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OPEN CALL MQ Residency 2025
in cooperation with tranzit.org / ERSTE Stiftung

Since 2002, the start of the Artist-in-Residence programme at the MuseumsQuartier, ERSTE Foundation, in cooperation with the MQ, has been inviting artists from Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe to spend a two-month residency at the site.
The programme is carried out in close cooperation with ERSTE Foundation's most important cultural partners: tranzit, Igor Zabel Association and Kontakt Collection.
This Open Call is aimed at artists and curators from Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia and Ukraine.

Apply here!

MQ Artist-in-Residence 2024 in cooperation with EIKON:
Luise Marchand

As part of the Artist-in-Residence programme, the MuseumsQuartier Wien, together with EIKON - International Journal of Photography and Media Art, invites Luise Marchand to live and work in a residential studio on the MuseumsQuartier site from 01.09. – 31.10.2024. With her project Liquid Company - Liquid Society, the artist was able to prevail against a total of 280 international applications in the open call. The artist residency includes a presentation of the work in the EIKON Schauraum from September to October 2024 as well as a portfolio article on the artist in EIKON #127 (publication date: 03.09.2024).

Luise Marchand (lives and works in Berlin) deals with post-industrial society, capitalist value creation processes and the dynamics of the desire economy. Her starting point is always photography, which is strongly characterised by the aesthetics of advertising photography, which she applies formally and at the same time extends conceptually into the exhibition space. As a master student of Prof. Peter Piller and Prof. Peggy Buth, she graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig in 2019.

Winner VIENNA SHORTS 2024:
Matea Kovač

At this year's VIENNA SHORTS international short film festival, Matea Kovač was awarded the jury's ‘Best Newcomer’ prize, a one-month residency at the MQ.
Jury statement:
In this film, the artist invites us into a poetic and sensual narrative using delicate lines that echo with a resonating voice. For its honest and beautifully drawn observations, our Jury Prize for the Best Newcomer goes to the film Y, by Matea Kovač.

October 31, 2022

We are happy to host the following Artists-in-Residence and Curators-in-Residence in the Q21/MuseumsQuartier Wien in 2021 in cooperation with the ERSTE Foundation, tranzit, Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory and Kontakt Collection/WHW Akademija:

January – February 2023
Eugen Arlov from Ukraine

January – February 2023
Serge Klymko from Ukraine

March – April 2023
Anna Sorokovaya from Ukraine

July 2023
Viktoria Popovics from Hungary

August 2023
Sláva Sobotovičová from Czech Republic

September 2023
Nika Pećarina from Croatia

October 2023
Valentina Maria Iancu from Romania

November 2023
Paula Malinowska from Slovak Republic

December 2023
Danilo Milovanović from Slovenia

August 08, 2022
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 2023 now open until September 18, 2022

The Artist-in-Residence Programme at Q21/MuseumsQuartier in Vienna is part of ERSTE Foundation’s educational program and its long-term endeavour to support contemporary art and to strengthen the situation of its creators, especially in the region of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. The residence program is realized together with ERSTE Foundation’s long-time cooperation partners from tranzit, Igor Zabel Association and Kontakt Collection. Kontakt Collection collaborates with the Zagreb based WHW Akademija.

The residencies are designed for artists, curators and theoreticians from Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovak Republic and Slovenia working in the field of critical contemporary visual art to do research in their respective area.
Given the urgency, we would like to express our solidarity with Ukraine and the people who have to endure or flee from the ongoing war there. We are therefore opening the "Artist-in-Residence Program at Q21/MQ in Vienna" to Ukrainian artists and curators and are dedicating the first half of the year 2023 to them: Three residency places of two months go to artists from Ukraine. The remaining six months will be divided into one-months stays for CEE participants.

The research character of the residency should make it possible to take a break from strenuous situations, from everyday production pressure and find time to concentrate on a specific interest. The participants are given the opportunity to live and work in one of the MuseumsQuartier studios right in the heart of Vienna. The apartments offer both living and working space, but do not provide room for large-scale artistic works. During the stay various meeting possibilities are offered to the participants.
Each residency grants a monthly stipend of EUR 1.050,-.

Together with its cooperation partners from tranzit.at, tranzit.cz, tranzit.hu, tranzit.ro, tranzit.sk, Igor Zabel Association and Kontakt Collection/WHW Akademija, ERSTE Foundation forms the jury to select the participants.

Everyone eligible is invited to take part in the open call.

Open Call:

Applications have to include the following two documents:

1.) Complete digital application form, including the following information:
• Your contact information
• Letter of intent explaining why you apply, what you expect from taking part in the course and why you think you are qualified for participation (max. 5000 characters)
• Brief informative curriculum vitae (max. 1 page)
2.) Portfolio (max. 10 MB)

Please download the application form here: 2023_APPLICATION_FORM_MQ_AIR.docx (docx, 22 kb)

Please note:
• Accepted candidates are required to use the residence in its full length during the following fixed periods:

For Ukraine
we offer 3 slots of 2 months in the beginning of the year:
#1 January – February 2023
#2 March – April 2023
#3 May – June 2023

For Hungary: July 2023
For Czech Republic August 2023
For Croatia: September 2023
For Romania: October 2023
For Slovak Republic: November 2023
For Slovenia: December 2023


• Applicants who have already received this residence in recent years or have previously participated in other educational programs supported by ERSTE Foundation like the Fellowships for Curators and Artists at Salzburg Summer Academy or the WHW Akademija Zagreb will not be given priority.

