Kunsthalle Exnergasse Archive

Who Cares? invites staff and representatives of art and cultural institutions as well as artists to explore how care can become part of institutional practice. Together with Miriam Wistreich, Director of UKS, Oslo (Young Artists' Society) the Sharing Session examines how institutions can better support artist-parents and other caregivers through practical tools - specifically through care riders.

HOOD Dreaming is an audio composition practice that talks about the impossible, the necessary, and the not-yet-real, and imagines worlds in which parents and caregivers are comprehensively supported.

Queer Nursing book reading by Liesel Burisch, Community Picnic and Fort Building hosted by HOOD for Artist Parents, PREACH concert by Jesseline Preach

Screening of the video essay The Future is Near (in the neighborhood) by former kex—residents Natalia Matsenko and Yuri Yefanov. The event will also feature contributions by Sebastian Sattlecker and Ida Zahradnik.

As part of the exhibition after the last ready-made, the curators Dorian Bonelli and Frederik Marroquín will guide visitors through the exhibition and are open for questions and discussion. The tour will be held in German and English, with Spanish available upon request.

Der Workshop findet im Rahmen der Ausstellung "after the last ready-made" statt und verbindet Bewegungsmeditation mit einer Einführung in Stimmübungen wie Growling und Stimmverzerrung. Es werden dynamische Atemübungen vermittelt, die die Stimmarbeit unterstützen. Auf kreativer Ebene regen diese die Teilnehmenden dazu an, eigene Mantras und Gesangsbeschwörungen zu entwickeln, die den tanzenden Körper beflügeln.

The Performance BICHO RARO is part of the exhibtion “after the last ready-made”.
BICHO RARO explores the world of bodybuilding – its lifestyle, routines, and aesthetics – revealing the tension between contemporary body cults and a queer perspective on the body.

The Workshop is part of the exhibtion "after the last ready-made". During this workshop we will reflect on our relationship with clothing, the concept of planned obsolescence, fleeting trends, perishable materials, and about repair as a post-capitalist care practice. Bring your favorite piece of clothing and one piece you would like to give away.

Im Rahmen des Festivals „Synergies of Solidarity“ von Queer Art Spaces Vienna werden Tipps und Tricks für künftige Tunthatlet*inenn verraten. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt wird auf Do´s and Don´t beim Synchronbügeln und auf die richtige Technik beim Handtaschenwurf gelegt werden.

As part of the “Synergies of Solidarity” festival by Queer Art Spaces Vienna, the association hint.wien presents an evening of highly intersectional queer poetry and storytelling to mark Pride 2026.

Understanding queerness not as an identity but as a strategy in times of change, the exhibition is a project within the festival Synergies of Solidarity organized by Queer Art Spaces Vienna celebrating the art and community. after the last ready-made curated by Dorian Bonelli and Frederik Marroquín focuses on textile work, crafting, and sensitivity.

Curators Elisabeth Falkensteiner and Nora Mayr will guide visitors through the exhibition. Loud and faint, perceptible and obscured, the group exhibition High on Distortion, Low on Reception explores the sounds of our present – layered with noise, lost in resonance. At the core is their role as communication, sensation, and cultural experience.

Wie klingt ein Kunstwerk? – Ok, das ist vielleicht noch einfach. – Aber wie klingt eine
Schulklasse, unsere Klasse? Was macht gerade unseren Klang aus? Ist der Sound jeder
Klasse anders? Und vor allem, wo klinge ich in dieser Gruppe? Innerhalb der Ausstellung komponieren die Schüler*innen gemeinsam ein Klangstück, das ihre Klasse widerspiegelt.

The two live sound sessions are dedicated to listening as a practice of turning toward the unfiltered or the seemingly disruptive.

We are pleased to welcome Tobias Tavella to our artist and research residency program.

In the discussion with the artists, questions are explored that revolve around what is heard and what falls silent.

Loud and faint, perceptible and obscured, the group exhibition High on Distortion, Low on Reception explores the sounds of our present – layered with noise, lost in resonance. At the core is their role as communication, sensation, and cultural experience.

permanent temporär evolves over a five-week series of interconnected invitations and events, culminating in an exhibition whose opening will only take place at the end of the process.

permanent temporär evolves over a five-week series of interconnected invitations and events, culminating in an exhibition whose opening will only take place at the end of the process.

In the programme kitchen, everyone comes together to discuss professional paths and invitation policies, shifts in discourse, gaps, power structures, and spaces of possibility. They reflect on friendship economies and networks and how all of this shapes artistic programmes, but also art scenes.

We focus on the reciprocal influences and relationships between artists (biographies) and art spaces: Which potentials arise for self-empowerment and emancipation from collective historiography and how is knowledge collaboratively produced and transmitted? Similarly, the audience in the hall is welcome to join in the discussion with their own questions or statements, and naturally, a healthy dose of gossip is always welcome.

Sheeko, sheeko is a relaxed, open gathering. The welcoming atmosphere fosters a space for sharing stories, experiences, and wisdom from one’s own life and many years of activism.

As the starting point of permanent temporär, the spatial setting by Julian Siffert and Seth Weiner will be presented. In Hilma Bäckström’s Puppenmuttis Selbstbedienungsbar, visitors can help themselves and each other, and Francis Ruyter will launch the Regular Wednesdays series as its first host.

The Trustmaking Guidebook explores how young people can lead the way in reimagining cities through collaboration and creativity. This innovative approach to intergenerational co-creation transcends conventional urban planning paradigms, offering strategies such as arts-based interventions and placemaking to empower young people to co-create inclusive urban presents and futures.