MQ Public Art Archive

2026

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

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

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

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

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

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

Five vertical posters on concrete stands displaying photos and texts on a paved square in front of historic buildings. — © Robert Fleischanderl

Art Free entrance Outdoor

Why aren't you laughing? 14 stories about domestic violence

Robert Fleischanderl

23.10. – 10.12.2024
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

2023

© MuseumsQuartier Wien, Foto: Klaus Pichler

Versuchsfeld1

Anita Fuchs

permanent exhibition
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

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

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

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

Facade of a building with three large white geometric folded sculptures on the windows and a person in a yellow jacket in front of a white railing — © MuseumsQuartier Wien, Photo: Klaus Pilcher

Art Free entrance Public Art

Niche Sculptures

Sonia Leimer & Tillman Kaiser

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

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

2020

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