With Lesbian Tentacles and other Beings, Qwien presents an exhibition by artist Katrina Daschner, whose work has long been among the defining positions of queer-feminist contemporary art in Austria. Working across film, performance, installation and sculpture, Daschner creates visual worlds in which boundaries between humans, animals, plants and other beings dissolve. Tentacular bodies, hybrid figures and ambiguous encounters populate the exhibition, proposing alternative forms of community, desire and belonging. In place of hierarchies, the work foregrounds connections and processes of mutual dependency: tentacles, entanglements and fluid bodies stand for care, solidarity and the possibility of reimagining social orders.

The exhibition can equally be read as an engagement with the gaps in lesbian history. For decades, many lesbian realities went largely undocumented or were excluded from historical narratives. Daschner approaches these historical absences not through documentary reconstruction, but through imagination, embodiment and fiction — responding with creativity: with figures and spaces in which alternative forms of memory, community and belonging become visible.

At the intersection of performance, film and installation, the artist develops poetic scenarios that negotiate questions of gender, power and visibility. Lesbian Tentacles and other Beings opens a view onto queer histories that cannot be told in linear terms, but persist as living networks of relationships, bodies and experiences.