Temporary. Structures of Necessity

Preview: written before the show opened

The museum's lead image for this show was taken in Basel in 2025, and it shows brooms. They are put up in front of tunnels and building sites, the caption explains, to protect train passengers who stick their heads out of the window.

KOSMOS architects have been collecting examples like this since their student days: scaffolding, tents, flood barriers and the other short-lived structures that keep a city building, demolishing, repairing, guiding and protecting. They call these anonymous structures "tectures", built without an author, and the show in Exhibition Hall 2 treats them as an architectural category of their own. If you have ever ducked under scaffolding, you have walked through its subject.

It opens on 5 November, so nobody has reviewed it yet. Tickets are €12, reduced €9. Tuesday tours at 17:00 run through December, one led by the curator on 24 November. A show called Temporary that runs five months is, by the standards of some Viennese scaffolding, a pop-up.