranging from photography, video, performance, installation and electronic music.
Thomas Trabitsch
Thomas Trabitsch lives in and works on Vienna with an interdisciplinary approach. He is particularly interested in physical and social spaces and their capitalization as well as subversive strategies of space production, especially in a queer-feminist and self-organized context.
Currently and since its foundation, he has been involved in the Queer Museum Vienna initiative, which aims to establish a house for queer cultural history and art, and until recently, the collectively organized art and culture association Lazy Life, which attempted to apply laziness as a resistant practice.
He organizes, curates and mediates exhibitions, performances, readings, happenings, film screenings, concerts, tours, workshops and discursive formats. He also writes, reflects on language and its ability to illustrate thought patterns, publishes artist books and photographs spontaneously created architectures, constructed situations or things that rarely receive much attention.
/ecm University of Applied Arts, diploma from Academy of Fine Arts, studied Portuguese linguistics at the University of Vienna and transmedia art at the Faculdade das Belas Artes do Porto; artist in residence at the squatted Gängeviertel Hamburg. Is or was active: Tangente Festival, Volkskundemuseum Wien, in the association of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, brut – between wardrobe and art education.
Other active members in the collective are:
Wilhelm Binder,
Jurre van den Brink
Nargis Kurtkaya
Rodrigo López-Bernez
Melissa Leicht
Panagis Marketos
Ana Sofia Matos
Al Orlov
Sophia Oberrauch
Kaja Piecyk
Romualdo Ramos
Daria Sander
Cooperation partners:
Andreas Brunner and Hannes Sulzenbacher from
QWIEN – Queer History Center
contact: team@queermuseumvienna.com