Queer Museum Vienna

Nur noch ein Monat, um IMAGINING QUEER UTOPIAS zu sehen! Finissage am 21.06.2026 ✨️ Just one month left to see IMAGINING QUEER UTOPIAS! ✨️

PRIDE MONTH BURLESQUE WORKSHOP 🔥 Are you a queer cutie interested in the titillating art of striptease? Queer Museum Vienna will be kicking off Pride Month this year with a burlesque workshop and show! Monstera del Iciosa, world-famous (in their imagination) drag and burlesque artist, will be teaching a three-day intensive workshop on June 5th-7th, 2026. On the evening of the 7th, there will be a special Revue in which workshop members will get to show off what they learned all weekend in a lineup with the queer stars of Vienna’s burlesque scene. There are 8 spots available to workshop students. Please check our Linktree for the signup form. When? Friday, June 5th, 2026 from 18:00: a relaxed social and intro to burlesque Saturday, June 6th, 2026, 10:00-16:00: workshop day 1 - learning the choreography Sunday, June 7th, 2026: 10-late: Workshop day 2 - perfecting the choreography and getting ready for the show at 19:30! Where? QUEER MUSEUM VIENNA - Former Directory, Baumgartner Hoehe 1, 1140 Wien Event language? English Signup required? Yes - on a first-come, first-served basis, with agreement form signed (link in bio) Price? Free, but donations are VERY MUCH appreciated!! Design by @anna.somei

✨ARTIST FEATURE✨: @svetlanamcdidi DEUTSCH: Das Queer Museum Vienna lädt gaymeinsam mit dem Haus of Rausch zu einem buntgaymischten Kunst- und Flohmarkt ein. Ein Nachmittag zum Bummeln, Quatschen und Entspannen. Angeboten werden Werke (Prints, Stickers, Accessoires etc.) von queeren Künstler*innen und Allies, Secondhand-Kleidung, allerlei Kuriositäten und sonstige Dinge, die ein neues Zuhause suchen. Außerdem gibt es Drinks und bei schönem Wetter auch eine Outdoor-Area zum Chillen und Stöbern. Deine Chance lokale Künstler*innen zu unterstützen! Come on over, bring your hennies and get into the Kaufrausch! 🌈Um 16:00 Uhr wird es eine Führung durch die aktuelle Ausstellung geben.☺️🙏 Cash Only (Bankomat beim Eingang vom OWA) ENGLISH: Queer Museum Vienna has teamed up with Haus of Rausch to welcome you at a colorful art- and fleamarket. An afternoon for strolling around, spilling the tea and relaxing. There will be works by queer artists and Allie’s (prints, stickers, accessories etc.), secondhand clothing, all kinds of curiosities and things that need a new home. Drinks will also be available! This is your chance to support local artists! Come on over, bring your besties and get into the shopping frenzy! 🌈There will be a guided tour through the exhibition at 16:00 (4pm).☺️🙏 Cash Only (ATM at the entrance to OWA - Otto-Wagner Areal) Text by @susiefl0wers

Artist: Bartosz Kokosiński Titles: P1nS6v / tW5jS2 / eP2qF7 Oil and resin on canvas, 2025 The artworks are part of the exhibition Imagining Queer Utopia, curated by @michal.rutz at @queermuseumvienna__ 26.02 - 21.06.2026 (…) Decentering the Human While Pollock’s works often celebrate the artist’s energy and identity, Kokosiński’s approach rejects this egocentric perspective. The painting becomes a space of interaction between human and non-human forces, sometimes privileging the latter. Focusing on the material as an active agent shifts attention away from the human, presenting the world in a more decentralized and open manner. Although Pollock is known for gesture and compositional control, it is worth noting that his painting also accommodates elements of chaos and material unpredictability. Paint drips, penetrates layers, and responds partially independently of the artist’s intention. Kokosiński goes further — or perhaps takes a step back — consciously withdrawing and relinquishing dominance over the material. The painting seems to emerge like raindrops running down a windowpane, without effort or resistance. Kokosiński directs our attention to these micro-interactions, rejecting the hubris of humanism and shifting emphasis from the human to the material itself. Michał Rutz

