How far can art go? How far does it have to go? Performance artist Pippa Bacca set out in a wedding gown to hitchhike from Milan to Jerusalem in 2008 in order to take a stand for peace and trust among people. Along the way, she was raped and murdered. The first part of "The Bride and Goodnight Cinderella" focusses on Bacca and other female artists who have used their own bodies as a means of protest and a target.

MQ Artists-in-Residence present their work in their studios

In "MOTHER LOVES YOU", mother and son stop time and the role models become blurred. The play lovingly explores this relationship, which we all know in one form or another. Is it intimate, annoying, vital, secondary? Definitely complex!

In Milo Rau’s first opera treatment, Emperor Tito’s well-wishing commitment degenerates into a strategy of sheer self-preservation, an empty revolutionary platitude. Together with eighteen people who live in Vienna and have partly themselves experienced repressive regimes, the Camerata Salzburg and the Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Rau undertakes an actualisation of Mozart’s last opera.

TQW DOC+ is a monthly interdisciplinary, inter-university forum for theorists on topics concerned with choreography, performance, body, art and politics at Tanzquartier Wien.

Every second and fourth Wednesday of the month, our art education experts take centre stage during the lunchtime tours! They present their favourite artists and themes from the Leopold Collection and the special exhibitions.

Paris, Barcelona, Lisbon, Vienna: hopping to a different city for the weekend has become part of a lifestyle. In addition to city breaks as an economic factor and contributing to international flair, conflicts in many cities are becoming increasingly apparent.

A 3-day performance in the MQ Art Box.

Sound performance on the MQ Summer Stage.

The ramifications of World War I called for new depictions of reality in art. The resignation, accusations and indescribable hardship that characterized this time on the one hand, and the hope, longings and emerging zest for life of the "Golden Twenties" on the other, found expression in a new type of art – one that was unsentimental, sober, specific and purist; one that described the world in an objective, realistic manner.

The Az W is participating once again in the Austria-wide "Long Night of Research", which is being held at over 280 venues across the country. In all nine federal states, you can discover things that otherwise often remains hidden, with free admission: the exciting, the surprising and the astonishing!

The "Box of Truth" is a glass container in the courtyard of Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier. It contains two chairs and a lie detector. Every "Vienna Trial" weekend will start with two public figures being attached to the lie detector and subjected to a public hearing by actor Bibiana Beglau.