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Exhibition review with art critic Vanessa Joan Müller and curator Paul Feigelfeld

11/11/2025

19:30 — 20:30 h

Kunstraum am Schauplatz

Praterstraße 42/2 hof, 1020 Wien, Österreich

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

Exhibition Review with art critic Vanessa Joan Müller and curator Paul Feigelfeld about the exhibition: ‘Tobias Klein/Hong Zeiss: MACHINOISERIE’

Fundamentally ‘principle’ (li 理) and material force (qi 氣) cannot be spoken of as prior or posterior. But if we must trace their origin, we are obliged to say that principle is prior. However, principle is not a separate entity. It exists right in material force. Without material force, principle would have nothing to adhere to.

– Zhu Xi, Collected Conversations 1:11 [tr. Chan]

此本無先後之可言。然必欲推其所從來，則須說先有是理。然理又非別為一物，即存乎是氣之中;無是氣，則是理亦無掛搭處。

‘Principle’ (li 理) is endowed in me by Heaven (Tian 天), not drilled into me from outside.

– Lu Jiuyuan, Complete Works 1:6 [tr. Chan]

此理本天所以与我，非由外铄。

Tobias Klein (Hong Kong) and Hong Zeiss (Vienna) complement and contradict each other like microcosm and macrocosm.

In their first joint exhibition, Klein’s reinterpretations of ancient Chinese scholar stones (供石 Gongshi), which form a framework of rock and 3D-printed structures, encounter the veins and grains of Zeiss’s paintings, whose scale and distance—whether near or far—always remain unclear. Although they were not created in exchange, the works examine each other on a structural level and open up dimensions of non-human perception to each other.

The mutual observation of objects and images allows us a rare insight into the exile of the inorganic, into tidal currents and mineral structures, which is actually impossible, if not forbidden, for us. We become secret witnesses to communication processes that elude our understanding of what communication is; that can only be measured in geological eras or beyond time; and whose actual qualities lie beyond meaning and the senses as we know them.

Credit: Irina Gavrich Credit: privat

Cosmic Comissioner, 2025, films7ll, courtesy Hanakam & Schuller, Bildrecht Wien

Cocktail and Artist Talk - Hanakam & Schuller: 'Cosmic Commissioner'

14/11/2025

17:00 — 20:00 h

Galerie Krinzinger

Seilerstätte 16, 1010 Wien, Österreich

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN / ENGLISH

The artist duo Hanakam & Schuller’s new animation ‘Cosmic Commissioner’ offers a satirical take on typical AI-generated styles, such as new-age aesthetics, comic visuals, and hyperrealism.

At its center is the fictional Cosmic Commissioner, inspired by Austrian-born architect Victor Gruen, who, in the 1970s, shifted focus toward environmental planning in response to ecological destruction, the space race, and nuclear threats.

The film blends quotes from Gruen’s fictional dialogues with scenes featuring architects, military personnel, and activists, accompanied by synthetic disco-space sounds—transforming Cosmic Commissioner into a visual and acoustic journey through time, digital culture, and socio-political criticism.

Hanakam & Schuller, based in Vienna, have collaborated since 2004. Their practice bridges fine and applied arts, research, and contemporary visual culture. They have exhibited internationally at venues such as MAK Vienna, Palais de Tokyo Paris, Eyebeam NYC, and Garage Museum Moscow.

Cosmic Comissioner, 2025, films7ll, courtesy Hanakam & Schuller, Bildrecht Wien

Foto:
Michael Huber in Kunsthalle Krems in der Ausstellung Perrine Lacroix

'Prosuming Art' – Art Critic Michael Huber in Conversation with eSeL

09/11/2025

19:00 — 21:00 h

MuseumsQuartier Wien

Museumsplatz 1/5, 1070 Wien, Österreich

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

Accompanying the exhibition ‘Prosuming Art’ in the eSeL Reception in MuseumsQuartier´s Showrooms, art critic Michael Huber and eSeL (Lorenz Seidler www.esel.at) talk about their experiences and different approaches to engaging with contemporary art.

Michael Huber is an art critic for the daily newspaper Kurier and was awarded the Austrian State Prize for Art Criticism 2025. The humorous drawings on press-conference folders of art institutions that are being shown in the exhibition alongside matching eSeL photography are not considered as “artistic practice” by Huber – he describes them as a form of “visual thinking” – spontaneous “notes” that accompany his work as a critic reflecting exhibitions in Vienna.

eSeL (Lorenz Seidler) has been using digital channels to communicate his engagement with contemporary art in Vienna for over 25 years. eSeL sees himself as an “aesthetic life form” that combines authentic curiositywith tireless communication and ongoing photographic documentation of art scene, continuously shared via newsletter, website, and social media.

The conversation highlights different perspectives on documentation, criticism, and participation. At its core lies the question of how journalistic work and personal creative practice can complement each other – and how this can generate new access points.

www.kurier.at
www.esel.at

Meeting point:

At the eSeL reception desk MQ showrooms in Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier, Room D,

(in the facade between the main entrance and the Vienna Volkstheater)

Foto: Michael Huber in Kunsthalle Krems in der Ausstellung Perrine Lacroix "Kontext(e)" Credits: eSeL

Max Freund – Discussion of the exhibition with the artist

10/11/2025

17:00 — 17:45 h

Collectors Agenda Editionengalerie

Franz-Josefs-Kai 3/16 3 stock, Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

Max Freund is not satisfied with just one way of expression: he draws, paints, sews and collages. At the same time, he runs a publishing house together with friends, in which his interest for graphic print comes to show. In his work, figurative painting meets abstract shapes, and both are equally important to him. His inspirations come from music and literature, as he translates their rhythms into art.

Together with the artist, we will discuss the exhibition in a relaxed atmosphere and gain insights into the underlying concepts of his work.

Due to limited capacity, registration is required. Click here to register!

Note on Accessibility:
Please inform us in advance if you require assistance. We are happy to help you overcome the steps in the foyer. Send an email to hello@collectorsagenda.com.

Fotos: Maximilian Pramatarov

© Tobias Pils
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich / Vienna
Photo: Jorit Aust

Meet the Artist – Tobias Pils

13/11/2025

16:30 — 17:30 h

Galerie Eva Presenhuber

Lichtenfelsgasse 5/2, 1010 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

As part of his current solo exhibition at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Tobias Pils invites visitors to a conversation about his work. Under the title Meet the Artists, the event offers direct insight into the artistic practice of the internationally renowned painter, whose focus in this exhibition is on large-scale ink drawings.

Pils’ works emerge from an open, intuitive approach in which abstract forms, graphic structures, and figurative allusions interweave into complex visual worlds. In his monumental ink drawings, density and emptiness, body and space, gesture and control are brought into a tense and dynamic unity. The conversation offers the opportunity to learn more about the creation of these works, the role of drawing within his overall œuvre, and Pils’ artistic development in recent years.

The event is aimed at all those interested in art who wish to take the opportunity to encounter an artist of international standing in person and to gain a deeper understanding of his visual language. Parallel to the exhibition at the gallery in Vienna, the mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien – is currently presenting a comprehensive solo exhibition of Tobias Pils. This rare constellation makes it possible to experience the painter’s artistic language from different perspectives.

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Note: Following the event, there will be an opportunity to join a guided tour of Tobias Pils’s major solo exhibition at mumok, led by the artist himself together with curator Manuela Ammer. Further information and registration details can be found in the program.

Aguada 8, 2008-2025, papel arches China ink, gesso, acrylic & crayons / arches paper, 80 x 120 cm

Exhibition opening: 'Fernando García Correa, ENLACES'

07/11/2025

19:00 — 21:00 h

Galerie Sturm & Schober

Kohlmarkt 9, 1010 Wien, Österreich

Fernando García Correa (Mexico City, *1958) first studied painting and sculpture in his native Mexico at the La Esmeralda University in Mexico City (1978–80), and then in Paris, where he graduated with distinction in drawing from the École des Beaux-Arts (1980–83) and lived until 1991. His work has received numerous awards, including a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in 2010 and a national scholarship from the Sistema Nacional de Creadores in 2015. His works are part of numerous private and public collections, including the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Carrillo Gil in Mexico and the Museo de Arte Abstracto Manuel Felguérez in Zacatecas. Fernando García Correa lives and works in Mexico City.

Already during his studies, he dedicated himself to abstraction, and his works are direct engagements with the traditions of non-representational art and reflections on its potential. Although Correa works in series, he does not see them as closed entities, but rather as reservoirs from which new works can continuously be generated. He describes his work as cyclical, as a continuum. Cross-references emerge from his artistic process, in which he pauses, returns, and attempts to establish a distance from what he has created in order to develop an openness that is reflected in the diversity of his works. Connections arise between individual works within a series or between different series, through elements, materials, or compositions that the artist revisits. This is also evident in the techniques he employs, including collage.

In the series Gambetas Y Concreciones, for example, he works with dried acrylic forms that originate on his painting palette. Once hardened, Correa applies these organic shapes to his works on paper, which oscillate between drawing and painting. The relationship between the support and the material is explored over time in the artistic process, creating a network that is continually expanded.

Aguada 8, 2008-2025, papel arches China ink, gesso, acrylic & crayons / arches paper, 80 x 120 cm

EXPERIMENTAL SET (CCA-27/04/2019), 2019, C-Print, 80×80cm
© Sigrid Kurz / Bildrecht Wien

Artist talk with Sigrid Kurz on her exhibition 'here we are we here'

07/11/2025

18:00 — 21:00 h

Währinger Straße 59/WUK, 1090, Wien

WUK, Währinger Straße 59, 1090 Wien, Österreich

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

To celebrate its 30th WERKSCHAU, FOTOGALERIE WIEN has invited the artist Sigrid Kurz to present a retrospective exhibition entitled ‘here we are we here’, featuring photographic, video and installation works.

She has designed the exhibition architecture herself, creating a kind of ‘playing field’ with displays, mirror foils and platforms on which various transformations take place. Since her earliest photographic works, Sigrid Kurz has thematically focused on spatial structures and the parameters that define the art world, including the working conditions, role models and politically charged spaces of galleries.

“From 2014 onwards,” says Ruth Horak, who is responsible for the text side of the exhibition, “she responded to the fact that expectations regarding the presentation of art were changing. Instead of being statically representative, art should be permeated by performative, processual and interactive forms.”

With a simple gesture – Kurz turned the image of the exhibition space around – she transformed the ceiling lights into stage spotlights on EXPERIMENTAL SETS. In 2021, she took on yet another new perspective (CLOSE UP), in which she herself became noticeable as an observer and photographer.

EXPERIMENTAL SET (CCA-27/04/2019), 2019, C-Print, 80×80cm © Sigrid Kurz / Bildrecht Wien

Credit: Plakatentwurf von Nina Ober nach einer Zeichnung von Frederick Kiesler um 1944/45 © 2025 Österreichische Friedrich und Lillian Kiesler Privatstiftung, Wien

Finissage & Closing Reception: 'The Endless Search' at the Frederick Kiesler Foundation

14/11/2025

18:00 — 21:00 h

Österreichische Friedrich und Lillian Kiesler Privatstiftung

Mariahilfer Str. 1B/top 1, 1060 Wien, Österreich

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN/ENGLISH

A place is bidding farewell, a search is coming to an end:

With the closing of “The Endless Search” and our departure from Mariahilfer Straße, we invite you to an evening program, merging art and sound as part of VIENNA ART WEEK:

with texts by Frederick Kiesler, read by Miriam Stoney, music by Stefan Grimus.

The evening is hosted by Director Gerd Zillner.

Cultural Nomads

We are nomads-cultural nomads. Or better: Nomads of civilization. Moving from one apartment to another, from one town to another, or across borders into different lands.

Seeking opportunities and quitting them of they fulfill their promise fast. We live an emergency life, a deadline life.

– Entry for Friday, January 22, 1960, p. 249
Frederick Kiesler, Inside the Endless House (New York : Simon and Schuster, 1966)

Sumi Anjuman, I am the Mother too, 2019
Digitale Fotografie
68,6 x 45,7 cm

Curator's tour through 'YOU SHALL MAKE FOR YOURSELF AN IMAGE'

14/11/2025

16:30 — 17:30 h

Künstlerhaus Vereinigung

Karlsplatz 5, 1010 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

A warm invitation to join curators Günther Oberhollenzer and Miriam King for a guided tour of the exhibition DU SOLLST DIR EIN BILD MACHEN (You Shall Make for Yourself an Image)!

The exhibition DU SOLLST DIR EIN BILD MACHEN (YOU SHALL MAKE YOURSELF AN IMAGE) explores the imaginative power of religious experience, its visual counterpart in Christian iconography, and its interpretation by contemporary artists. The focus is on works whose creators approach Christian iconography with a critical but also loving, humorous but also feminist eye, enabling new perspectives on pictorial motifs that have been handed down over centuries. In its conception and orientation, the show does not stand for superficial provocation or loud protest, but rather for a differentiated view, a search for common ground, and an effort to promote a dialogue between contemporary art and religion.

Religion and art are both part of human nature and deal with fundamental questions about humanity: the question of meaning, the world, our existence. Religion makes the unfamiliar familiar, while art often contrasts the familiar world with the unfamiliar. Church and art are also connected by the irrational, the mysterious, and especially the imagination and the power to create a world with its own rules and laws—a world that also reflects back on our lives and tells us about our existence. A diversity of these worlds is made visible in DU SOLLST DIR EIN BILD MACHEN.

Registration required: click here to sign up

After the guided tour, the film screening GIRLS & GODS will take place at Stadtkino im Künstlerhaus starting at 6 pm, followed by a panel discussion on Feminism, Religion, and Contemporary Art. Please note: The film screening and panel discussion are not free of charge. Tickets are available at the evening box office of Stadtkino.

Panelists:

Ina Loitzl, Artist
Günther Oberhollenzer, Curator
Pia Razenberger, Art Historian and Art Educator
Verena Soltiz, Director of GIRLS & GODS
Moderator: Miriam King

Sumi Anjuman, I am the Mother too, 2019 Digitale Fotografie 68,6 x 45,7 cm

credits: sascha osaka starsky_feminismusmaschine_osaka

Performance: “The Feminism Machine – a participatory performance battle”

14/11/2025

18:30 — 19:30 h

starsky Universum

Große Neugasse 15/5, 1040 Wien, Österreich

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN/ENGLISH

The Feminism Machine consists of various multifunctional devices that serve as musical instruments, installations, toys for audiences, or objects for handbags, pockets, or key rings. They function as feminist discourse machines that challenge patriarchal chains of argumentation. We feminists are tired of responding to the same accusations over and over again, like a perpetual motion machine of feminist argumentation. To make this painful but necessary work more enjoyable, we are handing over this discussion to various devices and machines in which these lines of argumentation have already been worked through. This relieves us of the burden of constant repetition and yet creates an eloquent, joyful, precisely argued presence, an elegant, glamorous counterpart to the patriarchal machinery. | starsky

A sentence can stick in your mind. It can take root, provoke, and set something in motion. It contradicts, interrupts, and connects with others. The Feminism Machine is a collection of such sentences and statements, built into devices that rattle, drone, and scream. They are toys, instruments, and disturbances all at once, and a rejection of the tiresome repetition of patriarchal arguments. In a participatory act, you can activate the machine and rub the colorful knobs, press the golden buttons, and stroke the crocheted genitals. These sensual devices take up the feminist struggle—an acoustic intervention that claims space, demands participation, and offers resistance. Loud, confrontational, and with a lot of humor.

starsky works with very precise and direct texts that leave little room for misinterpretation. These texts are understood, they provoke and irritate. She takes back words and writes against structures. In this way, she amplifies voices that would otherwise be overlooked. | Tina Kult

credits: sascha osaka starsky_feminismusmaschine_osaka

Markterei Markthalle im ehemaligen Wasserbaulabor © Buero de Martin, Fotograf: Tom Dalby

Tour "Creatives for Vienna - Making Spaces"

12/11/2025

15:00 — 17:00 h

Treffpunkt:

Hockegasse 37/haus 4, 1180 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

An event by the Vienna Business Agency – Creativity & Business

On this tour, you will discover selected winning projects from the Vienna Business Agency’s “Creatives for Vienna – Making Spaces” competition, which show how the use of space can provide new impetus for cooperation, neighborhoods, and urban development.

We will visit two locations that offer exciting insights into concepts that rethink spaces and transform them into lively networking places:

The former Semmelweis clinic, a temporary use project that has been developed since 2022 into a lively arts and culture center with studios, event spaces, and communal areas,
as well as the former hydraulic engineering laboratory in the 9th district, one of the oldest of its kind, which is being transformed by Buero de Martin into an inspiring place of work and culture, opening up new spaces for artistic processes with halls, workshops, and a green courtyard.

