Exhibitions in Vienna

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.

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.

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.

Albertina Modern

Australian art from the Albertina's holdings, led by First Nations painter Emily Kame Kngwarreye, with photographers including Destiny Deacon and Tracey Moffatt.

Heidi Horten Collection

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

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.

Jewish Museum Vienna (Jüdisches Museum Wien)

At Museum Judenplatz: Jewish resistance from the Maccabees and Queen Esther to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and women who defied the Nazi regime.