DEUTSCH: Das Queer Museum Vienna lädt gaymeinsam mit dem Haus of Rausch zu einem buntgaymischten Kunst- und Flohmarkt ein. Ein Nachmittag zum Bummeln, Quatschen und Entspannen. Angeboten werden Werke (Prints, Stickers, Accessoires etc.) von queeren Künstler*innen und Allies, Secondhand-Kleidung, allerlei Kuriositäten und sonstige Dinge, die ein neues Zuhause suchen. Außerdem gibt es Drinks und bei schönem Wetter auch eine Outdoor-Area zum Chillen und Stöbern. Deine Chance lokale Künstler*innen zu unterstützen! Come on over, bring your hennies and get into the Kaufrausch! 🌈Um 16:00 Uhr wird es eine Führung durch die aktuelle Ausstellung geben.☺️🙏 Cash Only (Bankomat beim Eingang vom OWA) ENGLISH: Queer Museum Vienna has teamed up with Haus of Rausch to welcome you at a colorful art- and fleamarket. An afternoon for strolling around, spilling the tea and relaxing. There will be works by queer artists and Allie’s (prints, stickers, accessories etc.), secondhand clothing, all kinds of curiosities and things that need a new home. Drinks will also be available! This is your chance to support local artists! Come on over, bring your besties and get into the shopping frenzy! 🌈There will be a guided tour through the exhibition at 16:00 (4pm).☺️🙏 Cash Only (ATM at the entrance to OWA - Otto-Wagner Areal) Text by @susiefl0wers

Artist: Bartosz Kokosiński @bartosz_kokosinski from the series Painting Devouring Reality, artist’s own technique, 2019 52 × 37 × 21 cm /camp-hetero-apocalipse/ This artwork is part of the exhibition Imagining Queer Utopia, curated by @michal.rutz at @queermuseumvienna__ 26.02-21.06.2026 (…) Deformation and Disordering as a Method Perverse tendencies in Kokosiński’s work reveal themselves as a conscious reversal of the logic of correction and normalization. Instead of straightening and ordering, the artist deforms, folds, and twists. The process of deformation itself is very delicate and slow. The artist gradually increases pressure on the wooden stretcher using massive metal clamps. This process may evoke sadomasochistic practices, understood as relations based on control rather than violence, in which the body is gently pushed toward its limits and pain serves to intensify pleasure. The canvas becomes a field of perverse labor: a site where the violence of norms is reversed, and deformation — rather than error — functions as a method. Queering the Image Kokosiński’s cycle Paintings Devouring Reality breaks the traditional structure of the canvas by refusing to remain flat, ordered, or visually obedient. Rather than presenting a stable image, the surfaces bulge, fold, and twist, dismantling the familiar hierarchy of frame, surface, and representation. The works disorient the viewer, destabilizing categories of front and back, interior and exterior, and the boundary between painting and sculpture. They cease to function as pictures meant merely to be looked at and instead operate as physical bodies in their own right — unruly organisms asserting their own modes of existence. Michał Rutz

Artist: Bartosz Kokosiński @bartosz_kokosinski Painting Devouring Rural Landscape artist’s own technique, 2012–2014 36 × 44 × 19 cm /camp-hetero-apocalipse/ This artwork is part of the exhibition Imagining Queer Utopia, curated by @michal.rutz at @queermuseumvienna__ 26.02-21.06.2026 Camp Hetero-Apocalypse The image literally bends and twists, devouring the heteronormative order — single-family houses. These seemingly neutral architectural forms carry a specific ideology: the model of nuclear family, private property, and inheritance. Their destruction can be read in the spirit of Jack Halberstam’s concept of “unlearning, unbuilding” — as a conscious rejection of normative structures. In their place emerges the potential for a new architecture: one open to alternative forms of kinship, relationships, and community, which are yet to unfold. The object may also be read as a playful take on the classical motif of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. In the traditional biblical interpretation, the destruction of the cities functions as punishment for queerness: God annihilates the cities of sin to reaffirm divine order. Similarly, many fascist fantasies idealize a return to traditional family structures and simpler rural living, while demonizing cities as sources of depravity. Kokosiński reverses this narrative by replacing the city with the village: it is not queerness that is annihilated, but the normative world itself. A specter of Revolution What is this force that warps, overturns, and shatters the established order? It can be understood as an assemblage of hunger, rage, and defiance — a desire that slips beyond reason and social control. It devours and digests them into disorder. Desire is not attributed to any particular being or subject. It operates as an external force, as affect that flows between bodies and social structures, enveloping entire communities. It can take both reactionary and revolutionary forms. In this sense, it is no coincidence that Marx described communism as a spirit—the specter hovering over Europe. (…) Michał Rutz

