QMA Artist Collective 2024

 

Participating artists

Eszter Katalin working with Miao Fangping
Céline Struger working with Francisco Valenca Vaz
Tahereh Nourani working with Michaela Nagyidaiova
Laia Fabre working with Jelisaveta Rapaić
Sissi Petutschnig working with Sunggu Hong
Rosa Andraschek working with Dominykas Cinauskas
Collective Bande (Hannah Parth & Elisa Schober) working with Kia Sciarrone
Marlene Lahmer working with Chaerin Park

Catalogue

Find the digital version of our catalogue here with details on all shows we had in 2024 in the framework of the QMA Artist Collective. Please write us an email if you’d like to have a physical copy of the catalogue.

 
 

Artists selected by an external jury comprised of

Ana de Almeida

Ana de Almeida is an artist and researcher from Lisbon, currently living and working in Vienna. In her practice, de Almeida deals with processes of remembering from a socio-political perspective, with the intersection of family-narratives and macro-political events and with processes of privatization of history.
Recent shows and projects have been with Belvedere 21 (2023), Kunsthalle Wien (2023), House of Arts Ústí nad Labem (2021) and Tabakalera International Centre for Contemporary Culture in Donostia/San Sebastián (2020) to name a few.

Rafał Morusiewicz

Rafał Morusiewicz, PhD (they/them, no pronoun), is a Vienna-based researching visual artist, curator, and writer. Their artistic-research practice has led to several experimental films, screened at festivals, presented as installations at exhibition venues, and programmed at online platforms in and outside Vienna. Since 2020, they are part of Maggessi/Morusiewicz: by employing tools and strategies stemming from their diverse backgrounds (design, found-footage film, performance, sampling, stitching, silkscreening), they explore modes of creating archives and fabulating futures in expanded and intimate ways.

Selina Shirin Stritzel

Selina Shirin Stritzel is a theater maker, political educator and transmedia artist. She studied Theatre-, Film- and Media Studies and a Master's degree in Critical Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. As a theater maker she worked from 2014 to 2017 at Ballhaus Naunynstraße Berlin amongst other things as a dramaturge and director of the akademie der autodidakten. In Vienna she worked with Gin Müller for the "que_ring drama project" & "JUSTITIA! Identity Cases" & "JUSTITIA! IL*LEGAL MONSTERS" at brut Wien. Her artistic practice also involves painting and videoart, through which she negotiates themes around identity politics, classism and hybridity. Her works undergo a process of self-reflexivity, culminating in spaces or assemblages made out of her personal and extended archive.

Fragmented Worlds – Common Grounds

Nov 29, 2024 - Jan 4, 2025
Location: Barvinskyi Art Gallery (Seilerstätte 30, 1010 Vienna)
Artists: Rosa Andraschek, Dominykas Cinauskas, Collective Bande (Hannah Parth & Elisa Schober), Laia Fabre, Miao Fangping, Sunggu Hong, Eszter Katalin, Marlene Lahmer, Michaela Nagyidaiová, Tahereh Nourani, Chaerin Park, sissi petutschnig, Jelisaveta Rapaić, Kia Sciarrone, Céline Struger, Francisco Valença Vaz

 

At the heart of this exhibition lies the potential of collaboration – a spark that turns disconnection into creation. The artists delve into humanity’s fragile ties to nature, layered histories and archeologies of self/ves or the intricate interplay between technology and ecology, offering us a nuanced perspective on basal topics such as belonging, separation and communication through their works. What may initially seem fractured or disparate transforms, as separate voices harmonize into the polyphony of a cohesive whole, inviting us to uncover connections within complexity.

Find more information on the program here.
Photos by Miloš Vučićević and Zoe Opratko

 
 

Fed Up Futures

December 13, 2024 - January 25, 2025
Location: DAS WEISSE HAUS (Hegelgasse 14, Vienna)
Artists: Fangping Miao and Jelisaveta Rapaić

 
 

Politically, culturally, and existentially, we find ourselves (and each other) on rather hopeless ground, haunted by looming economic turmoil and environmental collapse. Amidst eroding systems and the persistent myths of linear progress, complacency and conformity act as shields and shelters against the mounting dread of societal decay. Yet, this façade only deepens our vulnerability to the profound threats that demand swift transformative action. Fed Up Futures suggests a sense of frustration or dissatisfaction with what the future holds and how it is being shaped. As we are immersed in disillusionment with ongoing trends, unfulfilled promises, and concerns about the direction of the world, the idea is to allow art to capture and, at least momentarily, dispel feelings of unease, impatience, and disappointment.

Find more information on the program here.
Photos by DAS WEISSE HAUS - Xenia Snapiro

What did you feel today?

September 28th, 2025
Artists: Dominykas Cinauskas, Valeriia Lysenko, Tahereh Nourani, Laia Fabre, Sunggu Hong
Curator: Valeriia Lysenko (QMA Artist and Curator in Residence 2024)

 
 

During these overwhelming times of unstable economic and political situations, wars, and climate change, most of us feel constant mental pressure every day. To cope with stress and anxiety, therapists suggest returning your mind to a concrete moment by concentrating on human senses like sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing. This exhibition aims to speak to the feelings and senses of visitors. Through sound, performance, and visual installation, it offers a multi-sensory experience and invites to concentrate on what is happening right now in this room, to be present and open to this Experience. For one day, it offers a space to escape your regular circle of thoughts and come to slow down and explore.
More information on the program can be found here.
Photos by Miloš Vučićević (kajmakmedia)

 

Clutch Tag

June 4 - July 14th, 2024
Location: Brunnenpassage
Artist: Francisco Valença Vaz

 
 

To prevent theft or unintentional loss of new goods, items of clothing are often protected with a merchandise security device - the clutch tag. This measure not only gives the products the appearance of value, but also arouses a certain enthusiasm for these presumably precious and exclusive items - a kind of hope for something special. The exhibition by artist Valenca Vaz, who is part of the QMA Artist Collective 2024, explores places of consumption that are often considered sacred. A number of broken shopping fuses are on display in the Vitrina, the exhibition space in the Brunnenpassage. They form a playful pattern - a kind of relic of our time.

Consumer aesthetics are juxtaposed with the environment. Like a pizza box, for example, which promises a view of the sky. The artist uses this motif as a self-portrait; a kind of migratory object that wanders from place to place, always carrying something with it and trying to keep it warm at the same time.

Find more information about the program here.
Photos by Francisco Valença Vaz