Exhibitions in Vienna

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.

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)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

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.

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.

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.

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.