ZOE GUDOVIĆ

  • zoe gudović   is a lesbian artist, feminist, activist, multidisciplinary art practitioner, cultural manager, producer, and organizer. Whether acting as a theater educator, performer, Drag King transformer, or Toilet artist, she combines artistic and activist methods in order to change the existing consciousness and social relations. She focuses on issues of body and space, sexuality, intimacy, and publicity. She always finds herself in the struggle for social justice. In 2016 she earned a Master of Arts degree in cultural management at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade. She comes from Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and from October 2021 she lives in Vienna. 

    Since 1995, she has been involved in the work and research of informal and engaged theater forms. Gudović was also the founder or part of different groups and collectives such as Women at Work, Act Women, Queer Belgrade, Charming Princess (music band), Reconstruction Women's Fund; a lecturer at Women’s Studies (Faculty of Political Science in Belgrade), on the topic of Feminist Art in Public Space; an organizer of street engagement performances against violence against women and numerous campaigns for the visibility of LGBTQ +, women’s human rights and people from the margins. Since 2001, she has connected artists from all over the world with activists from Serbia under the name “Women’s Movement - Women’s Theater - Women’s Body” Winner of the Jelena Šantić Award for a combination of art and activism. Winner of Befem’s Feminist Achievement Award for promoting feminism outside the feminist movement.

    Zoe got scholarships/residencies: Handle with care selected by BEATE, brut wien, 2022, Goethe institute Serbia, 2018/2019/2020, Art residence Villa Waldberta, Munich, 2018 and 2019

    She edits and hosts the radio show Ženergija once a week live on ORANGE94.0.

  • The media campaign/project titled “PresenD/Arts” has starting point in the idea of D/Arts itself. D/Arts is imagined as a connecting point between different actors - artists, cultural workers, cultural institutions and cultural policy. This connecting point acts through usage of media content that would contribute to greater visibility of both: the cultural policy of D/Arts and the members of its own network. At the same time, this project develops a strategy to connect artistic initiatives and collectives with media portals, newspapers and radio shows.

    In addition to the fact that the media aim to inform and entertain general society, they also aim to educate and connect different groups. The most important component of media is communication.

    Through this campaign, we want to bring up the topic of how we communicate, within the network itself, and then externally. Media have a great influence on people, especially electronic media: television, radio, and internet portals. The media often offer very limited space for content that is not labeled as mainstream or sensational.

    The strategy in the media space is to open the possibility for voices from the periphery, the margins, to be heard and to conquer different spaces that also belong to them. as well as for the voices of people,

    initiatives, and collectives who are now living, working and witnessing the moment of their devotion to be heard or talked about. The aim is to write about these voices, to record testimonials and stories and to amplify the existence of those people and initiatives.

  • D:Arts

EGE KÖKEL

  • Ege Kökel is a designer and artistic researcher with an interest in science and the future. She uses design as a tool for research, speculation and discussion. Collaborating with others and other disciplines and exploring different points of view are important aspects of her work. She is co-founder of the art collective DTAFA (Danube Transformation Agency for Agency). In 2019, she graduated from the Industrial Design/Design Investigations program at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Center for Book Arts NY, Amstelpark in Amsterdam, and the Global Grad Show Dubai. Recently, the collective DTAFA was awarded two prizes by Ö1 "Repair of the Future". She is currently interested in craft and superhuman perspectives.

  • ALONG THE YORGAN - a workshop series for collective imagining and creating by Ege Kökel at SOHO Studios, supported by the initiative kültüř gemma!

    When you think about the future, how do you feel? Hopeful? Worried? Or a mixture of both? What keeps you awake in the middle of the night? In the workshop series at SOHO Studios, participants will explore these questions together over the coming months using the traditional craft of quilting. Quilting is an ancient method of making quilts that has been practiced in Anatolia for centuries. Traditional quilts/yorgans provide comfort, through their health-giving materiality and motifs such as shamrocks, vines or peacocks. These motifs symbolize concepts such as abundance, eternity and peace. Participants* will envision a better future and create new motifs that represent that future, combat our collective fears, and accelerate our shared hopes. Shiny satin, soft cotton, heavy wool, and intricately embroidered symbols will accompany everyone in their pursuit of collective well-being.

  • Soho Studios

  • Tayla Myree is a researcher in the field of history as well as a budding visual artist based in Vienna, Austria. She is originally from Atlanta, Georgia, USA but came to Austria to obtain her MA in History from Central European University and now works as a fellow at the Belvedere 21. Her current work at the Belvedere 21 focuses on enriching the museum's community outreach efforts as well as gaining experience in Vienna's arts and culture sector. Outside of the museum, her research focuses on Critical Romani Studies and African American Studies as it pertains to activism, racism, and reparations. Her art engages with these themes as well through the mediums of film, sound, and photography.

  • Art Education: Representations of Blackness in Medieval and Baroque Art

    In a representative portrait of Prince Eugene, in the Belvedere collection, a Black page appears at his side whose stereotypical depiction belongs to a racist pictorial tradition. In European art, Black people are often illustrated as bystanders or allegorical figures, sometimes alike mere decorative attributes. This guided tour and dialogue between the Historian Tayla Myree and Art mediator Paul Walther gives an understanding of Black representation in artwork in the Belvedere collection and wall paintings inside the Lower Belvedere.

  • Belvedere

TAYLA MYREE

MARIYAM MALIK

  • MariyamMalik is a social researcher and art educator with an interest in collaborative spaces of imagining and creating. Growing up as a child of Pakistani migrants in a Gemeindebau in Floridsdorf, they developed a love for Punjabi and Urdu music. They studied Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Vienna and researchededucation, empowerment, intersectionality,and participatory methods. As a result of studying in white educational institutions, they felt the desire to learn from decolonial, queerfeminist, Black, Indigenous,and of color perspectives, so they created the Instagram account @education.for.us.

    In the program of Art Education at the Academy of Fine Arts, they engage with different materials such as ceramics, paper, textiles,and printing techniques.

    Over the past year, they explored the topic of mental health and recovery and how we can envision it outside of capitalistic logics. For the fellowship, they are part of the Kultursommer Plus team which is responsible for the outreach program during the open-air festival. Currently, they are interested in creating artistic spaces that acknowledge the continuity of queer/feminist and anti-racistresistance, askquestions of desirable futures,and allow them to engage with art in a self-reflective, and dreamy way.

  • For the fellowship with kültür gemma, Mariyam is part of the Kultursommer Plus team responsible for the open-air festival's outreach program. She is currently interested in creating artistic spaces that acknowledge continuities of queer/feminist and anti-racist resistance, pose questions about a desirable future, and enable a self-reflexive and dreamy engagement with art.

  • Kultursommer Wien