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Mélanie Scheiner (b. 1991, New York) is a Franco-American curator, writer, and translator. She holds an MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths College, University of London and a BFA in Drama from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She has worked at institutions including Galerie Sultana, Hauser & Wirth, Swiss Institute, and the Jewish Museum. She is interested in the invisible systems and structures that govern or shape the lived experience, as well as practices that are attuned to the 'infraordinary' and engaged in the critique of everyday life. In 2019, she co-founded Maison Touchard, a curatorial platform hosted in domestic spaces dedicated to this last effect. Her research tends to coalesce around the subjects of memory, time, architecture, space, and illness. At NeverAtHome, Mélanie will develop The New Neurasthetics, an ongoing research project unfolding through residency and exhibition. Working in collaboration with Vienna-based artists, and drawing on the radiophonic history of the Funkhaus and the city’s psychiatric legacy, the project explores the interplay between sound, language, somatics, and nervous states.

In May, 2050+ presented 'Synthetic Cultures – Ch. 2', a video and research project on lab-grown meat, in the context of “My Body Is A Temple”, a group exhibition at the intersection of arts and critical technology studies curated by @carmen_lael_hines and @claragrillmaier (@neverathome ) at Funkhaus, in Vienna. 'Synthethic Cultures' was originally conceived for the 10th @architecturebiennale_rotterdam . • The site-specific installation unfolds across 3 interconnected environments. Room 1 (a space wrapped in semi-transparent pink latex) and 2 (an immersive soundscape) invite visitors to play with the illusion of having entered the interior of a body. Is it a human womb? A bovine one? Or an “artificial womb,” as bioreactors used in cultured meat production are sometimes called? Room 3 hosts the short film, which analyzes resources, bodies, and spaces from both technocratic and cultural perspectives, revealing their profound interconnections and imagining scenarios in which the implementation of cultured meat has had radical ecological and ethical consequences. On view through June 22nd. • Photos by @extrangeness , @pictureandform , @___radicale___ , Synthetic Cultures – Ch. 2 Conceived and designed by @2050.plus (@sai_______i , @fralantieri , @___radicale___ , @ippopeste , @eripet , @massimotnn ) Script Editor: James Westcott; Video Editor: @_giorgiodemarco_ ; Voice-over: Caterina Yuka Sforza; Sound Designer: @ayce_bio Scientific Advisor: @newharvestorg (Dwayne Holmes, Richard Thyden) Interviewees: benwurgaft, Federico Campagna, @ingridnewkirk (@peta ), linyeezy (@thisismold ), Ionat Zurr and Oron Catts (@symbiotica.lab ), Dott. Franco Berrino, Luisa Torri and Prof. Riccardo Migliavada (@unisg_official ) Production: @vera.grillmaier @ninazips #SyntheticCultures #Ch2 #MyBodyIsATemple #NeverAtHome #Wien

is beyond excited to take over Austria’s largest and oldest broadcasting center, the former ORF Funkhaus. Starting in October, we’ll be offering 73 studio spaces for up to 100 visual artists, musicians, and creatives. A big thank you to to @kreativeraeume  for the continued collaboration and support! Pictures by Clara Grillmaier @claragrillmaier

Performance by Cat Jimenez Wednesday 20.05.2026 6:30 – 11 pm Argentinierstraße 30B Cat Jimenez will present a live performance at around 9pm as part of the Opening Event of the Creative Days by @wirtschaftsagentur_wien Her work moves between dance, performance, ritual, and contemporary movement practices, often exploring rhythm, presence, and cultural memory through physical and atmospheric worlds. Alongside the performance, the evening will include talks, keynotes, drinks, and networking. The event is free of charge. Sign up via link in bio. photo Can Magdalena

Shared Infrastructures: Tools & Governance für Creative Spaces w/ Ramón Reichert Do., 21.05.2026 09.30 - 13.30 Biofabrique Vienna The workshop brings together actors from the artistic and creative field in order to collaboratively identify practice-oriented needs and develop empowering spaces for action. What kinds of infrastructures, tools, and concepts are needed for collective work today? Today, users primarily operate as passive end-users, excluded from processes of design, decision-making, and agency. Against this backdrop, the workshop opens with a theoretical introduction and overview of ownership, platform economies, and industrial data extraction. Building on this foundation, the workshop aims to collaboratively develop alternative approaches to non-commercial digital environments and sustainable cultures of use. The number of participants is limited. Please send us an email to [email protected] with 2-3 sentences about yourself, your organization and your motivation for participating in the workshop.
 Hosted by Vienna Business Agency, NeverAtHome
 @wirtschaftsagentur_wien