• Applicants are asked to hand in a written report after completion of the residence.

• The correct application form is required (please see above for download link), other application formats cannot be accepted. All documents must be sent as PDF.

Applications are accepted only in English and by e-mail until: 18.09.2022

Please send your application with subject "Q21/MQ AiR 2023" to: office@tranzit.org

Selected participants will be notified latest until end of October 2022

For further questions, please contact Larissa Agel / tranzit.at: agel@tranzit.org

June 23, 2022
EIKON: Open Call – Q21 Artist-in-Residence at MQ Wien

The Q21 Artist-in-Residence program at MuseumsQuartier Wien is an international artist studio program financed in cooperation with partners. Each year, up to 80 international artists who do not reside in Austria are invited to live and work in the Q21 / MuseumsQuartier Wien for one to two months through the studio program. During this period, joint projects are developed with the cultural initiatives based in Q21.

As an institution of the Q21, EIKON is pleased to invite an artist, specialized in photography / media art, for September 2022.
Applications (including a letter of motivation outlining the relevance of a residency in Vienna, CV and portfolio - no larger than 5 MB in total) can be sent now to office@eikon.at.

The deadline for applications is July 20, 2022.

The artist selected by EIKON will receive a free studio for living and working purposes as well as a monthly stipend in the amount of 1,050 euros.

May 31, 2022

Winners of the VIENNA SHORTS Q21 Artist-in-Residence Award:

Hannah Stragholz & Simon Steinhorst with their film DOOM CRUISE (from the international competition AA Animation Avantgarde)

Jury Decision:
"For the black humor expressed in bright colors, absurd rituals, and a sinking feeling that still leaves a place to hope for us to be together the moment it ends, the Jury Prize goes to Doom Cruise by Hannah Stragholz and Simon Steinhorst."

Congratulations! All other winners can be found here.

March 15, 2022
Winner TRICKY WOMEN / TRICKY REALITIES - Q21 Residency Award

Azaletik azalera (Skin to Skin) | Mel Arranz, ES 2021

Jury Statement:
Because it creates a close-up on the invisibility of the sensual encounter and in this way transmits to us also with a sensory intimacy. The film takes us into the sensation of a body without limits.

Congratulations!!!

December 13, 2021
Jury Award EXP:∆N:DED SHORTS: EXTRACTIONS by Thirza Cuthand

We are very pleased to announce that Thirza Cuthand has won the two-month residency at Q21/MQ with the experimental short film "EXTRACTIONS" (EXP:∆N:DED SHORTS Competition) at this year's international Human Rights Film Festival this human world.
The jury consisting of Viktoria Bayer (artist), Enar de Dios Rodriguez (artist) and Elisabeth Hajek (Q21) explained the decision as follows:

Thirza Cuthand’s short film Extractions leads us into a multilayered journey. While we are looking at mining regions, the narrative voice draws a far broader bow, one that reflects upon extractive industries from an intersectional point of view. From the situated knowledge of an indigenous queer narrator, the film shows how the system of colonization is ongoing and its harmful impacts on the land and bodies are complex and inescapable.

In a rather monotonous and exhausted tone, the voiceover simultaneously breaks with essayistic narrative conventions and embodies a struggle for another world, one that is actually possible. By combining archival footage with her own, Cuthand juxtaposes images of landscapes and sites of extraction with those of her own body. This visual entanglement demonstrates that bodies, just like land, are commodified resources for the destructive capitalist system we are living in. We chose Extractions as the winning film in the section Expanded Shorts as Thirza Cuthand’s work is not only thematically extremely contemporary and urgent, the intelligent sincerity of the narration is deeply haunting.

30.11.2021
JURYPREIS EXP:∆N:DED SHORTS this human world

this human world presents three short film programs - enclosed, in flux and topologies of time - as part of the exp:∆n:ded shorts competition section dedicated to experimental and animated short films up to a film length of 15 min. This year's jury consists of Viktoria Bayer (artist), Enar de Dios Rodriguez (artist) and Elisabeth Hajek (Q21).

September 15, 2021
READING THE WESTERN BALKANS - Selection

The selected authors and translators for the Reading the Western Balkans programme are now announced!
The following authors and translators will be staying two months each in Vienna, from September 2021 to December 2022.

First in line, from September - October 2021, is translator Stjepanka Pranjković (HRV), and from November - December 2021, writer Asja Bakić (HRV).

In 2022, the following selected participants will be in Vienna:

Radmila Petrović (SRB): January - February 2022

Augustin Cupșa (ROU): March - April 2022

Ana Schnabl (SVN): May - June 2022

Vladana Perlić (BIH): July - August 2022

Stefan Bošković (MNE): September - October 2022

Anna Kove (ALB): November - December 2022

Reading the Western Balkans is an initiative of BMEIA in cooperation with Q21.