✨ARTIST FEATURE✨: @thetinyclown KUNST-RAUSCH🌈🏳️‍⚧️💕🥳✨ Das Queer Museum Vienna lädt gaymeinsam mit dem Haus of Rausch zu einem buntgaymischten Kunst- und Flohmarkt ein. Ein Nachmittag zum Bummeln, Quatschen und Entspannen. Angeboten werden Werke (Prints, Stickers, Accessoires etc.) von queeren Künstler*innen aus der Szene, Secondhand-Kleidung, allerlei Kuriositäten und sonstige Dinge, die ein neues Zuhause suchen. Außerdem gibt es Drinks und bei schönem Wetter auch eine Outdoor-Area zum Chillen und Stöbern. Deine Chance lokale Künstler*innen zu unterstützen! Come on over, bring your hennies and get into the Kaufrausch! Cash Only (Bankomat beim Eingang vom OWA) Queer Museum Vienna has teamed up with Haus of Rausch to welcome you at a colorful art- and fleamarket. An afternoon for strolling around, spilling the tea and relaxing. There will be works by queer artists from the scene (prints, stickers, accessories etc.), secondhand clothing, all kinds of curiosities and things that need a new home. Drinks will also be available and if the weather is cute, there will be an outside area for shopping and chilling as well. This is your chance to support local artists! Come on over, bring your hennies and get into the shopping frenzy! Cash Only (ATM at the entrance of OWA) Text by @susiefl0wers

KUNST-RAUSCH🌈🏳️‍⚧️💕🥳✨ Das Queer Museum Vienna lädt gaymeinsam mit dem Haus of Rausch zu einem buntgaymischten Kunst- und Flohmarkt ein. Ein Nachmittag zum Bummeln, Quatschen und Entspannen. Angeboten werden Werke (Prints, Stickers, Accessoires etc.) von queeren Künstler*innen aus der Szene, Secondhand-Kleidung, allerlei Kuriositäten und sonstige Dinge, die ein neues Zuhause suchen. Außerdem gibt es Drinks und bei schönem Wetter auch eine Outdoor-Area zum Chillen und Stöbern. Deine Chance lokale Künstler*innen zu unterstützen! Come on over, bring your hennies and get into the Kaufrausch! Cash Only (Bankomat beim Eingang vom OWA) Queer Museum Vienna has teamed up with Haus of Rausch to welcome you at a colorful art- and fleamarket. An afternoon for strolling around, spilling the tea and relaxing. There will be works by queer artists from the scene (prints, stickers, accessories etc.), secondhand clothing, all kinds of curiosities and things that need a new home. Drinks will also be available and if the weather is cute, there will be an outside area for shopping and chilling as well. This is your chance to support local artists! Come on over, bring your hennies and get into the shopping frenzy! Cash Only (ATM at the entrance of OWA) Text by @susiefl0wers

we are happy to announce further allied projects which joined synergies of solidarity the queer art and community festival vienna @mqwien with „mq pride night summer“ curated by @studio.danielhill @standupvienna with „@alokvmenon - a queer comedy show“ @queermuseumvienna__ with the pride moth program #queerart #queerculture #queerartspacevienna #synergiesofsolidarity

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✨ARTIST FEATURE✨: @lunarcorecoffin DEUTSCH: Das Queer Museum Vienna lädt gaymeinsam mit dem Haus of Rausch zu einem buntgaymischten Kunst- und Flohmarkt ein. Ein Nachmittag zum Bummeln, Quatschen und Entspannen. Angeboten werden Werke (Prints, Stickers, Accessoires etc.) von queeren Künstler*innen aus der Szene, Secondhand-Kleidung, allerlei Kuriositäten und sonstige Dinge, die ein neues Zuhause suchen. Außerdem gibt es Drinks und bei schönem Wetter auch eine Outdoor-Area zum Chillen und Stöbern. Deine Chance lokale Künstler*innen zu unterstützen! Come on over, bring your hennies and get into the Kaufrausch! Cash Only (Bankomat beim Eingang vom OWA) ENGLISH: Queer Museum Vienna has teamed up with Haus of Rausch to welcome you at a colorful art- and fleamarket. An afternoon for strolling around, spilling the tea and relaxing. There will be works by queer artists from the scene (prints, stickers, accessories etc.), secondhand clothing, all kinds of curiosities and things that need a new home. Drinks will also be available. If the weather is nice, there will be an outdoor area to chill and peruse. This is your chance to support local artists! Cash Only (ATM at the entrance to Otto-Wagner Areal)