Exhibitions in Vienna during viennacontemporary

Still craving more art? Here’s a list of current exhibitions at our partner institutions and other recommendations around Vienna. For the most up-to-date information on gallery shows and openings, check Vienna Weekly in our online magazine: viennacontemporaryMag.

 

 

The Zoom Childrens Museum will offer a special kids program at Kursalon Vienna during the fair.

 

 

Albertina

Albertinaplatz 1, 1010 Vienna
Opening Hours: 10:00 am-6:00 pm
(Wednesday and Friday: 9:00 pm)

The Albertina not only has one of the largest and most valuable graphic collections in the world, but also presents masterpieces of classical modernism in its “Monet to Picasso” exhibition collection.

current exhibitions:

VALIE EXPORT
23.06 – 1.10.2023

Ofer Lellouche
29.06 – 19.09.2023

Georg Baselitz – 100 Drawings
07.06 – 17.09.2023

viennacontemporary recommends: Georg Baselitz – 100 Drawings

The exhibition is dedicated to the generous donation of 100 outstanding and trend-setting works on paper by Georg Baselitz to the Albertina and the Morgan Library in New York. The selection of works shows his search for a new method of representation, which had a major impact on art history after 1945, by freeing himself from the representational motif and concentrating on the fundamental questions about pictorial design. The retrospective selection includes early to recent works and emphasises the importance of drawing in the oeuvre. 

the importance of drawing in the artist’s oeuvre.

 

Albertina Modern

Karlsplatz 5, 1010 Vienna
Opening Hours: 10:00 am-6:00 pm

The Albertina modern, a branch of the world-famous Albertina, occupies around 2,500 m² in the completely renovated Künstlerhaus. The most important collection of Austrian art after 1945, the Essl Collection and the Jablonka Collection form the foundation of the new art hot spot.

current exhibitions:

Yoshimoto Nara
10.05 – 1.11.2023

 

 

Belvedere

Prinz-Eugen-Straße 27, 1040 Vienna
Opening Hours: 10:00 am-6:00 pm 

The Belvedere is not only a magnificent baroque palace, but as a museum it also houses one of Austria’s most valuable art collections – with major works by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka.

current exhibition:

Picture This!

 

 

Belvedere 21

Arsenalstraße 1, 1030 Vienna
Opening Hours: 11:00 am-6:00 pm
(closed on Mondays)

The Belvedere 21 museum is not only highly interesting from an architectural point of view, but is also intensively engaged in Austrian art of the 20th and 21st centuries.

current exhibitions:

Alois Mosbacher
10.03 – 10.09.2023

On The New

Public Matters
13.05 – 01.10.2023

 

viennacontemporary  recommends: Public Matters
From May through September, an extensive contemporary sculpture project complements the Baroque sculpture program at the Belvedere’s three locations. Site-specific as well as existing works by international and local artists will connect all of the museum’s gardens along a path, highlighting how the gardens organically grew into an ensemble.

 

 

Dom Museum Wien

Stephansplatz 6, 1010 Wien
Opening Hours: 10:00 am-6:00 pm
(Thursday: 8:00 pm, closed on Mondays and Tuesdays)

The Dom Museum Wien right next door to St. Stephen’s Cathedral shows precious church treasures and contemporary art.

current exhibitions:

Permanent Exhibition

 

 

Heidi Horten Collection

Hanuschgasse 3, 1010 Wien
Opening Hours: 11:00 am-7:00 pm
(Thursday: 9:00 pm, closed on Tuesdays)

 

A new museum hotspot for Vienna: Since 2022, Heidi Goëss-Horten´s spectacular art collection is accessible to the public. Special exhibitions in this renovated inner-city palace address different topics of the collection.

current exhibitions:

RENDEZ-VOUS – Picasso, Chagall, Klein an their times

 

viennacontemporary recommends: RENDEZ-VOUS – Picasso, Chagall, Klein and the times 

This year’s summer exhibition at the Heidi Horten Collection invites you to rendezvous with artists from the collection whose lives were touched by France; the exhibition follows them there to places representing a significant stage in their artistic development.  Taken together, the importance of Paris is reflected – but also that of the Midi, the south of France — as catalyst and breeding ground for the emergence and dissemination of significant art movements of the twentieth century.