The following studios will be open to visitors during the tour: Resa Lut, Johanna Lea Lassnig, Adele Siegl, Elena Waclawiczek, Elisabeth Blum, Roberto Colomer, Nathalie Frickey, Eva Perner, Barbara Klampfl.

Due to limited capacity, registration is required: creativeindustries@wirtschaftsagentur.at (Click here to register!)

Meeting point: 2:45 pm, terrace of the Semmelweisklinik Arts and Cultural Center,
Hockegasse 37 / Building 4, 1180 Vienna

Important: We will travel together by bus to the second venue – please bring a valid ticket for the Wiener Linien public transport.

Markterei Markthalle im ehemaligen Wasserbaulabor © Buero de Martin, Fotograf: Tom Dalby

Showing & Performance: “Der Hofnarr / The Jester” by Alex Franz Zehetbauer

11/11/2025

19:00 — 20:00 h

Ursula Blickle Stiftung

Spiegelgasse 2, 1010 Wien, Österreich

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN/ENGLISH

At Blickle Raum Spiegelgasse, Alex Franz Zehetbauer begins in spring 2025 a new phase of inquiry—into the role of the jester, who, in Commedia dell’arte and popular theatre, is the figure that can speak the truth: a.k.a. improvise and break the fourth wall. A jester doesn’t need a stage, just a crowd. He digests the world and spits it back out (from one end or the other). This excrement is then presented to the audience as art. He thus (re)presents the unknowable, the uncontrollable, the abject.

The jester is a figure of archaic questioning and border-crossing. He dances between hierarchical orders, playfully undermines the learned system and creates free spaces in narrow social corridors. Unadapted and with unexpected twists and turns, he eludes any logical algorithm. The questions he raises are multidimensional and provoke a reaction – immediate and individual. The jester and his audience move methodically outside of linear knowledge transfer. Rather, the process of getting to know, revealing and seeing through takes place by means of artistic expression.

This research residency opens a space for listening to the gut, slipping on meaning, and laughing at the mess. Songs may surface, objects may ooze, and nothing is off-limits. The fool is loose.

Annika Eschmann Iron Curtain of Economy of Attention and Metamorphosis, 2025 Detail Rolle, Zeichnung ©Annika Eschmann

Artist Talk: 'Systemische Läufe'

10/11/2025

18:00 — 20:00 h

puuul

Stolzenthalergasse 6/1, 1080 Wien, Österreich

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN/ENGLISH

An event organized by Basement.

In its final exhibition of 2025, basement (on the move) presents works by German artist Ulrike Donié and Vienna-based Annika Eschmann at puuul in 1080 Vienna. Under this year’s theme “Transitions – Reality or Fiction”, the participating artists explore the question of how reality is constructed in very different ways. Both artists share an interest in artistic research and systems. Where do their approaches intersect? How do our words and thoughts shape what we perceive as reality? And conversely, how do images and objects we experience with our senses influence the terms we use to describe our world?

Annika Eschmann’s work “Line 66–75” is a recording system consisting of drawings on paper that change in parallel with their own development, shaped by experience and learning. The drawings follow two constant parameters or conditions: each is made using a single line, and the line must not intersect itself.

In Ulrike Donié’s work “Cycles”, the emergence and development of life is juxtaposed with dissolution and decay. Water reflections, pond biotopes, jungles, and organic or animal-like forms are staged as archetypes in order to depict the primal nature of these events as an eternal process.

Annika Eschmann Iron Curtain of Economy of Attention and Metamorphosis, 2025 Detail Rolle, Zeichnung ©Annika Eschmann

Credits: Harald Mairböck, one.day.light, Baryt-Silbergelatineprints, je 50×50 cm,  Serie besteht aus 4 Bildern, Unikate

Opening: 'Learning Systems Unlearned - Creative Subversion in Photography'

08/11/2025

19:00 — 21:00 h

WSB-Studio im WUK Werkstätten- und Kulturhaus

Währinger Straße 59/5, 1090 Wien, Österreich

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN/ENGLISH

A project by LumenX – offenes Fotolabor.

The exhibition project “Learning Systems Unlearned” explores how artistic learning can be reimagined through conscious unlearning and the radical reduction of technical means. At its core is the concept of “unlearning”: Unlike passive forgetting, unlearning is an active, intentional process. Artists question and break away from ingrained routines to enable new forms of expression and innovative approaches.

The exhibition draws on Vilém Flusser’s philosophy of photography. Flusser views photography as a system with its own rules, setting not only technical but also social and cultural boundaries. His central thesis-“freedom means playing against the apparatus”-serves as a guiding principle: artistic innovation arises when the given possibilities of the apparatus are creatively subverted and new paths are explored beyond routine.

This approach is implemented concretely by radically reducing the equipment of a photo lab. Instead of relying on a multitude of specialized machines and devices, participating artists focus on minimal means. This conscious limitation makes the structures and boundaries of the photographic system visible and opens up space for creative subversion. The artists use this simplification to question the logic of the apparatus, break routines, and explore new visual worlds through experimental techniques.

The project understands reduction as a catalyst: by simplifying technical and methodological systems, their limitations become apparent and can be overcome. Especially in a time dominated by digital photography and automated processes, the return to analog, reduced methods gains special relevance. The exhibition demonstrates how conscious reduction and the active unlearning of established methods give rise to new artistic forms of expression.

“Learning Systems Unlearned” invites us to question existing knowledge systems and automatisms and to discover new artistic freedoms through creative subversion. The project sees unlearning not as a loss, but as a gain: as a prerequisite for innovation, artistic autonomy, and social reflection.

Meeting point: WSB Studio at WUK Werkstätten- und Kulturhaus (Workshops and Cultural Center)

Credits: Harald Mairböck, one.day.light, Baryt-Silbergelatineprints, je 50×50 cm,  Serie besteht aus 4 Bildern, Unikate

Opening & Open House: 'Embedded knowledge - Learning from within'

13/11/2025

18:30 — 21:00 h

Das Nuell

Van-der-Nüll-Gasse 20, Wien, Österreich

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN/ENGLISH

As part of Vienna Art Week 2025, the group exhibition Embedded Knowledge: Learning from Within – Systems of Care and Resistance brings together artistic, theoretical, and pedagogical positions that understand knowledge as something entangled within relationships, practices, and materials.

The exhibition takes place in the Nuell building on Van-der-Nüll-Gasse – formerly an administrative site of MA 11, Vienna’s Office for Child and Youth Services, which is currently activated as a temporary space by artists and cultural practitioners.

The exhibition explores how systems of care and forms of resistance are inscribed into artistic strategies and unfold through spatial, performative, and material expressions. Installations, performances, and discursive formats transform the building into a site of collective knowledge production, offering visitors the possibility to experience responsibility, fragility, and community in new resonance.

Credits: photo: Kerim El-Mokdad

Credits Melina Steiner und Sebastian Pfeifhofer

Opening: 'X Frames Per Space'

08/11/2025

17:00 — 22:00 h

WEST

Augasse 2-6, 1090 Wien, Österreich

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN/ENGLISH

A project by VCAS – Vienna Contemporary Art Space and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Network Medicine.

X Frames Per Space is a group exhibition featuring invited and Open Call-selected artists who critically engage with processes of framing, visibility, and knowledge production.

In today’s flood of images, the frame often goes unnoticed – that inconspicuous excerpt that determines what becomes visible and what remains hidden.

X Frames Per Space addresses precisely this: we explore framings as a fundamental precondition for systems. Every selection, every limitation, every act of framing creates its own knowledge of the world – while excluding other perspectives.

X Frames Per Space understands framing as an essential process of learning: frames select information, structure perception, and shape our understanding of reality. In our exhibition, we embark on a journey through various framings – visual, medial, and societal – and reveal the mechanisms that silently govern our worldviews.

What happens when we begin to question these constructions? What alternative spaces of knowledge open up when we make the seemingly self-evident nature of framings visible?

Curated by: Annette Tesarek, Sebastian Pfeifhofer, Melina Steiner

Credits Melina Steiner und Sebastian Pfeifhofer

Credits: Ivana Kralj, Austin Settle & Ilaria Carli Pàris

Opening: 'Establishing Connection'

08/11/2025

17:00 — 22:00 h

WEST

Augasse 2-6, 1090 Wien, Österreich

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN/ENGLISH

A project by Ivana Kralj, Austin Settle, and Ilaria Carli Pàris.

In cooperation with Laurus Edelbacher

Establishing Connection plays with visitors’ expectations and their demand for immediate access to information.

What happens outside formalised information systems – beyond algorithmic structures and digital control?

Which qualities of learning cannot be automated?

And how is our understanding of knowledge changing, how do our decisions and thinking habits arise?

Establishing Connection offers a contemporary reflection on digital dependency and the commercialisation of knowledge. In a world where artificial intelligence increasingly shapes our perceptions and decisions, the exhibition defends the indispensable human capacities for patience, intuition and meaning-making.

A former lecture hall – a place of knowledge transfer – falls into oblivion when completely covered and loses its original function. Three artistic positions – painting, expanded photography and object art – invite visitors to sit down on a comfortable chair, pause and engage with the work. A QR code is located nearby: visitors can use it to enter the process themselves and enhance the exhibition experience with a digital intervention.

General opening hours:

8–14 November 2025 | daily 5–8 p.m. and by appointment

Credits: Ivana Kralj, Austin Settle & Ilaria Carli Pàris

Brainweb, Interactive new media art installation, Laurus Edelbacher, Azalea Ortega Flores

Opening: 'host//:age'

11/11/2025

19:30 — 21:00 h

Fabrikraum

Johnstraße 25-27/r02 2, 1150 Wien, Österreich

host_age:// is a long-term curatorial research project exploring the growing preference for security and control over freedom, rights, privacy and democracy.

The title is a play on words, suggesting that the host/hostage relationship defines our age. The etymological link between guest, ghost, host and hostage reveal their conceptual interconnectedness and the dynamics of hospitality and hostility. Hospitality cannot come into presence without a degree of hostility, as the guest is subject to the host’s decisions. Over time, the guest may slowly turns into a hostage within the territory where they were once welcomed. Examples include migrants who become stuck in a host country due to complex visa issues or privileged residents, who voluntarily confine themselves behind the walls of gated communities in an attempt to protect themselves from the chaos of poorer neighbourhoods. Pandemic conditions have also held millions hostage in their own homes.

The figure of the hostage reflects the logic of a post-control society, in which individuals are no longer disciplined only by physical borders but their seemingly “free choices”. A host is also a computer accessible over a network – the title is thus written in a way that evokes code language, referencing the extension of the host-hostage dynamic into the digital realm. It suggests that we are living in the “host age” or “hostage age”, where we feel trapped within systems. Corporations tracking personal data, social media addiction, algorithms that polarize political discourse, and AI technologies replacing human labor all illustrate how we are voluntarily held hostage by certain ideological, economic, and technological structures.

The exhibition is the first in a series that explores the relationship between surveillance capitalism, border technologies, and freedom. In his research, Žarko Aleksić investigates the interaction between human consciousness and AI. Using facial recognition and targeted ads based on personal information, he examines how AI uses private data to construct versions of our identities. His artwork, What Google Wants, developed during pandemic questions whether AI attempts to “know” us better can be interpreted as a form of psychoanalysis, often one driven by surveillance and exploitative purposes. Similarly, Brian Web, a project by Laurus Edelbacher and Azalea Ortega Flores, focuses on the dynamic relationship between human consciousness and the digital realm. Using a specially designed EEG headset, users’ brain activity is measured, and a custom-built system interprets these signals to curate web content based on the user’s cognitive-emotional state. In the interactive game installation, Borderline, Edelbacher reconstructs real-time border zones from various locations as interactive 3D environments in a game engine, using footage from surveillance cameras.

Curated by Deniz Güvensoy

Brainweb, Interactive new media art installation, Laurus Edelbacher, Azalea Ortega Flores

Bildcredit: Egor Lovki | Untitled, 2025 (Detail) | © Bildrecht

Apéro & Artist Tour with Egor Lovki

11/11/2025

18:00 — 20:30 h

Bildraum 01

Strauchgasse 2, 1010 Wien, Österreich

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

Egor Lovki, winner of the PARALLEL VIENNA | Bildrecht YOUNG ARTIST Award 2024, explores the fragile architecture of expectations and their significance for the present and future in his exhibition at Bildraum 01. The assumption that time is linear and that an action (A) leads to a result (B) is called into question.

Lovki works with collectively internalized symbols and examines the fragility, ambivalence, and tensions of culturally shaped ideas. Can the future present be created from expectations, or is it inherent in the future to be unknowable and new? Expectations offer clarity and order, but they are also simplified narratives for coping with uncertainty. Not every goal manifests itself, not every step leads to the desired destination. They become a risky part of our existence. Without tension, there is no result.

The works invite us to question the linear progression of time and instead understand openness, breaks, and shifts as part of experience.

Exhibition dates: October 22 – December 4, 2025

A collaboration between Bildrecht and Parallel Vienna & Vienna Art Week

For more Information klick here.

Bildcredit: Egor Lovki | Untitled, 2025 (Detail) | © Bildrecht

Sketch Installation Glaspavillon am Brigittaplatz

Performance & Artist Talk: "Tautropfen (Gotas de Rocío): Sonic Dialogues"

12/11/2025

17:00 — 18:00 h

Jägerstraße 47, 1200 Wien, Österreich

Tautropfen / Gotas de Rocío: Sonic Dialogues for VIENNA ART WEEK
A project draft by Juliana Herrero

Tautropfen is a site-specific installation and performative sound space located in the glass pavilion at Brigittaplatz (20th district), originally built to showcase locomotive technology and now functioning as an artistic extension of the District Museum Brigittenau. From September to December 2025, the pavilion transforms into a living laboratory where sculpture, sound, and ecological reflection intertwine.

The installation uses kinetic objects made from recycled materials and motion-sensitive sound compositions to create a responsive system. Visitors enter into a physically experienced dialogue with the environment that models learning as a reciprocal process – inspired by theorists such as Karen Barad and Bruno Latour.

Interwoven with ecological memories – from Amazonian rituals to the Amancay flower of Patagonia – and carried by sonic textures and symbolic materials, Tautropfen affirms non-institutional forms of knowledge based on care, attentiveness, and connectedness. It is about “feeling the ground beneath one’s feet” and reimagining futures through ecological interdependence.

During VIENNA ART WEEK, the installation will be activated through the format Sonic Dialogues: performances by Anna Attar (Monsterheart), Wagner Felipe Dos Santos, and Juliana Herrero weave voice, body, sounds, and everyday objects into rhythmic soundscapes between improvisation and embodied research. The audience is invited to become part of this open, collective process.

In collaboration with Artists for Future, the area surrounding the pavilion will also be expanded performatively – through grassy mounds, reflective surfaces, or temporary architectures that transform the urban space into a poetic classroom.

The site itself – once part of the city railway and Vienna’s industrial heritage – is reanimated as a space of resonance for collective learning, ecological connectedness, and cultural transformation.

At its core, Tautropfen / Gotas de Rocío proposes a hybrid model of poetic knowledge – at the intersection of sound, movement, ecology, and public presence. It is not only about what we learn, but how we learn: through connection, improvisation, and shared being on this earth.

Sketch Installation Glaspavillon am Brigittaplatz

Opening: 'Error 404'

10/11/2025

17:00 — 19:00 h

werd:art

Im Werd 19, 1020 Wien, Österreich

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

An exhibition organised by Jugend am Werk.

In our society, mistakes are viewed merely as errors, even though it was often failures that helped humanity grow and develop internally. Our culture has forgotten that we learn best when we become aware of our mistakes.

One reason for this development is that humanity is more and more the relying on technology. The level and speed in computing data volumes exceeds human capabilities by far, which leads it becoming the most economical method for achieving goals.

Since technological possibilities also increase the expectations placed on us by ourselves and the outside world, we are becoming victims of a culture of success. In our exhibition, we want to open the door to error and focus on an art that eludes the principle of performance.

Following the opening, a concert will take place:

7:00 PM – ELaStIC

Miscast:
Cello – Laura Pudelek
Trombone – Stefan Krist

Ingrid Lechner, Ohne Titel, 2025

Exhibition and talking: 'Other' with Vera Mantjuk

13/11/2025

17:00 — 18:00 h

Palais Rössl

Rienößlgasse 12, 1040 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

Statement of the artist:
The exhibition explores my personal journey of discovering a new self and learning to live another life – both as a refugee from war and in entering a new stage of middle age. The works presented are created through the technique of double exposure within a single frame (without Photoshop), which powerfully underlines the concept of duality – between the feeling of life and self, and the reality of both.

The discussion can revolve around both the philosophical aspects of this transformation and the artistic method of working with double exposures, where layers are superimposed and the final result only becomes visible in the end.

