Art Spaces

As one of the oldest art universities in Europe, the Academy today sees itself as an international field of experimentation in contemporary art and architecture, as well as a place of debate in the area of tension between theory and practice, science and art, teaching and research.

The academy has important historical art collections, a picture gallery, a copperplate engraving cabinet and a glyptothek.

Located in the historical heart of Vienna, the Albertina combines Imperial flair with great art. A magnificent former residence of the Habsburgs and an art museum of international renown, the Albertina stands for one of the most important collections of graphic art, attracting city and cultural tourists from all over the world.

© Harald Eisenberger

ALBERTINA MODERN is one of the largest museums for modern and contemporary art. ALBERTINA’s second location opened on May 27, 2020. It has a collection of over 60,000 works by 5,000 artists. On more than 2,000 square meters, ALBERTINA MODERN presents comprehensive exhibitions of modern and contemporary art, based on its own holdings and, above all, major works of the Essl Collection, which has been housed in ALBERTINA since 2017.

Albertina Modern, Foto (Mockup) © Rupert Steiner

The Az W shows, discusses and investigates how architecture and urban development shape our daily life. Its program encompasses international themed exhibitions, a permanent exhibition of Austrian architecture, and a total of over 500 events each year including lectures, city excursions, film screenings, and hands-on formats.

© Lisa Rastl

The University of Applied Arts Vienna is committed to an open society, creates intellectual, creative freedom and ensures a discourse that is as critical as it is empathetic. Together with teachers and researchers, students and graduates, staff and partners, the University of Applied Arts develops artistic and radical solutions for shaping and managing technological, media and social change.

© Georg Herder

The exhibition space of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is positioned at the interface between university artistic-scientific research and art practice as well as the international art field. Not least through the twice-yearly presentations of final theses, xhibit functions as a mirror of the university’s activities to the outside world. It opens up the contemporary knowledge and art production of the academy to a broad public.

Portal Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Foto: Adrian Brodressa © Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien

Belvedere 21 is a venue for contemporary art, film and performance as well as a social meeting place in an urban future area. In Karl Schwanzer’s adapted World’s Fair Pavilion, Austrian and international art from the 1960s to the present is shown on three light-flooded levels.

Lukas Schaller, © Belvedere, Wien

In Vienna, once not far from the MuseumsQuartier and once directly in the heart of the Inner City, two exhibition spaces offer the best conditions for contemporary artists to position themselves in the cultural landscape.

While Bildraum 01 in Vienna’s Strauchgasse focuses on contemporary photography and graphic art, Bildraum 07 in Burggasse presents mainly painting, installation and object art.

In Vienna, once not far from the MuseumsQuartier and once directly in the heart of the Inner City, two exhibition spaces offer the best conditions for contemporary artists to position themselves in the cultural landscape.

While Bildraum 01 in Vienna’s Strauchgasse focuses on contemporary photography and graphic art, Bildraum 07 in Burggasse presents mainly painting, installation and object art.

Located directly on Stephansplatz, Dom Museum Wien showcases the Cathedral’s most valuable treasures, including the earliest portrait in the Occident showing Habsburg scion Rudolf IV. Also on display are modern and avant-garde works from the Otto Mauer Collection, along with contemporary art. The juxtaposition of old and new is the focus of special exhibitions.

Dom Museum Wien Foto: Hertha Hurnaus, Dom Museum Wien Johanna Schwanberg Foto: Lena Deinhardstein, Dom Museum Wien

Today, more than 300 years after its imperial foundation in 1707, the Dorotheum is one of the world’s leading auction houses. Approximately 700 auctions are held each year, with highlights being the four major international auction weeks at the magnificent Palais Dorotheum in Vienna. The focus is on contemporary and modern art, 19th century paintings, Old Masters, antiques, design, jewelry and classic cars.

