Wed 16.07., 19.30h
MQ Tunes: LOU PA
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LOU PA create a world of sound in which electronic beat waves crash against fuzzy guitars, while fragile vocal melodies float above powerful gang vocals. Their music sounds like a departure into a sphere between indie and edgy pop. In their Stripped Down set, the trio's intimacy merges with the sound spectrum to create an atmosphere that breaks familiar tones into unexpected colors.

Fri 18.07., 21.30h
Opening frame[o]ut open-air film festival
THE SWEET EAST 

D: Sean Price Williams | US 2023 | feature film | 104min. | original version

17-year-old Liliana from South Carolina turns her back on her school class and sets off alone on a crazy journey through the east of the USA. Between bizarre encounters and dangerous detours, she finds a new, albeit contradictory, clarity about herself.

Sat 19.07., 21.30h
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LEVANTE

D: Lillah Halla | BR, FR, UY 2023 | feature film | 99min. | original version with subtitles

Shortly before the most important match of her career, 17-year-old volleyball player Sofia finds out about her unwanted pregnancy - in a country where abortion is a criminal offence. Between the pressure to perform, religious fanaticism and fear of the law, she finds new support and a surprising perspective through trust in her father and team.

Mon 21.07., 18h
Monday Listening Club hosted by Martin Markeli
Special Guest: Andaka
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Andaka has been on the turntables since 2002 and has explored numerous genres over the years. She started out with drum'n'bass and jungle, but soon switched to hip hop and turntablism and its roots in soul, funk, disco and boogie.
Her experience as a back-up DJ for rap acts and at breakdance battles finally opened the door to an even larger musical universe - the world of experimental electronic sounds.

Tue 22.07., 19h
eSeLschwarm
How We Do Storytelling For/From Communities
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How can artists, cultural workers and institutions bring the voices of BIPoC, queer, decolonial and other marginalised communities to the forefront not only as subjects, but as storytellers and creators? In this panel discussion, we will talk about how eSeLschwarm contributes to rethinking visibility and representation in the Viennese art and culture scene.

Wed 23.07., 19.30h
MQ Tunes: HAEZZ

Would it be possible to speak of a new all-star trio of Austrian Jazz? The maturity and compactness of the compositions that are celebrated with such relish by Haezz convey the image of seasoned, veteran musicians, devoid of any demonstrative attitude and who know what they are doing. The warm and intimate chorals stand alongside artfully interwoven, contrapuntal webs of lyrical urgency.

Fri 25.07., 21.30h
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BRANDED TO KILL

D: Seijun Suzuki | JP 1967 | feature film | 91min. | original version with subtitles

In Branded to Kill, Killer No. 3, a headstrong contract killer with a penchant for fragrant rice, stumbles through a surreally distorted world of seduction and betrayal. Seijun Suzuki breaks all genre boundaries with his radically stylised noir experiment - a groundbreaking film that made him unforgettable and at the same time ended his career in the studio system.

Sat 26.07., 21.30h
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HOME GAME

D: Lidija Zelović | NL 2024 | documentary | 98min. | original version with subtitles
With: Alexander Goekjian, Lidija Zelović, Marinus Groothof, Tatjana Bozić

In her 2024 documentary, Lidija Zelovic interweaves personal memories from the collapse of Yugoslavia with current images from Europe and poses the question of how the past and present intertwine. The film is a powerful appeal against the resurgence of nationalist forces - multi-layered, personal and political at the same time.

Wed 30.07., 19.30h
MQ Tunes: Low Life Rich Kids
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It's all just theater - but in the end much more. Low Life Rich Kids was created in the course of a theater play and consists of the actresses Coco Brell, Mara Romei and the singer-songwriter and theater musician Bernhard Eder. After their debut single “Angst” was not only well received in the production of Lucien Haug's “Über Nacht”, but also made its way to the top of the FM4 charts, it was clear to the three of them: we're forming a band. Since then, Eder has been producing a wide variety of songs that cover everything from rock and pop to post-punk and avant-garde spoken word.

Thu 31.07., 20h 
O-Töne
Marlene Streeruwitz l Caspar-Maria Russo
Literature festival
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This summer, the popular O-Töne literature festival will once again bring current authors and literary voices to the MuseumsQuartier and invite you to readings and discussions in the open air. First, Marlene Streeruwitz will read from ‘Auflösungen’, followed by Caspar-Maria Russo reading from ‘Prinzip Ungefähr’.

Fri 01.08., 20.30h
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THE BOOK OF SOLUTIONS

D: Michel Gondry | FR 2023 | feature film | 102min. | original version with subtitles

When director Marc unceremoniously steals the hard drives after his film is cancelled, he and his team flee to Aunt Denise's house in the countryside. There, artistic megalomania and pragmatic team spirit collide - a chaotic and comical struggle to complete a film.

Sat 02.08., 20.30h
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REAS

D: Lola Arias | AR, DE, CH 2024 | feature film| 83min. | original version with subtitles

Between rock music, voguing and tender solidarity, a space of resistance and community is created in the women's prison in Ezeiza. When 20-year-old Yoseli arrives there, she becomes part of a ‘we’ that opposes structural violence with creativity and cohesion.

Fri 08.08., 19h
FALTER-Sommergespräche
The City and Nature

"Why green spaces are distributed unfairly"
Talk (in German language)

Katharina Kropshofer, head of the FALTER nature section, discusses why green spaces are unfairly distributed with Lilli Lička, head of the Institute of Landscape Architecture at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences.

