philomena+ in Cairo
OSCAR CUETO : Coffee House
20/02 – 13/03/2020
Visual Artist Exchange Programme Vienna Cairo
Venue: Maqha Vienna, Cairo
With his project Coffee House Oscar Cueto explores cultural relations between Vienna and Cairo and deals in particular with the history and significance of the coffee house as a meeting place for artists, civilians, civil servants, pacifists, and believers.
At the same time, the project serves as a framework for Oscar Cueto’s research work on artistic resistance and the work of Egyptian graffiti artists.
Oscar Cueto’s (born in 1976 in Mexico-City, lives and works in Vienna) work elaborates exercises of writing narratives and reflects on the mechanisms that construct the notion of historicity, knowledge, memory and subject as identity. Such themes are often developed as fictions or in recent work as installations in which the public can interact.
philomena+ in cooperation with the Austrian Cultural Forum Cairo
Exhibition | Round Table
CONTEMPORARY MOSQUE ARCHITECTURE
How Visible May Or Should The Mosque Be In The European Cityscape?
21/01 – 07/03/2020
Islamisches Kulturzentrum Graz, Architekt: Gerhard Springer 2012–2020
Opening and Round Table: Tuesday, 21/01/2020, 7pm
with:
Murat Arslan, Vice Chairman of the Islamic Cultural Center, 1020
Uschi Lichtenegger, representative of the district Leopoldstadt
Gerhard Springer, architect of the Islamic Cultural Center Graz
curated and moderated in German by Negar Hakim
Fr 3pm – 7pm and Sa 11am – 1pm or on request at +43(0)6502255937
Venue: philomena+, Heinestraße 40, 1020 Vienna
philomena+ presents outstanding examples of contemporary mosques from Europe, which were discussed in the course „Contemporary Sacred Architecture of Islam“ at the Vienna University of Technology in the research area “History of Architecture and Building Archaeology”
The space, architecture and construction of historical mosques were examined and the changes in use and benefits of newer mosques were researched.
What could a mosque look like in the age of globalization? This is a question that gained new importance at the international level due to the growing labor and refugee migration from Islamic countries to Western and Central Europe.
Here, the visibility of Islam in public space, especially in the form of representative mosques, is associated with social and political conflicts. Most of the mosques that have been designed and often built in recent years have provoked fierce discussion and rejection despite decades of cultural diversity.
One effect of this controversy is that the critical question as to whether prayer houses in today’s world really need to have the traditional building elements is raised. Specifically, the dome and the minaret and their necessity for functionality and to be perceived by the religious community as a dignified establishment – because it is precisely these that are reacted to sensitively.
philomena+ asks whether architects can contribute to defusing emerging conflicts with creative, contemporary solutions.
Artist-in-Residence, Duo Exhibition:
SANAE ARRAQUAS & MANUELA PICALLO GIL
22/03 – 09/05/2020
Residency Sanae Arraqas: 22/03 – 14/04/2020
Opening: Thursday 02/04/2020, 7pm
philomena+ project room , Heinestraße 40, 1020 Vienna
Artist-in-Residence, Duo Exhibition:
ELMA RIZA & PETRA GELL
12/05 – 30/06/2020
Residency Elma Riza: 15/05 – 29/05/2020
Opening: Wednesday, 27/05/2020, 7pm
philomena+ project room , Heinestraße 40, 1020 Vienna
