Queer Immortality
- The file
- The practical details Claire checked before this went into the index.
- When
- 2 October 2026 – 24 January 2027
- Where
- Baumgartner Höhe 1, 1140 Wien
- Price
- free
- Indoor
- Installation
- Video
- Performance
- Film
- 14th district
Queer people die differently than the rituals around them assume. Death can mean erasure from family records, reinterpretation by institutions, separation from the communities that made life possible. Traditional mourning — the funeral, the grave, the anniversary — often doesn't fit. Queer Immortality doesn't offer comfort. It offers witness.
Curated by Barbara Stöhr, the exhibition gathers artists who work with this reality directly. There are pieces on lesbian vampires and queer desire across time. Drag queens reimagined as undertakers. Installations about the loss of autonomous spaces — not as nostalgia, but as ongoing grief. Video, performance, film, objects. The work is collective: mourning as something queer communities do together, not alone.
Why This Matters
Queer death is political. The rituals we inherit don't hold it. Museums rarely make space for it. This one does — and it's free, and it's in the 14th, and it's open Thursday through Sunday if you want to go.
The exhibition runs until late January. It's worth the trip to Baumgartner Höhe.
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