The evening invites an open discourse, with questions and reflections contributed not only by artists and curators, but also by the attending audience.
Registration required: v.mantjuk@gmail.com

Credits: Vera zemlyanika

Artist Talk: "METAMORPHOSIS"

13/11/2025

19:00 — 20:00 h

SUSSUDIO

Wolfgang-Schmälzl-Gasse 19, 1020 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

As part of the exhibition METAMORPHOSIS, curated by Livia Klein (*1996, AT), at Kunstraum SUSSUDIO (November 7 – 28, 2025), artists Melanie Ebenhoch (*1985, AT) and Paola Siri Renard (*1993, FR) will engage in a dialogical conversation moderated by the curator.

Drawing on the motif of metamorphosis as a state of suspension and in-between space, the exhibition explores how materials, bodies, and spaces enter into processes of mutual influence and thereby transform each other. Between intimacy and irritation, imagination and the uncanny, Melanie Ebenhoch and Paola Siri Renard investigate artistic strategies that dissolve traditional boundaries between subject and object, interior and exterior, knowledge and fiction.

In alignment with this year’s VIENNA ART WEEK theme, “Learning Systems,” the Artist Talk will address how these interactions can be understood as non-human, embodied learning systems. Central to the discussion will be reflections on how materials, bodies, and spaces store knowledge, negotiate meanings, and transform through processes of convergence and manipulation. The talk will also explore the shifting of interior and exterior spaces and raise questions about how architecture reflects psychological topographies, with materials and atmospheres functioning as alternative learning systems.

The talk invites visitors to consider perception as a dynamic, embodied form of learning – a learning that unfolds in the fractures, overlaps, and shifts of space, body, and meaning. Metamorphosis is thus understood not only as an aesthetic motif but as an epistemological gesture — a tactile, multifaceted navigation through fragile systems of perception, imagination, and experience.

Registration required: artspace@sussudio.at

(c) Kaja Clara Joo

Fotografin Frenzi Rigling; Transitory Garden2025, Textilien, Installation im Atelier

Artist Talk: "Transitory Garden"

08/11/2025

17:00 — 18:00 h

sehsaal

Zentagasse 38, 1050 Wien, Österreich

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

Transitory Garden. Learning from silence.

The exhibition in the Sehsaal will combine hanging textiles with letter objects. Both in the spatial arrangement of the hanging colored carpets and in the text objects – which consist of spaces between the letters – Frenzi Rigling tells stories of everyday life. She refers to general and personal experiences and observations and makes them resonate precisely, gently and quietly. Frenzi Rigling communicates – not directly, but in between or behind, shimmering through, encrypted or hidden, thus enabling knowledge generation through perceptive participation.

A concert will be held as part of the exhibition featuring guitar duo Paul Straznicky and Ben Enzon, who will perform pieces related to the installation on display.

Fotografin Frenzi Rigling; Transitory Garden2025, Textilien, Installation im Atelier

Moneyfesta – SHIFT IV 2021, Fotograf: Richard Lürzer

Breaking the Habitus: Queering the Museum by Queer Museum Vienna

13/11/2025

18:00 — 21:00 h

Queer Museum Vienna

Baumgartner Höhe 1, 1140 Wien-Penzing, Österreich

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN/ENGLISH

“Queering the Museum”—a key concept in the self-understanding of Queer Museum Vienna (QMV)—refers not just to thematic content, but to a set of principles that shape both the internal practices of the collective and its institutional strategies. These principles operate by questioning established routines and professional norms, thereby critically engaging with the dominant logics of exhibition-making within Vienna’s cultural landscape.

The phrase Breaking the Habitus does not imply abrupt rupture, but rather a collective, experiential process of learning—grounded in Bourdieu’s concept of habitus as the internalized social structures that guide action and perception. QMV asks: how can queer theory be practiced institutionally through the museum form? After five years of experimental cultural work, the collective invites the public to a plenum that opens up its backstage—creating space for informal, often hidden forms of knowledge that usually remain behind applications, programming, or exhibitions.

The project has emerged relationally: through collaborations with institutions like the Volkskundemuseum Wien or the archive initiative QWIEN, as well as through encounters with diverse publics at the Otto Wagner Areal—such as unhoused individuals, users of mental health services, and older residents. The plenum creates an open space for reflection and exchange, moderated by QMV members and shaped by long-term collaborators from art, culture, and institutions.

Rather than stabilizing norms, QMV has developed a fragile but generative mode of institutional practice—aimed at reorganizing infrastructures through a queer lens. Breaking the Habitus makes this situated knowledge accessible, takes the messiness of learning seriously, and seeks to develop a language capable of translating these insights into broader cultural contexts—without simplifying their complexity.

The event accompanies the current exhibition ugly things_unlearning beauty, curated by Thomas Trabitsch.

Moneyfesta – SHIFT IV 2021, Fotograf: Richard Lürzer

Credits: Bauer & Großkopf Bildrecht_How-To-Make-It-As-An-Artist

Performance: "How to Make It as an Artist™"

08/11/2025

17:00 — 18:00 h

WEST

Augasse 2-6, 1090 Wien, Österreich

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

A performance by Nina Bauer & Lisa Großkopf.

In the very lecture hall of the former Vienna University of Economics and Business, where the laws of the market were once taught, the performance lecture How to Make It as an Artist™ poses a provocative question: what does it take to succeed as an artist today? The event dissects the booming self-optimization industry targeted at creatives. Advice books, coaching sessions, tutorials, and social media gurus flood the scene with supposedly foolproof formulas for artistic breakthroughs. Their mantra: art must be strategic, scalable, efficient — a business like any other, often reduced to visible skills, catchy aesthetics, and quantifiable success. This narrative promises individual agency, yet it fundamentally clashes with more complex, critical, or process-oriented understandings of art — all while systematically ignoring the precarious structures and dependencies of the actual art world.

This entrepreneurial mindset is no longer confined to self-help gurus and influencers; it’s increasingly infiltrating art academies. Institutions once regarded as bastions of critical thinking and artistic freedom are now introducing increasingly standardized curricula, complete with courses on portfolio optimization and creative entrepreneurship. As a result, the focus is subtly shifting away from in-depth engagement with content and form, toward the mechanics of personal branding and self-promotion.

How to Make It as an Artist™ adopts the formal structure of a university lecture, aligning its aesthetic with the very systems it critiques. It draws extensively on research material sourced from the coaching industry, self-help literature, and various social media channels that claim to offer artists a roadmap to success. This material — including success strategies, marketing tips, and visual examples — is presented in a factual, lecture-like tone and forms the backbone of the event.

Critical reflection emerges through the careful curation, juxtaposition, and analytical commentary of these found elements. A particular focus lies on how these popular media sources often construct a narrow, sometimes anachronistic image of what it means to be an artist — one centered on traditional, figurative, and aesthetically pleasing painting, with success defined primarily through marketability. By earnestly presenting this material within a quasi-authentic academic format, the performance reveals its internal contradictions, ideological undertones, and the stark contrast between such narratives and the diverse, often precarious realities of contemporary art practice.

Credits: Bauer & Großkopf Bildrecht_How-To-Make-It-As-An-Artist

Tandem workings / Process. Monica LoCascio & Rychèl Thérin Scott (2022).

Panel discussion: "Crafting Knowledges from Intimacy"

08/11/2025

16:00 — 17:00 h

WEST

Augasse 2-6, 1090 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

A panel discussion organized by Mariella Greil, daniela brill estrada, Monica LoCascio and Rychèl Thérin Scott.

(LEADING POEM)

Hey Alexa,

Give me unaggregated answers felt with your fingertips, observed with your eyes, tasted on your tongue, touched with your toes, brushed against your skin, sung from your grandmother, smelt on the street.

There’s no phones at the table. Can we just speak?

WHAT DO WE KNOW WHEN WE AREN’T PLUGGED IN?

(POEM END)

Reflecting on how far Western systems of intelligence creation and taxonimisation have extrapolated embodied knowledges from the process, how do we now look to prioritise and preserve the body, the thinking vessel, the soul and our humanity within knowledge making?

The practices of Greil, brill estrada, LoCasico and Thérin Scott all prioritise embodied knowledges from varying standpoints – embodied knowledge as movement, embodied knowledge as research, embodied knowledge as taxonomy, embodied knowledge as inheritance, embodied knowledge as ethics, embodied knowledge as native, embodied knowledge as gut reaction, embodied knowledge as power, embodied knowledge as anarchy, embodied knowledge as community.

The panel will offer thoughts, artworks and investigations on how craft as a method of creation serves as an exploratory research modality, and how it contributes specifically because it is RITUALISED, rather than DIGITISED. What risks emerge when the body is excluded from decision-making, knowledge-making, problem-solving, and investigation in general in the age of AI?

Registration required: rychel@toadhall.cc

Tandem workings / Process. Monica LoCascio & Rychèl Thérin Scott (2022).

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Opening: 'what world keeps together most inside - like Goethe's Faust asks urgently'

09/11/2025

18:00 — 21:00 h

flat1

Radetzkystraße 4, 1030 Wien, Österreich

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

If anything has become increasingly clear from the recent past of complex world history, it is that far more elements are interconnected in a modern liberal society than it seems at first glance. Interventions in one place lead to effects in completely different places; not all interdependencies are expected or taken into account by the people involved.

Anyone who wants to put the energy supply on a sustainable basis, for example, can point to the problematic effects of previous fossil fuel systems in terms of climate impact. However, they must also acknowledge the gains in prosperity achieved so far—from increased life expectancy to poverty reduction—and must offer viable alternatives. Those calling for greater solidarity with refugees must also consider the effects on the social fabric of Western societies. And when narcissists like Elon Musk believe they can optimize government agencies through corporate thinking or impose their worldview on a society that did not elect them, they often learn the hard way about the consequences of such interventions—such as the recent collapse in Tesla sales in the European market, which is otherwise quite climate-conscious.

The more hardened the fronts become, the more frequently terms like “collateral damage,” “dry spell,” or “medicine for the healing process” are used to describe the unexpected side effects of decisions made too hastily and one-dimensionally—while at the same time presenting them as unalterable facts, thereby illegitimately removing them from public criticism. This dynamic applies to the private, public, and political spheres alike and poses growing challenges for both decision-makers and those affected.

Art and artists take up these developments creatively, exploring the notion of “learning systems” and constructing new networks from them—sometimes adding to the confusion, sometimes helping to unravel it, but in both cases contributing to deeper understanding. Artistic interventions have systemic effects: elements from one sphere are transferred to another; oversized cell clusters are built from hardware store cable ties; graphic projections emerge from phonetic sources; nature imagery transforms into snapshots of complex systems or into documentation of interfaces between distant galaxies. Pure associations can lead viewers to a deeper understanding of systemic interrelations and foster an appreciation of their complexity. This, in turn, can have democratic and political consequences—since only through such understanding can urgently needed changes be implemented democratically. And if art contributes to this, then it achieves far more than is commonly attributed to it.

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Guided tour of PART, International Art Residency Austria - Tour 1

08/11/2025

14:30 — 15:30 h

PART, International Art Residency Austria

Meiereistraße 3, 1020 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN/ENGLISH

PART is the new Austrian Art Residency Programme based in Vienna, dedicated to artistic experimentation, interdisciplinary exchange, and cultural dialogue.

Located in the historic Praterateliers, PART offers artists, curators, and scholars from around the world the time, space, and curatorial support to explore bold ideas, collaborate across disciplines, and engage with both nature and the local art scene.

PART, International Art Residency Austria is a programme of the Austrian Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media, and Sport.

The tour is led by Barbara Horvath.

Registration required:

click here to register

PART Studios 2025 © Lea Sonderegger

Guided tour of PART, International Art Residency Austria - Tour 2

08/11/2025

16:00 — 17:00 h

PART, International Art Residency Austria

Meiereistraße 3, 1020 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN/ENGLISH

PART is the new Austrian Art Residency Programme based in Vienna, dedicated to artistic experimentation, interdisciplinary exchange, and cultural dialogue.

Located in the historic Praterateliers, PART offers artists, curators, and scholars from around the world the time, space, and curatorial support to explore bold ideas, collaborate across disciplines, and engage with both nature and the local art scene.

PART, International Art Residency Austria is a programme of the Austrian Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media, and Sport.

The tour is led by Alexandra Grausam.

Registration required:

click here to register

PART Studios 2025 © Lea Sonderegger

Foto: Jan Svenungsson 2025, Detail der Ausstellung im Atelier „Playroom – A House of Cards“

"Angewandte insights": the Jan Svenungsson class – drawing and printmaking

11/11/2025

12:00 — 18:00 h

Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien

Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, 1030 Wien, Österreich

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN / ENGLISH

What’s the importance of drawing in the age of AI? What’s the current state of printmaking, the original media art?

The students of the department Drawing and Printmaking started out with a real passion for drawing and have been working with drawing and printmaking and way beyond till today. As part of VIENNA ART WEEK, they will give an insight into their working methods and everyday life as students.

The doors of the class’s shared studio will be open between 12 noon and 6 p.m. From 12 noon to 4 p.m., there will also be an opportunity to visit the department’s four print workshops. There the work in progress can be observed and guests will be informed about the current possibilities of contemporary printmaking.

Class for Drawing and Printmaking

Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, 1030 Vienna

1st floor

Studio – Room 102

Workshops:

Relief Printing Workshop – Room 105
Screen Printing Workshop – Room 106
Lithography Workshop – Room 149
Intaglio Printing Workshop – Room 138

Foto: Jan Svenungsson 2025, Detail der Ausstellung im Atelier „Playroom – A House of Cards“

Sophie von Hellermann, Courtesy die Künstlerin und Pilar Corrias, London, Foto: Daniel Gurton

Artist Sophie von Hellermann in conversation with director Michelle Cotton

11/11/2025

19:00 — 20:30 h

Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier

Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien, Österreich

EVENT LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

From October, Kunsthalle Wien’s vitrine in the MuseumsQuartier will present a new 62-metre painting by Sophie von Hellermann.

This large-scale public artwork is the second in a new series of annual commissions for the vitrine that extends around the south-western wall of Kunsthalle Wien’s building on the outer arch of the MuseumsQuartier.

Von Hellermann’s paintings draw variously on fiction and reality, referencing characters from legend, myth and fables alongside history, popular culture and current affairs. This new work considers the epistemology of ideas in honour of Oswald Wiener, under whom Sophie von Hellermann studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Just as the painting wraps around the building, the title Get Your Head Around It unfurls a story of human knowledge and understanding.

The commission forms the focus for a special event on the occasion of VIENNA ART WEEK where Sophie von Hellermann will be in conversation with Michelle Cotton.

Sophie von Hellermann, Courtesy die Künstlerin und Pilar Corrias, London, Foto: Daniel Gurton

Ausstellungsansicht © Kunstsammlungen der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Foto: Iris Ranzinger

Curator's tour of 'The Day You Were Thinking About the Sibyl...'

07/11/2025

16:00 — 17:00 h

Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien

Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

The format Considering the Collection & An Insert by … features highlights from the collection of the Paintings Gallery as well as installations and groups of works conceived as inserts by contemporary artists and incorporated into the temporary arrangement from the permanent collection. The insert by Belgian artist Ana Torfs is the third presentation in this series.

Entitled The Day You Were Thinking About the Sibyl While You Were Picking Autumn Leaves, Ana Torfs’s new cycle of works consists of 28 Jacquard tapestries and is being shown to the public for the first time. On her walks during the time of the momentous Covid pandemic, the artist collects all sorts of brightly coloured autumn leaves, a process that reminds her of the Cumaean Sybil in Virgil’s ancient epic The Aeneid, who would write her prophecies on leaves. Torfs dries the collected leaves between the pages of international newspapers. She then photographes these arrangements and finally has them woven into large-format tapestries, supplemented with personal anaphors, verse-like sayings.

The texts and images combined in this way form a fragmentary tableau on the state of our world as it is today. The lyrical fabric affords the fleeting nature of quotidian life a supposed permanence through the medium of textiles, emphasising the nature of a historically memorable present whose repercussions on the future are unforeseeable. Just as the breeze scattered the leaves after the Sybil’s prophecy, it seems impossible to draw any reliable prospects for action from the incessant flow of media broadcasts. And given the possibilities offered by manipulative digital techniques, news events remain increasingly Sibylline and, indeed, enigmatic.

Juxtaposed alongside Torfs’s works are historical works from the art collections of the Academy itself and Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum. The works were produced in collaboration with TextielLab, the specialist workshop of the Textielmuseum Tilburg.

