QUEER ART SPACES VIENNA 2026

Artists: Danilo Andrés, Atabey fka Carlos Maria Romero, Feministisches* Bloco Descolonial, Zosia Hołubowska, Nina Sandino, Kia Sciarrone, Anita Steinwidder, Territorium KV (Otto Krause & Milan Loviška)

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.

The ready-made once marked a radical gesture: the moment an ordinary manufactured object could be displaced, renamed, and reimagined as art. A century later, the logic of the ready-made has become the logic of everyday life. Our clothes, our identities, even our desires are offered to us as ready-made—standardized, accelerated, always available and endlessly replaceable.

after the last ready–made gathers queer artists working with textiles, garments, and material practices to question this condition. Clothing sits at the intersection of body, industry, and self-invention. It is one of the most intimate interfaces between mass production and personal identity. 

In the era of fast fashion, garments are produced through global systems of extraction, exploitation, and disposal. Against this regime of ready-made identities and ready-made commodities, the works in this exhibition slow down, share, repair, and shapeshift. 

Queer practice has long understood identity not as something given but as something made—improvised, altered, and continuously negotiated. In this sense, the exhibition does not simply declare the end of the ready-made object. It asks what comes after: when bodies refuse standardized forms, when materials are reworked rather than consumed, and when fashion becomes a space of collective imagination rather than disposable production, when our chosen skin becomes sensitive again.

The selection of artists was based on submissions from the open call Synergies of Solidarity, which served as the foundation for the curatorial process, while also including additionally invited artists.