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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Some 500 pieces pair 120 years of Van Cleef & Arpels high jewellery with rarely seen MAK treasures in a labyrinth of six themes, from wanderlust to nature.

Ukrainian painter Kateryna Lysovenko, winner of the 2025 Münze Österreich Prize, treats painting as political action, using reduction and absence to counter propaganda.

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.

Presented with Wien Modern, Annea Lockwood's multichannel sound installation follows the Danube from the Black Forest to the Black Sea, weaving river sounds with the voices of people who live by it.

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.