Franz Joseph Halle © Dorotheum

The Paintings Gallery, one of the most important Old Master collections in Vienna, unparalleled treasures such as the Last Judgment Triptych by Hieronymus Bosch and masterpieces by renowned artists such as Cranach the Elder, Titian, Rubens, Rembrandt and Guardi. A selection of the works can be seen in the permanent collection.

Das entwendete Meisterwerk. Bilder als Zeitmaschinen. Exhibition, Gemäldegalerie, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, 08.04.–29.01.2022

The museum hotspot in the heart of Vienna represents the fulfillment of a passionate collector’s visions. Spectacular architecture meets world class artworks from Klimt to Matisse, Picasso and Warhol.

Foto: Rupert Steiner, © Heidi Horten Collection

Vienna’s first “green” museum dedicates large special exhibitions to contemporary photography. Again and again, thematic photographic exhibitions also focus on ecology and sustainability. In the “Garage”, various projects are shown that today are at the interface between art and nature – an aspect that museum founder Hundertwasser had already anchored in his work.

© Eva Kelety

The task of KÖR is to (re)animate the public space of the city of Vienna as a place of socio-political and cultural debate by means of permanent and temporary artistic projects. In this way, the identity of the city and individual neighborhoods is to be strengthened. KÖR understands art in public space not as decoration, but as an offer for debate and as a symbolic marking of previously culturally abstinent territories.

The Kunsthalle Wien is the exhibition house for contemporary art of the City of Vienna. At its two locations, thematic group exhibitions and individual presentations offer insight into the current national and international art scene. With its numerous activities it is one of the most attractive exhibition venues for contemporary art in Europe.

© Kunsthalle Wien 2018, Foto: Jorit Aust

The Kunsthalle Wien is the exhibition house for contemporary art of the City of Vienna. At its two locations, thematic group exhibitions and individual presentations offer insight into the current national and international art scene. With its numerous activities it is one of the most attractive exhibition venues for contemporary art in Europe.

Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier, Foto: Stephan Wyckoff

Built by Karl Hasenauer and Gottfried von Semper between 1871 and 1891, the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien ranks among the most renowned museums in the world. Its magnificent architecture provides a worthy setting for collections the Habsburgs built over centuries. These encompass objects from five millennia, i.e. from the time of Ancient Egypt to the end of the 18th century.

© KHM-Museumsverband

The Vienna Künstlerhaus, Association of Austrian Artists, is an autonomous, non-profit artists’ association. It has been engaging visitors with an open, discursive, and interdisciplinary program of exhibitions and events since its founding in 1861.

Kunstraum Niederoesterreich at Palais Niederösterreich creates space for young, experimental and transmedial art projects. In addition to the conception and realization of group and solo exhibitions, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich focuses on the medium of contemporary performance.

Tue-Fri 11:00–19:00, Sa 11:00–15:00

© Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Foto: eSeL.at – Joanna Pianka

The Leopold Museum houses the art collection established by Rudolf Leopold. Its highlight is the “Vienna 1900” presentation, featuring the world’s most important collection of works by Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Viennese Modernism, international Classical Modernism and the Wiener Werkstätte. The museum also shows special exhibitions in the context of the collection.

© Leopold Museum, Wien | Foto: Ouriel Morgensztern

The role of applied art in shaping our living spaces is the focus of the MAK, which operates at the interface of design, architecture and contemporary art in order to create new perspectives and explore borderline areas. The MAK aims to provide answers to the question of how design can help shape the world and expand possibilities for action and decision-making.

The largest museum for modern and contemporary art in Central Europe houses an exceptional collection with major works ranging from Classical Modernism, Pop Art, Minimal Art, Conceptual Art, Viennese Actionism to contemporary art. The exhibition program includes monographic as well as thematic projects and offers, in addition to modern and neo-avant-garde, especially contemporary artists a forum.

The Nitsch Foundation was established in 2009 to promote the important position of the artist Hermann Nitsch (*1938-†2022) and to convey and preserve his legacy “the Orgien Mysterien Theater”.

