recent
performance, improv session
19/04 – 26/04/2026
Myriam El Haïk’s piece OHrGrüN / VerT d’OreiLLe deals with words and sounds, mistranslations, and their poetic potential to generate new meanings and imaginary worlds. It is a live collage of spoken word, invented language, music, images, and performative actions
The project is part of the Against the Playbook series and a collaboration project with Salam Music.
upcoming
exhibition
28/05–11/07/2026
For the exhibition Sitting on the Sidewalk, curated by Sibylle Omlin, Marlene Hausegger and Raed Ibrahim engage in dialogue for the first time and jointly present new works on the wide sidewalk in front of philomena+. While Raed Ibrahim sculpturally engages with the Crocus Moabiticus, a rare yet extremely resilient flower native to eastern Jordan, Marlene Hausegger, in her installation made of oil drums and car rims, questions global resources, climate change, and dependencies.
upcoming
residency
18/05 – 11/06/2026
Raed Ibrahim is a visual artist and art educator based in Amman. His interests center on developing art-historical ontology and strengthening local and regional frameworks for art education, artistic production, and cultural practice.
In Vienna, he collaborates with artist Marlene Hausegger and curator Sibylle Omlin on the public art and exhibition project Sitting on the Sidewalk that opens at philomena+, on of May 28th, 2026, at 7 pm.
