Improper Walls

🔸Introducing the Invited Mentors of the Curatorial Laboratory Program 🔸 - Part 4

andrea ancira is an editor, curator and cultural organiser based between Mexico City, Guatemala City and Vienna. Her research and practice sit at the intersection of archival work, editing and translation, which she uses to explore how collective memory, identity and historical narratives are underpinned by power structures. Since 2017, she has co-directed , a transfeminist editorial project that approaches publishing as a collaborative and experimental space for study, translation and relation. She is currently pursuing a PhD at the Institute of Art Theory and Cultural Studies, and is part of ***rcareclubvienna and the .

We are delighted to welcome Andrea as the fourth and final invited mentor of the Curatorial Laboratory Program! With this, we conclude the introductions of our four Invited Mentors and we look forward to the diverse perspectives each of them will contribute to the program.

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🔸Introducing the Invited Mentors of the Curatorial Laboratory Program 🔸 - Part 3

Eva Fischer is an independent curator, festival director, and cultural manager in post-digital art, critical media and art, science and technology. As a trained art historian, she has been director of the media art festival since 2021. In 2007 she initiated , which became known as the Vienna Festival for Audiovisual Art and has been operating as a platform for immersive art and technology since 2016. Between 2016 and 2019 she was head of production at the in Graz and between 2023 and 2025 COO of the in Vienna. Since 2011 she has been teaching at various universities and Austrian universities of applied science.

We’re thrilled to welcome Eva as part of the Curatorial Laboratory mentoring team!

📌 Applications remain open until June 30, 2026. Find out more via the link in our bio.

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Join us on Saturday, June 27, to explore digital inclusion, technological accessibility, and the social impact of emerging technologies such as AI and next-generation spatial computing technologies. Through a discussion and collaborative concept prototyping, we will critically examine how social and gender-based inequalities are reflected in devices, platforms, and digital content, and how these dynamics shape experiences of participation, accessibility, and care.

Spots are limited. Please register your participation via email to: barbora[at]improperwalls[dot]com

Immerea is an indie studio based in Vienna, focusing on the development of virtual reality games and interactive installations. Coming from a background in media art, architecture, and design, their vision is to create projects of high artistic quality and experimental character, pushing the boundaries of immersive and interactive technologies.

More information via link in bio

This event is a part of the public program of Neurotopias and is supported by MA7, BMWKMS, and the 15th District.

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!

✨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✨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.

✨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.