Fri 08.08., 20.30h
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THE LIFE OF SEAN DELEAR

D: Markus Zizenbacher | AT 2024 | Documentary | 82min. | original version with subtitles

Between post-punk, power pop and DIY aesthetics, the film tells the story of Sean DeLear's search for artistic freedom and belonging - from L.A. to Vienna. Archive footage and diary fragments paint a vibrant portrait of a queer icon that is both a declaration of love and a testimony to lived rebellion.

Sat 09.08., 20.30h
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LA MORT VIENDRA

D: Christoph Hochhäusler | DE, LU, BE 2024 | feature film | 101min. | original version with subtitles

In La Mort Viendra, a courier becomes the focus of a widely ramified international criminal network due to a hidden discovery of money. At the centre of this gripping thriller is the contract killer Tez, who, between club nights, quiet intimacy and brutal acts of violence, seeks her way to becoming the key figure responsible - cool, precise and with an electrifying presence.

Tue 12.08., 19h 
Reading „Vierundsiebzig"
MQ Writer-in-Residence Ronya Othmann
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The author Ronya Othmann, who is living and working in the MuseumsQuartier Wien as part of the MQ Writer-in-Residence program in July and August 2025, talks to the independent literary critic Tino Schlench about her novel “Vierundsiebzig”.

Wed 13.08., 19.30h
MQ Tunes: Kobrakasino
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Founded in Graz in 2018, the band Kobrakasino manipulates our reality with multi-layered pop arrangements and compressed German lyrics: solar punk utopias, surreal lovesickness and dancing rhythms can be found in their musical world. Their first album “Sonne, Mond & Dynamit” was released in 2023 on Problembär Records. The next single from the second studio album has been announced for September 2025.

Sat 16.08., 20:30h
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SCHAU KURZ HER / TAKE A QUICK LOOK

Int. Short film program | 2022 - 2023 | 70min.| original version

This short film programme brings together four works that oppose the invisibilisation of people, their struggles and desires. Through diverse forms of mutual visualisation, they open up new perspectives on solidarity and call for a radically different, communal way of seeing.

Wed 20.08., 19.30h
MQ Tunes: Ava Fina
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Ava Fina combines alt-pop, soul and electronic elements to create an emotional sound somewhere between lightness and world-weariness. Her songs tell of inner worlds, everyday chaos and tender hope - carried by a special voice and poetic depth.

Fri 22.08., 20:30h
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From the fabrics of utopias: a cinematic foray through the IntAkt archive

Short film program | 1977 - 1988 | 72min.

This short film programme pays tribute to the artistic and political legacy of the IntAkt artists who rebelled against patriarchal structures in the cultural sector in the 1970s and created their own spaces. With films about and by IntAkt members, a polyphonic homage to their resistance, their creativity and the lasting influence on the visibility of women artists to this day is created.

Sat 23.08., 20.30h
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UNSICHTBARE GEGNER

D: VALIE EXPORT | AT 1977 | feature film | 110min. | original version

In VALIE EXPORT's experimental science fiction debut film, Vienna in the 1970s becomes the backdrop for a hallucinatory state of emergency in which an extraterrestrial force manipulates human consciousness. The photographer Anna fights against invisible enemies and social constraints - a radical departure into naked, unadorned existence.

Mon 25.08., 18h
Monday Listening Club hosted by Martin Markeli
Special Guest: DJ Cut Ex
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As part of the Viennese duo Urbs & Cutex, Cut Ex is the expert on sounds, samples, scratches and arrangements. He effortlessly mixes his way through different genres, whether it's funk, disco, hip hop, reggae or house.

Fri 29.08., 20.30h
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ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY

D: Paul B. Preciado | FR 2023 | documentary | 98min. | original version with subtitles

In Orlando, My Political Biography, Paul B. Preciado responds to Virginia Woolf's classic with a powerful cinematic essay - and declares Orlando to be the reality of today's diverse trans and non-binary generation. Over twenty protagonists lend their voices and bodies to the character and together create a moving manifesto for self-determination, visibility and queer life.

Sat 30.08., 20.30h
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BUSHMAN

US 1971 | D: David Schickele | documentary | 73min. | original version with subtitles

BUSHMAN follows the Nigerian migrant Gabriel in 1968 in a San Francisco shaken by political upheaval - and in doing so reveals the racist projections he encounters from all sides. When the reality of the civil rights protests overtakes the script, the film turns into a documentary chronicle of resistance against repression, violence and exclusion.

Fri 05.09., 20.30h
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SAMBIZANGA

D: Sarah Maldoror | FR, AO, CD 1972 | feature film | 102min. | original version with subtitles

Sambizanga tells the story of the beginning of the Angolan struggle for independence in 1961 and follows Maria as she sets off in search of her arrested husband - and increasingly sees through the colonial violence. Sarah Maldoror's impressive debut film, shot in exile, powerfully focuses on the often overlooked role of women in the anti-colonial resistance.

Sat 06.09., 20.30h
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BAD GIRL

D: Varsha Bharath | IN 2025 | feature film | 115min. | original version with subtitles

Bad Girl follows 16-year-old Ramya on her chaotic, lustful and rebellious journey through growing up in South India - between chats, college and the constant resistance to social expectations. With wit, pace and formal freedom, Varsha Bharath creates a queer, energetic coming-of-age comedy that celebrates the imperfect and non-conformist.