Cultural Initiatives - MuseumsQuartier Wien

Spanning more than 7,000 square meters, the space offers workspaces, production facilities, and exhibition areas for organizations across a wide range of cultural fields. The spectrum ranges from internationally active film and dance festivals to design, literature, art publications, and game development. The initiatives based here operate independently but are part of a close-knit network that promotes visibility, networking, and the exchange of ideas.

Some institutions have showrooms, exhibition spaces, or offices on the ground floor of the Baroque Fischer von Erlach wing, which is open to the public, and offer daily insights into their work there. Others design the passageways between the courtyards or operate primarily from their offices on the upper floors.

Editorial Team & Publisher

View through a hallway with parquet floor into a room with a bookshelf and chairs, a lit picture on the left wall, and several framed photos on the right wall. — ©EIKON

EIKON

EIKON is a leading international journal of photography and media art that has been presenting contemporary artistic perspectives as well as current issues in art and cultural policy since 1991.

Five people sit around a small wooden table with pizza boxes and drinks in a living room having a conversation. — ©HermesBaby

Hermes Baby

Hermes Baby is an independent writers' collective and agency for narrative journalism that uses literary and artistic means to develop new perspectives on reality and the present.

Small round wooden table with books and booklets, surrounded by two red chairs, in front of shelves filled with stacked books and brown wrapped packages. — ©SchlebrueggeEditor

SCHLEBRÜGGE.EDITOR

SCHLEBRÜGGE.EDITOR is an internationally oriented Viennese art publishing house that has been producing independent art and artist books in close collaboration with artists and authors since 2002.

Office with multiple computers, desks, chairs, and a shelf with colorful binders in the background, two magazines lying on a table in the foreground — ©springerin

springerin

springerin is a quarterly magazine dedicated to the critique and theory of contemporary culture, analyzing cultural phenomena within their social and political contexts.

Digital Culture

Four people in casual clothes are standing and sitting in a room with shelves, plants, and tools, with a black cloth with a geometric cube pattern in the background. — © MuseumsQuartier Wien

Broken Rules

Broken Rules is an independent video game studio that collaborates with artists from various disciplines to develop interactive, culturally relevant game worlds.

Shadow play of stair railing and window frames on a wall in an empty room with radiator — ©TransformingFreedom

Transforming Freedom

Transforming Freedom is a platform for digital culture that has been documenting and sharing exemplary voices and materials related to major technological and social upheavals since 2007.

Room with tables displaying posters, flyers, and six masks with large eyes on the wall, with chairs and an old television in the background — ©TrickyWoman

Tricky Women / Tricky Realities

Tricky Women / Tricky Realities is a cultural initiative founded in 1991 that promotes film, animation, and media art from a feminist perspective through festivals, workshops, and symposia.

Two people in a kitchen, one ladling soup from a large pot into a bowl — ©paraflows

paraflows

paraflows is a platform for digital art and culture that has been organizing thematically focused festivals, exhibitions, and events addressing key issues of the digital age since 2006.

Three people sitting at a wooden table in a bright room with large windows and plants on the table and in the foreground — ©ViennaShorts

Vienna Shorts Festival

Vienna Shorts is an internationally renowned short film festival and a qualifying festival for the Oscars®, BAFTA, and the European and Austrian Film Awards.

Creative agencies

Modern bright office space with round table, several chairs, desk with computer, large window, plants, and minimalist decor — ©Lumine

Lumine

Lumine is a Vienna-based creative company that has been using large-scale projections and 3D video mapping to transform architecture and spaces for art and cultural events for over two decades.

Several books and photographs arranged on a wooden table — ©SaySaySay,Inc.

Say Say Say, Inc.

Say Say Say, Inc. is an international design studio that creates new visual worlds through a multisensory interplay of aesthetics, technology, pop culture, and philosophy.

Two people sitting at a table playing a board game with small tree figures, with shelves of games and folders in the background. — ©WhiteCastleGames

White Castle Games

White Castle is a creative and licensing agency for board games that supports authors and game designers and guides game ideas through every stage of development, from concept to market readiness.

Social discourse

Living room with yellow wall, wall hanging rug, bookshelf, green sofa, red and gray armchairs, and glass table — ©think.difference

think.difference

think.difference is a research and consulting firm specializing in integration and diversity issues that supports policymakers as well as government and civil society organizations in transformation processes shaped by migration.

Home office with wall-to-wall bookshelves, desk with computer, and office chair draped with a jacket. — ©educult

EDUCULT

EDUCULT is an institute for applied research and consulting that brings together culture, education, and politics through participatory and sustainable approaches.

Group of seven people standing in front of a white wall with US and Canadian flags — ©Fullbright

Fulbright

Fulbright Austria is part of the international Fulbright Program and has been promoting academic and cultural exchange between Austria and the United States through educational and scholarship programs for over 50 years.

Performing Arts

Facade of a historic building with three large posters in the arches, several purple lounge chairs on a paved square in front — ©MuseumsQuartier Wien

Wiener Taschenoper

The Wiener Taschenoper develops and produces contemporary opera and experiments at the intersection of musical theater, multimedia performance, and contemporary dance.

Two people in wheelchairs sit back to back on a dark stage, one wearing distinctive high platform boots. — ©insert, Photo: Theresa Rauter

insert (Theater Association)

insert (Theaterverein) is the production platform of choreographer and performer Doris Uhlich, developing contemporary dance performances that explore the body, movement, and personal life stories