Curated by Sabine Folie and Synne Genzmer

Registration required:

kunstsammlungen@akbild.ac.at or by calling 01 588 16 2001

Ausstellungsansicht © Kunstsammlungen der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Foto: Iris Ranzinger

Guided tour of 'GOTHIC MODERN. Munch, Beckmann, Kollwitz'

13/11/2025

15:00 — 16:00 h

Albertina

Albertinaplatz 1, 1010 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

The conventional idea of modernism is as a fundamental break with tradition. It is thus that little attention has been paid to the way in which deliberate recourse to the distant past of the Late Middle Ages played a central role in precisely that reinvention of art that took place around 1900.

This exhibition shines a spotlight on a development that took place between 1870 and 1920 in which numerous artists such as Edvard Munch, Vincent van Gogh, Käthe Kollwitz, Max Beckmann, and Otto Dix deliberately referred back to the expressive art of figures such as Holbein, Dürer, Cranach, and Baldung Grien.

Encounters with medieval aesthetics elicited intense emotions and afforded artists new ways of engaging with the fundamental questions of human existence. This ALBERTINA exhibition inimitably unites modernist masterpieces with those of the 15th and early 16th centuries.

Registration required: https://albertinanews.at/vie_artweek_2025

(click here to sign up)

Bildcredits: Farah Barakat und Anna Khodorkovskaya: Don´t Skip

Opening: 'Don’t Skip!'

10/11/2025

19:00 — 21:00 h

philomena+

Heinestraße 40, 1020 Wien, Österreich

There is a moment the finger hesitates—half-scrolling, half-stuck. The horror of what is shown, and the numbness of what follows.

In the exhibition Don’t Skip Farah Barakat and Anna Khodorkovsakya present newly produced bodies of work that disturb the smoothness of official narratives. Working from screenshots pulled from social media, the artists reflect on how power is performed and how violence is normalized. Their works do not aim to clarify. They distort. Repeat. Linger. They reflect the rhythm of forgetting and the cost of witnessing without power.

Don’t Skip confronts the visual noise we absorb and the distance we create to survive it. Don’t Skip is not a plea. It’s a fracture. A disruption in tempo. A screen-grabbed breath held too long. It’s what happens when the feed spills over into the body—quietly, uninvited, unresolved.

Exhibition dates: November 12, 2025 – January 10, 2026

As part of the exhibition, the artists will also hold a workshop on November 14 at 5 p.m.

Artists: Anna Khodorkovskaya & Farah Barakat
Curators: Christine Bruckbauer & Aline Lenzhofer

Bildcredits: Farah Barakat und Anna Khodorkovskaya: Don´t Skip

Der Feministische Rat bei der UNO © Feministischer Rat

Performative exam: “Did the ‘Feminist Council’ meet?”

14/11/2025

18:00 — 19:30 h

Medienwerkstatt Wien

Neubaugasse 40A, 1070 Wien, Österreich

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN / ENGLISH

In mid-November 2025, a closed retreat of the Feminist Council is planned at Medienwerkstatt Wien. This is particularly noteworthy, as the Feminist Council—an organ of an anonymous feminist observation and action unit—rarely appears in public. The retreat, which will address both current issues and projects as well as a fundamental restructuring of a mobile, multi-diverse, and gender-perspective-based university concept, will not be open to the public—but its effects are expected to resonate publicly.

The choice of Medienwerkstatt Wien as the location is no coincidence. It is one of Austria’s oldest non-commercial, independent cultural institutions. Rooted in the socio-political movements of the late 1970s, its self-managed organizational structure supports clandestine working methods, while its longstanding professionalism ensures excellent working conditions. Its medium scale guarantees focused attention, away from spectacle and sensationalist media. Due to early signs of potential disruptions—despite efforts to keep participants and times confidential—details about the meeting will remain deliberately vague for now.

A public slot is scheduled for Friday, 14 November 2025, allowing interested visitors to explore the site of the retreat and review the results available up to that point, selected working materials, and detailed information on the activities of the Feminist Council. This event is part of VIENNA ART WEEK 2025 and is conceived as a hyper-political contribution through artistic means.

About the Feminist Council

The Feminist Council was established in 2016 by women* with a resistant disposition, aiming to create a reliable body for providing (specialist) knowledge, social awareness, and political independence. Its strategic focus includes identifying and assessing risks, and reviewing adherence to guidelines and procedures that align with feminist legal and ethical standards. The council’s composition is not made public to safeguard its partially clandestine operations. It acts from the background and is responsible for making visible phenomena linked to gender- and queer-specific inequalities.

Der Feministische Rat bei der UNO © Feministischer Rat

KUNSTZELLE – Traumzelle
Anne Glassner und Lisa Spalt, Credits: Christian Prinz, 2020

Opening & Performance: Anne Glassner / Lisa Spalt: 'Dream Cell REM, Remember or Remake'

12/11/2025

19:00 — 21:00 h

KUNSTZELLE

Währinger Straße 59, 1090 Wien, Österreich

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN / ENGLISH

The former phone booth becomes a dream cell: a place of retreat, poetic transformation and the collective power of imagination. While Anne Glassner lies in the cell – or sleeps standing up – a series of abstract visual pictures unfolds from her “dreaming head”. In the form of moving decalcomania, they appear as constantly changing projections on the walls of the cell: vibrant, surreal dream images that are as fleeting as thoughts.

Anne Glassner has been jotting down her dreams since 2017 and sees them as a personal, inner archive – as moving images of the unconscious. At the same time, the language artist Lisa Spalt takes up these fleeting dream worlds. In real time, “dream enhancements” emerge from the projections. These interventions offer alternative narratives, extensions and subtle utopias of the dreamed images. The dream cell is a sleeping area, projection surface as well as a poetic workshop. It invites the audience to enter a state between waking and dreaming – a space in which reality and imagination merge.

KUNSTZELLE – Traumzelle Anne Glassner und Lisa Spalt, Credits: Christian Prinz, 2020

Opening: 'Curators' Agenda Final Group Exhibition'

08/11/2025

19:00 — 22:00 h

DAS WEISSE HAUS

Hegelgasse 14, 1010 Wien, Österreich

EVENT LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

As part of Curators’ Agenda: Vienna 2025, a group exhibition will be created on the ground floor of DAS WEISSE HAUS, running from November 2025 to January 2026. The exhibition will be collaboratively developed by a group of emerging international curators and will present works by art students and alumni of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, who critically engage with key issues of our time. The starting point for the curatorial work is the 2025 yearly topic of DAS WEISSE HAUS: SUCCESS.

The exhibition explores the societal construction of success and the various, often problematic, meanings attributed to this concept in contemporary culture. Success is not understood as an objective, neutral goal, but rather as a normalized system of expectations that emphasizes material accumulation, social status symbols, and perpetual self-optimization – thereby reinforcing existing inequalities and exclusion. The artistic positions address these dominant narratives of success, question the structural constraints of capitalist societies, and open up alternative perspectives on individual and collective forms of fulfillment. They tackle topics such as labor cultures, social mobility, self-realization, as well as exhaustion and failure. The exhibition approaches success not as an individual achievement, but as the result of complex social, economic, and cultural entanglements.

In reference to the main theme of the 21st VIENNA ART WEEK 2025 – Learning Systems, learning here is understood as an active, inherent process through which norms and values — such as ideas of success and failure — are transmitted and perpetuated. The exhibition reflects on how these systems of knowledge and value emerge, who controls them, and how they can be critically examined and reimagined. Artists explore how alternative networks of knowledge and collective practices could enable new definitions of success — beyond exclusion, accumulation, and competition.

Curators’ Agenda itself is conceived as an intensive learning process: During their stay, the curators will gain in-depth insights into the contemporary Viennese art scene, engage in dialogue with local artists, visit institutions, studios, and galleries, and participate in lectures and workshops. They will be accompanied and supported by regular mentoring sessions led by Dr. Anamarija Batista, allowing them to deepen their curatorial and theoretical approaches and to further develop their own perspectives. Thus, the final exhibition is not only the result of artistic research but also a reflection of the curators’ collective learning process. It invites visitors to question dominant ideals of success, reflect on their own experiences and expectations, and collaboratively envision new models of fulfillment and social participation. In a time when success is often tied to overwork, precarity, and social isolation, the exhibition offers space for alternative narratives, solidaristic perspectives, and collective processes of learning.

Opening, artist tour of 'Weltverständnis?' by Olaf Osten and panel discussion

11/11/2025

18:00 — 20:00 h

TU Wien Bibliothek (Treffpunkt: Data Visualisation Space, Erdgeschoß)

Resselgasse 4, 1040 Wien, Österreich

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

At the opening, the artist will guide visitors through the exhibition. In the subsequent panel discussion, we will examine nature and technology, analog and digital worlds, scientific skepticism, and trust in science from the perspective of various disciplines (data science, geoinformation, civil engineering, art).

By learning from and imitating nature’s organic systems, we humans have expanded them to such an extent over time that they are now known to have the potential to grow beyond our control. With the observational system of art, Olaf Osten questions our only partially controllable technological achievements in his exhibition in the library of the TU Wien and reminds us that we, the designers of the Anthropocene, should see ourselves more as part of nature instead of thoughtlessly distancing ourselves from it.

His works raise various questions of scientific ethics: Should we focus only on what is possible or also on what is necessary when curiosity and inventiveness drive us into abstract spheres? How do we behave when it is difficult to predict what technological developments such as artificial intelligence will do to us?

Olaf Osten (born in Lübeck in 1972, living and working in Vienna since 1997) is exhibiting ten selected works from the Pendeln series and the video installation Fernsehen III-12 as part of VIENNA ART WEEK.

Meeting point:

Data Visualisation Space

TU Wien Library

Resselgasse 4, ground floor

1040 Vienna

Panel discussion with:

Olaf Osten – Born in Lübeck; studied graphic design in Hildesheim and Dublin; has lived and worked in Vienna since 1997.
Helga Nowotny – Internationally recognised scholar in science studies and sociology; Emeritus Professor at ETH Zurich; President of the European Research Council from 2010 to 2013; member, among others, of the Council Assembly of the Austrian Council for Research, Science, Innovation and Technology Development, and of the Board of Trustees of the Falling Walls Foundation.
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Norbert Pfeifer – Professor of Photogrammetry in the Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation at TU Wien; expert in the use of Earth observation imagery for the 3D modelling of our environment.
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Agathe Robisson – Head of the interdisciplinary research area of Building Materials Science and Material Technology; 15 years of experience at the Schlumberger Doll Research Center in Boston; expert in the use of raw materials and recycled materials.

Bild 1 by Olaf Osten

Egon Schiele, Selbstbildnis mit Lampionfrüchten, 1912 © Leopold Museum, Wien

VAW FOR ALL: "Simply Art" - Tour in Simple German of 'VIENNA 1900. Birth of Modernism'

10/11/2025

16:00 — 17:00 h

Leopold Museum

Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: SIMPLE GERMAN

Art is timeless and works of art in museums can be seen by everyone in our society.

They communicate with us. They do not use words. But architecture, people and nature speak on many levels. Can we understand them? Do they understand us?

In this tour through the permanent exhibition VIENNA 1900: BIRTH OF MODERNISM in simple German language, you will discover masterpieces from the museum such as those by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele.

You can talk, listen and participate. And you will discover how simple art can be!

Registration necessary: click here to sign up

Egon Schiele, Selbstbildnis mit Lampionfrüchten, 1912 © Leopold Museum, Wien

Wechselstrom bei MediaArtBiennale Wroclaw

Get creative yourself: "Scribo - Color creates music / Music controls brushstrokes"

11/11/2025

14:00 — 20:00 h

wechselstrom (Renate Pittroff & Christoph Theiler)

Grundsteingasse 44-46, 1160 Wien, Österreich

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

Scribo is a tool that allows you to create sounds while drawing a picture in order to merge temporal and spatial dimensions. With Scribo it is possible to create drawings using a graphite pencil and/or conductive paint and to produce music at the same time. Synthesizers and sound software are controlled in the act of drawing. This relatively recent development is a powerful improvisation tool that places people in a creative network of spatial AND temporal dimensions.

In the creative and learning process, one is constantly faced with the decision of whether to further develop the music or complete the image content, and one strives to harmonize both, i.e. to place image and sound content in a meaningful correspondence. Music and image/drawing thus form an inseparable unit.

The following short video shows how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luS3T0uW7LY

It is also an extraordinary learning tool that reveals the visual aspects of their art to musicians, and makes the rhythmic and sonic dimensions of their work audible to painters and illustrators. Visitors are welcome to drop by the wechselstrom gallery at their own pace to try out the tool. Depending on the frequency, sketches may last between 5 and 10 minutes. Paper, brushes, synthesizers, and other materials will be provided.

Wechselstrom bei MediaArtBiennale Wroclaw

"Talking through Weibel" - Tour, Keynote & Discussion

14/11/2025

18:00 — 20:00 h

AIL – Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab

Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Wien, Österreich

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN / ENGLISH

Talking Through Weibel asks a simple, far-reaching question: how do exhibitions and archives teach us—artists, researchers, and the wider public—how to see, remember, and think?

Taking the current exhibition Thinking Through Weibel and the Weibel Archiv as an opening path, the evening explores art as a learning system: how exhibitions and collections structure cultural memory, how digitization can widen (and bias) access, and how exhibition-making can produce embodied, situated knowledge that differs from conventional academic formats.

Looking at Peter Weibel himself—artist, theorist, institution-builder—and drawing on his extensive, partly digital archive, the evening considers how large-scale collections can be made meaningfully accessible: through digitization and metadata practices, open interfaces and display strategies, as well as curatorial and pedagogical frameworks that invite plural forms of learning.

The program starts with a guided tour of the exhibition, continues with a keynote on “What is Contemporary Art History?” and culminates in a roundtable that considers exhibitions and archives as shared infrastructures of learning. Rather than closing a legacy, we open questions and methods—testing how playful, critical, and inclusive practices can shape what and how we learn together.

Programm:

Exhibition tour with Brooklyn J. Pakathi
Keynote lecture by Boris Čučković Berger
Round table / Discussion:
Panelists: Robert Müller, Brooklyn J. Pakathi, Margit Rosen, Charlotte Reuß
Moderation: Denise H. Sumi

Short biographies:

Boris Čučković Berger is a Professor of Art History and Digital Image Cultures at LMU Munich (since Aug 15, 2021). His work focuses on critical studies of art and technology, especially digital production and the socio-technical conditions of platform economies; previously he taught modern and contemporary art at The Courtauld Institute of Art (Associate Lecturer, 2017–2021). He holds a PhD from the Courtauld (2019).

Robert Müller is an artist based in Vienna and Berlin. He is co-editor of the online magazine The Critical Ass and, since 2013, has organized the exhibition series Nousmoules in Vienna and Berlin. He was a curator at Kunstverein Nürnberg – Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft (2021- 2022). Since 2022 he has worked as Senior Scientist / Curator at the Kunstsammlung und Archiv of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Brooklyn J. Pakathi is a Vienna-based transmedia artist whose practice critically engages ontologies of emotion through material and spatial interventions. Informed by phenomenology and affect theory, their work examines configurations of intimacy, melancholy, and longing, challenging and reconfiguring the boundaries between the tangible and the immaterial. As an independent curator, Pakathi’s research focuses on decolonial methodologies, cultural equity, and alternative epistemologies that address technology and spatial practice.

Margit Rosen is an art historian and curator; since 2016 Head of Collections, Archives & Research at ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. She studied art history, political science, philosophy, and media arts (LMU Munich, HfG Karlsruhe, Paris I) and edited the MIT Press volume A Little-Known Story about a Movement, a Magazine, and the Computer’s Arrival in Art (2011).

Charlotte Reuß researches digital cultures, copyright law, and the dynamics of commercialization and cultural accessibility. In her ongoing doctoral dissertation, she investigates user strategies within digital cultures in late capitalism. Since 2020, she has been teaching and conducting research at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and currently coordinates the Weibel Online project at the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures.

Denise H. Sumi is a Senior Scientist and doctoral researcher at the Peter Weibel Research Institute for Digital Cultures, University of Applied Arts Vienna, focusing on network cultures, relational ethics and critical pedagogy. Previously, she coordinated the Digital Solitude program and served as editor-in-chief of the platform Schlosspost at Akademie Schloss Solitude (2019–2024).

Photo © Brooklyn Pakathi

Sheri Avraham
Mizrachi Futurism #3
Fotopapier
Wien, 2025
Courtesy of the artist

Performance by Sheri Avraham: "Mizrachi Futurism: Situated Systems"

13/11/2025

18:30 — 19:30 h

Jüdisches Museum Wien

Dorotheergasse 11, Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/HEBREW

“Mizrachi Futurism: Situated Systems” is a performance that probes the entangled processes of identity formation, visibility, and belonging through a Mizrachi, queer epistemic lens.

It interrogates how cultural memory, ancestral transmission, and digital infrastructures co-construct the self, especially within systems that privilege legibility over complexity.

