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

With the opening of ALBERTINA KLOSTERNEUBURG, the ALBERTINA Museum is pursuing an important goal: to make a large part of its collection of post-1945 art accessible to the public. Artworks that are neither being shown in exhibitions at the ALBERTINA Museum or ALBERTINA MODERN nor currently on loan elsewhere will be presented to the interested public in Klosterneuburg. The museum’s present-day contemporary art holdings encompass around 65,000 works (paintings, drawings, printed graphics, photography, sculptures, videos, and installations).

ALBERTINA KLOSTERNEUBURG | Foto © Stefan Olah

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.

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

Exhibit Gallery at Schillerplatz hosts graduation presentations as well as projects engaging with contemporary themes of discourse at the Academy and current trends in contemporary art. Efforts are made to ensure that projects develop out of the teaching processes of the institutes and departments and/or involve deliberate collaboration across historical periods to link the collections with contemporary academic art production. The exhibition committee selects one exhibition per semester through a call.

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

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.

Photocredit: Iris Ranzinger

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

Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Wien (Public Art Vienna) brings contemporary art in all its facets into the public space of the city of Vienna. With the aim of anchoring art as a natural component in the center of society, the institution creates cultural spaces for action – concrete art locations as well as intellectual free spaces. The aim is to give art an active role in shaping the city and its pluralistic identity and to make public space visible as a place of cultural and political exchange.

Kunsthalle Wien is the City of Vienna’s institution for international contemporary art and discourse. At its venues in Museumsquartier and on Karlsplatz, it presents exhibitions of contemporary art and contextualizes them in their social and political contexts.

© Kunsthalle Wien 2018, Foto: Jorit Aust

Kunsthalle Wien is the City of Vienna’s institution for international contemporary art and discourse. At its venues in Museumsquartier and on Karlsplatz, it presents exhibitions of contemporary art and contextualizes them in their social and political contexts.

Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier, Foto: Stephan Wyckoff

As the first “green museum,” KunstHausWien sees itself as a central location where issues relating to the environment and sustainability are addressed in the context of contemporary art. Based on the work of Friedensreich Hundertwasser and his commitment to ecological and socio-political responsibility, the museum presents exhibitions of contemporary art and links them to an interdisciplinary, in-depth discourse program.

© Eva Kelety

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.

Foto: Michael Nagl

The Leopold Museum is home to the collection founded by Rudolf Leopold, which today comprises around 9,000 objects of Austrian art from the second half of the 19th century and Modernism. The museum’s highlight is the Vienna 1900 exhibition, which showcases the world’s largest collection of works by the Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele, masterpieces by Gustav Klimt, the internationally most extensive permanent presentation on Oskar Kokoschka, further works of Viennese Modernism as well as artisan craftwork from the Wiener Werkstätte.

© Leopold Museum, Wien, Foto: Alexander Eugen Koller

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.

mumok is one of the largest museums in Central Europe for art since modernism.

The MuseumsQuartier is one of the world’s largest cultural areas and offers around 5 million visitors a year a diverse program of art and culture in the various museums and institutions onsite. It is a place of cultural diversity, experimentation, action and mediation.

The MQ E+B also programs and curates a diverse public program with events, installations and exhibitions both in the outdoor areas and in its own exhibition spaces and runs an artist-in-residence program comprising eight studios.

(c) Alexander Eugen Koller

The Natural History Museum Vienna conveys the diversity of nature, the evolution of planet Earth and life as well as the associated cultural development of mankind and offers an inspiring meeting place where dialog and exchange between science and society take place.

© NHM Wien, Christina Rittmannsperger

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.

PART is the new Austrian artist-in-residence program based in the South Pavilion of the historic Praterateliers in Vienna, dedicated to artistic experimentation, interdisciplinary exchange, and cultural dialogue.

PART currently houses six residency studios, the multifunctional hall The Hall, and the Bar des Amateurs—spaces for production, presentation, and exchange.

PART International Art Residency Austria, commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Housing, Art, Culture, Media, and Sports.

(c) Hertha Hurnaus

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 new exhibition space, the STRABAG ART Site in the STRABAG Haus in Vienna, offers visitors interested in art a varied exhibition program with a focus on the solo exhibitions of the award winners.

All exhibitions are open to STRABAG employees and external visitors.
For an exhibition visit including a guided tour, please register using the calendar tool or via art@strabag.art.

Gironcoli-Kristall, STRABAG Artaward International 2024: Preisträger:innenausstellung mit Werken von Eva Gentner, Tina Dobrajc und Andrey Klassen, Foto: Eva Kelety

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 offers insights into cultural diversity, indigenous knowledge, and traditional craftsmanship, encouraging reflection on sustainability as well as the historical and colonial contexts behind many of its collection objects – including how they were acquired in colonial settings and the power dynamics involved.

© KHM-Museumsverband

Since its opening in 2024, the WAM has been the only place in the world to permanently present Viennese Actionism as the most radical art movement of the 20th century and place it in a contemporary context.

Photographs, drawings, sculptural objects, and a comprehensive documentation of its leading figures – Günter Brus, Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch, and Rudolf Schwarzkogler – provide the basis for scholarly exploration of this art, which remains relevant today.

WAM Wiener Aktionismus Museum, Wien ©Boxquadrat, courtresy WAM