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Lap-See Lam, 192 Wing Lok Street, installation view

Vienna Secession (Secession)Innere Stadt

Lap-See Lam: 192 Wing Lok Street

Now showing11 September 2026 – 22 November 2026€13

Lap-See Lam's new glass sculptures, sound and spatial objects on diaspora and family history, with bamboo-like glass forms and a soundscape tied to Hong Kong.

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You walk into the Secession's foyer and a stalk of glass bamboo fills the middle of the room, as if driven through the building. Downstairs, in the gallery under the entrance, a chandelier shaped like roots hangs from the ceiling and glass mandarins lie in the corners.

The title is an address in Hong Kong. Lam, born in Stockholm to a Hong Kong family, scanned the bamboo scaffolding on that street, where her grandmother once sold fruit. The new works, hand-blown at Cirva in Marseille, rework those scaffolds in glass on polished mirrors; one wall piece joins real bamboo to glass. A steady hum plays from a repurposed air-conditioning unit. With the Naschmarkt next door, these are the only mandarins nearby nobody will offer you a taste of.

It takes two spaces, the foyer and one basement gallery, so it fits around the Beethoven Frieze. Admission is €13 (students under 26 €7.50, under-12s free) and covers every current show; the next free first Wednesday is 4 November.

Look for

  • The glass bamboo in the foyer

    A large glass sculpture shaped like a bamboo stalk takes the centre of the foyer and looks as if it grows through the whole building.

  • The root chandelier

    In the basement gallery right below the entrance, a glass chandelier shaped like bamboo roots hangs from the ceiling and lights the room.

  • The glass mandarins

    Look in the corners of the basement gallery for mandarins made of glass, a nod to the grandmother who sold fruit on Wing Lok Street.

  • Scaffolding on mirrors

    Glass versions of Hong Kong's bamboo scaffolding, isolated and reworked, stand on polished mirrored surfaces that throw the room back at you.

  • The humming air conditioner

    An ordinary facade air-conditioning unit has been repurposed to play a continuous hum composed by Marlena Salonen and Linus Hillborg, audible throughout the show.

Good for

  • Locals Who've Seen It All
  • Rainy Days

With kids

Children under 12 get in free.

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