August 23, 2021
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 2022 now open until September 12, 2021

The Artist-in-Residence Programme at Q21/MuseumsQuartier in Vienna is part of ERSTE Foundation’s long-termed endeavour to support contemporary art and to strengthen the situation of its creators, especially in the region of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. The residence program is realized together by tranzit, Igor Zabel Association and Kontakt Collection. Kontakt Collection will collaborate with the Zagreb based WHW Akademija.

The residencies are designed for artists, curators and theoreticians from Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovak Republic and Slovenia working in the field of contemporary visual art to do research in their respective area.
Everyone eligible is invited to take part in the open call.

The research character of the residence should make it possible to take a break from the everyday strenuous production pressure and find time to concentrate on a specific interest. The participants are given the opportunity to live and work for the period of two months in one of the MuseumsQuartier studios right in the heart of Vienna. The apartments offer both living and working space, but do not provide room for large-scale artistic works. During the stay various meeting possibilities are offered to the participants.
Each residence grants a monthly stipend of EUR 1.050,-.

Together with its long-time project partners from tranzit.cz, tranzit.hu, tranzit.ro, tranzit.sk, Igor Zabel Association and Kontakt Collection/WHW Akademija, ERSTE Foundation forms the jury to select the participants.

Open Call:

Applications have to include the following two documents:
1.) Complete digital application form, including the following information:
• Your contact information
• Letter of intent explaining why you apply, what you expect from taking part in the course and why you think you are qualified for participation (max. 5000 characters)
• Brief informative curriculum vitae (max. 1 page)
2.) Portfolio (max. 10 MB)

Please download the application form below:
Please note:
• Accepted candidates are required to use the residence in its full length during the following fixed periods:

for Hungary: January – February 2022
for Croatia: March – April 2022
for Czech Republic: May – June 2022
for Romania: July – August 2022
for Slovenia: September – October 2022
for Slovak Republic: November – December 2022

• One participant from each country will be selected
• Applicants who have already received this residence in recent years or have previously participated in our Fellowships for Curators and Artists at Salzburg Summer Academy will not be given priority.
• Applicants are asked to hand in a written report after completion of the residence.
• The correct application form is required (please see below for download link), other application formats cannot be accepted. All documents must be sent as PDF.

Applications are accepted only in English and by e-mail until: 12.09.2021

Please send your application with subject "Q21/MQ AiR 2022" to: office@tranzit.org
Selected participants will be notified latest until mid-October 2021

For further questions, please contact Larissa Agel / tranzit.at: agel@tranzit.org

Downloads: 2022_APPLICATION_FORM_MQ_AIR.docx (docx, 22 kb)

June 23, 2021
“Curators of Tomorrow” – A new collaboration between the Q21/MuseumsQuartier Wien and the Manchester School of Art

The “Curators of Tomorrow” is a unique initiative to support a fellowships programme of the MA/MFA Contemporary Curating programme (Manchester School of Art) to create opportunities for emerging curators.

Manchester School of Art considers it important to provide talented creatives with opportunities to develop an international profile while ensuring an international exchange within a laboratory context for inter- and trans-disciplinary activities.

The Fellowships for the “Curators of Tomorrow” collaboration are designed mainly for current students who are about to engage with the professional practice stage of their MA/MFA Contemporary Curating studies.

Throughout the MA/MFA Contemporary Curating programme, students are encouraged to explore the shifting relationship between artist-institution-curator-critic/writer which forms a central element to the course. How diverse methods and experimental processes continue to be relevant in curatorial practice is a key emerging aspect of the programme.

The Residency Programme at Q21/MuseumsQuartier in Vienna, aims to foster a range of forms of production that support contemporary art. This international exchange programme is aimed at curators, theoreticians and cultural producers working in fields that include, among others: of digital culture, fine art, photography, film, literature, conceptual art, theory, sound art, media art.
Selected participants of the “Curators of Tomorrow” collaboration are given the opportunity to live and work for the period of one month in one of the Q21 studios at MuseumsQuartier. The residents benefit greatly from the immediate proximity of the local art scene. They expand their international networks through the Q21 “Curators of Tomorrow” Residency Programme through new opportunities and insights into variety of the cultures.

The Q21 “Curators of Tomorrow” Residency Programme seeks proactive practitioners with an open minds and from positions. The selected participants of this collaboration will receive project feedback are pointed toward useful connections with institutions and organizations in Vienna, and gain additional further direction on monthly basis.

The MA/MFA Contemporary Curating programme in collaboration with Q21/MuseumsQuartier Wien jointly support the fellowships and forms the jury to select the participants.