 

 

Jüdisches Museum Wien

Dorotheergasse 11, 1010 Wien
Museum Judenplatz
Openings Hours: 10:00 am-6:00 pm
(closed on Saturdays)

The Jewish Museum provides an overview of the history and present of Jews in Vienna – with a permanent exhibition, exciting temporary exhibitions and a display depot.

current exhibitions:

Guilt
28.03. – 29.10.2023

Focus! Click! Maria Austria – Photographer in Exile
21.06.23 – 14.01.2024

 

 

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

Maria-Theresien-Platz, 1010 Wien
Opening Hours: 10:00 am-6:00 pm
(Thursday: 9:00 pm, closed on Mondays)

The Kunsthistorisches Museum was built near the Hofburg to house the extensive collections of the imperial family. With its collection of important works and the world’s largest Bruegel collection, it is today one of the most important art collections in the world.

current exhibitions:

In Love with Laura – Ein Geheimnis in Mamor
20.06 – 15.10.2023

Point of View #27 – A Masterpiece and its (Almost) Forgotten Collector: The So-Called Benda Madonna and Gustav von Benda’s Legacy
23.06 – 12.11.2023

 

 

KUNST HAUS WIEN

Untere Weißgerberstraße 13, 1030 Wien
Opening Hours: 10:00 am-6:00 pm

 

Colourful surfaces, irregular shapes, often overgrown with rampant greenery: this is how the painter Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928-2000) not only gave Vienna’s architecture new impulses, but also created an exhibition centre that offers a Hundertwasser work exhibition as well as changing exhibitions of exciting contemporary art.

Kunst Haus Wien will be undergoing some restoration. The following exhibition will be held around the site of Kunst Haus Wien:

Klimafit in die Zukunft

 

 

Kunsthalle Wien

Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien
Treitlstraße 1, 1040 Wien
Opening Hours: 11:00 am-7:00 pm
(Thursday: 9:00 pm, closed on Mondays)

 

The Kunsthalle Wien presents a very high standard of contemporary art in the MuseumsQuartier and at Karlsplatz. Art-lovers visiting Vienna will not want to miss what the Kunsthalle Wien has in store.

current exhibitions:

No Feeling Is Final. The Skopje Solidarity Collection
20.04.2023 – 28.01.2024

Laure Prouvost – Ohmmm age Oma je ohomma mama
11.05 – 01.10.2023

Unfreezing the Scene. Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2022
25.05 – 10.09.2023

 

 

Künstlerhaus

Karlsplatz 5, 1010 Wien
Opening Hours: 10:00 am-6:00 pm

 

The Künstlerhaus was built on Karlsplatz in 1868. The Künstlerhaus has shone in new splendor since 2020 and shows that it remains a vibrant center of Vienna’s cultural landscape to this day. Apart from the traditional exhibition house, the Künstlerhausverein founded in 1861 also accommodates the “Stadtkino im Künstlerhaus”.

current exhibitions:

HUMAN_NATURE
15.06 – 17.09.2023

 

 

Leopold Museum

Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien
Opening Hours: 10:00 am-6:00 pm
(closed on Tuesdays)

Hundreds of masterworks of Austrian modern art collected by the passionate art lover Dr. Rudolf Leopold are shown in the Leopold Museum at MuseumsQuartier near the Imperial Palace.

current exhibition:

Amazing – The Würth Collection
05.04 – 10.09.2023

 

 

MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst

Stubenring 5, 1010 Wien
Opening Hours: 10:00 am-6:00 pm
(Tuesday: 9:00 pm, closed on Mondays)

 

Design is one of the main features of MAK. The museum shows furniture, glass, china, silver, and textiles from the Middle Ages to the present day. Precious crafts from the Wiener Werkstätte, bentwood furniture by Thonet and art nouveau highlights such as the gilded design of Gustav Klimt for the frieze of the Stoclet Palais in Brussels.

current exhibitions:

/IMAGINE A Journey into The New Virtual
10.05 – 10.09.2023

Rosemarie Castoro
24.05 – 01.10.2023

Glitz and Glamour – 200 Years of Lobmeyr
07.06 – 24.09.2023

 

 

mumok – Museum of Modern Art

Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien
Opening Hours: 10:00 am-6:00 pm

 

The mumok – Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna in the MuseumsQuartier focuses its attention on the art of the 20th and 21st centuries. Works by Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Pablo Picasso, Yoko Ono, Günter Brus and Gerhard Richter invite visitors to engage with contemporary art.*

current exhibitions:

Adam Pendleton. Blackness, White and Light
31.03.2023 – 07.01.2024

ON STAGE – All the World’s a Stage
15.03.2023 – 07.01.2024

Friedrich Kiesler – Endless House
30.11.2018 – 31.12.2023

Agnes Fuchs. Her Eyes Were Green
05.05 – 08.10.2023

Elisabeth Wild – Imagination Factory
05.05.2023 – 07.01.2024

 

 

Sigmund Freud Museum

Berggasse 19, 1090 Wien
Opening Hours: 10:00 am-6:00 pm
(closed on Tuesdays)

 

Vienna’s most famous address opened its doors again in 2020 after 18 months of refurbishment and remodeling. The rooms in which Sigmund Freud lived and worked have been turned into an exhibition object in the freshly renovated museum. This new approach lets us rediscover the founding father of psychoanalysis. We’re sure that Freud would have enjoyed it.

current exhibitions:

Freud, Berggasse 19
permanent exhibition

Analysis Interminable. Psychoanalytical Schools of Thought after Freud
19.04 – 08.10.2023