“i can’t do what i set out to do alone. i’ve always claimed a lot of help. i’ve been nudged on the path toward the Gesamtkunstwerk, and i hope the foundation will help me build this school of sensual experience.” – Hermann Nitsch on 10/22/2009

The Upper Belvedere presents some 420 masterpieces from around eight centuries of art history, from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. The focus is on Viennese Modernism and the world-famous “Kiss” by Gustav Klimt. IM BLICK-exhibitions and the contemporary series Carlone Contemporary complete the presentation.

Oberes Belvedere

The Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation was established in 1997 with the acquisition of the estate of Frederick Kiesler (1890-1965) by the Republic of Austria and the City of Vienna with the help of numerous private donors. Its mission is to research the legacy of the Austro-American architect and to inscribe it in current architectural and artistic production.

The MQ is a place where art is not only seen, but is also produced. The creative area at Q21 spans 7,000 square meters across several floors of the baroque building. Q21 is a workplace for initiatives, associations, galleries, agencies, and editorial offices; it also houses international artists-in-residence and serves as a venue for artistic presentations and exhibitions.

MQ Libelle © Hertha Hurnaus

In the exhibition rooms of the Friedrichshof Collection in Zurndorf, central works of Viennese Actionism from the collection’s holdings are presented and contextualized through temporary exhibitions of international positions. The Stadtraum is the branch of the Friedrichshof Collection in Vienna and the office of the Estate Otto Muehl.

SAMMLUNG FRIEDRICHSHOF, Ausstellungshalle von Adolf Krischanitz, Foto: Lukas Roth, © Sammlung Friedrichshof

Vienna IX, Berggasse 19. This is the address where Sigmund Freud lived and worked for 47 years until he was forced to flee from the Nazi regime in 1938. In 1971 , the Sigmund Freud Museum was founded here, and after extensive renovation and expansion reopened in 2020. Three permanent exhibitions in Freud’s former living and office rooms, an art presentation in the Showroom Berggasse 19 as well as special exhibitions present Freud’s multi-layered cultural legacy: they are dedicated to his life and work, the development of psychoanalysis in theory and practice, and its importance for the fields of society, science, and art. The history of the house at Berggasse 19 and the fates of its occupants are also brought into focus.

The STRABAG Artlounge presents itself as an exciting and interesting two-storey exhibition space. In contrast to the usual, sterile white cube, the Artlounge offers a wonderful panoramic view of the whole of Vienna thanks to its glass façade. Artists and their artworks correspond and act with the environment, but also have to assert themselves against it.

Julia Steiner, Days and Spaces, 2017, Foto: Rudi Froese Photography

The University of Applied Arts Vienna is committed to an open society, creates intellectual, creative freedom and ensures a discourse that is as critical as it is empathetic. Together with teachers and researchers, students and graduates, employees and partners, the University of Applied Arts develops artistic and radical solutions for shaping and managing technological, media and social change.

© Georg Herder

Gallery of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Universitätsgalerie der Angewandten im Heiligenkreuzer Hof, Schönlaterngasse 5, 1010 Wien

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Modern Gallery was founded in the former private rooms of Prince Eugene of Savoy at the request of the Secessionists. To this day, temporary exhibitions are presented here with their finger on the pulse of the times. They place works from the Belvedere Collection in an international context or confront the baroque palace with contemporary positions.

Foto: Roland Voraberger, © Belvedere, Wien

In spirit of their motto “Die Zeit ihre Kunst. Der Kunst ihre Freiheit”, the Secession presents relevant contemporary forms of artistic expression in internationally oriented solo and thematic exhibitions. The Association of Visual Artists of the Vienna Secession is the world’s oldest independent exhibition house dedicated to contemporary art and has always been run by artists.

©Secession

The Weltmuseum Wien is one of the world’s prime ethnographic museums. It shows a culturally diverse array of content, stories, and ways of living in an entertaining way with unique cultural treasures from all over the globe. Highlights include ancient Mexican feather headdresses, the collection of James Cook, and objects from 19th-century expeditions.

© KHM-Museumsverband

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