June 2, 2021

Winners VIENNA SHORTS Q21 Artist-in-Residence Award:

Thelyia Petraki with her film BELLA (in the competition FIDO Fiction & Documentary)

Jury Decision:
"Creating a versed and candid period film with a remarkable protagonist, this work is an account of idealism and passion, in both private and public life, with great fragility but also with immense power. With decades behind us that have been empowering individualism and provoking different kinds of alienation, this film could serve as a reminder that in times of crisis, all people long for is care, support, companionship, and a strong sense of hope. The Jury Prize of Vienna Shorts goes to BELLA by Thelyia Petraki."

Yann Chapotel with his film INSIDE (in the competition AA Animation Avantgarde)

Jury Decision:
"The Jury Prize of the Animation Avantgarde Programs goes to a film that is simple and very effective, playful yet formal, humorous in a clever way. We were impressed by the creative process that yielded these compositional images and mise-en-scène, where a series of seemingly random occurrences come together in a choreography of moments. The film reflects the global experience of the last year with great empathy, and without getting sentimental. The award goes to INSIDE by Yann Chapotel."

Congratulations! All other winners can be found here.

April 2021
CALL: READING THE WESTERN BALKANS
Q21 Writer-in-Residence / Translator-in-Residence

Since 2009, the BMEIA, in cooperation with Q21 in the MuseumsQuartier, has offered a Writer-in-Residence program for authors from the Black Sea region, Central and Eastern Europe, and South-eastern Europe. Since then, more than 80 authors have spent a writing residency in Vienna, were able to present their work to a German-speaking audience, and established contacts with the local literary scene. The Q21 provides a studio in the MuseumsQuartier in the centre of Vienna while the BMEIA grants a monthly allowance of 1.050 €.

From September 1, 2021, this scholarship program will now also be dedicated to a group of the most important cultural mediators, namely translators.

For the period from September 1, 2021 to December 31, 2022, authors and translators from Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, North-Macedonia, Kosovo and Albania are invited to apply for 2 months each. The deadline for applications is June 30, 2021, and 4 authors (at least two female authors) and 4 translators (at least two female translators) will be selected from each of the applications.

Authors who have at least one publication in the genres of novels, short prose, short stories, essays and poetry with a publisher in their country of origin after Jan. 1, 2017 can apply for an author residency. The application must be accompanied by a curriculum vitae, a bibliography of publications, reviews of their works that have appeared in the media, and a letter of motivation or a project description of no more than 2300 characters (not including spaces). The submission of the last published work is an important basis for the selection, which is made by a jury composed of experts in de field of literature, translation and publishing. The prerequisite for the application for authors is a basic knowledge of English or German.

A translator may apply for a two-month residency if he or she can show at least one translation of Austrian contemporary literature (published from the year 2000 ongoing) into his or her native language published by a publisher in his or her home country within the last three years form the date of application. The application must be accompanied by a curriculum vitae, a bibliography of previous translations, and a project description of no more than 2300 characters (excluding spaces). The submission of the translated work is an important basis for the selection, which is made by a jury composed of experts in de fields of literature, translation and publishing.

The data volume of the mail should not exceed 5 MB. Please send your application to the following e-mail address: AbtV2@bmeia.gv.at and ehajek@mqw.at

15.03.2021
Preisträgerin TRICKY WOMEN / TRICKY REALITIES - Q21 Residency Award

À la mer poussière | Héloïse Ferlay, FR 2020

Jury Statement:
The Dusty Sea is a closely observed yet respectful and loving portrait of family dynamics. The narrative doesn't take sides, but gives space to every family member's needs and emotions. The skillful animation and the mise-en-scène complete a beautiful storytelling. 

Herzlichen Glückwunsch!!!

February 1, 2021

We are happy to host the following Artists-in-Residence and Curators-in-Residence in the Q21/MuseumsQuartier Wien in 2021 in cooperation with the ERSTE Foundation, tranzit, Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory and Kontakt Collection/WHW Akademija:

May – June 2021
Martin Toldy from Slovak Republic

July – August 2021
Maja Hodošček from Slovenia

September – October 2021
David Přílučík from Czech Republic

October – November 2021
Áron Kútvölgyi-Szabó from Hungary

October – November 2021
Lea Vene from Croatia

November – December 2021
Ana Kun from Romania

December 14, 2020
Winning Film this human world - EXP:∆N:DED SHORTS: "ETHEREALITY" by Kantarama Gahigiri (SUI/RWA)

Jury Statement:

In the Expanded Shorts category, a two-month residency in Q21 at MQ Vienna will be awarded to the director of the film ETHEREALITY! 

The protagonist is a stranger in this world. We watch him perform everyday tasks: leaves are swept up, there is preaching in the church, shopping trolleys are moved. These activities are ordinary, but they attract our attention because they are carried out by an astronaut. He does not seem to fit into the picture here, and yet it works, he works. As a parenthesis, the story is told of the first African in space, Major Abacha Tunde, who was stranded on a space station 30 years ago and is waiting to return to Earth. The experimental documentary provides an emotional and touching insight into a community that is longing for companionship and normality, far from its countries of origin in Africa. The central theme of the film is hope, perhaps for a return or to get used to the state of being in limbo.

Jury: Elisabeth Hajek, Veronika Schubert, Anna Vasof

Congratulations!!