In dialogue with the algorithmic gaze and the normative architectures of social media, the work resists epistemic flattening—foregrounding what remains opaque, partial, or deliberately concealed.

Through ritual gestures, embodied presence, and mediated fragmentation, the performance unfolds as a critical site of knowledge-making: one that is relational, contested, and fundamentally situated.

Registration required: https://www.jmw.at/ (click here to register) or scan the following QR code:

Sheri Avraham Mizrachi Futurism #3 Fotopapier Wien, 2025 Courtesy of the artist

Guan Xiao, Jeanake, 2025. Courtesy der Künstlerin/the artist und/and David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles

VAW FOR ALL: Overview tour with translation into Austrian sign language of 'Guan Xiao'

11/11/2025

18:00 — 19:00 h

Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier

Museumsplatz 1, Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN SPOKEN LANGUAGE AND AUSTRIAN SIGN LANGUAGE

With sign language interpreter Eva Böhm and art mediator Martin Walkner

The Beijing-based artist Guan Xiao plays with unusual combinations of objects, images, and media in her art. At Kunsthalle Wien, she presents a new series of sculptures that form the core of a sophisticated narrative. In the guided tour interpreted in Austrian Sign Language by sign language interpreter Eva Böhm and art educator Martin Walkner, this narrative is explored, and the connections and background of the exhibited artworks are discussed together.

Registration required: besucherservice@kunsthallewien.at (Please click here to sign up).

Guan Xiao, Jeanake, 2025. Courtesy der Künstlerin/the artist und/and David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles

Theater workshop 1: “Around the campfire: Talking about theater, but how?”

12/11/2025

18:00 — 19:30 h

Die Kunst VHS

Lazarettgasse 27, 1090 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

The Schauspielhaus Wien and the Kunst VHS invite you to an open discussion room about theater – relaxed, fun, without the feeling of not having a clue. Whether you have just seen a play or are simply curious about how others talk about theater – come along, sit by our theater fire and join in the conversation.

In two open meetings, we will explore our perceptions in a playful way: what images, sentences or questions do we take home with us from the theater – and how do we actually talk about them? Let’s sort them out: What did I see? What has stayed with me? What did I stumble across and why?

Guided by Felix Rotkehl, co-director of Offenes^Haus, there is room for exchange, irritation and a change of perspective. Without prior knowledge, without obligation. You can be there for one or three hours. Because sometimes all it takes is a small campfire to start a conversation.

Registration required: kvh@vhs.at. Please click here.

Die Kunst VHS

Anita Fuchs_Versuchsfeld1_MuseumsQuartier Wien_2025_Foto_Klaus Pichler.jpg

Opening: Anita Fuchs - ‘Versuchsfeld1‘

12/11/2025

18:00 — 19:00 h

MuseumsQuartier Wien

Museumsplatz 1, Wien, Österreich

Since March 2023, artist Anita Fuchs has been working on a long-term project on the forecourt of the MuseumsQuartier: a 250 m² area has been freed from turf and transformed into a resilient, species-rich wild plant meadow. Under the title Versuchsfeld1, Fuchs developed this site as a living experimental space – a learning system that serves both artistic and scientific research. Versuchsfeld1 is an example of the interplay between art, science and ecological sustainability in urban space.

With the exhibition Wiesenstückin the MQ Art Box, the glass art space in the public space of the MuseumsQuartier, Versuchsfeld1 is now being condensed in terms of form and content: Anita Fuchs presents biogenic materials – the yields of the wild plant meadow, so to speak – as sculptural manifestations of her long-term project.

Meetingpoint: MQ Art Box

Anita Fuchs_Versuchsfeld1_MuseumsQuartier Wien_2025_Foto_Klaus Pichler.jpg

Theater workshop 2: “Around the campfire: Talking about theater, but how?”

12/11/2025

19:30 — 21:00 h

Die Kunst VHS

Lazarettgasse 27, 1090 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

The Schauspielhaus Wien and the Kunst VHS invite you to an open discussion room about theater – relaxed, fun, without the feeling of not having a clue. Whether you have just seen a play or are simply curious about how others talk about theater – come along, sit by our theater fire and join in the conversation.

In three open meetings, we will explore our perceptions in a playful way: what images, sentences or questions do we take home with us from the theater – and how do we actually talk about them? Let’s sort them out: What did I see? What has stayed with me? What did I stumble across and why?

Guided by Felix Rotkehl, co-director of Offenes^Haus, there is room for exchange, irritation and a change of perspective. Without prior knowledge, without obligation. You can be there for one or three hours. Because sometimes all it takes is a small campfire to start a conversation.

Registration required: kvh@vhs.at. Please click here.

Die Kunst VHS

Credit: Edvard Munch , Melancholie, 1892 © Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design, The Fine Art Collections, Oslo

Guided tour through the exhibition 'Hidden Modernity' with Matthias Dusini and Ivan Ristić

12/11/2025

16:30 — 17:30 h

Leopold Museum

Museumsplatz 1, Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

NEW SPIRIT

Guided tour through the exhibition Hidden Modernity. Fascination of the occult around 1900

with Matthias Dusini and Ivan Ristić

At the end of the 19th century, the need for spirituality grew stronger. The materialism of bourgeois society and the traditional churches no longer seemed to offer answers to the big questions. Nature worshippers from an intellectual milieu read Friedrich Nietzsche’s novel Also sprach Zarathustra and became enthusiastic about Richard Wagner’s operas. The artist prophet and Wagnerian Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach founded one of the world’s first rural communes on the outskirts of Vienna.

Early modern painters found new forms of expression in theosophy, spiritualism and dance. Edvard Munch saw his models as ethereal beings, threatening and attractive at the same time. Ferdinand Hodler painted “figures that cannot become boring because you always think you understand them and can never fully comprehend them” (Ludwig Hevesi). Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele mediatized the view inwards; their auratic depictions of people reflect a mystical, often enraptured attitude to life. Esoteric ideas paved the way to abstraction for their contemporaries such as Wassily Kandinsky, František Kupka and Johannes Itten.

The major autumn exhibition at the Leopold Museum focuses on the life-reforming search for the “New Humans” in art and society, without concealing dark aspects of magical thinking.

Registration required: click here to register

Credit: Edvard Munch , Melancholie, 1892 © Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design, The Fine Art Collections, Oslo

Thomas_Feuerstein_FATTY-FANTASY-Detail_2023_Bolzano2023_Foto_Atelier-Feuerstein

Guided tour with the artist Thomas Feuerstein through his exhibition ‘Metabolica’

12/11/2025

17:00 — 18:00 h

MuseumsQuartier Wien

Museumsplatz 1/5, 1070 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

Austrian artist Thomas Feuerstein is showing his exhibition METABOLICA at the MQ Freiraum.

The cycle of works he has been working on since 2017 is being presented here in its entirety for the first time. Feuerstein transforms the space into a molecular factory: new materials are created from algae and their fatty acids, which are shaped into works of art and fed back into the cycle. The exhibition combines art and science and opens up new perspectives on resources, the circular economy and social visions of the future.

As part of the VIENNA ART WEEK, Thomas Feuerstein will guide visitors through the exhibition.

Meeting point: MQ Freiraum

Registration required: freiraum@mqw.at (click here to sign up)

Thomas_Feuerstein_FATTY-FANTASY-Detail_2023_Bolzano2023_Foto_Atelier-Feuerstein

SUCK MY CODE!, Webposter, Grafik Design: Anja Lekavski, 2025

Curator's tour through the exhibition ‘SUCK MY CODE!’

08/11/2025

14:00 — 15:00 h

Exhibit Galerie - Ausstellungsraum der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien

Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Wien, Österreich

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

The group exhibition SUCK MY CODE! opens up a glitchy experiential space in which digital corporeality is negotiated in the field of tension between capitalization and sexualization.

Tour led by the two curators of the exhibition, Rosanna Marie Pondorf and Mareike Schwarz.

Registration is not required, but appreciated: kunstauskunft@akbild.ac.at (click here to sign up)

SUCK MY CODE!, Webposter, Grafik Design: Anja Lekavski, 2025

"Passion for Collecting and Obsession with Order" - a tour of the Kunstkammer Wien

11/11/2025

16:00 — 17:00 h

Kunsthistorisches Museum WIen

Maria-Theresien-Platz, Wien, Österreich

Registration required.

www.khm.at

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

The museum is inseparably linked with the Muses, the protectors of the arts. Their name points to memory, to science and education. The art and curiosity cabinets of the 16th and 17th centuries mark the beginning of the modern museum.

They were not just a collection of strange and valuable objects, but encyclopaedic universal collections that were able to represent the entire knowledge of their time. The art cabinet was a place of world knowledge. The Vienna Kunstkammer is the most important collection of its kind.

Registration required: kunstvermittlung@khm.at (Subject: Vienna Art Week) (click here to sign up)

BU: Hauptplatz Amstetten, 3:0 Landschaftsarchitekur © Foto: Kurt Hörbst

Az W excursion: Studio Visits at ASPHALT und 3:0

07/11/2025

14:00 — 17:00 h

Treffpunkt: asphalt kollektiv, Vivariumstrasse 13/1/R02, 1020 Vienna

Vivariumstrasse 13, 1020 Vienna.

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

As part of Vienna Art Week, the Architekturzentrum Wien is visiting two studios, ASPHALT and 3:0, which will give us an insight into their working methods for creating contemporary, socially and ecologically sustainable architecture.

Registration required: anmeldung@azw.at (click here to register)

Meeting point: asphalt kollektiv, Vivariumstrasse 13/1/R02, 1020 Vienna.

BU: Hauptplatz Amstetten, 3:0 Landschaftsarchitekur © Foto: Kurt Hörbst

Screening & Talk: Cosima Terrasse, "Gezinkte Karten" – A digital walk

12/11/2025

18:00 — 19:30 h

Stand 129, Viktor-Adler-Markt, 1100 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

Screening and talk with Cosima Terrasse and Olga Wukounig, Senior Curator KÖR Wien

What does Vienna look like when viewed through its algorithmically managed representation? The video “Gezinkte Karten” takes us through Street View images to the best and worst rated places in Vienna. What emerges is a reflection of the city – shaped by algorithms, fed by users, controlled by economic interests.

Google Maps increasingly determines which parts of the city are seen and used. Users contribute to the platform by uploading photos, information and reviews for free, which Google masks as “participation”. However, the use of Google’s data via the API is anything but free. Anyone can upload, but not everyone has access to the collected data.

In their work, Gruppe Laokoon combines investigative research with various forms of artistic expression. This results in performances, plays and documentary films that focus on the question of how our idea of people and society is changing in the digital age. For “Gezinkte Karten”, Gruppe Laokoon creates a portrait of Vienna based on Google data and feeds it back to the people of the city. Cosima Terrasse presents the video and talks about the project.

An event by KÖR Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Wien in cooperation with Stand 129, Caritas Wien.

Registration required: office@koer.or.at (click here to register)

"Gezinkte Karten" (c) Gruppe Laokoon

Tastobjekt Hundertwasser Münze (c) KunstHausWien / Isabella Petricek

VIENNA ART WEEK FOR ALL: "Tangible Museum - Hundertwasser with all senses"

08/11/2025

11:00 — 12:00 h

KunstHausWIen

Untere Weißgerberstraße 13, 1030 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN / SIMPLE GERMAN

The KunstHausWien. Museum Hundertwasser invites visitors to discover art in a variety of ways. This tour explores the history of the museum and its founder, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, using all of the senses. The building itself becomes the central element of discovery—an experience that combines touch, smell, hearing, and sight.

Through the deliberate use of various materials, the museum offers the opportunity to experience architecture and design not only visually but also haptically. This allows participants to get to know the building on a deeper level. Various tactile objects provide a more comprehensive understanding of the works of art and their connection to nature.

This multisensory approach not only promotes a deeper understanding of Hundertwasser’s ecological and artistic thinking, but also invites visitors to more consciously perceive and reflect on their own relationship with the environment.

Accessibility information – this event is also suitable for:

People with dementia or cognitive impairments
People with learning difficulties (simple language)

Registration required (max. 15 participants): kunstvermittlung@kunsthauswien.com (click here to register)

Tastobjekt Hundertwasser Münze (c) KunstHausWien / Isabella Petricek

Foto: Balázs Turós, Copyright: Courtesy the artists

"Licking Licking Stones" - Workshop with Fuzzy Earth (Tekla Gedeon & Sebastian Gschanes)

14/11/2025

17:00 — 20:00 h

KunstHausWien

Untere Weißgerberstraße 13, 1030 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN / ENGLISH

Tasting a mineral is like tasting the Earth itself — a moment when body and planet come together. In this guided workshop, participants explore salts, charcoals, and edible minerals shaped over millions of years, discovering how deeply connected our bodies are to the soil beneath our feet.

This practice takes inspiration from geophagia — the tradition of eating earth materials, like clay or mineral-rich stones, found in any cultures and even in the animal kingdom. Animals often lick stones to get essential minerals, a simple but powerful way of staying in tune with the land’s cycles. Here, the body is not separate from the earth but made of it — built and nourished by the minerals that have traveled through mountains, rivers, and time. Every taste becomes a tiny act of connection: tongue, bone, and stone meeting across deep history.

Together, we’ll reflect on how minerals like calcium, phosphorus, and iron — once flowing through ancient landscapes — now travel through our blood, strengthen our bones, and shape our breath. This shared tasting is a gentle ritual of remembering that our bodies carry the story of the Earth. By tasting deep time, we don’t just realize the soil is inside us — we begin to imagine how to live with care and respect for the living matter that sustains us all.

Workshop for max. 15 persons.

Registration required: kunstvermittlung@kunsthauswien.com (click here to register)

Foto: Balázs Turós, Copyright: Courtesy the artists

Fuzzy Earth, Kompost
(c) KunstHausWien / Nadja Messinger

Artist Talk & Book Launch: 'The Belly Knows Before the Brain' with Fuzzy Earth

13/11/2025

19:00 — 21:00 h

KunstHausWien

Untere Weißgerberstraße 13, 1030 Wien, Österreich

EVENT LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

Using speculative design methods, Fuzzy Earth explores the interconnection between humans, nature, and technology, delving into the Earth’s regenerative cycles.

The Belly Knows Before the Brain proposes a shift in perspective on digestion and metabolism: from a physical function of humans to an ecological practice in which multiple species participate. How can we imagine a planetary metabolism?

The exhibition addresses social attitudes and emotional relationships to compost and decay, which are mostly characterized by discomfort and alienation.

The artist talk will take place in the exhibition and will also serve as a presentation of the exhibition publication.

Fuzzy Earth, Kompost (c) KunstHausWien / Nadja Messinger

Medienkunstfestival und Ausstellung Civa. Foto: eSeL.at / Lorenz Seidler

VIENNA ART WEEK FOR ALL: Tour in Simple German of 'Civa. World of Quantum physics'

11/11/2025

15:30 — 16:30 h

Belvedere 21 - Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst

Arsenalstraße 1, 1030 Wien

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: SIMPLE GERMAN

What are the building blocks of our world? How can we be in two places at once? And what is dark matter?

On a tour presented in simple language, we will learn about works of art that deal with questions of quantum physics.

Civa stands for media art. At Belvedere 21, Civa is presenting an exhibition on quantum physics.

Quantum research proves that familiar rules do not always apply. This connects it to contemporary art, where boundaries are constantly being rethought.

Registration required: belvedere.at/programm (click here to register)

Further information can be found here: Civa

Medienkunstfestival und Ausstellung Civa. Foto: eSeL.at / Lorenz Seidler

Testimony of Egon and Mina H., born in Vienna, from the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies.

"Witnessing History, Understanding the Present, Learning for the Future"-Screening & Talks

08/11/2025

16:00 — 19:30 h

Sigmund Freud Museum

Berggasse 19, 1090 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: ENGLISH & GERMAN

Testimonies from Vienna – A video installation in the Showroom Berggasse 19 offers unique insights into our collective memory: Selected testimonies from Viennese Holocaust survivors demonstrate the enduring impact of history on the present and future. These memories are often tied to places and objects—marked by painful experiences yet also carrying within them longing and hope.

The premiere of this moving historical testimony will be accompanied by a conversation between historian Thomas Kohut and Monika Pessler (Director of the Sigmund Freud Museum) on the relationship between knowledge, historical consciousness, and repression.

Before the screening, renowned experts in psychoanalysis, cultural studies, literature, and history will discuss how we navigate the complex psychological terrain of cultural identity and loss.

