Queer Mode - Transforming Runways into Unforgettable Art

About Queer Mode

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.

Show starts at 7:30 p.m.

Royal Black 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

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

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 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

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 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

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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Queering the Belvedere

13.06.2025
19:30Uhr
Performance

Upper Belvedere

Prinz Eugen-Straße 27, 1030 Wien

Registration is open!!!

Queering the Belvedere

During Pride Month in June, events take place around the world to honor those who lost their lives fighting for the rights of queer people, and to make visible the ongoing commitment against homophobia and for a diverse society. Raising the rainbow flag on public institutions and buildings is a sign of broad solidarity with the queer community and its demands. More info

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