What's on in Vienna

Vienna Secession (Secession)

Sound pioneer Bernhard Leitner shows new and earlier immersive sound installations, including a water-based sound space and a Sound Couch you feel through your body.

Vienna Secession (Secession)

Lap-See Lam's new glass sculptures, sound and spatial objects on diaspora and family history, with bamboo-like glass forms and a soundscape tied to Hong Kong.

Vienna Secession (Secession)

Sheets naming enslaved people who escaped, each with date, place and a painted flower, fill the walls as Ellis's voice reads the names aloud.

MAK – Museum of Applied Arts

Ukrainian painter Kateryna Lysovenko, winner of the 2025 Münze Österreich Prize, treats painting as political action, using reduction and absence to counter propaganda.

Weltmuseum Wien

Pop-up show pairing Guido Boggiani's c.1900 photographs and collection with the voices of today's Ishír (Chamacoco) people of Paraguay.

Weltmuseum Wien

Objects from the Weltmuseum's stores that have rarely, if ever, been on public display, with the stories of where they came from and what they meant.

Albertina

Major face-off between the 20th century's two great figurative painters, Picasso and Bacon, and their savage reinventions of the human body.

Lower Belvedere

Solo show of Erika Giovanna Klien (1900–1957), leading figure of Viennese Kineticism: birds in flight, dancing bodies, rotating machines and her later New York work.

Heidi Horten Collection

First large-scale survey of the Austrian artist-philosopher: sculptures, paintings, drawings, films and a site-specific installation on the earth as bearer of history, life and memory.

Upper Belvedere

Asta Gröting's video installation sends deformed everyday objects floating in slow motion through a deep blue summer sky, shown in the Upper Belvedere's Carlone Hall.

Weltmuseum Wien

Photos of c.1900 arms dealers, collection objects and contemporary art trace the global gun trade and challenge colonial myths of 'primitive' weapons.

Upper Belvedere

Botanist-turned-artist herman de vries fills the Baroque Carlone Hall with a fragrant ellipse of purple lavender flowers laid out on the floor.

MAK – Museum of Applied Arts

Christoph Schlingensief's first solo show in Austria, centred on his installation Church of Fear, spans the political actions and films that broke down lines between art, theatre and politics.

Natural History Museum Vienna (Naturhistorisches Museum Wien)

Photographer Gregor Sailer asks how we will grow food tomorrow, contrasting labour-intensive, diverse agrosystems with AI-controlled automated farming. Hall 21, 2nd floor.

Jewish Museum Vienna (Jüdisches Museum Wien)

At Museum Judenplatz: the power and powerlessness of forgetting, from rabbinical excommunication to Austria's post-1945 amnesia, with Brigitte Kowanz and William Utermohlen.

Albertina

Around 50 works by Helga Philipp (1939-2002), a leading figure of Austrian concrete and op art, spanning painting, drawing, prints and kinetic objects.

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

Showcase EXTRA #8: Roman marble portraits of women, like Julia Titi, beside coin portraits, tracing centuries of reworking plus two never-before-shown heads.

MAK – Museum of Applied Arts

Posters from seven decades of the Wiener Festwochen, drawn from the MAK and Wienbibliothek, chart the festival's evolution and its shifting design languages.

Albertina Modern

KAWS's cartoon-born characters, uniting pop, commercial and public art, shown in dialogue with contemporary artists to probe the line between comics and fine art.

MAK – Museum of Applied Arts

Some 500 pieces pair 120 years of Van Cleef & Arpels high jewellery with rarely seen MAK treasures in a labyrinth of six themes, from wanderlust to nature.

Wien Museum · Free

Fifty years after the 1976 occupation of a former slaughterhouse, a free show goes behind the scenes of the Arena, the self-run venue that became home to Vienna's alternative scene.

Wien Museum

The Peschka bequest reveals Egon Schiele's family life: paintings, letters, photos, his studio furniture and his own glass cabinet of mementos, via his sister Gerti and painter Anton Peschka.

Belvedere 21

Over 150 works the Belvedere acquired in the past decade, arranged experimentally by artist Heimo Zobernig as an inventory and a look at how the museum collects.

Belvedere 21

Chinese artist Miao Ying's first European solo show compares AI training with dog training in installations, videos and paintings, and draws on magic and alchemy.

MAK – Museum of Applied Arts

Research-led artist Felix Lenz's film and video installations trace the environmental and historical costs of technological image-making, from global infrastructure to Silicon Valley.

Kunst Haus Wien – Museum Hundertwasser

34 artists, scientists and writers respond to ecological, communal and personal loss, from climate disruption to the AIDS epidemic, around the sculpture Orrery of Interconnected Loss.

