Press Release
10.04.– 09.08.2026
Curated by Stephan Kuss & Veronika Hackl
As part of the Klima Biennale Wien, KunstHausWien is presenting I Wish We Had More Time, the first solo exhibition by the Institute of Queer Ecology in Austria. The exhibition is dedicated to the diverse dimensions of meaning associated with loss: ecological, communal, and relational. It addresses the disruption of symbiosis in nature as a result of climate change. This throws the sensitive interplay between species and phenological phases out of balance. It addresses the ruptures in queer history and narrative traditions caused by social crises such as the AIDS epidemic, as well as the relational losses that arise when two living beings meet at the wrong time or in the wrong place – missed encounters and melancholy.
The Institute of Queer Ecology is an ever-evolving collaborative organism that aims to bring marginalised alternative solutions to environmental destruction to the forefront of public consciousness. Its interdisciplinary projects are based on the theoretical framework of queer ecology, an adaptive practice that explores connectedness, intimacy and cross species relationships. The collective aims to challenge destructive anthropocentric hierarchies and shape a just, interconnected future in which human and non-human life forms coexist on equal terms.
