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Queer Mode @Belvedere
June 13, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm CEST
Queer Mode – Queering the Belvedere
Queer Mode is a bold, interdisciplinary performance event that brings fashion, movement, poetry, and queer presence into dialogue with classical art spaces. Conceived and produced by Denise Van De Cruze, Queer Mode invites audiences to reimagine the runway as a site of transformation—where bodies become living art and self-expression takes center stage. Presented in collaboration with the Belvedere Museum during Vienna Pride, this immersive experience blurs the lines between performance, exhibition, and celebration.
Royal Black Couture @royalblack_couture
Royal Black is a Vienna-based couture label by Barbara Pesendorfer, known for handcrafted corsetry and wearable art that blends classic tailoring with modern techniques like 3D printing.
Bugaric @bugaric_
Goran Bugaric, a master tailor from Serbia, founded his label BUGARIC in 2012 in a Vienna U-Bahn arch. The brand stands for quality fabrics, expert tailoring, and customer comfort.
Arakne @araknevienna
ARAKNE, founded by Elias and Lu Arakne, blends modern elegance with sensuality, crafting timeless pieces rooted in emotion, fine materials, comfort, and bold self-expression.
DaDa JV @dada_jv
DaDa JV is a non-binary dancer and voguing artist who uses movement to explore identity, emotion, and freedom—creating space for gender fluidity and self-expression through performance.
Ina Holub @inaholub
Ina Holub is a queer body positivity activist and voguing teacher based in Vienna. As Trina Mizrahi, she uplifts diverse, larger bodies and highlights the roots and politics of voguing.
Steffi Stanković @steffi_stan_
Steffi Stankovic is a trans activist and model based in Vienna. Through workshops, media, and edutainment, she brings visibility and insight to gender from social, political, and personal angles.
The Shapeshifter Project _ Wearable Art as Ritual, Resilience and Reinvention @bonelli_n_black
The Shapeshifter Project is a series of wearable art pieces emerging from the collaboration between the concept artist Dorian Bonelli and costume designer Barbara Pesendorfer.
Blurring the boundaries between visual art, fashion, and craft, it explores garments as living sculptures—objects of meaning, transformation, and embodiment. By transforming pre-loved leather pants into jackets Bonelli&Black make a statement about resilience and longevity.
Each piece is a ritual in the making—a slow, intentional process that honors the history embedded in materials while opening space for new narratives.
This is a participatory art form—where the community is invited not only to witness but to wear, inhabit, and become.
Paying tribute to slow fashion and the sensuality of the leather scene it celebrates the power of transformation -—where garments shift shape, stories become shared, and clothing becomes conversation.
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