Artists-in-Residence

area: Visual Art

Dino Pešut

area: Visual Arts, Textile Art, Painting

Edyta Hul

area: Architecture, Design, Installation, Digital Culture

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Q21 Backstage: Each month we will introduce you to one of the more than 50 art and culture initiatives which are housed at Q21. Read the following interview with Katrin Weber (organisation) and Tamara König (PR) of designforum Wien.

Backstage Tour

During this tour, visitors may be lucky enough to get a glimpse behind the studio doors of the guest artists, and the initiatives based at Q21 talk about their work. The tour also includes a guided visit to the current exhibition at the frei_raum Q21 exhibition space (Exhibitions April-November).

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Guided tours for school groups

It is a special responsibility of art mediation to introduce young people to contemporary art and culture. For some youths, a visit at Q21 can be their first contact.

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Curator's Guided Tour

Exhibition tours allow international curators to provide an insight into the projects they have been working on.

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General Tour

Discover the MuseumsQuartier Wien while learning about the history of one of the largest cultural districts in the world.

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Micromuseums - Art in public spaces

LITERATURpassage

The LITERATURpassage is one of the cultural theme passages at the MuseumsQuartier Wien, open and accessible micro museums which broaden the range on offer at the complex. It provides a stage for contemporary authors from central and southeast Europe to examine Vienna as an urban space. In addition, it presents works by authors on the Q21...

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 were always created for a certain task and can never be considered in isolation of a purpose. typography does not replace but can support or else sabotage content. Typopassage - a micro museum for design - exhibits considerations of cultural and social importance and...

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...

Institutions

Q21 provides workspace for around 50 initiatives, organizations, agencies and editorial offices working in the cultural sector. This creative space is spread across over 7,000 sqm within the MuseumsQuartier Wien. In this way, Q21 brings the “creative” aspect into one of the world’s largest complexes for art and culture.

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Program Highlights

Anna Haifisch: Fuji-San

30.10.2018 to 17.03.2019 - KABINETT comic passage

Group Or-Om

28.11.2018 to 28.02.2019 - Raum D / Q21

Jill Scott: ESKIN 4

29.11.2018 to 28.02.2019 - SCHAURAUM Angewandte

Joseph Binder Award 2018: "A Feast of Colour and Form"

10.11.2018 to 27.01.2019 - designforum Wien

ELFIE SEMOTAN - "stars passage" - Micro museum for light phenomena

29.11.2018 to 26.03.2019 - Q21, Sternenpassage
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Artists-in-Residence

Andrea Palašti

Dino Pešut

Edyta Hul

Francesco Pusterla

Markéta Hejkalová

Philipp Goldbach

Valter Ventura

Viktor Bernik

Hermane Desorme

designforum Wien: Design - Exhibit - Network

Tours

Backstage Tour

Guided tours for school groups

Curator's Guided Tour

General Tour