EYES⎢OCHI
09.10.2022 – 15.10.2023

 

 

Weltmuseum

Heldenplatz, 1010 Wien
Opening Hours: 10:00 am-6:00 pm
(Tuesday: 9:00 pm, closed on Wednesdays)

The Weltmuseum Wien on Heldenplatz shows valuable treasures from around the world in 14 rooms. The collection’s highlights include the collection of seafarer James Cook and a world-famous Mexican feather headdress. In 2023, the museum celebrates “150 Years of the Vienna World’s Fair” with a special program.

current exhibitions:

Science Fiction(s) – If there were a tomorrow
30.03.2023 – 09.01.2024

SpaceMosque – Saks Afridi
20.04 – 08.10.2023

Extinctions!? – An exhibition as part of the project TAKING CARE
23.02.3023 – 02.04.2024

Beyond the Future – Modern Japanese Calligraphy
30.03.2023 – 09.01.2024

Whatever You Throw at the Sea… – Zara Julius
27.04.2023 – 02.04.2024

Dark Pairing
20.05.2021 – 30.09.2023

Fruits of Labour – Maximilian Prüfer
18.05.2023 – 09.07.2024

 

 

Zoom Children’s Museum

Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien
Opening Hours: 9:00 am-4:30 pm
(closed on Mondays)

 

The ZOOM Children’s Museum is all about questioning, touching, exploring, feeling and playing to one’s heart’s content – on an area of 1,600 square meters. The ZOOM Children’s Museum is more adventure area than museum, and is all about joining in, creating, and trying out.

 

 

Partner Institutions in Lower Austria

 

Arnulf Rainer Museum

Josefsplatz 5, 2500 Baden
Opening Hours: 10:00 am-5:00 pm
(closed on Mondays)

The Arnulf Rainer Museum combines an architectural gem with the works of the world-renowned contemporary artist Arnulf Rainer. The clearly structured building of the Frauenbad from 1821 – located on the site of the former Frauenkirche – is based on a design by Charles de Moreau, one of the leading architects of French classicism. After the baths ceased operating in 1973, the building was used as a supra-regional exhibition centre. The opening exhibition in autumn 1977 was a retrospective of Arnulf Rainer’s work. In 2006, the decision was made to dedicate the exhibition centre as a museum to Arnulf Rainer, who was born in Baden. The Arnulf Rainer Museum, adapted to the highest technical and aesthetic standards, was opened in 2009.

current exhibitions:

DUETTE DUELLE
01.04. – 08.10.2023

 

 

Landesgalerie Niederösterreich

Museumsplatz 1, 3500 Krems
Opening Hours: 10:00 am-6:00 pm
(closed on Mondays)

 

The Landesgalerie Niederösterreich is a dynamic exhibition venue for Austrian artists. Here, the spotlight is also shone on artists who have not yet received the recognition they deserve in Austrian art history. The Landesgalerie Niederösterreich is a stage for the outstanding art treasures of the province of Lower Austria. Spectacular installations by international artists enter into dialogue with the extraordinary architecture of the building.

current exhibitions:

Alpine Rope Teams – Mountaineering around 1900
05.11.2022 – 08.10.2023

Angela Glajcar – Dream Catcher
25.03.2023 – 14.01.2024

Frenzi Rigling – About That
13.05. – 12.11.2023

Art Treasures From The Baroque To The Present
13.05.2023 – 11.02.2024

 

 

Kunsthalle Krems

Museumsplatz 5, 3500 Krems
Opening Hours: 10:00 am-6:00 pm
(closed on Mondays)

 

The Kunsthalle Krems is the international exhibition house for contemporary art in Lower Austria. Art after 1945 is shown, with a focus on the contemporary. Kunsthalle Krems is regarded as an institution that offers both established and up-and-coming young positions from Austria and abroad a major platform on which innovative, cross-media, socially topical and art-specific contributions are negotiated. These presentations take the form of comprehensive thematic and solo exhibitions. In addition, there are exhibitions of private collections of modern and contemporary art. The medial orientation ranges from classical disciplines such as painting, drawing and sculpture to photography, video, film and performance to installation and other conceptual as well as new media disciplines.

current exhibitions:

Eduardo Chillida – Gravitation
29.04. – 24.09.2023

Damir Ocko – Bird’s Milk And Other Spirits
01.07. – 29.20.2023

 

 

museum gugging

Am Campus 2, 3400 Klosterneuburg
Opening Hours: 10:00 am-5:00 pm
(closed on Mondays)

 

Since 2006, museum gugging has been presenting the oeuvre of artists from Gugging who have been among the most important representatives of Art Brut since the 1970s. Their works form the foundation of the museum and document the essential positions of artistic creation in Gugging. In addition, the museum shows international Art Brut as well as works of other art movements from important private and public collections.

current exhibitions:

gugging inspires.! from bowie to roth
30.03. – 24.09.2023

gugging.! classic & contemporary
06.05.2021 – 01.04.2024