Improper Walls

✨Queer Bodywork Session with Magdalena Chowaniec✨
June 2, 6-7:30pm
Raw Matters Studio

Magdalena Chowaniec invites all q***r bodies to join a soft session of body work against stress, anxiety and overwhelm. Working with touch and body weight, we will help the nervous system to return to equilibrium, release tension from the muscles and joints and enjoy the state of deep relaxation and regeneration. In this session, we are going to work in pairs—as an active/passive body (giver and receiver). We will use our hands and our body weight, so you should be comfortable with that. Wear comfortable clothes and bring a thin blanket. Open to max. 20 participants. Session is free of charge, in cooperation with Raw Matters.

Please register your participation via email to: [email protected]

Magdalena Chowaniec (she/her) works as a choreographer, performer, musician, curator, and art educator. In her artistic practice, she explores choreographic and somatic methods as tools of gentle resistance, socio-political reorganization, and both individual and collective transformation. Over the last years she cooperated with ImpulsTanz, brut, TQW, Kampnagel Hamburg, Wiener Staatsoper, a.o. As a curator and outreach specialist, she has worked for Tangente Festival, and since 2026, she has curated and facilitated neighborhood projects at Raw Matters. She’s part of the music formation Mermaid & Seafruit and teaches movement to people of all ages and backgrounds.

✨Introducing Accessibility Designer✨
Sabrina Haas is a designer and researcher based in Vienna. Her experience involves working across multiple media and formats, from short films, exhibitions, and artistic research, to creative workshops and journalistic formats. She wrote her master’s thesis on neuro-inclusive design practices and is now looking into how they can be applied in art and cultural spaces, and the wider insights this may surface. 

Opening: 20.05.2026, 7-10 PM | With performance by Kathi Sylvest & Jakob Liu Wächter
Exhibition Duration: 21.05.2026 - 22.07.2026
Participating Artists: Oleksandr Halishchuk, Lo Moran, Alina Pust, Kathi Sylvest & Jakob Liu Wächter
Curated by: Barbora Horská
Assistant Curator: Ola Plankenauer
Visual Design by Ale Zapata
Accessibility Design: Sabrina Haas
The exhibition is supported by MA7, BMWKMS, and the 15. District.

✨Introducing Assistant Curator✨

Ola Plankenauer is an anti-disciplinary artist and researcher based in Vienna. With a background in art history, dance and art, their practice moves fluidly between visual art, performance and material research. Their work engages with bodies and binaries, drawing from the mystique, the monstrous and more-than-human to explore themes of transformation, non-normative embodiment, and resistance.

Neurotopias
Opening: 20.05.2026, 7-10 PM | With performance by Kathi Sylvest & Jakob Liu Wächter
Exhibition Duration: 21.05.2026 - 22.07.2026
Participating Artists: Oleksandr Halishchuk, Lo Moran, Alina Pust, Kathi Sylvest & Jakob Liu Wächter
Curated by: Barbora Horská
Assistant Curator: Ola Plankenauer
Visual Design by Ale Zapata
Accessibility Design: Sabrina Haas
The exhibition is supported by MA7, BMWKMS, and the 15. District.

✨Introducing the artists✨2
Oleksandr Halishchuk is a multimedia artist, q***r-anarchist and curator from Melitopol (southern Ukraine). In their artistic practice, private-sincere and political-triggering are inseparable. They like to explore the intersections of concepts such as truth and sincerity, hearing and listening, presence and being somewhere physically through personal (marginalized, q***r, traumatic) life experiences.

Their work “Khutir” is an interactive multimedia installation, visually inspired by the book “Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka”—a book about a quiet place, full of love, drama, devils, and witches. Carton houses coated in gypsum and covered with the artist’s political and anarchistic notes stand on a simple kitchen table to refer to the space most likely to be used to express dissidence and anger in former USSR households. The artwork is completed with zines and microinstallations of places, actions, and everyday scenes made out of found objects and trinkets. The author rejects utopia as a concept appropriated by reactionary and authoritarian ideologies like fascism, neoliberalism, or the so-called communist regime, and instead plays with building new perspectives via sincere communication that serves as a starting point for societal change. Inspired by David Graeber’s “The Dawn of Everything,” the work questions socio-political structures, tribalism and the idea of only one functional system through unifying forms of communication: imagination, toys, games, and text. Khutir invites to touch, feel, and enter, to help us realize we are not alone in our anger.

Opening: 20.05.2026, 7-10 PM | With performance by Kathi Sylvest & Jakob Liu Wächter
Exhibition Duration: 21.05.2026 - 22.07.2026
Participating Artists: Oleksandr Halishchuk, Lo Moran, Alina Pust, Kathi Sylvest & Jakob Liu Wächter
Curated by: Barbora Horská
Assistant Curator: Ola Plankenauer
Visual Design by Ale Zapata
Accessibility Design: Sabrina Haas
The exhibition is supported by MA7, BMWKMS, and the 15. District.