Under the title “Transience, Transference, and the Dispossessed“, they will examine the contemporary significance of vanished places, lost rituals, and cultural dispossession—because “History does not repeat itself, but we can learn from it.” (Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny, 2017)

EVENT SCHEDULE

4 PM (in English): Panel Discussion “Transience, Transference, and the Dispossessed”

Brigid Doherty, Art Historian, Princeton University/New Jersey
Jane Tillman, Psychoanalyst, Austen Riggs Center/Massachusetts
Daniela Finzi, Literary Scholar, Sigmund Freud Museum/Vienna
Thomas A. Kohut, Historian, Williams College/Massachusetts (Moderator)

6 PM (in German with subtitles): Film Premiere “Testimonies from Vienna” & Discussion

A collaboration with the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University, presented alongside the special exhibition “Documents of Injustice. The Case of Freud” at the Sigmund Freud Museum.

Post-Screening Discussion

Thomas Kohut, Historian, Williams College/Massachusetts
Monika Pessler, Director, Sigmund Freud Museum/Vienna

Registration required: https://www.freud-museum.at/en/exhibitions-program/program (click here to register)

Testimony of Egon and Mina H., born in Vienna, from the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies.

VAW FOR ALL: Guided tour & workshop in Simple German

14/11/2025

10:00 — 12:00 h

Künstlerhaus Vereinigung

Karlsplatz 5, 1010 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: SIMPLE GERMAN

The exhibition DU SOLLST DIR EIN BILD MACHEN (You Shall Make an Image for Yourself) explores the imaginative power of religious experience, its visual expression in the Christian pictorial tradition, and its reinterpretation by contemporary artists. At the heart of the exhibition are works by artists who engage with Christian iconography in ways that are critical yet affectionate, humorous, and feminist—opening up new perspectives on centuries-old motifs.

Following a short guided tour, participants are invited to explore various creative approaches in an artistic workshop, engaging hands-on with the themes of the exhibition. A wide range of materials will be available. In a relaxed atmosphere, participants can exchange ideas, learn from one another, and enter into dialogue on a variety of topics.

Registration required: kunstvermittlung@kuenstlerhaus.at (click here to register)

Fritz Wotruba, Große liegende Figur, 1951–53
Belvedere, Wien, 2019 Dauerleihgabe Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft, Foto: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wien

Curator's tour of 'Wotruba International'

12/11/2025

16:30 — 17:30 h

Belvedere 21 - Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst

Arsenalstraße 1, 1030 Wien

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

As part of VIENNA ART WEEK, curators Verena Gamper and Gabriele Stöger-Spevak invite you to an exclusive tour of the exhibition Wotruba International at Belvedere 21. For the first time, the focus is on the international career of Fritz Wotruba (1907–75), one of the most influential sculptors of Austrian post-war modernism.

Wotruba had an international presence from the very beginning: his first solo exhibition took place in 1931 at the Museum Folkwang in Essen. This was followed by participation in documenta, biennials, expos, and important open-air exhibitions. Despite his formal abstraction, the human figure remained his central motif.

The curators provide exciting insights into Wotruba’s specific sculptural language and show how closely his work is intertwined with international sculpture after 1945. Selected encounters with works by Kenneth Armitage, Lynn Chadwick, César, Alberto Giacometti, Barbara Hepworth, Henri Laurens, Jacques Lipchitz, Aristide Maillol, Marino Marini, Henry Moore, Louise Nevelson, Isamu Noguchi, Eduardo Paolozzi, Alicia Penalba, and Germaine Richier, it becomes clear how Wotruba positioned himself in the global discourse on sculpture—and why his work still has international appeal today.

Registration required: https://www.belvedere.at/event/ (click here to register)

Exhibition Wotruba International

July 2025 – January 11, 2026, Belvedere 21

Fritz Wotruba, Große liegende Figur, 1951–53 Belvedere, Wien, 2019 Dauerleihgabe Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft, Foto: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wien

Anupama Kundoo: Sharana Daycare Facility, Puducherry, 2019
Foto: Javier Callejas

VIENNA ART WEEK FOR ALL: Tour in Austrian Sign Language of 'Abundance Not Capital'

14/11/2025

17:00 — 18:00 h

Architekturzentrum Wien

Museumsplatz 1, Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: AUSTRIAN SIGN LANGUAGE & GERMAN SPOKEN LANGUAGE

The work of architect Anupama Kundoo exemplifies a different kind of architecture. Her work defies the logic of capital and the normative standards of the construction industry. The exhibition tour will be simultaneously interpreted into Austrian Sign Language.

Registration required: anmeldung@azw.at (click here to register)

Anupama Kundoo: Sharana Daycare Facility, Puducherry, 2019 Foto: Javier Callejas

Dior Thiam, Particles I, Detail, Acryl und Kohle auf Leinwand, Baumwollfäden, Perlen, Holzgerüst. Credits: Dior Thiam

Exhibition preview and artist talk with Dior Thiam and Sebastian Haselsteiner

13/11/2025

17:00 — 18:00 h

STRABAG ART Site

Donau-City-Straße 9, 1220 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

Sebastian Haselsteiner, Head of STRABAG ART, in conversation with the artist Dior Thiam, winner of the STRABAG ART Award 2025

“It is because history breaks down into images that there can be no photographic image, no force of arrestment, which does not tell us the relation between images and history, photography and memory, and space and violence.”, writes Eduardo Cadava in his essay “Lapsus Imaginis: The Image in Ruins”.

Using various mediums—ranging from painting to photography and installation—Dior Thiam’s ﬁrst solo exhibition BEFORE RUINS explores the manifold relationship between image, beauty and violence.

By reworking ethnographic photographs as well as found objects, the artist deconstructs the colonial gaze as those habits of seeing that allow us to continue to consume and reproduce the violence of colonial imagery and collections.

She plays with notions of voyeurism, longing, nostalgia and sentimentality and challenges the viewer to constantly reposition themselves anew to what and how they see. The act of seeing itself thus becomes a performance, the image a space of projection.

Registration required: vb@strabag.art

Dior Thiam, Particles I, Detail, Acryl und Kohle auf Leinwand, Baumwollfäden, Perlen, Holzgerüst. Credits: Dior Thiam

Eine Kassettendecke aus Terrakotta-Töpfen überspannt den Essbereich. Anupama Kundoo: Wall House, Auroville, 2000
Foto: Javier Callejas

Lecture of architect Anupama Kundoo on the exhibition 'Abundance Not Capital'

07/11/2025

18:00 — 20:00 h

Architekturzentrum Wien

Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien, Österreich

EVENT LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

Presentation by Anupama Kundoo (Az W Podium)

as part of the exhibition “Abundance Not Capital. Anupama Kundoo”

“Making Matters” – for Indian architect Anupama Kundoo, it is not just the finished building that matters, but the construction process itself. In her lecture, she will show how traditional craftsmanship, sustainable materials, and social responsibility open new paths for architecture that meets the challenges of the future. Her projects defy the logic of capital and the normative standards of the construction industry, combining low-tech and high-tech methods to create resource-saving structures.

Eine Kassettendecke aus Terrakotta-Töpfen überspannt den Essbereich. Anupama Kundoo: Wall House, Auroville, 2000 Foto: Javier Callejas

VAW FOR ALL: Lecture "Feeling the Secession": Techniques and challenges of a tactile model

12/11/2025

17:00 — 18:00 h

Vereinigung bildender KünstlerInnen Wiener Secession

Friedrichstraße 12, 1010 Wien, Österreich

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

A lecture on the touchable model

Designed by Joseph Maria Olbrich and completed in 1898, the Secession building is an icon of art nouveau architecture and a landmark in Vienna’s urban fabric. We want as many people as possible to be able to experience the singular façade design and the unique dome atop the building—and that includes people who cannot see. That is why we have decided to provide our visitors with a touchable model of the Secession.

In this lecture, our gallery manager Miriam Bachmann will recount the planning and technical process behind the model and recall political, administrative, and logistical challenges in exchange with Margarete Waba from the Austrian Federation of the Blind and Partially Sighted. One focus will be on working with members of the blind community, which helped the Secession’s team consider the building from an unwonted angle. Or as one of them put it: “We teach people how to see.”

Secession, Foto: Jorit Aust

"How does a museum work?" - A guided tour for adults

14/11/2025

17:00 — 18:30 h

Heidi Horten Collection

Hanuschgasse 3, 1010 Wien

Registration required.

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

Empowering Minds, Inspiring Hearts!

A museum can only unfold its full potential with its visitors, with curious explorers and critical participants.

But what does a museum do? How does it work? Who decides what art is? And how can museums strengthen social justice?

From collecting and preserving to researching, communicating and PR: we invite you to take a practical look at our museum team based on specific professional fields.

Due to limited capacity, registration is required: Please click here to sign up.

I hope…, 2021
Installationsansicht König Galerie, Berlin
Foto © Sunhi Mang / Bildrecht 2025

Curator's Tour of 'Die Linie' with Veroniqué Abpurg

10/11/2025

17:00 — 18:00 h

Heidi Horten Collection

Hanuschgasse 3, 1010 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

The Heidi Horten Collection follows the idea of “learning systems” and addresses central questions of this year’s VIENNA ART WEEK as part of a tour through the exhibition Die Linie:

What can be learned from the past? Which systems need to be rethought? How can art help us to find new ways of thinking, sharing and growing together?

We take a look between the figurative, abstract, random or computer-generated, expansive, dividing and connecting lines of the exhibition. In doing so, we will explore the perspectives underlying the artistic works, which make feminist, post-colonial and capitalism-critical approaches visible and open up possibilities for learning – towards a society of equal togetherness.

Registration required: Click here to register.

I hope…, 2021 Installationsansicht König Galerie, Berlin Foto © Sunhi Mang / Bildrecht 2025

VAW FOR ALL: "Heart over Head": Tour and workshop for people with dementia

10/11/2025

15:00 — 17:00 h

Heidi Horten Collection

Hanuschgasse 3, 1010 Wien

Registration required.

hortencollection.com/en/calendar

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN. WORKSHOP FOR PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA OR FORGETFULNESS.

Participation-oriented tour for people with dementia & companions

A green lake, love and friendship. Welcome to the world of feelings and memories. Appreciative and sensitive to needs, the joint viewing of works stimulates conversations about existing life experiences. Props are related to works by Klimt ⇄ Warhol and support sensory perception. After the creative group experience, brushes and paint motivate participants to get creative out of their free creative joy. Polaroid photos are created as souvenirs of beautiful moments to take home.

Registration required: Please sign up here.

(c) Stefan Joham

Tony Cokes, SM BNGRZ. [New Order Edit], 2022 © die Künstlerin und saxpublishers, Wien

VAW FOR ALL: Guided tour of 'TURNING PAGES: Artists’ Books' with ÖGS interpreter

09/11/2025

14:30 — 15:30 h

MAK - Museum für angewandte Kunst

Stubenring 5, 1010 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN LANGUAGE WITH ÖGS SIMULTANEOUS TRANSLATION

The book as artistic medium plays a key role in the praxis of Louise Bourgeois, Tony Cokes, Isa Genzken, Birgit Jürgenssen, R.H. Quaytman, Ed Ruscha, Michael Snow, Sol LeWitt, as well as in the contemporary work of many young artists in Austria and abroad.

Books are used as instruments to create poetic visions and to broaden the scope of concept art. The artists’ books in the ‘TURNING PAGES’ exhibition inspire discussion of gender roles and sociopolitical issues that document the changes of our time.

The book is at the same time a form of cultural memory and commemoration. Artists in the exhibition experiment with this medium, transcending traditional boundaries between image, text, material, film, and music—against the backdrop of our digital world.

Meeting point: MAK Columned Main Hall

Admission and participation free of charge with registration.

Registration required: https://www.mak.at/en/education/ (click here)

The exhibition TURNING PAGES: Artists’ Books of the Present, along with its supporting program and the accompanying publication, is part of the interdisciplinary Creative Europe project AbeX, funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are, however, those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. You can find more information about the AbeX project here.

Tony Cokes, SM BNGRZ. [New Order Edit], 2022 © die Künstlerin und saxpublishers, Wien

TURNING PAGES. Künstler*innenbücher der Gegenwart Heinz Frank, Kinderbuch für Architekten, 1993 © MAK

"More Than Just Words—Experimental Poetry and Visual Art" - Lecture by Vanessa Joan Müller

09/11/2025

16:00 — 17:00 h

MAK - Museum für angewandte Kunst

Stubenring 5, 1010 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

A lecture by Vanessa Joan Müller, curator and author

The visualization of writing has been a defining element of art since the beginning of the 20th century. The performative arts later activated the tonal dimension of poetic language and showcased linguistic excess. This lecture explains how experimental poetry expands from the book into three-dimensional space, freeing language from effective significance and supplying its own semantically innovative letters and words.

Registration required: click here to sign up.

Free admission. The lecture will take place in the MAK Columned Main Hall.

With the exhibition TURNING PAGES: Artists’ Books of the Present, the MAK is part of the interdisciplinary Creative Europe project AbeX.

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VIENNA ART WEEK at the MAK on Sunday, 9 November, revolves around the TURNING PAGES: Artists’ Books of the Present exhibition.

The book as artistic medium plays a key role in the praxis of Louise Bourgeois, Tony Cokes, Isa Genzken, Birgit Jürgenssen, R.H. Quaytman, Ed Ruscha, Michael Snow, Sol LeWitt, as well as in the contemporary work of many young artists in Austria and abroad. Books are used as instruments to create poetic visions and to broaden the scope of concept art.

The artists’ books in the TURNING PAGES exhibition inspire discussion of gender roles and sociopolitical issues that document the changes of our time. The book is at the same time a form of cultural memory and commemoration. Artists in the exhibition experiment with this medium, transcending traditional boundaries between image, text, material, film, and music—against the backdrop of our digital world.

The exhibition TURNING PAGES: Artists’ Books of the Present, along with its supporting program and the accompanying publication, is part of the interdisciplinary Creative Europe project AbeX, funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are, however, those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. You can find more information about the AbeX project here.

TURNING PAGES. Künstler*innenbücher der Gegenwart Heinz Frank, Kinderbuch für Architekten, 1993 © MAK

Norbert Wagenbrett, Bauarbeiter und Bauarbeiterin (Detail), 1984, Museum Utopie und Alltag (Bestand Beeskow), Norbert Wagenbrett © Bildrecht, Wien 2025, Foto: Thomas Kläber

Creative workshop (3-6 years): "Work in Progress!"

09/11/2025

10:30 — 12:00 h

Dom Museum Wien

Stephansplatz 6, 1010 Wien

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

Please note: limited number of participants. Registration required.

Free as part of VIENNA ART WEEK.

**Children must be accompanied by an adult.**

Attention, work in progress!

What is work? Something you get paid for? Or is there also unpaid work? We’ll explore these and other questions in a playful and engaging tour through the exhibition “Work in Progress” at Dom Museum Wien. We’ll encounter historical and contemporary works of art, discover the different aspects of work, and explore the paintings, videos, sculptures, and photos using interactive methods.

Afterward, we’ll do some more creative work at Dom Atelier.

With Doris Weidacher

Registration required: https://www.dommuseum.at/VAW2025-3 (click here)

Norbert Wagenbrett, Bauarbeiter und Bauarbeiterin (Detail), 1984, Museum Utopie und Alltag (Bestand Beeskow), Norbert Wagenbrett © Bildrecht, Wien 2025, Foto: Thomas Kläber

"Research, Educate, Preserve": A Tour from Dom Museum Wien to St. Stephen's Cathedral

13/11/2025

18:30 — 20:00 h

Dom Museum Wien

Stephansplatz 6, 1010 Wien

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

Please note: limited number of participants. Registration required.

Free of charge as part of VIENNA ART WEEK.

The tour offers a sensitive and critical look at various systems of learning and knowledge as they operate in connection with the construction, reconstruction, and maintenance of St. Stephen’s Cathedral.

In her commissioned work for the exhibition “Alles In Arbeit” (Work in Progress) at Dom Museum Wien, artist Iris Andraschek uses drawings and historical photographs and relics to process various narratives and images of St. Stephen’s that shaped many people’s relationships with the building, particularly after the fire in 1945.

Cathedral archivist Reinhard H. Gruber recounts the cathedral’s diverse history, the diverse (often contradictory) traditions surrounding it, and the challenges of working with and on historical knowledge. The tour also provides insight into the Cathedral Workshop, where centuries-old restoration and maintenance techniques are still applied and passed on today.

Registration required: https://www.dommuseum.at/VAW2025-4 (click here)

Norbert Wagenbrett, Bauarbeiter und Bauarbeiterin (Detail), 1984, Museum Utopie und Alltag (Bestand Beeskow), Norbert Wagenbrett © Bildrecht, Wien 2025, Foto: Thomas Kläber

VAW FOR ALL: Guided Tour in Simple German of the exhibition 'Work in Progress'

08/11/2025

14:00 — 15:00 h

Stephansplatz 6, 1010 Wien

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: SIMPLE GERMAN

Please note: limited number of participants. Registration required.

