MQ Journal
Interview with Reto Emch
An interview by MQ chief curator Verena Kaspar-Eisert with the artist Reto Emch about his installation Off-Balance.
Passages at MQ
Literaturpassage
The Literaturpassage is one of the artistic passages in the MuseumsQuartier Wien, curated by students of the Institute for Language Arts at the Angewandte. Under the title Transit, the Passage 2023 will function as a place of change. Poetic attacks, aesthetic manipulation. A:r visitor:in enters the passage and leaves it as an other. Whether…
TONSPUR_passage
The series TONSPUR presents a changing selection of sound art pieces by international artists for the public space at MQ Vienna. Their multichannel sound installations overturn common stereo images and create walk-in audio spaces. Taking the physical architecture of the passage as a starting point, a virtual architecture is build from sound.
KABINETT comic passage
In the KABINETT comic passage located in the passage between Mariahilfer Strasse and Fürstenhof exhibitions dedicated to various forms of the combination of words and images (in common parlance: comics) are held. The passage comprises two and a half gallery spaces and a vending machine containing the publications accompanying the exhibitions.
Typopassage Wien
Typography is the design and use of letters, hence the design of content. Typefaces have always been created for a certain task and can never be considered in isolation of a purpose. Typography does not replace, but support–or else sabotage–content. Typopassage, a micro museum for design, exhibits reflections on cultural and social importance by…
Meteoritenpassage
The Meteoritenpassage connects the MQ directly and symbolically with the neighboring Museum of Natural History. The central theme of the passage explores how present-day scientific museums evolved out of 18th- and 19th-century mineral collections and classification systems. Each poster from the on-site vending machine comes with a changing artistic…
Brückenpassage
A passageway whose walls and ceilings were uniformly coated with hammer finish paint by Hans Schabus, a paint that is primarily used in machine manufacturing. The color reseda green makes reference to Otto Wagner's Stadtbahn and connects the different elements to form a broad overall space.
Sternenpassage
Sternenpassage highlights various artists whose work broadly relates to photography and illumination. It presents their works across four illuminated circular display cases on the walls, combining them with telescope images of outer space. The diagram on the ceiling dates back to the Baroque period and depicts a comet‘s elliptical path, held in…
PERFORMANCE PASSAGE
Designed after the artistic concept of Christoph Meier, the PERFORMANCE PASSAGE appears doubled by an entirely mirrored ceiling. Just like in front of the wall of a dance studio or the ceiling of a discotheque anyone can be a performer here, anyone can observe themselves. The installation concept, conceived and curated by Andrea Maurer, aims for a…
