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Erika Giovanna Klien: All Is Movement
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.
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At the entrance hangs Diving Bird, c. 1939: a bird in mid-plunge built from wing-like forms, which ORF calls the show's star work. The first room continues with 18 bird images from across her career, figurative in the 1920s, increasingly abstract by the 1950s.
About 300 works make this Klien's first solo show in nearly 40 years, hung by theme rather than date, says curator Verena Gamper. A locomotive (1925), a mixer and a meat grinder (both 1935) and dancing bodies get the bird treatment, and her New York work after 1929 includes Brooklyn Bridge (1931). Klien turned a diving bird into straight lines, a courtesy never extended to the pigeon that dive-bombs your Leberkässemmel at Karlsplatz.
One €20 ticket covers all of the Lower Belvedere, including the Erna Rosenstein show. The 13-stop audio guide runs about 50 minutes, in German or English. Open daily 10:00 to 18:00 until 31 January 2027; tram 71 stops outside.
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Eighteen birds fill the first room, and Diving Bird, which ORF called the star work, hangs at the entrance. About 300 works by the Viennese Kineticist, hung by theme: dancers, a locomotive, a meat grinder, Brooklyn Bridge.
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Diving Bird, c. 1939
A bird in mid-plunge made of wing-like forms hangs at the entrance, and ORF calls it the show's star work.
The mixer and the meat grinder, 1935
Two kitchen machines painted as rotating mechanisms, broken into lines of motion like her birds.
The 18 bird images
The first room gathers birds in flight from the figurative 1920s pictures to the abstract Bird Flight of 1951/52.
Locomotive, 1925
A train rendered as geometric forms, from her early Viennese studies of machines in motion.
Brooklyn Bridge, 1931
An abstract view of the city from her New York years, after she moved there in 1929.
Good for
- Going Solo
- Nerding Out
- Out-Of-Town Guests
About 50 min
With kids
Under-19s enter free. Children's creative expression is one of the show's themes, tied to Klien's work as an art teacher.
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- Erika Giovanna Klien: All Is MovementBelvedere
- CARLONE CONTEMPORARY: Asta Gröting. Things© 2026 Asta Gröting / Bildrecht, Vienna 2026 Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna
- Down Syndrom: Über uns, mit unsJohanna Ortmayer | Foto: Philipp Horak | Grafik: Cati Krüger
- Farbenspiel. Mode aus vier JahrhundertenWien Museum
- Lower BelvedereC.Stadler/Bwag, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Upper BelvedereC.Stadler/Bwag, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Wien MuseumGeolina163 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Albertina ModernC.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Haus der MusikClemens Pfeiffer, Wikimedia Commons