coming up

Happy New Year!

upcoming exhibition:

15/02–28/03/2025

SEVERAL ATTEMPTS FOR NOT FORGETTING

Noor Abuarafeh & Huda Takriti 

opening: Feb. 14th, 2025, 6 pm 

 

further programme for 2025:
April–July
Nour Sokhon & Joanna Zabielska
September 
Isa Klee & Najah Zarbout
October 
P. Hakim, B. Heschmat, J. Polleross, P. Pourfallah
November–December 
Farah Barakat & Anna Khodorkovskaya

upcoming

Noor Abuarafeh

artist-in-residence

07/02 – 16/02/2025


In her works Noor Abuarafeh (*1987 in Jerusalem) delves into the different forms of historical representation, including memory, storytelling, museums, and archives, as well as the challenge of tracing absences. In Vienna she presents together with Vienna-based Huda Takriti a project dealing with witnessing, recording, and the ever changing role of archives in truth-making. 

 

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upcoming

Nour Sokhon

artist-in-residence
April 2025

 

In cooperation with kulturen in bewegung, philomena+ invites 2025 the visual artist and musician Nour Sokhon to Vienna. Her creative practice is fueled by artistic research including interview material, and field recordings and translated into sound/music compositions, performances, interactive installations and moving image work. In Vienna she will present togehter with Joanna Zabielska a public art intervention.

recent

A Fable for Tomorrow

exhibition

09/11–28/12/2024

 

The post-anthropocene landscape in the aftermath of the worst nuclear disaster formed the central focus of the collaborative exhibition project “A Fable for Tomorrow” by Imran Channa and Kateryna Lysovenko.

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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.”

programme

public art

exhibitions

artist residencies

events

publications

video clips

video artist interviews

Shatter&Shape: Mai Al Shazly & Sula Zimmerberger & Ernst Miesgang 

12/07 – 09/09/2023

image video

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