Vienna Secession (Secession)

Sound pioneer Bernhard Leitner shows new and earlier immersive sound installations, including a water-based sound space and a Sound Couch you feel through your body.

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.

Sheets naming enslaved people who escaped, each with date, place and a painted flower, fill the walls as Ellis's voice reads the names aloud.

Vienna-based Japanese artist Yoshinori Niwa stages participatory, performance-based works that probe power, participation and society.

LA-based painter Beaux Mendes questions landscape painting's ties to power and colonialism in paintings and sculptures made during a Vienna residency.

Polish artist Iza Tarasewicz builds large modular installations from salvaged materials, drawing on philosophy, quantum physics and chaos theory.

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

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

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

Mostly small paintings between architecture, interior, figuration and abstraction, with exposed stretchers and translucent supports in place of canvas.

Moving image, sound and performance on how AI generates images and identities, including The Zizi Show deepfake drag cabaret.

Works since the late 1960s across photography, video and sculpture, with draped velvet, marble and plaster and the fold as a central motif.