Exhibitions in Vienna

Albertina

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

Kunsthalle Wien

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

MAK – Museum of Applied Arts

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 Belvedere

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)

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

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.

Upper Belvedere

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

Jewish Museum Vienna (Jüdisches Museum Wien)

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

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

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

MAK – Museum of Applied Arts

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

Albertina Modern

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 Museum

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.

MAK – Museum of Applied Arts

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 Hundertwasser

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)

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 Museum

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

Heidi Horten Collection

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.