A Body Without A Name
by Duannaiyu Wang and Ziliä Qansurá
June 24 - July 8, 2026
ENTRE, Burggasse 24/4, 1070 Vienna

Vernissage: June 24, 5-8 PM
Curator’s tour: July 1, 5 PM
Finissage: July 8, 5-8 PM
Opening hours: upon request

Something grows in the gap.
Not despite it. Because of it.
Colour spreads like bacteria.
A stain remembers it was once a creature.
Felt learns to soften into root, vein, organ, cells.
Neither work explains itself. They sit here, breathing slowly, accumulating.
The missing words are more present than the ones you find.

The duo show, A Body Without A Name by Duannaiyu Wang and Ziliä Qansurá, invites viewers to observe how materiality translates into bodies of abstract yet poetic resemblances of in-betweenness—what grows in the gap. Both artists use slow and meditative techniques, allowing the material, meaning, and outcome to blur in the process of making. While Ziliä Qansurá chooses felting as a continuation of traditional forms of cultural resistance, Duannaiyu Wang prefers small, intuitive sketchbook marker drawings, which are later enlarged onto white mesh fabric. The exhibition is a slow and soft encounter, almost a gentle sensation of interconnectedness between the creatures of disparate forms.

Ziliä Qansurá (b. Bashqortostan) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Vienna, Austria. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, as well as at the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS), and Ufa College of Arts. With a background spanning fine arts, stage design, and performance, her artistic path has taken her across different disciplines and places, shaping her perspective along the way. Growing up in Bashqortostan, she developed an early interest in visual and material culture, as well as the ways in which space, movement, and storytelling shape experience. Initially working in theater, she later expanded her practice to include installation, textiles and performance. Moving between different contexts, she has explored ways of working with history, identity and transformation. This evolving engagement continues to inform her practice, which remains open to shifts in medium, approach and interpretation.

Duannaiyu Wang (b. 2000) is a Chinese artist based in Vienna, working across installation, performance, photography, sound, and spatial interventions. She creates situations that expose fragility within systems of language, space, and social behavior. Her practice is driven by moments of disorientation, playful disruption, embodied rituals, and shifting relationships between humans and their environments.
Through travel-based research, participatory actions, and speculative image-making, she explores communication, perception, and forms of connection across geographic, linguistic, and emotional distances. Through humor, vulnerability, and transformation, her works invite alternative ways of sensing, relating, and inhabiting the world.

Since its foundation in 2019, the Viennese initiative QMA has pursued the vision of a Vienna art scene where heterogeneity is the norm, a constant influx of new artistic perspectives is given and there is free access for all. The initiative implements several yearly programs aiming at proactive networking between newcomers and established members of Vienna's art and culture scene. Through close collaboration with Viennese art institutions, QMA offers guidance to international artists new to Vienna and curates regular events for the general public, showcasing artistic positions of artists still underrepresented in the city.

Curated by Ale Zapata & Justina Špeirokaitė
A collaboration between ENTRE & QMA
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Supported by MA7 and BMWKMS