Conversation with Artist-in-Residence Magnus Sodamin
to be honest, it’s always too much. Is anti-art an option, a way we can fight such a system? What is anti-art? That’s the question. When I think of anti-art I think of commercialization, advertising and [...] PERFEKT BOX at Q21/MQ. Follow Magnus Sodamin on Instagram @magnificentmagnus Watch our Artist-in-Residence Video here #artistQ21 Interview: Margit Mössmer Read more Interview Who’s behind the MQ facade [...] gratifying, because you wouldn’t paint some salmons if nobody asked you to. When I say the words “art” or “art market”, do you have butterflies in your stomach or do you have a rather queasy feeling? A little
Artist-in-Residence Orit Ishay (ISR) recommended by EIKON - MuseumsQuartier Wien
International Magazine for Photography and Media Art Interview "There's this faith, that photography will solve some problems in the world." Interview with MQ Artist-in-Residence Ursula Neugebauer Interview [...] Why did you apply to be an Artist-in-Residence in Vienna? I first visited Vienna and its exciting art scene in 2010, when I was invited to participate in an exhibition. I enjoyed the days I spent in Vienna [...] to is quite fascinating. The MuseumsQuartier is one of the main places where you can be inspired by art and meet other artists. This place with its museums and great institutions is amazing. Including its
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MORE INFORMATION © MuseumsQuartier Wien, Foto: Thomas Meyer This was the MQ Artists-in-Residence Open Studio in December 2024 MQ Writer-in-Residence 2025 in cooperation with BMEIA The MuseumsQuartier Wien [...] OPEN CALL MQ Residency 2026 in cooperation with tranzit.org / ERSTE Stiftung Application until 14.09.2025 (midnight) The Artist-in-Residence Programme at MuseumsQuartier Wien is part of ERSTE Foundation [...] Foundation ’s long-term endeavour to support contemporary art and to strengthen the fragile situation of its creators, especially in the region of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. The residency programme
"Frankie’s name is a reference to frankness" - MuseumsQuartier Wien
ce at quartier21/MQ was invited for the current festival for digital art and culture, “paraflows”, with her project Frankie. Maayan Sheleff (ISR), Artist-in-Residence at quartier21/MQ was invited for the [...] Ellersdorfer-Meissnerová www.frankieproject.com www.paraflows.at Do you see art as the most relevant way for critical actions? I think art is a unique way of critical action because it enables a more poetic and [...] rigid political agenda. But as a curator who works often with political and activist art I sometimes wonder about art’s ability to actually create change. Perhaps because of its layered, at times abstract
Guy Wouete
you to discuss art and what art is or can be in other languages? No. I don’t mean that it is difficult to discuss art. But I find it a bit problematic to define art. We can discuss art. But when we start [...] start to define art, it can get a bit complicated. Because everyone experiences art differently and therefore there are a lot of definitions of art, of what we call art. We can discuss art as long as we [...] subjective. What is art to you? What is art to me? Oh…hm. It is difficult to express what art is to me. And it gets even more complicated when I start to think about what is not art… I mean, art from my own
Warren Neidich: Breaking the Noise Barrier - MuseumsQuartier Wien
the initiating conditions of conceptual art in which art production performed a bridging condition between philosophy and art. Artistic responses of conceptual art in its early or conceptual phase concerned [...] — can you expand on this, and please explain “Art Before Philosophy not After”. The notion of a post-conceptual artist as expressed in my work on paper Art Before Philosophy not After challenges some of [...] modulated semiotic flows across disciplines transversally in the desire to strip art works of their aesthetic value. However Art should never simply be a transcription or translation of philosophical ideas
“The art world really is stupid in a way…” - MuseumsQuartier Wien
have commercial interests, and these may eventually go down in art history. Who writes art history today? That’s also a problem, like art education. But eventually, people are not stupid and they will [...] Interview “The art world really is stupid in a way…” 29.01.2014 Share Share - Facebook Share - Twitter Since September 2012, Paolo Cirio has been working on an art project called “Street Ghosts”, which [...] about documentation, the quality of the photography, also visually – and then what is meta art? what is twitter art? So it’s a really simple concept but it brings up many questions. Did you have (legal) problems
“After Gezi I think I know what to write and I do not know what to do.” - MuseumsQuartier Wien
has approached its end now. Do the protests already influence contemporary art and literature in Istanbul? Well, contemporary art and literature was already there at Gezi. Gezi itself was like a huge in [...] sense of humour was remarkable. I think from now on it will be almost impossible to produce a work of art without taking this bloom of artistic creativity in consideration. The language of the “victim” or [...] generation; however, from now on it will seek and find its most rigorous expressions in contemporary art and literature. I know that it is too early to make such definite statements, but why not dream of
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Astrid Peterle becomes new chief curator of the large cultural complex MQ: Salon Zukunftskultur 2025 at the MuseumsQuartier MQ: Art installation by Nick Oberthaler More press releases House of Austrian [...] between historical and contemporary architecture together with the combination of art, creative and living space give the MQ its unique atmosphere and make it the ideal setting for editorial and commercial
"I am very impatient. That's why I make these patient films." - MuseumsQuartier Wien
neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna Art Week, Videonale Bonn *44th TONSPUR-Artist-in-Residence at quartier21/MQ Interview: Margit Mössmer Read more Interview Warren Neidich: Breaking [...] MuseumsQuartier. It’s both an extension and a conversation. I’m hoping to question the definition of art itself, to expand it. The work is a gesture to connect the two museums, connect the dots between the [...] important number in mathematics. Here I’m trying to connect mathematics to natural history and to art. Do you see yourself as a sound artist or as a filmmaker? I work in film the most, but never within