First Sommerfest of the season @softcover.shop @studio.bahoo @r4ulmaria @paulpichler_ @iorjewellery @ce.lia.thelabel @stefan.schoenauer & @selma_schautamal @zyiko.studios @hafibooks @bohema.magazin @brennmaus @jurivelt.xyz @burnbjoern @laura.gruener @valun_studiovie @fischfarm_zwischenbruecken @simiaen.studio @dasdrittl @elsa.steixner @tropicalthundervienna supported by City of Vienna | Cultural affairs (MA 7) District Wieden | Cultural affairs @funkhaus_official

Spin to win! A little highlight this sunday is a raffle with some hot prizes. Raffle tickets will be available throughout the day, winners will be drawn at 4pm and 6pm. Prizes by: @mumok_vienna @blumenkraft.wien @rundbar @spike_art_magazine @glein.wien @grieskirchner @burgkino @fritzkola @super.cattivo @mottobrot @jonasreindlcoffeeroasters @wienmuseum @yogic.hive @magdashotel @vera.grillmaier @hotrod_tour_vienna @makava.bio @chanomavienna @saint.charles @wienerseife @bureaufomo

On April 16, NeverAtHome opens SESSIONS, a new educational programme, with a performative lecture by Eduardo Castillo Vinuesa and Carmen Lael Hines, presented as part of @biennale.wien . Eduardo Castillo Vinuesa is an architect, curator, and educator whose work explores the intersections of climate, technology, and geopolitics. Through a transdisciplinary practice that spans architecture, institutional design, filmmaking, and alternative curatorial strategies, he investigates how spatial and visual cultures shape contemporary forms of governance and ecological transformation. An Associate Professor of Architecture at ETSAM–UPM, he has curated the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, directed Medialab Matadero (2021–2024), and currently serves as Director of TBA21–Academy, the research and advocacy branch of TBA21. Carmen Lael Hines (1997) is a writer, researcher, and curator whose work focuses on digital media and technological capitalism. She is a PhD candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, with a project titled The Plant Complex: Staging Digital Lifestyles.She is guest professor in the CuratorLab at Konstfack Stockholm, and previously held a research and teaching position in visual culture at the Vienna University of Technology. Her curatorial work includes projects for the Klima Biennale Wien, the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021, and the Wiener Festwochen 2025(with NeverAtHome). She is a curator at The Ryder Projects. With support from the Embajada de España. More information soon

@gggglllloooossssaaaa XVIII - 12 April 2026, Vienna With performances by @cascque , @mira__mann , a performative lecture by @harsh.x84ysn5hfq and @lewon.heublein on the listening station. Merenda and wine @weingut_zum_pranger Limited capacity. Info at [email protected]

SONIC GROUNDS Edition II April 2, Funkhaus, Argentinierstraße 30B, Vienna Ticket Link in Bio An experimental music format by NeverAtHome, blending site-specific concerts and studio visits, approaching music as a process and consciously relating sound to architecture. A look back at Edition I, with Paris-based artists Aapo Nikkanen (@aaponewborn ) and Raudie McLeod (@raudie_mcleod ), composer Rojin Sharafi (@rojinsharafi ), and cellist Lukas Lauermann (@lukaslauermann ) — practices spanning hypnosis, electronic composition, self-built instruments, and expanded acoustic sound worlds. Reel by Ina Höller @inahoeller Music by Lukas Lauermann @lukaslauermann @funkhaus_official

SONIC GROUNDS Site specific sound performances Thursday, 02.04.2026 I Edition 2 Funkhaus, Argentinierstraße 30B Tickets available via link in bio Open Studios 5:30 pm Performances 7:30 pm With performances by: Julian Bazzanella (@julianbazanella ) Dora Donata Sammer (@doradonatasammer ) Analog Visuals Vienna (@analogvisualsvienna ) SONIC GROUNDS is an experimental music format combining concerts, site specific performances and open studios. Each edition is developed in dialogue with the building’s architecture and brings together NeverAtHome’s in-house artists with local or international musicians. Edition 2 features pianist and composer Julian Bazzanella with his improvisation-driven solo project -BREATH please BREATH-, followed by recorder player Dora Donata Sammer, who explores the sonic possibilities of the instrument in her program „From Imitation to Illusion“. Both performances are accompanied by Analog Visuals Vienna, creating live analog light projections. [The studio tours can be attended free of charge, independent of the music format - sign up via link in bio] @funkhaus_official

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