KEEP IN TOUCH! Exhibition in Vienna

KEEP IN TOUCH! Exhibition in Vienna

Curated by Negar Hakim, Christiane Kalantari

Co-curated by Julius W. Chromecek, Azadeh Hariri & Necdet Tankut Cerit

Opening with music by Harito de Colombia (Harold Restrepo): Thursday, October 08, 2026, 7 pm

Architect’s talk with Alireza Taghaboni & Mark Gilbert, moderated by Negar Hakim and Ian Banerjee: Thursday, October 08, 2026, 5 pm

Open photo studio and performance workshop by Julius W. Chromecek, Gabi Seeleitner & Christa Stöffelbauer, Raw Matters im Hof (Tobias Brossmann & Naomi Dutzi, Kai Feldhammer, Julia Skrobisz): Friday, November 06, 2026, 4 – 7 pm

as part of the Vienna Art Week

Venue: philomena+ project room, Heinestraße 40, 1020 Vienna

Keep in Touch! explores architectures and spaces of encounter, asking how we can stay connected across generations, cultures, and different visions of life. Taking the social housing models of Red Vienna in the 1920-ies and their utopias of community-building and communal space as a starting point, the exhibition turns its attention to contemporary forms of living together in Vienna and Tehran. Here, architecture appears not only as a built structure but as a social actor: it can foster closeness and enable participation, yet it can also render boundaries and exclusions visible. Works in drawing, photography, film, and participatory practice examine gestures, thresholds, and hesitations to connect—among people of different generations and origins, as well as between private, public, and communal spaces. In a dialogue between artistic perspectives, archival and architectural research, and lived experience, questions of care, neighbourhood, and togetherness are revisited and renegotiated. Keep in Touch! invites us to rethink connections — between people, places, memories, and visions of the future.