MQ Artist-in-Residence Wenmin Tong
exhibitions and art festivals, including Essence Contemporary Art Museum, Chongqing; OCT Boxes Art Museum, Foshan; WHITE SPACE, Beijing; Thousand Plateau Art Space, Chengdu; Organ Haus Art Space, Chongqing; [...] Chongqing; and Lillehammer Art Museum, Lillehammer; HE ART MUSEUM, Foshan; OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen; By Art Matters, Hangzhou; G Museum, Nanjing; Power Station of Art, Shanghai; Koganecho Area Management Centre [...] Visual & Performance Art residence Chongqing recommending institution MQ time period May 2024 - June 2024 Wenmin Tong (* 1989 in Chongqing, China) completed her BFA at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2012
About us - MuseumsQuartier Wien
The MQ Spread over 90,000m2 in central Vienna and encompassing 60 cultural institutions, the MuseumsQuartier Wien is one of the largest districts for contemporary art and culture in the world. Nothing [...] meets subcultures. The spectrum ranges from fine art, architecture, music, fashion, theater, dance, literature, children’s culture, game culture, and street art to design and photography. New ideas grow from [...] world-famous MQ furniture in the courtyards invites visitors to hang out, relax, and chat. And the many cafés and restaurants offer a wide range of culinary options. This means that the MQ creates opportunities
MQ Artist-in-Residence Naomi van Niekerk
Naomi van Niekerk area: Applied Art & Animation Dog, 2023, Filmstill from Box Cutters © Naomi van Niekerk Frame of Mind, 2020 © Naomi van Niekerk Impermanence, 2013 © Naomi van Niekerk Memories of Athens [...] bossies (My mum is crazy)- 03:23 - animation, 2023 - Box Cutters - 08:24 - animation @naomivanniekerk www.dryfsand.com Project info During her residency at MQ, Naomi van Niekerk wants to develop a new film in [...] Niekerk Memories of Paris, 2020 © Naomi van Niekerk Key Facts nationality South Africa area Applied Art & Animation residence Lille, France recommending institution ASIFA Austria time period August 2024
John Fadeff about "Things That Float"
"Things That Float" 25.10.2024 Share Share - Facebook Share - Twitter Stefan Stratil in conversation with MQ Artist-in-Residence John Fadeff, who is presenting an installation at ASIFAKEIL until 10.11.2024. John [...] John , the installation that you designed at the showroom ASIFAKEIL during your Residency at MQ is called ”Things That Float”. So what’s up Things That Float? Well, float is just one of those great words; [...] printing process I discovered by accident using felt, rubber, and ink. I found a roll of rubber in a box someone had left on the street with a note stuck to it containing one word, FREE. I took it to my studio
Interview with Reto Emch
I believe it is important that people should travel, not art. But in today's global art market, this is practically impossible. Works of art are transported all over the world because museums want to [...] Interview Interview with Reto Emch 23.06.2025 Share Share - Facebook Share - Twitter An interview by MQ chief curator Verena Kaspar-Eisert with the artist Reto Emch about his installation Off-Balance. The [...] bring my interventions into public space. I follow several strategies in working with or processing art. These include developing and exploring a given work or form of artistic expression; artistic creation
Interview with artist Veronika Schubert
in folders. After a while, I have two piles of boxes, each two meters tall. They contain all kinds of topics, for instance, ‘Identity’, ‘Community/Us’, ‘Arts and Culture’, ‘Questions’ or ‘Absurd Things’ [...] - Twitter For Veronika Schubert , language in spoken and written form represents the center of her art. Her works include animated films, videos, photographs, collages as well as text and textile works [...] is re-arranging the headlines and putting them into a new context. MW: You designed the cover of Q21/MQ’s December 2022/January 2023 programme, which is also on display at the Q21 showrooms. What was your
“We must not separate ethics and aesthetics.“
“extractivist art”. Is an activist art already extractivist, if it is placed in an art institutional context? Jay Jordan: It depends. I think you can have non-extractivist activist art in an art institution [...] an artist in theatre and fine art. And then I had this kind of moment of realization, that I no longer wanted to make art that showed the world to people, but I wanted an art form that transformed our worlds [...] the way we all make art… And I think that includes changing and especially expanding the definition of art. It means healing it again and no longer having this separation between art and craft, between
Q21 Artist-in-Residence Mitch Altman in conversation with Helena Valasaki.
without, except the world is better with them. The useless machine is a box and it’s got a switch. You turn the switch on, then the box opens and turns itself off again. That’s all it does. A great statement [...] from the ceiling. They add sound to it, add moving parts or kinetic art. People doing software, people doing music, people doing art. People doing all sorts of things. It depends on the community. When [...] others to turn it off, is something I really love. There is another invention I really like. It’s an art piece that I think is an incredibly wonderful technology – it’s called the useless machine. It is one
Naomi van Niekerk on animating the inanimate and interdisciplinary filmmaking
artistic short films. Why is it that art and animation intermingle in your work? I have an interdisciplinary background in both film and visual arts and studied Dramatic Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand [...] seen and ordered here: www.asifa.at/animating-art Interview: Stefan Stratil Concept: Magdalena Winkelhofer, MQ Wien Videos/Images: © Naomi van Niekerk MQ AiR in cooperation with ASIFA Feature ASIFAKEIL: [...] an installation at ASIFAKEIL, a small showroom in the public area MQ Showrooms of the M useums Q uartier , dedicated exclusively to art in connection with animation . What can we expect here? I recently
Can you swim, Mr Podrecca? - MuseumsQuartier Wien
"Can you swim?" at MQ Art Box. Furthermore Podrecca talks about the role of art in public space and the limitations that this reveals to him in his architectural work. In her MQ Art Box exhibition 'Can you [...] which art can simply disregard. You've known Eva Petrič since her beginnings as an artist in 2007, and have often discussed art in general and her own projects in particular with her. Eva's art takes more [...] and post-human phases through self-reflection. In her current installation 'Can you swim' at the MQ Art Box, Eva points out that there are no real boundaries between different species, no boundaries between