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quartier21 in the MuseumsQuartier
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Digital culture, fashion, and design
quartier21 is a support structure that offers space and support to more than forty small and medium-sized autonomous cultural initiatives within the MQ Wien. It is an integral part of the overall concept of the MuseumsQuartier, which is based on variety and a broad understanding of culture.
The various groups represented here have transformed the quartier21 into Vienna's center for contemporary "applied
art." The emphasis is on digital culture, design, and fashion. Art magazines and publishers have their editorial offices here, media art groups, associations, and project series their presentation venues, pop music, VJ, and video archives their home base. In addition, quartier21 features a TV station, a club radio station, a design forum, a museum/shop for computer games, a café, a cultural bookstore, fashion studios, and artist studios and guest rooms.
Concept and Artistic Director:
Vitus Weh (vitus.weh@chello.at)
Coordination, Artist-in-Residence Program, Temporary Project Requests and Leases:
Elisabeth Hajek (ehajek@mqw.at)
Lead Institution: MQ Errichtungs- u. Betriebsgesellschaft
Director: Wolfgang Waldner
quartier21 is supported by: Wiener Stadtwerke, Erste Bank
Cultural Cluster
quartier21 encompasses a total of approx. 7,000 square meters of space. The 400-meter-long Baroque front wing of the MQ has been converted to a passage. The section of the mall to the right of the Main Entrance is called Electric Avenue; to the left is transeuropa. On the ground floor, there is an Internet radio broadcaster, a music archive with an on demand music store for legal music downloads, spaces for computer games, comics, and light art, an exhibition space for art schools, spaces for art groups and Internet culture, a food store, a café, a cultural bookstore, several fashion and design shops, service agencies, and large event halls. A number of editorial offices, agencies, and cultural associations have their offices on the upper floors. Additional quartier21 tenants are in other parts of the MQ complex:
Vienna's first local television station Puls TV is in the courtyard near Mariahilferstrasse, and math.space, an institution dedicated to mathematics as a cultural science, is on the top floor of the Oval Wing on the western side of the MuseumsQuartier, where the artist studios of the Artist-in-Residence program and four guestrooms are also located.
-> Download Folder with detailed info on all
cultural
initiatives and shops in the quartier21
(PDF, combined German & English edition)
The quartier21 Artist-in-Residence Program
An Artist-in-Residence program fosters international, project-related exchange and is financed with the aid of private sponsors. Each year, the program is able to invite about 40 artists from other countries to realize joint projects with
the resident cultural initiatives on location, consequently promoting the establishment of international networks.
-> Artist-in-Residence Program
Click here for information and application
procedure in English
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