Work shapes the greater part of human life. It structures everyday routines, time, and social relationships, while also determining material security and social participation. In a present marked by economic crises, global inequality, and profound transformations of the working world, engagement with the topic of work has gained new urgency. Platform labor, automation, artificial intelligence, migration, the care crisis, and social precarity are challenging established ideas and certainties.
The exhibition Alles in Arbeit at the Dom Museum Wien creates a space in which diverse perspectives and artistic approaches come together. At its core is the human struggle with wage labor—its necessity, meaning, burden, and potential for shaping life. At the same time, the works on view question and expand conventional definitions of work by addressing invisible, unpaid, or marginalized forms of labor, including care and domestic work, artistic production, protest, and procrastination.
Dom Museum Wien
Located directly on Stephansplatz, Dom Museum Wien showcases the Cathedral’s most valuable treasures, including the earliest portrait in the Occident showing Habsburg scion Rudolf IV. Also on display are modern and avant-garde works from the Otto Mauer Collection, along with contemporary art. The juxtaposition of old and new is the focus of special exhibitions.
Work in Progress
3 Oct 2025 - 30 Aug 2026
Dom Museum Wien
Zwettlerhof, Stephansplatz 6, Wien, Österreich
See Red Women’s Workshop, A Woman’s Work Is Never Done, 1974. © See Red Women’s Workshop.
