At balcony air, the balcony of the former administration building in the Otto Wagner Areal will become a stage:

Artists will perform solo or in small groups on the balcony overlooking the lawn, where you can spread out, relax, listen, and just be. Starting at 3 p.m., AJ the DJ will kick off a vinyl-only warm-up set – somewhere between soul, R&B, and house. Starting at 5 p.m., two live acts will perform (urbie. ÆNGL x who.i.why) – with short artist talks and a supporting program in between: The Queer Museum Vienna is presenting “Queer Utopia” at the same time and will be open extra late for you—as will the Artist in Residence program at FRISEUR Salo(o)n, serving as an open studio and exhibition space.

Concerts, Exhibition, Open Space

Queer Museum Vienna is excited to present our first ever Pride Month Burlesque Show! Come be enchanted by the queer legends of the Viennese scene on Sunday June 7th. Doors open at 18:30, show starts at 19:00. Come ready to tip the artists and donate to the museum!

Our space will accommodate about 40 guests. Please register with this google formula before attending. 

Performances
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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.

After a free guided tour in German the program will continue with poetry readings and personal stories.

Guided Tour, Poetry and Stories

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.Through selected examples, the lecture asks how queerness can be read historically, how desire was articulated before contemporary categories, and how these cultural lineages challenge dominant narratives that frame queerness as foreign to the region. The talk weaves together art, history, and embodiment to open space for alternative readings of tradition, memory, and belonging.

Lecture & Discussion

Christopher Street Day (CSD) is the central day of celebration and demonstration for LGBTQIA+ rights. Following the official end of the Pride parade, the Trans viel Fest, organized by the queer-feminist initiative Trans viel Freude, takes place in Arne-Karlsson-Park and is distinguished by its political, social, and creative energy. Through our protest sign-making workshop, we create an inclusive space that empowers people to participate actively and visibly in the movement for queer rights. Participants are given the opportunity to transform their messages into artistically and politically expressive signs — an essential element of every protest.

Creative Workshop

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 in the early twentieth century and what traces they have left behind up to the present day.

Lecture & Discussion

What does it mean to claim a site? To reoccupy it, inhabit it on different terms, and insist, through art, through the body, through collective practice, on other uses for spaces that institutional power has long sought to fix and contain?

On 16 June, Queer Museum Vienna invites you to an evening with artist and activist Joulia Strauss, structured around the screening of her documentary film Transindigenous Assembly and a live performative session by the artist.

At 18:00 the screening begins (90 min.), after which the audience is invited into a convivial discussion with Strauss and Professor Elke Krasny, joined by members of the Queer Museum collective.

Performative Evening with Joulia Strauss, Film Screening & Convivial Discussion with Prof. Elke Krasny

This lecture offers a research-based overview of Generation X lesbian artists in the post-Yugoslav space from the 1990s to today. It examines how war, post-war realities, nationalism, and post-socialist transition shaped artistic practices, networks, and conditions of (in)visibility, and how lesbia artists responded to erasure by creating counter-archives of memory, solidarity and resistance. Drawning on long-term research, the lecture maps shared patterns, shifts over time, and the political significance of lesbian art within post-Yugoslav cultural history.

Lecture & Discussion

Susan Stryker’s Hot Tub follows hobby horse athlete Cindy as she quests for eternal horse status, encountering Frankenstein’s Monster (who’s conducting alchemical experiments in a San Francisco dungeon), two melancholic trans guys named Dallas and Zealous (whose kink is self-care), mean stepsisters training with a transphobic coach, and a Magic Horse who grants wishes through a trauma window.

Performance

The Pride Month program concludes with the finissage of the exhibition Imagining Queer Utopia on June 21. Following a curator’s tour at 4:00 PM, the Dragsau Kollektiv will present a performance at 5:30 PM. The collective consists of disabled drag artists who expand the horizons of drag through their inclusive and diverse program. From 6:00 PM onwards, DJ Peponita aka Jorkes will provide a vibrant musical finale to the day.

Guided tour, performance, concert