Exhibitions in Vienna

Vienna Secession (Secession)

Small oil paintings built from self-imposed rules on format, palette and the order of colour, made slowly in layers that hide earlier effort.

Vienna Secession (Secession)

Photographic and sculptural works on the ecological and psychological effects of extraction, with glossy surfaces disturbed by air bubbles, dust and cracks.

Vienna Secession (Secession)

The Congolese artist uses colonial photo archives to question how empire shaped landscapes and images, in dialogue with the Secession building's ornament.

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.

Kunst Haus Wien – Museum Hundertwasser

Solo show in the Project Room Garage on the sea as a link between islands, migration and ecological crisis. It opens the Aqua cycle on water in motion.

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.

Jewish Museum Vienna (Jüdisches Museum Wien)

In the Dorotheergasse Project Space: Nives Widauer's installation on Vienna-raised harpist Steffy Goldner, projected onto a historic harp case.

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.

Weltmuseum Wien

A KHM show on the unsolved murder behind an octagonal tomb in Ephesus, set among Cleopatra, Caesar, Mark Antony and Augustus. In the Neue Hofburg.

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.

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.

Technisches Museum Wien (Vienna Technical Museum)

Diaries, photographs and maps from Alois Negrelli's estate show Austria's part in building the Suez Canal and in colonial networks. Shown inside Material Worlds.

Jewish Museum Vienna (Jüdisches Museum Wien)

At Museum Judenplatz: how Vienna stripped its Jews of their rights after 1938 and drove them out, and the lives of those who fled.

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

Rough, asymmetrical tea-ceremony ceramics from Bizen, Hagi and Shigaraki, made by generations of master-potter families, from the Heinz Slunecko collection.

mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien

Allan Kaprow's 1963 participatory piece, in which visitors rearrange furniture, anchors a show on collective action and the museum as a temporary studio.

MAK – Museum of Applied Arts

The 21st edition of the best posters from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, from experimental author graphics to corporate design. In the MAK Plakat Forum.

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.

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.

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.

Weltmuseum WienFree

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

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 Sylvie Fleury.

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.

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.

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.

Kunsthalle Wien

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

Jewish Museum Vienna (Jüdisches Museum Wien)

At Dorotheergasse: how 19th-century Viennese Jewish scholars and adventurers shaped Oriental and Islamic studies while searching for their own origins.

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.

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.

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)

Genetics and archaeology reveal family ties in two early medieval burial grounds near Vienna, retelling the Migration Period through ordinary people's lives. Hall 21.

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.

Technisches Museum Wien (Vienna Technical Museum)

Fibre, function, fashion: a special exhibition taking clothing textiles apart into fibres, yarns and fabrics, from 19th-century objects to today's overproduction and textile waste.

Sigmund Freud Museum

A monumental mural triptych made for the Showroom Berggasse 19, picturing inner worlds, with Jane McAdam Freud's wire-mesh egg in an armchair at its centre.