Lebt und arbeitet in Wien Talks: The Porous City – Memory at the Margins
Phileas, Opernring 17, 1010 Vienna
13 October 2026, 6.30pm
With Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, Bouchra Khalili, Huda Takriti
moderated by Hannah Marynissen
A collaboration between Kunsthalle Wien and Phileas – The Austrian Office for Contemporary Art in connection with the exhibition Lebt und arbeitet in Wien: Contemporary Art from Vienna at Kunsthalle Wien.
Taking Vienna as a point of departure, this conversation reflects on the ways in which the city is shaped by ongoing movements of arrival and departure. While migration fundamentally informs the social and cultural fabric of urban life, these histories and experiences often remain insufficiently acknowledged within dominant narratives. Working across film, installation, photography and archival research, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, Bouchra Khalili and Huda Takriti engage with archives as sites through which migratory experiences can be traced, questioned and reactivated. By bringing forward narratives that have been forgotten, excluded or marginalised, their practices open broader questions around migration, collective memory and the construction of history. In conversation with Hannah Marynissen (Assistant Curator Lebt und arbeitet in Wien), the artists will further consider how such works are received in different contexts, and what these responses might reveal about a society’s willingness to confront contested histories and its relationship to its own past.
On the occasion of Lebt and arbeitet in Wien, Kunsthalle Wien has conceived a series of talks in collaboration with Phileas that foregrounds the voices of art professionals – and particularly artists – in various discussions about the realities of living and working in Vienna.
The talk is free of charge.
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Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński (b. 1980, Vienna, Austria) has exhibited at La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel; the Irish Museum of Modern Art (both 2025) and Camera Austria, Graz (2021). Kazeem-Kamiński’s work has also been included in Art X Lagos; the 12th Liverpool Biennial (both 2023) and Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles (2022).
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Bouchra Khalili (b. 1975, Casablanca, Morocco) has held solo exhibitions in major institutions such as Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk (2025); Sharjah Art Foundation (2024); MACBA – Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2023); Secession, Vienna (2018); MoMA, New York (2016). She has participated in the Venice Biennale (2013, 2024), the Sharjah Biennial (2011, 2023), Sydney Biennale (2012, 2026), documenta 14 (2017), among other international exhibitions. Khalili is Head of the Department of Artistic Strategies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
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Huda Takriti (b. 1990, Damascus, Syria) has exhibited at Kunstraum Memphis, Linz; MQ Freiraum, Vienna; philomena plus, Vienna (all 2025); Camera Austria, Graz; Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt (both 2024); Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2020) and WUK, Vienna (2018).
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