Improper Walls, Reindorfgasse 42, Vienna (2026)

28/05/2026

This weekend, we'll be part of the Independent Space Index Festival with our current exhibition Neurotopias, and we've additionally prepared something special for you. We invited amazing people to join us for a Pop Up where you can find zines, publications, wearables, and more.

About the projects:

Carol from Lisbon is a board-certified artist slash designer slash artist... She’ll entertain you with upcycled second-hand pieces and small flipbooks filled with her goofy illustrations :)))))

Christos Kyritopoulos Ninas is a visual artist born in Athens, Greece. In his artistic practice he employs both digital and analog media, such as drawing, sculpture, video and web based media.

Tumbalacasa Ediciones is an independent editorial platform based in Mexico City working across artistic research, feminist practices, q***r and trans dissent, anti-colonial thought, and disability perspectives.

Never Brush My Teeth: Mike makes illustrations and comic zines :) The themes of their zines are usually around personal feelings, traumas and thoughts. They self-publish all their zines and print them on a riso press they have together with friends, called Sleep On It press.

THE GRUMPUSS+badddies ties are unique handmade and printed plushy p***y ties, with loads of metal chain details and charms, to give your restless fingers something to fiddle around with, while also serving HIGH FASHION ! a collaboration by &

Lerimu Plenilunio is an artist from Chile, South America, who creates from nostalgia and emotional connections. His work revolves around love, abandonment, and emotional memory.

You will also find our Improper Dose and bal publications.

29-31 of May. 2-6PM.

♡♡♡ looking forward to see you!

22/05/2026

✨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.

20/05/2026

✨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.

19/05/2026

✨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.

18/05/2026

✨Introducing the artists✨4
Kathi Sylvest studies Transmediale Kunst at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and Jakob Liu Wächter studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. Working across sculpture, installation, and experimental practices, they have collaborated closely over the past years and curated several exhibitions together. They met at the artist-run space Bräuhausgasse 31 and are active within Vienna’s q***r art scene.

Their work, Garden of Eden, is a sculptural installation combining existing works by Kathi Sylvest and Jakob Liu Wächter into a walkable garden environment on pink artificial grass. Hyper-feminized, defensive forms and translucent, trans*chromatic plant structures form a synthetic ecology in which contrasting qualities—softness and protection, sweetness and toxicity—coexist. The installation proposes an adaptive, collective system of care shaped through spatial arrangement, material interaction, and the movement of visitors.

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.

17/05/2026

✨Introducing the artists✨3
Alina Pust is a Ukrainian interdisciplinary artist and educator working across drawing, performance, music, and interactive practices. She explores imagination, care, and storytelling as collective processes. Since 2017, she has participated in performative and community-based projects, including Speaking Portraits at the Gogol Festival (Dnipro, 2020). She co-created performative works, Narrative Presences and No Distance Allowed, that are based on the personal stories of people displaced by the war in Ukraine. Currently based in Vienna, her practice focuses on listening, relationality, and collective future-making in times of crisis.

Her work, “Best Possible Future” is an interactive, interview-based work that explores how people imagine a “best possible future” while being grounded in the imperfect realities of the present. The conversations are recorded in everyday environments—spaces with ambient noise, interruptions, and textures of lived experience—embracing their non-ideal conditions as part of the work. Each interview begins with questions of gratitude, values, and perceived challenges, before the artist guides participants into speculative imagination. From multiple distances—intimate and systemic, concrete and abstract—they envision a world 200–300 years ahead in which social, ecological, and relational systems have unfolded in the best possible way. The project traces how these visions emerge, what limits or expands them, and what answers people already carry within themselves. The resulting material—edited audio tracks—forms a constellation of future imaginaries, revealing shared patterns of care, coexistence, and transformation.

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.

15/05/2026

✨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.

14/05/2026

✨Introducing the artists✨1
Lo Moran creates interdisciplinary projects that are socially engaged, participatory and collaborative, experimenting with and questioning the systems we are embedded in through connection, openness and nonhierarchical learning. Working toward accessibility and reimagined ways of being together, their practice spans social practice, performance, printmaking, illustration, educational work, and archival methodologies. Lo has performed experimental sound internationally for 10 years and been involved in disability art communities for 13. They embrace fluidity and chaos to contribute to emergent futures and radical approaches.

Their work, “Normativity Detox,” presented at Neurotopias, inverts the aesthetics of conversion therapy alongside cult, religious, and wellness tropes to dismantle the systems that pathologize and delegitimize q***rness and neurodivergence. This iteration is a video appropriating the affective language of contemporary influencer practices and conversion therapy rhetoric to guide viewers through participatory “therapies” to “cure” neurotypical compulsions toward interdependence, care, and worlds where unmasking is not only safe but comfortable. The work insists that “acting normal” is a survival strategy, not a choice, and that unmasking is an everyday political framework to create more access for everyone.

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.

12/05/2026

ℝ𝕖𝕟𝕥-𝕗𝕣𝕖𝕖 𝕊𝕦𝕞𝕞𝕖𝕣 𝕒𝕥 𝕀𝕞𝕡𝕣𝕠𝕡𝕖𝕣 𝕎𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕤

During the Summer, the Improper Walls team takes time to rest, which means that our space is temporary without a program.

Inspired by .lot's concept OPENLOT, we see this as an opportunity to offer our space without financial cost and pressure and expectations to develop an end project needing to be showcased in order to provide proof of productivity, thereby rejecting the prevailing logic that access to resources must be earned.

Rent-Free Summer is a two week, cost-free use of the Improper Walls space, offered to an artist, collective, or other art professionals, working across different roles within the field. We offer autonomous use of our space, which consists of the exhibition area, office/bar, and toilet, as well as some equipment available on site. The space can be used for a variety of purposes: starting, developing or finishing a project, conducting research, exhibition, performances, film screenings - in short, any form of artistic practice or research.

Full text, Requirements and Submission Form are in our website or as a link in our Linktree ♡

11/05/2026

✨Save the Date!✨Our upcoming group show, Neurotopias, opens on May 20, 2026, featuring works by Oleksandr Halishchuk, Lo Moran, Alina Pust, and Kathi Sylvest & Jakob Liu Wächter.

The project is the seventh edition of our initiative to participate in the Mental Health Awareness Month to encourage open discussion about often stigmatized topics, their deeper context and socio-political repercussions. This year, we invited artists via an open call to reflect on what a truly accessible society would mean, materially, socially, infrastructurally, asking: What kind of economic system could accommodate people with different abilities and take into account more-than-human needs? How can we offer each other care without pathologizing the issues or denying their existence? What could our surroundings—our homes and cities—look like if we create them from feminist, disabled, and neurodiverse perspectives?

Find out more via the link in bio. Information about public program coming soon.

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.

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