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Cultural districts are playing a key cultural and social role throughout the world in the twentyfirst century. They offer an incomparable density of art and culture and have a profound influence on the development of cities and regions. “World Culture Districts” presents the first-ever overview of this phenomenon, featuring fifteen of the most important cultural districts on six continents.

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Program highlights

No Dancing Allowed

22.06.2022 to 20.11.2022 - frei_raum Q21 exhibition space

Wolfgang Tillmans - Sound is liquid

27.11.2021 to 28.08.2022 - mumok

Franz Hagenauer

20.05.2022 to 12.09.2022 - Leopold Museum

Defiant Muses

07.04.2022 to 04.09.2022 - Kunsthalle Wien

Serious Fun. Architecture & Gaming

17.03.2022 to 05.09.2022 - Architekturzentrum Wien

Vienna 1900 / Birth of Modernism

01.01.2021 to 30.01.2023 - Leopold Museum

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Micromuseums at MQ

Literaturpassage

The Literaturpassage is one of the open-access micromuseums in the MuseumsQuartier Wien, curated by JENNY, the literary magazine of the Institute for Language Arts at the Angewandte. In 2022, under the title From All Sides, as many sides of the literary world as possible will be illuminated. JENNY turns the pages, puts footnotes and marginal notes…

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.

STREET ART PASSAGE VIENNA

In this passageway an independent team of curators presents regularly changing exhibitions of international Street Art. The permanent design of the passage has been conceived by the renowned French street artist Invader. Each exhibition is accompanied by an issue of “betonblumen” magazine, which is available at a vending machine on site. Curator:…

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 as a compact traffic tool: this narrow space features a staircase, a bridge,
a lift and several railings and doors. Artist Hans Schabus covered the walls and ceilings in hammer paint—a kind of varnish primarily used for the manu- facturing of machines. The colour reseda green creates a link
to Otto Wagner’s Stadtbahn (“Vienna…

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…

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Insitutions at the MQ

Leopold Museum

The Leopold Museum, and with it the Leopold Collection, is home to the largest collection of works by Egon Schiele in the world, numbering some 40 paintings and around 180 drawings. It also houses an exhibition of modernist Austrian art of international standing.

mumok

mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien – is the largest museum of modern and contemporary art in central Europe. It is home to an extraordinary collection featuring major works of classical modernism, pop art, Fluxus, minimal art, and concept art, as well as Vienna Actionism and contemporary art.

Kunsthalle Wien

The Kunsthalle Wien has a focus on international contemporary art and the current discourses around it. It showcases artworks that shed light on social relations and invites visitors to join in the conversation.

Halle E+G

The Halle E+G is an exclusive event space in the center of Vienna that stages a range of unusual and international productions from the worlds of music, theater, and dance.

Tanzquartier Wien

Founded in 2001, the Tanzquartier Wien has become one of the most influential dance venues in Europe. As the leading production and event venue for dance in Austria, it has a focus on contemporary dance and performance.

Q21

Q21 hosts around 50 cultural initiatives, 9 Artists-in-Residence studios and an exhibition space. The creative space is spread across over 7,000 sqm.

Dschungel Wien

DSCHUNGEL WIEN, a theater for young audiences, stages a wide range of productions for families, children aged six months and up, teenagers, and young adults. Its aim is to encourage young people to dream up their own utopias and reflect on contemporary society.

ZOOM Kindermuseum

The ZOOM Kindermuseum, Austria’s leading museum for children, offers year-round exhibitions, workshops, a multimedia lab, and much more for children aged 8 months to 14 years. It also provides a comprehensive program of science education.

WIENXTRA-Kinderinfo

WIENXTRA-Kinderinfo provides a wide range of free information and advice about leisure activities in Vienna for children aged 13 and under.

No Dancing Allowed
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