Exhibitions in Vienna

MAK – Museum of Applied ArtsPast

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.

Upper BelvederePast

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

Natural History Museum Vienna (Naturhistorisches Museum Wien)Past

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)Past

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

MAK – Museum of Applied ArtsPast

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

Kunsthistorisches Museum WienPast

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

AlbertinaPast

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

Wien MuseumFreePast

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.

MAK – Museum of Applied ArtsPast

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.

Albertina ModernPast

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.

Wien MuseumPast

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 21Past

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.

Belvedere 21Past

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.

MAK – Museum of Applied ArtsPast

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 HundertwasserPast

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)Past

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.

Leopold MuseumPast

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

AlbertinaPast

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

State Hall of the Austrian National Library (Prunksaal)Past

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.

Heidi Horten CollectionPast

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.

Upper BelvederePast

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.

Jewish Museum Vienna (Jüdisches Museum Wien)Past

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.

Kunsthalle WienPast

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

AlbertinaPast

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lower Belvedere

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

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.

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.

Albertina

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Weltmuseum WienFree

A participatory room where communities from across Vienna reflect on the world and the museum, with three invited artists. Free admission.

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.