Technologies of Togetherness
29.5.–31.5.2026
Augustin Street Vendors and the Schwarze Frauen Community
Since May 2026, VBKÖ has facilitated “Technologies of Togetherness,” a collaborative artistic project exploring collective creation, shared knowledge, and community-based practices. Bringing together artists, collectives, and Vienna-based communities, in collaboration with the Augustin street vendors and the Schwarze Frauen community, the project approaches art as a space for encounter, care, and solidarity.
Throughout the weekend, the public is invited to encounter traces of this process: fragments, gestures, and materials emerging from an ongoing collective creation. These traces open a space to engage with the relationships, exchanges, and learnings unfolding within it.
At the same time, visitors can access the newly renovated archive room, reopened in March 2026. The archive documents over a century of artistic practice and queer feminist organizing since VBKÖ’s foundation in 1910, as well as its complex and contradictory history.
Vereinigung bildender Künstler*innen Österreichs (VBKÖ) was founded in 1910 and is one of the pioneers of the early women artists’ movement. It is still based in Vienna’s 1st district today. The VBKÖ is a place that cultivates contemporary feminist art agendas, offers space for experimentation and promotes political and activist work - with the aim of creating a lively connection between historical debate and contemporary queer, feminist art production.