November 22, 2020
EXP:∆N:DED SHORTS JURY PRIZE / FESTIVAL TRAILER this human world: outlines

The prize of the Artist-in-Residence Program of Q21 was brought to life in 2016 and will be awarded to one outstanding animated or experimental short film running in the competition. This year's jury consists of Elisabeth Hajek (Artistic Director Q21 Artist-in-Residence Program and frei_raum Q21 exhibition space), Veronika Schubert (film maker) and Anna Vasof (media artist).

This year's poster design and festival trailer were done by former Artist-in-Residence Leart Rama. He unites human emotions and fundamental human rights. The kaleidoscopic depiction creates a visual symbiosis, reminding us to recognize human experiences and their sensations, and to accomplish visibilities.

October 20, 2020
tranzit/at: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 2021 now open until December 6, 2020

Artists-in-Residence programme of ERSTE Foundation, tranzit, Igor Zabel Association and Kontakt. Art Collection.

The Artist-in-Residence Programme at Q21/MuseumsQuartier in Vienna is part of ERSTE Foundation’s long-termed endeavour to support contemporary art and to strengthen the situation of its creators, especially in the region of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. The residence program is realized together by tranzit, Igor Zabel Association and Kontakt Collection. Kontakt Collection will collaborate with the Zagreb based WHW Akademija.

The residencies are designed for artists, curators and theoreticians from Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovak Republic and Slovenia working in the field of contemporary visual art to do research in their respective area. The research character of the residence should make it possible to take a break from the everyday strenuous production pressure and find time to concentrate on a specific interest. The participants are given the opportunity to live and work for the period of two months in one of the MuseumsQuartier studios right in the heart of Vienna. The apartments offer both living and working space, but do not provide room for large-scale artistic works.
During the stay various meeting possibilities are offered to the participants. Each residence grants a monthly stipend of EUR 1.050,-.
Artists, curators or theoreticians from Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovak Republic and Slovenia are invited to take part in the open call – see below for all details.
Together with its long-time project partners from tranzit.cz, tranzit.hu, tranzit.ro, tranzit.sk, Igor Zabel Association and Kontakt Collection/WHW Akademija. ERSTE Foundation forms the jury to select the participants.

Applications have to include the following two documents:
1.) Complete digital application form, including the following information:
• Your contact information
• Letter of intent explaining why you apply, what you expect from taking part in the course and why you think you are qualified for participation (max. 5000 characters)
• Brief informative curriculum vitae (max. 1 page)
2.) Portfolio (max. 10 MB)
Please download the application form below

Please note:
• Accepted candidates are required to use the residence in its full length during the following fixed periods:
for Slovak Republic: May – June 2021
for Slovenia: July – August 2021
for Czech Republic: Sept – Oct 2021
for Hungary: October – November 2021
for Croatia: October – November 2021
for Romania: November – December 2021
• One participant from each country will be selected
• Applicants who have already received this residence in recent years or have previously participated in our Fellowships for Curators and Artists at Salzburg Summer Academy will not be given priority.
• Applicants are asked to hand in a written report after completion of the residence.
• The correct application form is required (please see below for download link), other application formats cannot be accepted. All documents must be sent as PDF.

Applications are accepted only in English and by e-mail until: 6.12.2020
Please send your application with subject "Q21/MQ AIR 2021" to: office.at@tranzit.org
Selected participants will be notified latest until end of January 2021
For further questions, please contact Michaela Geboltsberger/ tranzit.at: geboltsberger@tranzit.org

Downloads
2021_APPLICATION_FORM_MQ_AIR.docx (docx, 21 kb)

September 22, 2020
Q21 viennacontemporary AiR Prize 2020

The Irish artist Alan Butler is this year's winner of the Q21 Artist-in-Residence Prize that was awarded in cooperation with EIKON – International Magazine for Photography and Media Art. Alan Butler wird für 2 Monate in Wien leben und arbeiten und erhält ein Stipendium über EUR 2.100,-. Zudem wird er mit einem Beitrag im EIKON Magazin gefeatured.
2021 wird die während des Aufenthalts im Q21 entstandene Arbeit, bei viennacontemporary präsentiert.

Jury Statement: Alan Butler (born 1981 in Ireland, represented by the Green on Red Gallery, Dublin) impresses with the ease with which he combines virtual set pieces with analogue elements and shapes them into completely new hybrids. Whether computer animations or cyanotypes, installations or textile prints – all the artistic media he uses become impressive vehicles for his fascinating fictions.

This year’s jury: Johanna Chromik (Artistic Director viennacontemporary), Nela Eggenberger (Editor-in-Chief EIKON),
Bogomir Doringer (Artist, Curator), Elisabeth Hajek (Artistic Director frei_raum Q21 exhibition space & Q21 Artist-in-Residence program)

June 3, 2020

Winners VIENNA SHORTS Q21 Artist-in-Residence Award:

Ana Vaz (Brazil) with her film „Apiyemiyekî?“ (in the international competition Fiction & Documentary)

Jury Statement:
"By working on language as an object of revelation and a necessary means of communication to keep memory alive, the director guides us through a territory and its colonial history and heritage that resonates with the current situation in Brazil with great urgency."

