MQ Artist-in-Residence Svitlana Zhytnia
area Digital art, Video art residence Graz time period March 2025 - April 2025 Svitlana Zhytnia, artistic name Zhi Zhi, is a new media artist from Ukraine who specializes in digital visual art. In 2022, due [...] Svitlana Zhytnia area: Digital art, Video art Zhytnia Svitlana, To the living, Frame from AV composition, 2022, © Zhytnia Svitlana Zhytnia Svitlana, Reflections, 2023, © Zhytnia Svitlana Zhytnia Svitlana [...] zhizhivisuals.tilda.ws Instagram: @zhi_zhi_visuals Project info Internship at WIENWOCHE Festival for Art and Activism
MQ Artist-in-Residence Rita Hasani
assisted in costume and production design, spatial installations, and the support of contemporary art exhibitions. Her achievements include being a finalist in the Frankfurt Style Award (2020) and receiving [...] Instagram: @ritaahasanii Project info The aim of the project is to transform sustainability into an art form by creating an experimental journal using biotextiles as both the medium and the message. Through [...] how they came to be. The potential outcome will include a completed biotextile journal as a work of art, inspiring viewers to see textiles as more than just functional objects and highlighting the creative
MQ Artist-in-Residence Šimon Chovan
Šimon Chovan area: Visual art Šimon Chovan, Metabolic Intuition IV, 2021, Viliam Ondo Šimon Chovan, The Art-Nature Laboratory, Kunsthalle Wien, 2022, Maximilian Pramatarov Šimon Chovan, Hedgehog´s Dilemma [...] and Amsterdam. He studied at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam, KASK School of arts Gent and the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava. His recent solo exhibitions include Dendrites & Tissues at the TIC [...] Dilemma, Door Open Space Amsterdam, 2024, Clara Ketter Key Facts nationality Slovakia area Visual art residence Dekýš recommending institution Tranzit.sk time period March 2025 - April 2025 Šimon Chovan
MQ Artist-in-Residence Aleksey Dubinsky
Aleksey Dubinsky area: Fine art Key Facts nationality Russia area Fine art residence Tbilisi recommending institution ARTMMOV time period March 2025 - April 2025 Born in 1985 in Grozny, Aleksey Dubinsky [...] same year, Dubinsky won the Martini Art Weekend competition, which awarded him a scholarship for an educational course at the prestigious St. Martin’s School of Art in London. Dubinsky is an active participant [...] Dubinsky currently lives and works in Tbilisi. From 2001 to 2005, he studied at the Nizhny Novgorod Art College, specializing in the Design of Architectural Environments. In 2011, he graduated from the Faculty
MQ Artist-in-Residence Petr Kirusha
Design, in 2012 he finished the Institute of Contemporary Art in Moscow. Works of Petr Kirusha can be found in the collections of Fondation d’art contemporain Daniel et Florence Guerlain, Kaviar Factory [...] Factory, Shao and Munchen Yinong, Anton Kozlov etc. @pjotrs.kirjusa Project info During his residency at MQ, Petr Kirusha will work on a new, strongly site-specific project. He captures the local characteristics
History - MuseumsQuartier Wien
of the MQ courtyard furniture As a modern form of seating, the MQ courtyard furniture invites visitors to the MQ courtyards to relax and linger, making them a significant factor in creating the MQ “living [...] the “city’s living room.” It all began with an art project in 2002. After the MuseumsQuartier opened in June 2001, there was hardly any seating in the MQ courtyards except for a few wooden benches and [...] result, the MuseumsQuartier Errichtungs- und Betriebsgesellschaft (MQ E+B) commissioned Austrian artist Josef Trattner to create an art installation for the site in the form of giant foam objects. They
MQ Artist-in-Residence Naomi van Niekerk
Naomi van Niekerk area: Applied Art & Animation Dog, 2023, Filmstill from Box Cutters © Naomi van Niekerk Frame of Mind, 2020 © Naomi van Niekerk Impermanence, 2013 © Naomi van Niekerk Memories of Athens [...] bossies (My mum is crazy)- 03:23 - animation, 2023 - Box Cutters - 08:24 - animation @naomivanniekerk www.dryfsand.com Project info During her residency at MQ, Naomi van Niekerk wants to develop a new film in [...] Niekerk Memories of Paris, 2020 © Naomi van Niekerk Key Facts nationality South Africa area Applied Art & Animation residence Lille, France recommending institution ASIFA Austria time period August 2024
About - MuseumsQuartier Wien
spectrum ranges from fine art, architecture, music, fashion, theatre, dance, literature, children's culture, game culture and street art to photography and design. A diverse public art programme with installations [...] contemporary art are presented in the exhibition space of the MuseumsQuartier Wien, the MQ Freiraum , in the baroque Fischer-von-Erlach Wing. The focus is on video works, installations and art that deals [...] reflected both in measures for resource-saving operation and in artistic projects. The new MQ RESIDENCY - ART & ECOLOGY is also located in this context. The MuseumsQuartier's international Artist-in-Residence
MQ Artist-in-Residence Julieta Barrios
Mexico area Art & Ecology, Visual Art residence Toluca recommending institution MQ time period July 2024 - August 2024 Julieta Barrios (born 1985) studied Fine Arts at the Postgraduate School of Art and Design [...] Julieta Barrios area: Art & Ecology, Visual Art Chit Palm © Julieta Barrios Intervened Vases © Julieta Barrios Kajtal © Julieta Barrios Movement © Julieta Barrios River Ferns © Julieta Barrios Routes © [...] Production from the Benito Juarez Institute of Culture and Arts. @julietabarriosartist www.julietabarrios.com Project info During her residency at MQ, Julieta Barrios wants to identify the plant species in
MQ Artist-in-Residence Arrita Katona
Arrita Katona area: Applied Art, Digital Art, Photography Interregation Room, 2019 © Arrita Katona, Photo: Atdhe Mulla Interregation Room, 2019 © Arrita Katona, Photo: Atdhe Mulla Notes and Images, 2023 [...] 2020 © Arrita Katona Untitled, 2020 © Arrita Katona Key Facts nationality Kosovo area Applied Art, Digital Art, Photography residence Kosovo recommending institution BMKOES time period July 2024 - August [...] Contemporary . During her residency at the MQ, the artist wants to fully immerse herself in Vienna's vibrant cultural milieu and explore the city's diverse art scene.