Architekturzentrum Wien (Az W)

How some 25 Austrian architects used their neutral country's Cold War position to build in newly independent African and Asian states, told through plans, photos and models.

Albertina

Anniversary show on how Duke Albert and Archduchess Marie Christine built the collection from 1776, highlighting women's role in its founding.

Leopold Museum

First full showing of the Austrian central bank's art collection: New Objectivity, post-Expressionism and postwar abstraction from 1918 to today.

Upper Belvedere

Restoration and technical imaging reveal what was painted over in two Lampi works: a mother hidden in a Neoclassical family portrait and a Cupid concealed beside a sleeping Venus.

Heidi Horten Collection

Cabinet show around Bechtold's iconic concrete Porsche 911, parked in the courtyard's director's space, with photographs, films and serial works on reproduction and documentation.

State Hall of the Austrian National Library (Prunksaal)

A 1933 music print of a "Mozart" violin concerto actually written by Marius Casadesus in 1931, a hoax undetected until 1977. Chosen by public vote.

Jewish Museum Vienna (Jüdisches Museum Wien)

In the Dorotheergasse project space: Anja Salomonowitz's film on the sheitel, with a Viennese wigmaker and Orthodox women on why and how they cover their hair.

Albertina

Travel and expedition photography from the mid-19th century on, with extensive series tracing power, mobility and how the camera captured the world.

Kunsthalle Wien

Fifth edition of the Vienna art-scene survey: 56 artists, 130+ works, many newly commissioned, across both venues (MuseumsQuartier and Karlsplatz).

mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien

The Georgian artist's first solo museum show uses the "figure of the child" to rethink first encounters with art, drawing in movement, touch and works by Picasso, Goldin and Paik.

State Hall of the Austrian National Library (Prunksaal)

Love across 2,000 years in the library's collections, from ancient creation myths and medieval love songs to Mozart, Schubert, Goethe and Bachmann.

Jewish Museum Vienna (Jüdisches Museum Wien)

At Dorotheergasse: Israeli artist Eran Shakine's humorous large oil-pastel works follow three top-hatted men, one of each faith, exploring what the monotheistic religions share.

Sigmund Freud Museum

The Freud family's last months in Nazi Vienna: the dispossession of Sigmund and Alexander Freud and the murder of their four sisters, told through newly acquired documents.

Albertina

German comedy legend Otto Waalkes as painter, sending his Ottifants roaming through art history in dialogue with the Albertina's collection.

Albertina Modern

Op Art pioneers Victor Vasarely and Marc Adrian side by side: geometric grids and optical effects designed to set the viewer's eyes in motion.

Lower Belvedere

Retrospective of Polish avant-garde artist Erna Rosenstein (1913–2004): some eighty paintings, drawings, assemblages and poems on trauma, memory and resilience.

MAK – Museum of Applied Arts

A survey of Viennese ceramist Vally Wieselthier (1895-1945), whose expressive ceramic sculpture spanned Europe and America, with many works from her US estate shown for the first time.

Leopold Museum

Painter Herbert Boeckl and sculptor Hans Josephsohn, who never met, in dialogue: shared ideas of the body, material and the search for form.

Natural History Museum Vienna (Naturhistorisches Museum Wien)

Jürgen Merz's before-and-after photographs retrace 19th-century glacier views across the Alps, showing how fast the ice is retreating. Hallway, level 1.

MAK – Museum of Applied Arts

Thomas Demand turns historic theatre set models, from the Baroque to the early 20th century, into a new photographic series with large wall installations and custom lighting.

mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien

A five-act show across five levels built around Kate Millett's 1972 installation, setting some 400 collection works, loans and commissions around the act of looking.

Technisches Museum Wien (Vienna Technical Museum)

A five-level special exhibition on the circular economy: how food, clothing, housing and leisure could be rethought from a product's start, with projects like algae-based clothing.

Kunst Haus Wien – Museum Hundertwasser

Main show of the Klima Biennale Wien: 13 international artists, including Cecilia Vicuña and Kapwani Kiwanga, use sculpture, installation, photography and video to explore seeds, loss and regeneration.

Natural History Museum Vienna (Naturhistorisches Museum Wien)

At the NHM's Narrenturm site (Spitalgasse 2, 1090), a show on electropathology: Vienna's pioneering research, electricity's effects on the body, first aid and prevention.

Natural History Museum Vienna (Naturhistorisches Museum Wien)

The anniversary show traces how a 30,000-object imperial collection grew into 30 million, and looks critically at the darker sides of collecting and exploration.