An Xu & Chen Xi (China) for their film „The Six“ (in the international competition Animation Avantgarde)

Jury Statement:
"This film adopts the meditative rhythm of the moon phases, guiding your gaze through time and space in a loop. It looks monotonous but fascinates the viewer by beautifully and sensually evoking various feelings and emotions."

Congratulations! All other winners can be found here.

March 16, 2020
Winner TRICKY WOMEN / TRICKY REALITIES - Q21 Residency Award
Carne | Flesh : Camila Kater (BR)

2019, 12‘12

Five women share their experiences in relation to the body, from childhood to old age, through intimate and personal stories.

Jury's statement: 

Camila Kater’s "Carne | Flesh" is a strong feminist film about the diversity of contemporary women. If some of the impressions seemed shocking, it is a planned concept and also a guide for the audience. The amazing combination of flexibly directed images and docume entary interviews in different animation techniques work well showing the developing life stages.

December 16, 2019
Festival Trailer TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES 2020

The new festival trailer for TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES 2020 was created by Rachel Gutgarts. Rachel won the 3-month-scholarship to live and work at Q21/MQ under the Artist-in-Residence program at Tricky Women 2018 for her film "A Love Letter To The One I Made Up". The trailer was made during her residency in Vienna in the spring of 2019.

Rachel Gutgarts about the trailer: A glimpse out of an imaginary nature TV show - A windy pastoral patch of flora and fauna.
"I started looking for inspiration on nature TV shows, I saw one picture of a female mantis standing on a tree branch, a dark velvety background behind her, staring at me with her big bug eyes - The whole scene had a dark sexual undertone - the flora and fauna in all it's glory and disgust. The act itself fascinated me, explained by the all knowing national geographic narrator, telling me about natural selection and proteins.
Myths surrounding female sexuality are there to express basic fears of the unknown. I want to approach the subject with a wink, Like the female mantis, I wanted to toy with the same stereotype I wish to devour."

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Director and Animator: Rachel Gutgarts
Sound Design: Aviv Stern
Print: Rachel Gutgarts, Noam Horowitz

December 09, 2019
Winning Film this human world - EXP:∆N:DED SHORTS: "Prisoner of Society" by Rati Tsiteladze

Jury Statement:

This film is so full of pain. Anger, fear, danger and pain and is incredibly confrontational and provocative in all those emotions. „Perhaps this is a situation in which no one would wish to be in my place“ the protagonist says. She is a prisoner of her own body, her home, her family and of society. Watching the film in a cinema, the quiet and subtle sound crawls under your skin and gives a sense of how trapped she is but also how imprisoned we all are - in our own prejudices and ignorance. So well executed as a whole and fitted perfectly to the story of a transgender woman in Georgia, the film is a well rounded and in our eyes an incredibly important piece of art, that we are glad to know. The winner of the expanded shorts competition program is „Prisoner of Society“ by Rati Tsiteladze.

Jury: Anna Prischl, Cecilia Araneda, Elisabeth Hajek

Congratulations!

November 28, 2019
EXP:∆N:DED SHORTS JURY PRIZE

The prize of the Artist-in-Residence Program of Q21 was brought to life in 2016 and will be awarded to one outstanding animated or experimental short film running in the competition. This year's jury consists of Cecilia Araneda, Elisabeth Hajek (Q21) and Anna Prischl (YOUKI).

September 18, 2019
Q21 viennacontemporary AiR Prize 2019

The Q21 viennacontemporary Artist-in-Residence Prize 2019 goes to Laura Schawelka who is currently living in Berlin. The Q21 viennacontemporary Artist-in-Residence Prize in partnership with EIKON - International Magazine for Photography and Media Art allows the artist to work and live for two months in one of the nine studios of the Q21 at MQ – MuseumsQuartier Wien in 2020.

Jury Statement: With film and photography, which she arranges into multi-layered installations, Laura Schawelka creates a beguiling remix of quotations from our mediatized present. Using video-editing software, the artist creates hybrids between moving and still images that present themselves to viewers in such a fascinating, so oddl satisfying way that they can hardly escape Schawelka's world, which oscillates between commodity aesthetics and food porn, between digital coolness and material sensuality.

On the jury panel were Elisabeth Hajek (Artistic Director, frei_raum Q21 exhibition space and of the Q21 Artist-in-Residence Programme), Nela Eggenberger (Chief Editor, EIKON - International Magazine for Photography and Media Art), Marcello Farabegoli (freelance curator) and Johanna Chromik (Artistic Director viennacontemporary).

July 8, 2019
RADAR INTERNATIONAL AWARD

As part of this year's Under_the_Radar Festival & Conference an international jury (Ruth Lingford, Noel Palazzo & Madi Piller) has awarded the RADAR INTERNATIONAL AWARD to Nikolina Bogdanović for her film "The Place From Where I Write You Letters" (2018). In 2020 Nikolina Bogdanović will spend two months as Artist-in-Residence of Q21/MQ in Vienna.

