PRIDE started with a riot!
EVENTS
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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.
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BIZARRE BAZAAR – Ugly Things Flea Market
On December 7, the BIZAARE BAZAAR – Schirche Sachen Flea Market will take place at the QUEER MUSEUM VIENNA! Whether it’s upcycled art, clumsily mended clothing, exciting and quirky art projects, kitschy knick-knacks, botched hot glue monstrosities, or uniquely ugly antiques—we want to see them, display them, and share them with you!
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MEME THE PAIN AWAY
On December 6, we cordially invite you to a workshop at the QUEER MUSEUM VIENNA: Together with Anahita Neghabat (aka @ibiza_austrian_memes), we will create memes that break down the boundaries of beauty, taste, and “ugliness” and show how such assessments are linked to power, class, queerness, and attributions.
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Uglify/Beautify Craft Club
On the 30th of November, we invite you to Queer Museum to bedazzle and glitterify objects, and to make lafufu-style bagcharms together with us. Do you own something that is in need of bedazzling? Then bring it with you to give it a glittery final touch. Feel free to show up without bringing something as…
EXHIBITIONS
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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…
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4T – The Trans Body Rights Ar/ctivist Archive
“4T – The Trans Body Rights Ar/ctivist Archive” stands against transphobic backlashes and discrimination, shows different trans realities, the fights for rights and art as activism. With many different voices, multimedia and, in some cases, participatory formats, the exhibiting artists and activists cheerfully present trans/tin perspectives and their right to self-determination. The exhibition “4T” celebrates…
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
