NeverAtHome welcomes Aika Furukawa (1982, Japan) for a residency in August 2026.
During her residency at NeverAtHome, she explores how aspects of our inner lives that resist language can take shape through drawing. Through conversations and intuitive portrait-making, she creates drawings that respond not to a person's appearance, but to emotions, memories and the more intangible aspects of human experience.
As part of the residency, she is inviting participants to take part in the project. The process consists of an informal 30-minute conversation, followed by a drawing inspired by the encounter. No preparation is needed, and participants are free to share only what they feel comfortable with. If you would like to take part, we would love to hear from you via welcome@never-at-home.at
Aika Furukawa (1982, Japan) works between Brussels, Tokyo and Leipzig, Furukawa explores the impermanence of everyday life through translucent linen paintings and site-specific installations. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at MAK Vienna, the National Art Center Tokyo and the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, where her work is also held in the collection.
4-6 pm with Aika Furukawa (drop in/out)
Join us for an Open Studio Visit with Aika Furukawa during her residency at NeverAtHome in August 2026.
Between 4 and 6 pm, visitors are warmly invited to stop by the studio, see works in progress and gain insight into her practice in an informal setting. The afternoon is conceived as an open format with drinks and snacks, where guests are welcome to arrive and leave at any time.
Have a look around and join the conversation.
As part of the residency, she is inviting participants to take part in the project. The process consists of an informal 30-minute conversation, followed by a drawing inspired by the encounter. No preparation is needed, and participants are free to share only what they feel comfortable with. If you would like to take part, we would love to hear from you via welcome@never-at-home.at
Aika Furukawa (1982, Japan) works between Brussels, Tokyo and Leipzig, Furukawa explores the impermanence of everyday life through translucent linen paintings and site-specific installations. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at MAK Vienna, the National Art Center Tokyo and the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, where her work is also held in the collection.
7pm, curated by Dror Binder
With performances by
Nava Hemyari
Sarah Maria Dragović
Gischt
Edition III brings together performances by Nava Hemyari with Sarah Maria Dragović, and Gischt, whose practices span voice as structural material, silence, fragility, industrial textures, and the slow dissolve of the human voice into electronic sound.
7 - 8 pm studio tours (no ticket needed)
8 - 9.30 pm concerts
SONIC GROUNDS is an experimental music format combining site-specific concerts, performances and open studios at the Funkhaus. Each edition is developed in dialogue with the building’s architecture and brings together NeverAtHome’s in-house artists with local or international musicians.
Funkhaus, Argentinierstraße 30B
by Bianca Millan, Niels Poiz, Paulo Wirz, Bert Mclean; curated by Manos
5-7 pm (drop in/out)
The performative project takes Gianni Rodari’s classic children’s book The Adventures of Cipollino (1951) as its point of departure, while deliberately avoiding adaptation. Instead, the narrative gradually dissolves into images, voices, memories and gestures. In a darkened room, the audience moves over the course of two hours through shifting moments of video projection, sound, darkness and live performance.
Three video works by Paulo Wirz frame the performances by Niels Poiz and Bianca Millan, whose flashlight gradually reveals the space and its presences, including Bert McLean’s painting Potato Painting. The result is an atmospheric environment that asks what remains of a story once its plot disappears.
(Supported by the Instituto Italiano di Cultura)
5-8 pm
in conversation with Hana Čeferin
Lucija Rosc will present the process of her residency at NeverAtHome on september 15th, in collaboration with Freie Kiosk Kultur at MQ Wien. Everybody is welcome to join the event from 5-8 pm for informal exchange and a glass of wine with the curator Hana Čeferin.
(supported by SKICA Wien)
Architecture & Artist Studio Tours + Filmscreenings on the cultural and historical significance of Funkhaus
10am - 5pm
NeverAtHome invites visitors to explore the Funkhaus as both an architectural landmark and a vibrant site of contemporary artistic production.
Tours start every 20 minutes between 10am and 5pm in front of the Funkhaus and last ~ 40 minutes.
The first part of the tour is a 20-minute architectural walk, introducing the history of the Funkhaus, its architectural significance and its place within Vienna's architectural heritage.
Visitors are then invited to continue with a 20-minute guided tour of NeverAtHome's artist studios, offering a behind-the-scenes look into the working spaces of the artists based in the Funkhaus and an insight into NeverAtHome's studio programme.
No registration is required
Meeting point: In front of the Funkhaus
Tours are held in Englisch and German
The event is organized in collaboration with OPEN HOUSE WIEN.
FILM SCREENINGS
The tours are accompanied by film screenings, showing films that are about the cultural importance and architectural significance of the building.
10am -5 pm (drop in/out as you wish)
GEHÖRT, GESEHEN - Ein Radiofilm
von Jakob Brossmann, David Paede; 2019
ZWISCHEN NUTZEN
A film portrait on the former ORF Funkhaus Wien
von Hannah Horn, Deepshikha Pegu, Nelia Mayer-Rolshoven; 2024
personae - an experimental fashion film
von Pascal Hein; 2025
I CAN NO LONGER REMEMBER AND NEITHER CAN YOU
The film takes Ingeborg Bachmann’s radio play The Cicadas (1955) as its point of departure and examines the relationship between sound and memory.
von Lucca Lutzky und Juli Bierich; 2025
3.30 - 5pm
A conversation on how design can contribute to wellbeing, inclusion and more caring ways of living. Part of Vienna Design Week.
Panel Talk 24/7 DESIGNING CARE
by Humainprojects
An intimate conversation around a shared table, bringing together perspectives from design, health, research, craft, industry and media. Rather than a conventional panel, the conversation unfolds over coffee. Coffee is one of our most familiar everyday rituals, a moment to pause, meet, exchange and connect. During the talk, guests will drink together from Humain, an inclusive coffee cup system developed with people living with rheumatoid arthritis, occupational therapists, designers and craftspeople. The object we are talking about becomes part of the conversation. The cup is held, used and experienced, opening a discussion about how seemingly ordinary objects can influence autonomy, dignity, inclusion and wellbeing.
NeverAtHome will participate with a non commercial contribution to this years edition of Minor Attractions art fair in London from the 13th to the 17th of October. More info soon
October 8th, 2026
As part of SESSIONS, NeverAtHome invites architect, curator, and educator Eduardo Castillo Vinuesa for What Does It Take to Make Weather? A Brief, Incomplete History of Skycraft. The workshop explores humanity’s evolving relationship with the atmosphere — from early meteorological tools and systems of observation to cloud seeding, digital simulations, and geoengineering projects. Through this investigation, Eduardo examines how the sky has become a space of technological intervention, political negotiation, and ecological uncertainty.
curated by Carmen Lael Hines