Jury statement: This is a simple film, which evokes complex thoughts and feelings. The filmmaker opens up our senses, recalling memories and connecting with our own personal experiences through examining the interiors of everyday life. The film uses playful humour and skillful timing and pacing to surprise and engage us. This is a wonderful example of reworking archive material to build a sense of the past, which reaches beyond the space that it represents.

Congratulations!

June 3, 2019
VIS JURY PRIZE 2019

The winners of the VIS JURY PRIZE 2019 from the international competitions at the VIS Vienna Shorts Festival have been anounced:

International Competition – Fiction & Documentary
Film title: Black Bus Stop
Regie: Kevin Jerome Everson, Claudrena N. Harold

Jury Statement:
“A powerfully expressive and dynamic statement of pride, vitality, unity, and resilience. The Jury Prize of the international competition Fiction & Documentary goes to BLACK BUS STOP by Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold.“

International Competition – Animation Avantgarde
Filmtitel: Splash
Regie: Shen Jie

Jury Statement:
“The film quietly builds a complex narrative with brutal consequences. Subtle observations and temporal contradictions lead to an imposing cinematic experience, which confronts us constantly with our own expectations.The Jury Prize of the international competition Animation Avantgarde goes to SPLASH by Shen Jie.“

Congratulations!

May / June 2019
VIS Vienna Shorts Artist-in-Residence Award

As part of the 16th edition of the VIS Vienna Shorts Festivals the Q21-Residency Award will be awarded. The winners will receive a stipend and will be returning to Vienna in 2020 as Artists-in-Residence of Q21/MQ.
In cooperation with ASIFA AUSTRIA a residency will be awarded to the winner of the competition ANIMATION AVANTGARDE.

March 18, 2019
Winner TRICKY WOMEN / TRICKY REALITIES - Q21 Residency Award
Reneepoptosis: Renee Zhan (US/JP)

2018, 3‘24
Three Renees go on a quest to find God, who is also Renee. As they traverse the mountains and valleys of Renee, they discover all the great joys, sadnesses, and mysteries of being Renee.

Jury's statement: 

The film takes the philosophical & poetic liberty of playing with self-definitions. Its esthetics evolve along with the witty narrative and across stylistic and cultural differences.

February 2019
TRICKY WOMEN / TRICKY REALITIES Artist-in-Residence Award

As part of TRICKY WOMEN / TRICKY REALITIES - International Animation Filmfestival's 16th edition the international jury will award the Q21 Artist-in-Residence Award. The winner will receive a 3-month residency and will stay as Q21 Artist-in-Residence at the MuseumsQuartier Wien in 2020. 

November 28, 2018
This Human World: EXP:ΔN:DED SHORTS

For the third time, the film festival this human world features a competition for short film, formally limited to animation and experimental films with a max. duration of 15 minuntes and which are thematically close to the international human rights film festival. This year there will be two film programs: in CLOSED you will find characters that are trapped, inside or outside, politically or socially, visible or hidden, closed, often alarmingly sad - and still strong in their vulnerability. The second program OPEN unites four deeply personal experimental films for which filmmakers as well as the viewers have to open their hearts and heads in equal shares. The winning film's director will take part in the Q21 Artist-in-Residence Program. The jury consists of Elisabeth Hajek (Artistic director frei_raum Q21 exhibition space and Q21 Artist-in-Residence program), Diana Cam Van Nguyen (filmmaker, winner of last year's prize) and Birgitt Wagner (Tricky Women Film Festival).

October 2, 2018
Open Call: EIKON Artist-in-Residence for January/February 2019

As an institution of Q21, EIKON is pleased to invite an artist specialised in photography/media art for January and February 2019. Applications (including motivation letter that states the relevance of the residency in Vienna, CV and portfolio - not more than 5MB in total) can be submitted from now on to: office@eikon.at
The application deadline is October 31, 2018.

September 27, 2018
Q21 viennacontemporary AiR Prize 2018

Valter Ventura (born 1979 in Lissabon) is winner of the first edition of the Q21 viennacontemporary Artist-in-Residence Prize 2018!

In cooperation with viennacontemporary and EIKON - International Magazine for Photography and Media Art, the Q21 awards a residency scholarship as part of the Q21 Artist-in-Residence programme at the MuseumsQuartier Wien. Exhibiting galleries of viennacontemporary had the opportunity to nominate international artists for the scholarship. The prize enables an artist to live and work in one of the nine artist studios in the MuseumsQuartier Wienfor one month in 2019. In addition, the winner selected by the jury will receive a scholarship of 1,050 euro.

The Artist-in-Residence Prize was awarded to the artist Valter Ventura (Kubik Gallery, PT) in the category of artistic photography and media art.

