PRIDE started with a riot!
EVENTS
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Crafting Utopia: Create a beautiful greeting card with a punch press (25.04. 14:00)
Are you in the mood for a relaxed, colorful afternoon full of creativity? Then join our queer papercrafting workshop! Together, we’ll design unique greeting cards using a die-cutting machine – perfect for gifting, sending, or keeping for yourself.
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Exploring Queer Utopias through Fiction (19.04. 15:00)
What could queer utopias look like in fiction – stories where technically anything is possible? In this workshop we will explore this question in two parts: Firstly, we’ll reflect on the stories we already know and whether we‘d consider them a queer utopia. Secondly, we will write our own queer utopias with the help of…
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Clothing and Gender. Clothing as a Cultural Construct of Gender, Power, and Order (April 16, 18:30)
In this edition of the art history lecture series “What’s Missing?”, Anjelika Spöth discusses clothing as a system of signs that determines how bodies are read, evaluated, and regulated and how these historical constructs continue to have an impact today. Clothing served as a form of social identification by making gender, age, and social and…
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Wormholes und W/ri/gh/ting Archives (27.03. 18:00)
In this lecture performance, Dr. Rafał Morusiewicz (they/she) presents insights into two research projects on queer utopias, speculative archives, and collaborative modes of working: Wormholes and W/ri/gh/ting Archives through Artistic Research. Both projects were developed in collaboration with Guilherme Maggessi, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), and carried out at the Academy of Fine…
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FLINTA Bodies and Sexualities in Ukrainian Art of 11th–20th Centuries (26.03. 18:30)
The lecture traces the stories of performance and representation of women’s, genderqueer and non-heterosexual bodies in Ukraine from the 11th till the late 20th century emphasising a claim to presence and recognition in a heteronormative society. We will see how Ukrainian bodies performed acts of political will, resisted normative patriarchy and colonial oppression, and created…
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