Free of charge as part of VIENNA ART WEEK for ALL.

The Saturday tour leads through the current exhibition “Work in Progress.” In works of art from the Middle Ages to the present, we encounter various forms and facets of work and explore its significance for people’s lives (and coexistence).

With Una Matanović

Registration required: https://www.dommuseum.at/VAW2025-2 (click here)

Norbert Wagenbrett, Bauarbeiter und Bauarbeiterin (Detail), 1984, Museum Utopie und Alltag (Bestand Beeskow), Norbert Wagenbrett © Bildrecht, Wien 2025, Foto: Thomas Kläber

Tobias Pils,
Geist, 2024.
Öl auf Leinwand / oil on canvas.
150 x 180 cm.
Courtesy the artist, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich/Vienna, and Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne.
Photo: Jorit Aust.
© Tobias Pils

"Shh" - Exhibition tour with Tobias Pils and curator Manuela Ammer

13/11/2025

18:00 — 19:00 h

mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien

Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

Born in Linz in 1971, Tobias Pils is among the most exciting painters working today. Employing a heavily reduced color palette, he creates paintings and drawings that weave abstract and representational elements into associative pictorial worlds.

What in terms of subject matter can be interpreted as an investigation of both elementary and personal themes like birth and death or becoming and passing, also negotiates central questions in painting at large. For in Pils’ visual cosmos, one painterly mark leads to the next, one image to another, as if painting were constantly staging its own death and rebirth.

Registration required: Click here to sign up (at mumok.at).

Note: Before the guided tour, at 4:30 pm, Galerie Eva Presenhuber offers the opportunity to discover the current exhibition of drawings by Tobias Pils in the presence of the artist. Afterwards, the program continues with his major solo exhibition at mumok. Further information and registration details can be found in the program.

Tobias Pils, Geist, 2024. Öl auf Leinwand / oil on canvas. 150 x 180 cm. Courtesy the artist, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich/Vienna, and Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne. Photo: Jorit Aust. © Tobias Pils

Guided Tour through 'Work in Progress'

08/11/2025

10:30 — 11:30 h

Dom Museum Wien

Stephansplatz 6, 1010 Wien

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

Please note: limited number of participants. Registration required.

Free of charge as part of VIENNA ART WEEK.

The tour leads through the current exhibition “Work in Progress.” In works of art from the Middle Ages to the present, we encounter various forms and facets of work and labor and explore its significance for people’s lives (and coexistence).

With Una Matanović

Registration required: https://www.dommuseum.at/VAW2025-1 (click here)

Norbert Wagenbrett, Bauarbeiter und Bauarbeiterin (Detail), 1984, Museum Utopie und Alltag (Bestand Beeskow), Norbert Wagenbrett © Bildrecht, Wien 2025, Foto: Thomas Kläber

"Mineral As Musical Note" - A performance at the Natural History Museum

12/11/2025

18:30 — 20:00 h

Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

Maria-Theresien-Platz, 1010 Wien, Österreich

EVENT LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

As part of VIENNA ART WEEK, artist Camila Sposati invites to engage with the Mineral Collection of the Natural History Museum Vienna — one of the biggest and most important historic mineral collections in the world.

Minerals—each with its distinct origin, colour, and atomic composition—are interpreted as musical notes. The event features two strikingly different compositions: one by surdo and drum player Thiago Barata, and the other by Volny Hostiou, performing on the Serpent, a rare 16th-century wind instrument.

The result is a bold crossover—where raw physical sound meets mineral stillness and sonic experimentation breathes life into geological form. “Mineral As Musical Note” is a meditation on transformation, vibration, and the latent music embedded in matter.

The artist will give a brief introduction in English.

The event can be attended with a valid ticket. For more information on admission tickets for the Natural History Museum Vienna, click here.

Camila Sposati is a recipient of the City of Vienna’s 2025 Visual and Media Arts Work Grant.

Made possible with the generous support of:

Performance by Kata Oelschlägel: "Separating Seam"

13/11/2025

18:00 — 20:00 h

Nitsch Foundation

Hegelgasse 5, 1010 Wien

Registration required

Two bodies – the artist’s and that of a male performer – are sewn together: seams trace lines across skin, connecting arms and legs. A fragile, intimate fabric of body and thread emerges – a temporary unity.

In the following performative phase, the performers begin to move – slowly at first, searching, sensing. The process of sewing the bodies together will take up roughly half of the time. Afterwards, the two bodies begin to move in unison. Every movement provokes tension; each small gesture pulls at the artificially created bond.

Gradually, the seams tear. The separation becomes inevitable, though not staged as dramatic: the unraveling occurs organically, as a natural consequence of movement itself.

Registration required: office@nitsch-foundation.com (click here to sign up)

June Crespo, Vascular, Ausstellungsansicht, Guggenheim Bilbao 2024, Foto: © Ander Sagastiberri

VAW FOR ALL: Tour with Austrian Sign Language interpreter of the current exhibitions

13/11/2025

16:30 — 17:30 h

Friedrichstraße 12, 1010 Wien, Österreich

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN SPOKEN LANGUAGE AND AUSTRIAN SIGN LANGUAGE

Sign language interpreter Eva Böhm and an art mediator from the Secession will guide you through the current exhibitions by June Crespo, John Smith and Atelier Bow-Wow. The tour will take place in German and Austrian Sign Language.

Admission and guided tour are free of charge. Maximum of 15 participants. No registration required.

About the exhibitions:

June Crespo’s sculptures are built from industrially produced elements such as ducts or large textile pieces that are a reference to the outer skins of buildings and their systems of conduction, evacuation, and climatization. When attached to the wall or built into the ground, these systems function like extensions of the body.

Josh Smith creates films on the borderline between conceptual art, structural film and documentary film without requiring any prior knowledge of avant-garde forms or artistic references. In this way, the humorous works address the audience at eye level – not only as consumers, but also as producers of meaning.

Atelier Bow-Wow is a Japanese architecture firm founded in Tokyo in 1992 by Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima. Their architectural interventions are not only functional, but also explorations of forms and materials, often based on experimental and conceptual approaches to design.

SALON°FUTUR – „From Burnout to Siesta“: Day 2

11/11/2025

18:00 — 22:00 h

Anatomiesaal der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien

Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Wien, Österreich

EVENT LANGUAGE: ENGLISH & GERMAN

RCSA – Research and Knowledge Cluster “Sustainability in the Arts”
at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

& the FUTURAMA°LAB

present

SALON°FUTUR 2025 – “FROM BURNOUT TO THE SIESTA”

The discourse program of the RCSA* at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and of the FUTURAMA°LAB** works as an interdisciplinary platform to discuss current issues focusing on sustainability across the fields of art, science and education.

At the center are the influence of habits, ideologies, and dogmas on future-related topics; the challenges of the 21st century amid globalization, technological change, and democracy; as well as the search for new sustainable ways of existence.

“From Burnout to Siesta” explores our stress-driven labour-culture that is also present in the art world. It questions whether sustainable social change is possible under constant pressure of time and performance. The aim is to find ways to cope with overload and to first open up spaces where alternative formats of processing can emerge.

Speakers for the SALON°FUTUR 2025 at the Anatomy Hall of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna:

Monday, November 10, 2025
18:00 Elke Krasny
20:00 Christoph Thun Hohenstein

Tuesday, November 11, 2025
18:00 Alexandra Müller
20:00 Harald Welzer

*RCSA – Research Cluster “Sustainability in the Arts”
A…cademy of Fine Arts Vienna
Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna, Austria

** FUTURAMA°LAB
The Art for Ecological Transformations
www.futurama-lab.org

SALON°FUTUR – „From Burnout to Siesta“: Day 1

10/11/2025

18:00 — 22:00 h

Anatomiesaal der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien

Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Wien, Österreich

EVENT LANGUAGE: ENGLISH & GERMAN

RCSA – Research and Knowledge Cluster “Sustainability in the Arts”
at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

& the FUTURAMA°LAB

present

SALON°FUTUR 2025 – “FROM BURNOUT TO THE SIESTA”

The discourse program of the RCSA* at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and of the FUTURAMA°LAB** works as an interdisciplinary platform to discuss current issues focusing on sustainability across the fields of art, science and education.

At the center are the influence of habits, ideologies, and dogmas on future-related topics; the challenges of the 21st century amid globalization, technological change, and democracy; as well as the search for new sustainable ways of existence.

“From Burnout to Siesta” explores our stress-driven labour-culture that is also present in the art world. It questions whether sustainable social change is possible under constant pressure of time and performance. The aim is to find ways to cope with overload and to first open up spaces where alternative formats of processing can emerge.

Speakers for the SALON°FUTUR 2025 at the Anatomy Hall of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna:

Monday, November 10, 2025
18:00 Elke Krasny
20:00 Christoph Thun Hohenstein

Tuesday, November 11, 2025
18:00 Alexandra Müller
20:00 Harald Welzer

*RCSA – Research Cluster “Sustainability in the Arts”
A…cademy of Fine Arts Vienna
Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna, Austria

** FUTURAMA°LAB
The Art for Ecological Transformations
www.futurama-lab.org

Independent Art Spaces Tour 1: SUSSUDIO, philomena+, Im:Werd

07/11/2025

16:30 — 18:00 h

SUSSUDIO

Wolfgang-Schmälzl-Gasse 19, 1020 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

Independent art spaces and projects are important program partners of the VIENNA ART WEEK. Get to know new art spaces during guided walks by art experts!

In a guided walk Paula Marschalek (art historian and cultural manager) will give an insight into the following art spaces:

SUSSUDIO
Philomena +
Jugend am Werk / Im:Werd

Due to limited capacity, registration is required.

Click here to register!

Independent Art Spaces Tour 3: wechselstrom, Basement, Medienwerkstatt

14/11/2025

16:15 — 18:00 h

diverse Kunsträume

Grundsteingasse 44, 1160 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

Independent art spaces and projects are important program partners of the VIENNA ART WEEK. Get to know new art spaces during guided walks by art experts!

In a guided walk Paula Berens (art mediator) will give an insight into the following projects:

Wechselstrom
Basement
Medienwerkstatt

Following the guided tour, a performance will take place at Medienwerkstatt – more information can be found here.

Due to limited capacity, registration for the tour is required: Click here to register!

Kindly supported by

Gallery Tour 4

08/11/2025

12:00 — 13:30 h

diverse Galerien

Schottenfeldgasse 45, 1070 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

In a guided walk Elena Blum (cultural worker and art historian) will lead through the galleries

Galerie Krinzinger Schottenfeld
FOTOGALERIE Wien

There, visitors will get an overview of the galleries, as well as the exhibitions on display during VIENNA ART WEEK.

Meeting point:

Galerie Krinzinger Schottenfeld – Schottenfeldgasse 45, 1070 Vienna

End point:

Fotogalerie Wien – Währingerstraße 59, 1090 Wien

Total distance: 22 min. (with U6 – from Burggasse-Stadthalle to Währinger Straße Volksoper)

Important: We will travel together by metro to the second venue – please bring a valid ticket for the Wiener Linien public transport.

Due to limited capacity, registration is required.

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Gallery Tour 3

08/11/2025

10:00 — 11:30 h

diverse Galerien

Brucknerstraße 4, 1040 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

In a guided walk Elena Blum (cultural worker, writer, and art historian) will lead through the galleries.

Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer
Galerie Lukas Feichtner
Galerie Krinzinger Seilerstätter

There, visitors will get an overview of the galleries, as well as the exhibitions on display during VIENNA ART WEEK.

Meeting point:

Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer – Brucknerstraße 4, 1040 Vienna

End point:

Galerie Krinzinger – Seilerstätte 16, 1010 Vienna

Total walking distance: 11 min.

Due to limited capacity, registration is required.

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Gallery Tour 1

07/11/2025

15:00 — 16:30 h

diverse Galerien

Franz-Josefs-Kai 3, 1010 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

In a guided walk Elena Blum (cultural worker, writer, and art historian) will lead through the galleries

Collectors Agenda Editionengalerie
Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder
Galerie Lukas Feichtner

There, visitors will get an overview of the galleries, as well as the exhibitions on display during VIENNA ART WEEK.

Meeting point:

Collectors Agenda, Franz-Josef-Kai 3, 1010 Vienna

End point:

Galerie Lukas Feichtner – Seilerstätte 19, 1010 Vienna

Total walking distance: 20 min

Due to limited capacity, registration is required.

Registration required: Click here to register!

Open Studio Days 2025

08/11/2025

13:00 — 18:00 h

diverse Studios in ganz Wien

www.viennaartweek.at/de/open-studio-days-2025/

In 2025, the Open Studio Days will once again be a key event of the VIENNA ART WEEK.

Around 50 artists selected by a jury of experts will open their studios across Vienna to the public.

Visitors can take a look behind the scenes of artistic creation and get into conversation with the artists:

Alexandra Baumgartner • Catharina Bond • Götz Bury • Canan Dagdelen • Ana de Almeida • Pauline Debrichy • Natalia Dominguez Rangel • Sophie Dvořák • Irena Eden & Stijn Lernout • Albana Ejupi • Elif Erkan • Paula Flores • G.O.L.F. Klub • Thomas Gänszler • Sofia Goscinski • Valerie Habsburg • Kathrin Hanga • Barbara Höller • Atelier Hörl & Kozek • Katharina Huemer • Fatoş Irwen • Dejana Kabiljo • Zahra Khorshidi • Jana Marie Kolbert • Lars* Kollros • Larissa Kopp • Otto Krause & Milan Loviska • Alina Kunitsyna • Sara Lanner • Ivana Lazić • Delphine Léger • Anna Lerchbaumer • Ernst Lima • Monica LoCascio • Ernst Logar • Constantin Luser • Marko Markovic • Lym Moreno • Markus Oberndorfer • Simona Obholzer & Claudia Rohrauer • Bernd Oppl • Julian Palacz • Christiane Peschek • Bianca Phos • Wendelin Pressl • Sarah Rinderer • Stylianos Schicho • Gerald Straub & Matthias Meinharter • Johanna Tinzl • Kosta Tonev • Marit Wolters • Anastasiya Yarovenko • Ayşe Gül Yüceil

Inspiring encounters are guaranteed!

More information about all participating artists can be found in the menu under “Open Studio Days” or here.

Open Studio Days 2025

09/11/2025

13:00 — 18:00 h

diverse Studios in ganz Wien

www.viennaartweek.at/de/open-studio-days-2025/

In 2025, the Open Studio Days will once again be a key event of the VIENNA ART WEEK.

Around 50 artists selected by a jury of experts will open their studios across Vienna to the public.

Visitors can take a look behind the scenes of artistic creation and get into conversation with the artists:

Alexandra Baumgartner • Catharina Bond • Götz Bury • Canan Dagdelen • Ana de Almeida • Pauline Debrichy • Natalia Dominguez Rangel • Sophie Dvořák • Irena Eden & Stijn Lernout • Albana Ejupi • Elif Erkan • Paula Flores • G.O.L.F. Klub • Thomas Gänszler • Sofia Goscinski • Valerie Habsburg • Kathrin Hanga • Barbara Höller • Atelier Hörl & Kozek • Katharina Huemer • Fatoş Irwen • Dejana Kabiljo • Zahra Khorshidi • Jana Marie Kolbert • Lars* Kollros • Larissa Kopp • Otto Krause & Milan Loviska • Alina Kunitsyna • Sara Lanner • Ivana Lazić • Delphine Léger • Anna Lerchbaumer • Ernst Lima • Monica LoCascio • Ernst Logar • Constantin Luser • Marko Markovic • Lym Moreno • Markus Oberndorfer • Simona Obholzer & Claudia Rohrauer • Bernd Oppl • Julian Palacz • Christiane Peschek • Bianca Phos • Wendelin Pressl • Sarah Rinderer • Stylianos Schicho • Gerald Straub & Matthias Meinharter • Johanna Tinzl • Kosta Tonev • Marit Wolters • Anastasiya Yarovenko • Ayşe Gül Yüceil

Inspiring encounters are guaranteed!

More information about all participating artists can be found in the menu under “Open Studio Days” or here.

Gallery Tour 2

07/11/2025

16:00 — 17:30 h

diverse Galerien

Dorotheergasse 12, 1010 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

Katja Stecher (curator and art educator) will lead through the galleries

Charim Galerie
Galerie Sturm & Schober
Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder

There, visitors will get an overview of the galleries, as well as the exhibitions on display during VIENNA ART WEEK.

Meeting point:

Charim Galerie – Dorotheergasse 12, 1010 Wien

End point:

Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder – Grünangergasse 1, 1010 Wien

Total walking distance: 15 min.

Due to limited capacity, registration is required.

