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Don't Skip!

Farah Barakat & Anna Khodorkovskaya
curated by Christine Bruckbauer & Aline Lenzhofer

Exhibition duration: 12/11/2025 – 10/01/2026

Last chance, to see it!

Wed–Fri 11 am–3 pm, Sat 3–6 pm

Venue: philomena+, Heinestraße 40, 1020 Vienna

Don’t Skip! confronts the visual noise we absorb and the distance we create to survive it. Don’t Skip!  is not a plea. It’s a fracture.

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Memory Cards

collaborative art piece

Farah Barakat & Anna Khodorkovskaya

As part of their collaboration for the exhibition Don’t Skip Farah Barakat and Anna Khodorkovskaya created memory cards. The beautifully designed box contains 24 pairs with images that base on journalists’ footage is available for 78 EUR. 

upcoming

Engy Mohsen

artist-in-residence
20/01 – 20/02/2026

Engy Mohsen is an artist, curator, and researcher. In her artistic practice, she examines notions of ‘participation’ and ‘collectivity’ by creating frameworks that invite non-artists and artists to think about how spaces can be organized. She works with text, drawing, photography, performance, discursive acts and conversation as a medium.
In Vienna, she, together with Sedra Arab, will develop a text-based art piece–a game about solidarity.

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upcoming

The New Programme

residencies, exhibitions, performances etc.
20/01 – 31/12/2026

January–April

Against the Playbook
Sedra Arab & Engy Mohsen, Myriam El Haïk

May

Ana de Almeida, Valeria Pechenaya, Deniz Sözen

May–July

Sitting on the Side Walk

Marlene Hausegger & Raed Ibrahim

August–September 

Souad Mani & Emily Sarsam

October–December 

Cross Generational Living

Maryna Marmazinska, Alireza Taghaboni and more tba.

philomena+

art & architecture platform

about us

philomena+ promotes the intersocietal and intercultural exchange between WANA (West Asia and North Africa) and Vienna, Austria. philomena+ curates exhibitions, public art projects, artist residencies, exchange programmes between art institutions in Austria and WANA, panel discussions, round tables and publication projects on pressing global issues. Rather than focusing on a type of art which centres around objects, philomena+ promotes art which focuses on individuals and life.

our mission

philomena+ aims to connect artists and architects from WANA with the local art community in Vienna, Austria.
It is a platform for artists, researchers and civil society for dialoguing, questioning, creating and building future collaborations.
In addition philomena+ seeks to work with artists and architects, who originate from WANA and have recently settled in Austria, offering a first point of contact and support to find their feet in the new environment.

our history

In 2016, motivated by an understanding that sees art as an outlet for different social groups and as a starting point for dialoging, art historians Christine Bruckbauer and Negar Hakim founded the philomena+ platform. “We see ourselves as cultural ambassadors who engage in an exchange of ideas, information, art and other aspects of culture among nations and their peoples in order to foster mutual understanding.”

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