Program

Hugo Canoilas, Kapsch Contemporary Art Prize winner 2020, uses the tradition and history of painting and object art to redefine and expand the connection between installational and performative strategies. Along with art history, he also references sociopolitical developments and the philosophical and art-theoretical discourses it involves. Currently, the all-dominating coronavirus crisis is already bringing into sharper focus virulent and interconnected topics such as the climate crisis, environmental degradation, and the ever-widening gap between poor and rich countries.Canoilas’s work deals with these developments and the anthropocentric worldview on which they are based. It ties in with ideas of a careful and egalitarian human treatment of nature and its creatures—ideas that have evolved in ongoing discourses around the Anthropocene and Posthumanism.

Exhibition at EDUCULT

Exhibition in the EIKON Schauraum

Postcards and Installation in the Literaturpassage

Exhibition and comic zine in the KABINETT comic passage

Exhibition and accompanying LUMEN zine in the Sternenpassage

8-channel sound work, 7-part poster series in the TONSPUR_passage

Installation in the STREET ART PASSAGE VIENNA

Land is our most valuable resource. The Earth has a finite surface. A careless or purely capital-driven treatment of this resource has changed the design and function of our towns and villages in the past decades.

The exhibition presents works by eleven artists who made eminent contributions to Modernism in Austrian painting at the time of the First Republic (1918-1938): Alfons Walde, Albin Egger-Lienz, Anton Kolig, Herbert Boeckl, Gerhart Frankl, Anton Faistauer, Josef Dobrowsky, Hans Böhler, Alfred Wickenburg, Rudolf Wacker and Sergius Pauser all mark the pluralism between a reticent expressive colorism dominated by inwardness and a New Objectivity informed by a sober view of the material world.

ZOOM Hands-on ExhibitionFor children ages 6 to 12Wood is incredibly versatile. You probably know furniture and buildings made of wood, but did you know that you can even wear it?

The MQ ART BOX in the Main Courtyard of MuseumsQuartier Wien is freely accessible every day around the clock, exhibiting temporary installations by contemporary artist. With its focus on new Austrian art, the MQ ART BOX complements the programmes of the museums and cultural institutions at MuseumsQuartier.