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Independent Art Spaces Tour 2: DAS WEISSE HAUS & Blickle Raum Spiegelgasse

11/11/2025

17:30 — 19:00 h

diverse Kunsträume

Hegelgasse 14, 1010 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

Independent art spaces and projects are important program partners of the VIENNA ART WEEK. Get to know new art spaces during guided walks by art experts!

In a guided walk Pia Wamsler (art historian, cultural worker, and curator) will give an insight into the following art spaces:

DAS WEISSE HAUS & STUDIO DAS WEISSE HAUS
Blickle Raum Spiegelgasse

Following the tour, there will be a performance by Alex Franz Zehetbauer at the Blickle Raum Spiegelgasse – more information can be found here.

Due to limited capacity, registration is required.

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Keynote & Panel: "Learning Systems" – Current Trends & Tendencies in the Art World

10/11/2025

17:00 — 18:30 h

Dorotheum

Dorotheergasse 17, 1010 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

This high-profile panel discussion, organized in cooperation with PARNASS Kunstmagazin and the Dorotheum, is dedicated to the international art market and the art world itself as a constant system of learning and transformation.

Together with leading voices from the fields of art, politics, and business, the discussion will address questions such as:

• Which current trends are shaping the art world today?

• How do value and knowledge systems influence the global art market?

• What can the art world learn from its own institutional mechanisms – and what should it unlearn?

PROGRAM

17.00 Keynote
• Sepp Schellhorn (State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs of the Republic of Austria)

17.20 Panel discussion

• Sebastian Haselsteiner (Head, STRABAG ART, Austria)
• Timo Miettinen (Collector, Finland)
• Eva Schlegel (Artist, Austria)
• Birgit Vikas (CEO, Kunsttrans, Austria)
• moderated by Silvie Aigner (Editor-in-Chief, PARNASS Art Magazine, Austria)

Registration required: invitation@parnass.at (click here to sign up)

SHORT BIOGRAPHIES:

Sepp Schellhorn has been State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs of the Republic of Austria since 3 March. He was born on 12 May 1967 in Schwarzach im Pongau. He grew up in his parents’ business and first attended the hotel management school in Bad Hofgastein before spending his apprenticeship years in Italy, France and in the United States. After his return, he took over his parents’ business in 1996, graduated from the business academy in 1997 and went on to open several restaurants. Sepp Schellhorn entered politics in 1989 as a substitute member of the Goldegg municipal council. He was President of the Austrian Hotel Association (ÖHV) from 2003 to 2013 and was sworn in as a member of the National Council in 2014. From 2016 to 2021, he held various positions at federal and state level for NEOS. Sepp Schellhorn returned to the National Council in 2024 after resigning his seat in 2021.

Timo Miettinen, chairman of EM Group Oy in Finland, has had a close connection with art ever since he was fifteen years old. Together with his mother, he collected Finnish landscape paintings of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Since 2004, he expands the collection with contemporary art. The collection comprises artworks by contemporary artists of various generations and nationalities, mainly paintings, drawings and sculptures, among them a series of marble sculptures from the Roman Times.

Eva Schlegel
Born in 1960
Lives and works in Vienna
1979–85 Studied at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, under Oswald Oberhuber
1997–2006 Professor of Art and Photography at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
2011 Commissioner of the Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
Numerous exhibitions in Austria and abroad, including most recently KOWANZ. ORTNER. SCHLEGEL at the Leopold Museum.

Birgit Vikas, CEO of Kunsttrans, has been leading the 160-year-old family business for around 20 years.

Michaelina Wautier, Selbstporträt, um 1650. Privatsammlung. Foto © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

VIENNA ART WEEK FOR ALL: Tour in Austrian Sign Language of 'Michaelina Wautier, painter'

14/11/2025

15:00 — 16:00 h

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

Maria-Theresien-Platz, 1010 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: AUSTRIAN SIGN LANGUAGE AND GERMAN SPOKEN LANGUAGE.

Everyone is welcome – friends, family, and all those interested!

Michaelina Wautier, a 17th-century artist, is regarded as one of the most exciting art historical rediscoveries of recent decades. This exhibition brings together nearly her entire body of work for the first time, placing it in dialogue with masters such as Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck.

At a time when women artists were largely confined to still life or genre painting, Wautier also gained recognition for her ambitious history paintings. The exhibition highlights a contemporary female perspective on both traditional and innovative subjects – including the representation of the male body.

Registration requested: julia.haeussler@khm.at (Betreff: Vienna Art Week)

Meeting point: Entrance hall of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, after ticket control.

VIENNA ART WEEK FOR ALL: Tactile tour of special exhibition 'Michaelina Wautier, painter'

07/11/2025

15:00 — 16:00 h

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

Maria-Theresien-Platz, 1010 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN. GUIDED TOUR FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED.

Everyone is welcome – friends, family, and all those interested!

Michaelina Wautier, a 17th-century artist, is regarded as one of the most exciting art historical rediscoveries of recent decades. This exhibition brings together nearly her entire body of work for the first time, placing it in dialogue with masters such as Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck.

At a time when women artists were largely confined to still life or genre painting, Wautier also gained recognition for her ambitious history paintings. The exhibition highlights a contemporary female perspective on both traditional and innovative subjects – including the representation of the male body.

Registration requested: julia.haeussler@khm.at (Betreff: Vienna Art Week)

Meeting point: Entrance hall of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, after ticket control.

FREE ACCOMPANYING SERVICE

The Hilfsgemeinschaft der Blinden und Sehschwachen Österreichs offers a free escort service for blind and visually impaired visitors who would like to be accompanied there and/or back. If you are interested, please contact the head of volunteer coordination, Maximilian Reutterer, at: maximilian.reutterer@hilfsgemeinschaft.at / Tel.: +43 1 330 35 45 – 38.

Open Studio Days: District Tour 7 - 5th District

09/11/2025

14:30 — 16:30 h

diverse Studios in ganz Wien

Schönbrunner Straße 74, 1050 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

This year, eight guided tours will again lead through selected studios in the Vienna´s diverse districts. Guided by art mediators, visitors have the rare opportunity to get an insight into the working world of the artists and to enter into a dialogue with them.

“District Tour 7” leads through the 5th district – and into the studios of:

Sofia Goscinski
Katharina Huemer
Barbara Höller
Alina Kunitsyna
Ivana Lazić

Meeting point: Schönbrunner Straße 74, 1050 Vienna

Ending: Viktor-Christ-Gasse 10, 1050 Vienna

Walking distance: 10 min.

Due to limited capacity, registration is required. Click here to register.

Event kindly supported by:

Open Studio Days: District Tour 7 - 7th & 8th District

09/11/2025

15:30 — 17:30 h

diverse Studios in ganz Wien

Tigergasse 33, 1080 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

This year, eight guided tours will again lead through selected studios in the Vienna´s diverse districts. Guided by art mediators, visitors have the rare opportunity to get an insight into the working world of the artists and to enter into a dialogue with them.

“District Tour 8” leads through the 7th and 8th district – and into the studios of:

Larissa Kopp
Canan Dagdelen
Ernst Logar

Meeting point: Tigergasse 33, 1080Vienna

Ending: Westbahnstrasse 1, 1070 Vienna

Walking distance: 20 min.

Due to limited capacity, registration is required. Click here to register.

Open Studio Days: District Tour 6 - 15th District

09/11/2025

14:30 — 16:30 h

diverse Studios in ganz Wien

Wieningerplatz 6, 1150 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

This year, eight guided tours will again lead through selected studios in the Vienna´s diverse districts. Guided by art mediators, visitors have the rare opportunity to get an insight into the working world of the artists and to enter into a dialogue with them.

“District Tour 6” leads through the 15th district – and into the studios of:

Milan Loviska & Otto Krause
Ayşe Gül Yüceil
Thomas Gänszler

Meeting point: Wieningerplatz 6, 1150 Vienna

Ending: Sturzgasse 49, 1150Vienna

Walking distance: 12 min.

Due to limited capacity, registration is required. Click here to register.

Open Studio Days: District Tour 3 - 7th District

08/11/2025

14:30 — 16:30 h

diverse Studios in ganz Wien

Apollogasse 7, 1070 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

This year, eight guided tours will again lead through selected studios in the Vienna´s diverse districts. Guided by art mediators, visitors have the rare opportunity to get an insight into the working world of the artists and to enter into a dialogue with them.

“District Tour 3” leads through the 7th district – and into the studios of:

Stylianos Schicho
Simona Obholzer & Claudia Rohrauer
Paula Flores
Christiane Peschek

Meeting point: Apollogasse 7, 1070 Vienna

Ending: Seidengasse 28, 1070 Vienna

Walking distance: 8 min.

Due to limited capacity, registration is required

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Open Studio Days: District Tour 1 - 9th District

08/11/2025

13:30 — 15:30 h

diverse Studios in ganz Wien

Währinger Straße 59, 1090 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

This year, eight guided tours will again lead through selected studios in the Vienna’s diverse districts. Guided by art mediators, visitors have the rare opportunity to get an insight into the working world of the artists and to enter into a dialogue with them.

“District Tour 1” leads through the 9th district – and into the studios of:

Lym Moreno
Kathrin Hanga
Zahra Korshidi
Monica LoCascio

Meeting point: Währinger Straße 59, 1090 Vienna

Ending: WEST / Augasse 2.-6., 1090 Vienna

Total walking time: 20 min.

Due to limited capacity, registration is required.

Registration required: please click here to sign up

Event kindly supported by:

Open Studio Days: District Tour 4 - 4th District

08/11/2025

16:00 — 17:30 h

diverse Studios in ganz Wien

Goldeggasse 29, 1040 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

This year, eight guided tours will again lead through selected studios in the Vienna’s diverse districts. Guided by art mediators, visitors have the rare opportunity to get an insight into the working world of the artists and to enter into a dialogue with them.

“District Tour 4” leads through the 4th district – and into the studios of:

Alexandra Baumgartner
Kathrin Hanga
Sarah Rinderer

Meeting point: Goldeggasse 29, 1040 Wien

Ending: Favoritenstraße 31, 1040 Vienna

Total walking time: 7 min.

Due to limited capacity, registration is required.

Registration required: please click here to sign up

Open Studio Days: District Tour 5 - 4th & 6th District

09/11/2025

13:00 — 15:00 h

diverse Studios in ganz Wien

Rienößlgasse 12, 1040 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

This year, eight guided tours will again lead through selected studios in the Vienna’s diverse districts. Guided by art mediators, visitors have the rare opportunity to get an insight into the working world of the artists and to enter into a dialogue with them.

“District Tour 5” leads through the 4th and 6th district – and into the studios of:

Anna Lerchbaumer
Bernd Oppl
Gerald Straub & Matthias Meinharter

Meeting point: Rienösslgasse 12, 1040 Vienna

Ending: Kaunitzgasse 15, 1060 Vienna

Total walking time: 18 min.

Due to limited capacity, registration is required.

Registration required: please click here to sign up

Open Studio Days: District Tour 2 - 16th District

08/11/2025

14:30 — 16:30 h

diverse Studios in ganz Wien

Haberlgasse 42, 1160 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

This year, eight guided tours will again lead through selected studios in the Vienna’s diverse districts. Guided by art mediators, visitors have the rare opportunity to get an insight into the working world of the artists and to enter into a dialogue with them.

“District Tour 2” leads through the 16th district – and into the studios of:

Valerie Habsburg
Wendelin Pressl
Delphine Léger
Götz Bury

Meeting point: Haberlgasse 42, 1160 Wien

Ending: Grundsteingasse 15, 1160 Wien

Total walking time: 17 min.

Due to limited capacity, registration is required.

Registration required: please click here to sign up

Supported by the District Authority of Ottakring, District Chair Stefanie Lamp

OMI: Yemoja Temple in der Sonderausstellung Tabita Rezaire. Calabash Nebula, Saalansicht. © KHM-Museumsverband, Weltmuseum Wien

Guided tour with director Claudia Banz – Special exhibition 'Tabita Rezaire'

11/11/2025

19:00 — 20:00 h

Weltmuseum Wien

Heldenplatz 21/4, 1010 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

www.weltmuseumwien.at/programm/event/vienna-art-week-tabita-rezaire/1762815600/

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

Claudia Banz, Director of the Weltmuseum Wien, will give a guided tour of the special exhibition Tabita Rezaire as part of VIENNA ART WEEK. The tour offers insights into the background, aims, and challenges of the exhibition.

With Tabita Rezaire. Calabash Nebula: Cosmological Tales of Connection, the Weltmuseum Wien presents the first solo exhibition in Austria of Tabita Rezaire (*1989). The multidisciplinary artist, activist, and healer combines digital technologies with spiritual, non-Western, and Indigenous systems of knowledge.

The exhibition is a manifestation of Rezaire’s life philosophy and brings together three installations: OMI: Yemoja Temple (in collaboration with Yussef Agbo-Ola), Omu Elu, and Des/astres.

Registration required: click here to sign up

OMI: Yemoja Temple in der Sonderausstellung Tabita Rezaire. Calabash Nebula, Saalansicht. © KHM-Museumsverband, Weltmuseum Wien

VIENNA ART WEEK FOR ALL: Barrier-free Shuttle Tour 2

09/11/2025

15:00 — 17:30 h

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN.

This year, two barrier-free tours lead through selected wheelchair-accessible studios. During the studio visits, visitors have the opportunity to gain insights into the working world of the artists and to engage in conversation with them.

The second barrier-free tour leads to the studios of:

Wendelin Pressl
Delphine Léger
Fatoş İrwen (VIENNA ART WEEK Artist-in-Residence at the Superbude Wien)

Meeting point:

On the corner of Karlsplatz/Akademiestraße
Stairway/lift “Akademiestraße” of the subway station Karlsplatz
Guide with sign is waiting at the meeting point.

Tour ends at the meeting point.

Due to limited capacity, registration is required. Click here to sign up.

Supported by the District Authority of Ottakring, District Chair Stefanie Lamp

VIENNA ART WEEK FOR ALL: Barrier-free Shuttle Tour 1

08/11/2025

15:00 — 17:30 h

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

This year, two barrier-free tours lead through selected wheelchair-accessible studios. During the studio visits, visitors have the opportunity to gain insights into the working world of the artists and to engage in conversation with them.

The first barrier-free tour leads to the studios of:

Götz Bury
Marit Wolters
Fatoş İrwen (VIENNA ART WEEK Artist-in-Residence at Superbude Vienna)

Meeting point:

On the corner of Karlsplatz/Akademiestraße
Stairway/lift “Akademiestraße” of the subway station Karlsplatz
Guide with sign is waiting at the meeting point.

Tour ends at the meeting point.

Due to limited capacity, registration is required. Click here to sign up.

Supported by the District Authority of Ottakring, District Chair Stefanie Lamp

Guided Tour Bundesateliers Wattgasse with Klaus Speidel and Maria Holter

09/11/2025

17:00 — 19:00 h

Bundesateliers Wattgasse

Wattgasse 56-60, 1170 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

The Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sports has been providing subsidized studios for many decades to artists working in the fields of visual arts, photography, and media art. Currently, studios are available at two locations: Westbahnstraße and Wattgasse.

A total of 18 studios for artists in these fields are allocated through a publicly announced open call and awarded for a period of six years, following a juried selection process by an independent panel of experts.

In addition, under the recently launched program “PART – International Art Residency Austria”, six project studios in the historic Prater Studios are available to support international collaborations.

During a guided tour, Klaus Speidel and Maria Holter will offer insights into the work of participating artists. The tour will include visits to the studios of:

3rd Floor
– Anca Benera

– Edin Zenun Fakovik

– Doris Theres Hofer

– Sebastian Koch

– Irina Lotarevich
– Julia Haugeneder
– Lena Violetta Leitner
– Marko Zin

4th Floor
– Andy Boot
– Birke Gorm
– Robert Gruber
– Luiza Maragan
– Jörg Piringer

Registration required: click here to sign up.

Guided Tour Bundesateliers Westbahnstraße with Ruth Horak & Maria Holter

09/11/2025

14:00 — 16:00 h

Bundesateliers Westbahnstraße

Westbahnstraße 27-29, 1070 Wien, Österreich

Registration required

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

The Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sports has been providing subsidized studios for many decades to artists working in the fields of visual arts, photography, and media art. Currently, studios are available at two locations: Westbahnstraße and Wattgasse.

A total of 18 studios for artists in these fields are allocated through a publicly announced open call and awarded for a period of six years, following a juried selection process by an independent panel of experts.

In addition, under the recently launched program “PART – International Art Residency Austria”, six project studios in the historic Prater Studios are available to support international collaborations.

During a guided tour, Ruth Horak and Maria Holter will offer insights into the work of participating artists. The tour will include visits to the studios of:

Doris Piwonka
Elisabeth Kihlström
Eva Eichinger
Michael Strasser

Registration required: Click here to register!