Exhibitions in Vienna

Heidi Horten Collection

Group show on play and playfulness as artistic strategy, from Duchamp, Haring and Warhol to contemporary games, performance and interactive installations.

Belvedere 21

Artists from the feminist avant-garde to today tackle social, gender and ecological issues, building on the landmark 1985 show Kunst mit Eigen-Sinn.

Belvedere 21

The sixth edition of the Civa biennial: five international artists push back against speed and optimisation, with talks, film screenings and live performances.

MAK – Museum of Applied Arts

About 150 building kits from a century of toy-making, from wood and metal to Galalith and Lego, with eight hands-on stations where visitors can play and build.

Wien Museum

A cultural history of colour told through around 350 garments from the Wien Museum's fashion collection, exploring colour as a symbol of status, emotion and identity.

Albertina Modern

Retrospective marking Franz West's 80th birthday, centred on his Adaptives: sculptures meant to be worn and handled that blurred art and everyday life.

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.

mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien

New work by the MacArthur Fellow Cameron Rowland, whose solo shows have been held at Dia Beacon, the ICA London and MOCA Los Angeles. Curated by Matthias Michalka.

Theatermuseum (Palais Lobkowitz)

A KHM show at Palais Lobkowitz built around a Portrait of an Old Man newly attributed to Gian Lorenzo Bernini, with about ten international loans.

Architekturzentrum Wien (Az W)

KOSMOS architects look at the temporary structures that keep cities running, from construction sites to maintenance work, and what they reveal about efficiency and adaptability.

Heidi Horten Collection

Cabinet show on the women's shoe as fetish, projection surface and site of feminist critique: Andy Warhol's shoe prints alongside Birgit Jürgenssen, Gudrun Kampl and Lena Henke.

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.

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.

Albertina

Tribute to Arnulf Rainer (1929-2025), the uncompromising Austrian innovator whose radical 1950s overpaintings pushed painting to its limits.

Kunsthalle Wien

Magali Reus's first Austrian solo show: vessel-like sculptures mixing casting, forging, wicker and embroidery with machine processes. At MuseumsQuartier.

Wien Museum

How his home city shaped Franz West, focused on his formative years from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. Opens alongside a parallel West show at the Albertina Modern.

MAK – Museum of Applied Arts

Set designer Anna Viebrock stages MAK collection objects from 1918-1938 as a domestic experiment, exploring how housing and interiors reshaped Vienna after World War I.

mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien

An immersive film and sound project that tunes into the planet's inaudible voices, from infrasound and seismic resonance to animal and plant communication.

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.

Leopold Museum

Viennese fashion c. 1900–1930: the Wiener Werkstätte's fashion department, reform dress, Emilie Flöge, and the exchange with Paul Poiret's Paris.

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.

Dom Museum Wien

The close yet ambivalent bond between animals and humans, from the Middle Ages to today, with works by Goya, Ensor, Maria Lassnig, VALIE EXPORT and Graciela Iturbide.