MQ Public Art Archive

2026

Reflective, irregularly shaped sculpture on a pedestal surrounded by grass and young trees in front of the MuseumsQuartier Vienna — © MuseumsQuartier, Photo: Simon Veres

Art Free entrance Public Art

Gonflable

Hans Kupelwieser

21.05.2025 – 01.05.2026
MQ Main Courtyard

Photo (Detail) © Christian Calmar

Public Art Performance Free entrance

Karin Sander: Elevated to a pedestal

People of MQ

20.06.2026
MQ Main Courtyard

Artwork Šejla Kamerić — © Šejla Kamerić

Outdoor Public Art Free entrance

AWAKE

Šejla Kamerić

25.04.2026
MQ Main Courtyard

Four large poster stands with stylised portraits of women and texts are located outdoors in front of the Museumsquartier Wien, with a person standing in front of them. — © MuseumsQuartier Vienna, Photo: Simon Veres

Discourse Free entrance Public Art

WOMEN AGAINST WAR

09.12.2025 – 08.02.2026
MQ Forecourt

2025

Several large rusty metal funnels leaning against a light-colored facade of a historic building along a sidewalk. — © Simon Veres

Art Free entrance Public Art

Off–Balance

Reto Emch

26.06. – 20.10.2025
MQ Forecourt

Night view of the glowing installation “Only Time Will Tell” by Driton Selmani at MQ. — © MuseumsQuartier Wien, Photo: Paul Pibernig

Only Time Will Tell

Driton Selmani

24.12.2024 – 11.05.2025

Stele installation “Peace Plan” by Inna Shevchenko in front of MuseumsQuartier Vienna featuring photographic close-ups of a face. — © MuseumsQuartier Wien

Peace Plan

Inna Shevchenko & Elsa Okazaki

24.02. – 04.05.2025
MQ Forecourt

2024

Frontal view of Pavlo Makov’s “Fountain of Exhaustion” — © MuseumsQuartier Wien, Photo: eSeL

Public Art Free entrance

The Fountain of Exhaustion

Pavlo Makov

12.04. – 27.10.2024
MQ Main Courtyard

Installation view Magic in Vienna of Luciana Pinchiero at MQ Forecourt — © MuseumsQuartier Wien 2024, Foto: Martin Steiger

Art Free entrance Public Art

Magic in Vienna

Luciana Pinchiero

29.05. – 06.10.2024
MQ Forecourt

Freestanding multi-panel photographic installation in MuseumsQuartier Vienna featuring fragmented black-and-white images of the human body with red spots on a light background. — © MuseumsQuartier Wien, Poto: Christopher Klettermayer

Public Art Free entrance

Going Viral

Christopher Klettermayer

02.12.2023 – 31.01.2024
MQ Forecourt

2023

The facade of a historic building, the MQ forecourt, at night. Bright light projections illuminate the words “everything for everyone” and “everything” in various sizes on the facade. — © MuseumsQuartier Wien, Photo: Osaka

Art Free entrance

Winter of Love

starsky aka Julia Zdarsky

09.11. – 23.12.2023
MQ Forecourt

Large rectangular object with colorful geometric patterns and the text 'MQ' on a red circle in front of historic buildings. — Nick Oberthaler, Untitled (liminal landscape), 2023 © Nick Oberthaler, Photo: Niko Havranek

Untitled (liminal landscape)

Nick Oberthaler

09.01. – 31.12.2023
MQ Forecourt

Four large photo panels with a portrait of a reclining person in front of the MQ bulding — I Was Younger Yesterday, 2022 © Thana Faroq, Photo: Klaus Pichler

I Was Younger Yesterday

Thana Faroq

01.09. – 30.11.2023
MQ Forecourt

View from inside a wooden enclosure around a tree trunk looking up at green leaves — © eSeL.at

House of the Tree

Johannes Franz-Figeac

06.06. – 31.10.2023
MQ Forecourt

Several upright rectangular panels displaying photographs of palm trees and flooded urban streets — Anastasia Samoylova, FloodZone, since 2016 © eSeL.at - Lorenz Seidler

FloodZone

Anastasia Samoylova

01.07. – 31.08.2023
MQ Forecourt

Naked man standing in an abandoned construction site covered with graffiti covering his genitals with his hands — © Daniel Hill

Daniel Hill

01. – 30.06.2023
MQ Forecourt

2022

A row of vertical photo panels showing masked protesters raising fists amid smoke in a city plaza. — © MuseumsQuartier Wien, Photo: Lorenz Seidler – eSeL

Photo installation on protests in Iran

A work by Iranian artist Hoda Afshar

17.10. – 17.11.2022
MQ Forecourt