Artists-in-Residence

area: Theory

Gloria Luca

area: Performance, Theater, Choreography, Music

No Dancing Allowed

Exhibition curated by Bogomir Doringer

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…

paraflows – Platform for Digital Art and Culture

Q21 Backstage: paraflows is a platform for digital art and culture. Since 2006, it has been organising festivals relating to specific subjects such as UTOPIA (2008), URBAN HACKING (2009), Reverse Engineering (2012), Open Culture (2013), Digital Migration (2015), Id/entity (2016), apocalypse (2018) or PROTESTFormen (2021).