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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

Wed–Fri 11 am–3 pm, Sat 3–6 pm

Venue: philomena+, Heinestraße 40, 1020 Vienna

The exhibition is part of Vienna Art Week 2025.

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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. The set is available for 78 EUR. The perfect Christmas present.

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Farah Barakat

artist-in-residence
25/10 – 18/11/2025

Farah Barakat is a Cairo-based painter and mixed-media artist. In her work she reflects on subtle aspects of the human experience and uses layering as an invitation to look beneath the surface and ponder distorted narratives that challenge the ‘truth’ of memory and its elusive nature.
During her residency in Vienna she collaborates with Anna Khodorkovskaya on a project dealing with dehumanization.

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Don't Skip!

workshop
14/11/2025, 5-7 pm

Farah Barakat and Anna Khodorkovskaya invite you to take a closer look at images from the news that constantly confront us. By using the technique of mono printing with ink on newspaper, participants are invited to highlight overlooked details or focus on specific fragments—encouraging new ways of seeing and reflecting on the visual narratives that shape our understanding.
Please register for the workshop by 10/11/2025: info@philomena.plus

philomena+

art & architecture platform

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.

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.

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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installation, performance

Sense of Touch ||: Ava Binta Giallo & Verena Schneider, Festival Gabes Cinema Fen

 

 

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