Noor Abuarafeh & Huda Takriti

Opening: 14/02/2025, 6 pm
with a joint lecture-performance by the artists

Exhibition duration: 15/02–28/03/2025
curated by Aline Lenzhofer & Lina Ramadan

 

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. 

 

upcoming

Car(ry)ing Memories

exhibition
02/04 – 10/05/2025

In their exhibition project, artists Nour Sokhon and Joanna Zabielska focus on personal stories of migration and memories of communal togetherness. In an interplay of video, sculpture and installation, visitors are invited to explore multi-layered narratives.

upcoming

Nour Sokhon

artist-in-residence
April, May-July 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 a joint project with Joanna Zabielska.

 

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.”

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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