Jury of the Q21 viennacontemporary Artist-in-Residence Prize 2018:

Elisabeth Hajek, Artistic Director, frei_raum Q21 exhibition space, Q21 Artist-in-Residence Programme
Nela Eggenberger, Editor-in-Chief, EIKON– International Magazine for Photography and Media Art
Sabine Winkler, Curator
Matthew Stephenson, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Photographers’ Gallery

Jury statement:
“In his multimedia installations, Valter Ventura (born in 1979 in Lisbon) continuously explores the nature of photography and its historical as well as contemporary significance. His almost forensic method, which can be experienced through a complex display reminiscent of natural-historical museum presentations, allows him to dig like an archaeologist into the depths in order to reveal observations of perception.”

Our sincere congratulations!

September 6, 2018
tranzit/at: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 2019 now open until October 1, 2018

Artists-in-Residence programme of ERSTE Foundation, tranzit, Igor Zabel Association and Kontakt. Art Collection.

The Artist-in-Residence Programme at MuseumsQuartier in Vienna (MQ AiR) is part of ERSTE Foundation’s and tranzit’s long-termed endeavour to support contemporary art and to strengthen the situation of its creators, especially in the region of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. From 2019 on, the MQ AiR programme will include two more institutions: Igor Zabel Association (IZA) and Kontakt. Art Collection.. Kontakt will collaborate with the Zagreb based WHW Akademija.

The residencies are designed for artists, curators and theoreticians from Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia and Croatia working in the field of contemporary art to do research in their respective area. The research character of the residence should make it possible to take a break from the everyday strenuous production pressure and find time to concentrate on a specific interest. The participants are given the opportunity to live and work for the period of two months in one of the MuseumsQuartier studios right in the heart of Vienna. The studios are equipped with pleasant and functional facilities but do not provide artist’s workshops. During the stay various meeting possibilities are offered to the participants. Each residence grants a monthly stipend of EUR 1050,-.

The participants from Croatia will be selected through a closed call in collaboration with WHW Akademija/Zagreb.

Artists, curators or theoreticians from Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovak Republic and Slovenia are invited to take part in the open call.

Applications have to include the following two documents:
1.) Complete digital application form, including the following information:
• Your contact information
• Letter of intent explaining why you apply, what you expect and what you would like to focus on during the residence (max. 5000 characters)
• Brief informative curriculum vitae (max. 1 page)
2.) Portfolio (max. 10 MB)
Please use the application form, to be downloaded from the website: www.tranzit.org

Please note:
• Accepted candidates are required to use the residence in its full length during the following fixed periods:
For:
Slovenia: January – February 2019
Romania: March – April 2019
Hungary: May – June 2019
Croatia WHW Akademija: July – August 2019
Czech Republic: September – October 2019
Slovak Republic: November – December 2019

• Only one participant can be selected from each country.

• Applicants who have already received this residence in recent years or have previously participated in our Fellowships for Curators and Artists at Salzburg Summer Academy cannot be given priority.

• The correct application form is required (please see above for download link), other application formats cannot be accepted. All documents must be sent as PDF.

Applications are accepted only in English and by e-mail until: 1st October 2018

Please send your application with subject "MQ AiR 2019" to: office@tranzit.org

Selected participants will be notified latest until mid of November 2018.


For further questions please contact Michaela Geboltsberger/ tranzit.at:geboltsberger@tranzit.org

CLICK HERE for all details.

July 2018
Q21 Artists-in-Residence OPEN CALL for artists from Central-, Eastern and South-eastern Europe 2019

Overview 
This studio program is dedicated to artists from Central-, Eastern and South-eastern Europe who do not normally reside in Austria. It aims to give them the opportunity to live and work at Q21 as Artists-in-Residence. A live/work studio is available in the MuseumsQuartier Wien complex. The Foreign Ministry of the Republic of Austria BMEIA together with Q21 is launching a call for applications for a 2 to 3-month artist residency in Vienna in 2019. Within this cooperation, Q21 provides the artist's studio, while BMEIA finances a scholarship per month.

What does the Artist-in-Residence program offer? 
The program offers a space to live, a space to work, and the opportunity to experience the unique environment in Vienna, a city where tradition and an abundant and well-diversified contemporary cultural scene coexist. Furthermore, the artist will receive a grant for living expenses of 1.050,- € per month.  

What length of residency is available and when? 
The duration of the residency will be from two to three months, starting in the beginning of January 2019 and ending in the end of December 2019. 

Who should apply? 
The residency is for visual artists. Please note that applications from artists who previously have participated in the Q21 studio program as well as applications from students cannot be accepted. Excellent English skills (written and spoken) are required. The applicant cannot receive grants from other residency programs during the same period of time.

When and how can I submit my application? 
Artists can apply between August 1^st and September 10^th, 2018. 
Deadline for submissions is September 10^th, 2018. 
The data volume of the mail should not exceed 5 MB. Please send your application to the following e-mail address: avtV2@bmeia.gv.at and ehajek@mqw.at.

Which material should be submitted?

• Artist statement (500-100 characters including spaces)
• Motivation letter and project description (1500-2000 characters including spaces)
• CV (including education, previous residencies, exhibitions)
• Portfolio

When will I be informed of the result?
The results of the selections should be out on December 12th, 2018. Each applicant will be informed by Q21.