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Vienna Art Week Locations
Vienna art city map: Vienna’s art scene at a glance
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Special Projects
Oftmals nur temporär betriebene und bisweilen wenig bekannte Initiativen bieten exklusive und inspirierende Einblicke in die Wiener Kunstwelt.
Institutions
Vienna is one of a kind when it comes to art, as exemplified by its dense landscape of museums, exhibition spaces and art universities.
Independent Spaces
Independent art spaces, many of which are run by artists, reflect recent developments in the art scene and show Vienna to be a hub in the international art scene.
Galleries
Vienna’s galleries feature both established and new contemporary art. Seize the opportunity to gain inside knowledge in one-on-one conversations!
Open Studio Days
CHALLENGING ORDERS Exhibition Parcours
In addition to the main gallery at Dorotheergasse 5, Galerie Ernst Hilger has a second mainstay in Vienna’s first district at Ballgasse 1 since February 28, 2022.
A new place for strong artistic positions.
galerie hilger ballgasse boicut, esslinger, 26.2.2022, in situ



tart.vienna
Seilerstätte 7, 1010 Vienna
+43 512 575785
tart.vienna is an ongoing series of exhibitions and art editions, in cooperation with different artists from Vienna and abroad. Its programme is focused on hosting solo-shows by emerging artists from all media fields.
As the official project space by Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman Vienna, tart.vienna is taking place on regular basis in their Viennese “Seitengalerie”. tart.vienna is aiming in giving the artist exhibited the first opportunity to show within a commercial platform, connected with the professional help and facility of a long-working gallery.



KRINZINGER SCHOTTENFELD
+43 1/ 5133006



Hilger Next
+431/512 53 15



rauminhalt_harald bichler space & content
Schleifmühlgasse 13, 1040 Wien
+43 650 4099892
The gallery “rauminhalt – space & content”, founded by Harald Bichler in 2003, presents current artistic positions at disciplinary interfaces in regular solo and group exhibitions and presents the possibilities of dissolving the boundaries of different cultural areas from different perspectives in its program for discussion.
Galerie rauminhalt_harald bichler



Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder
Grünangergasse 1, 1010 Wien
+43 1 512 12 66



Domgasse 6 – Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder
Domgasse 6, 1010 Wien
+43 1 512 12 66
Courtesy Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Foto: Markus Wörgötter



Gabriele Senn Galerie
Schleifmühlgasse 1A, 1040 Wien
+43 1 585 25 80
Galerie Ernst Hilger at Dorotheergasse 5 (first floor) in Vienna’s 1st district represents the works of artists such as Erró and Mel Ramos, along with exponents of Austrian modernism from the 1960s onward and the main exponents of the most important international art movements of the 20th century – from Pablo Picasso and Jean Dubuffet to Pop Art artists like Andy Warhol and Keith Haring through to Narrative Figuration (Jacques Monory). Ernst Hilger was the head of the FEAGA for several years and member of numerous art fair committees including Art Basel; he acted as the longest-serving president of the Austrian Gallery Association and was instrumental in establishing the present conception of the role of galleries as partners of museums, collectors and representatives of the state. The roster of represented artists reflects the long history of the gallery.



Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman
Seilerstätte 7, 1010 Vienna
+43 151 20 840
Gegründet 1977 setzt sich die Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman intensiv mit zeitgenössischer Kunst – besonders Malerei und Skulptur – auseinander und arbeiten mit ihren Künstlerinnen und Künstlern langfristig und werkbegleitend: Ausstellungen in der Galerie, Publikationen, Werkproduktionen, Künstlereditionen. 2011 Eröffnung der Wiener Galerie in der Seilerstätte 7.
Der Fokus unserer Galeriearbeit liegt auf der Vertretung einiger der wohl wichtigsten zeitgenössischen internationalen KünstlerInnen aus Österreich wie Gunter Damisch, Bruno Gironcoli, Hermann Nitsch, Walter Pichler, Arnulf Rainer, Franz West u.a.
Markante internationale Positionen, die in einem kulturellen Kontext stehen, wie John M Armleder, Günther Förg, Jürgen Klauke, Tal R ergänzen unser Profil.
Die jüngere Generation ist durch Herbert Brandl, Carmen Brucic, Thomas Feuerstein, Michael Kienzer, Florin Kompatscher, u.a. vertreten.



Galerie Crone Wien
Getreidemarkt 14, 1010 Wien
+43 1 581 31 64
Founded in 1982, Galerie Crone is one of the most traditional galleries for contemporary art in the German-speaking world.
In the 1980s and early 1990s, Crone showed young German artists such as Martin Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen and Rosemarie Trockel, as well as representatives of Minimal and Conceptual Art. This was followed by young German artists such as Kai Althoff, Cosima von Bonin and Daniel Richter.
In the 2010s, a second location was opened in Vienna, and in Berlin, the headquarters moved to a new location in the fall of 2018. In addition to established artists, the program was expanded to include new artists to be discovered, e.g. Peter Miller (Biennale di Venezia, 2017), Ashley Hans Scheirl (documenta 2017).
Nikolaus Gansterer, tracing (in)tangible, 2019



Projektraum Viktor Bucher
Praterstraße 13/1/2, 1020 Wien
+43 676 561 988 0
projektraum viktor bucher was founded by Viktor Bucher in 1994 and defined from the start as a “project space” and not as a “gallery”, as a “living” and non-static exhibition space – open to the most varied forms of expression of artistic practice at a very high level. In 1998 the gallery moved to its present location in Praterstrasse 13.
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Galerie Krinzinger
Seilerstätte 16, 1010 Wien
+43 1 513 3006
The Krinzinger Gallery was founded in 1971. The origin of the program is international performative and body related art. Today the gallery works with important national and international positions and promotes young artists. Since 2002, the gallery has been running its second location, a space for discourse and AIR – and theme exhibitions, with the Krinzinger projects.
© Tamara Rametsteiner
The werd:art gallery and the adjoining café are a central meeting place for artists, art lovers and, of course, coffee lovers.
Works from the neighboring workshops and studios can be admired and also purchased there.
The gallery and the gallery café are barrier-free and offer visitors an insight into the creative work of the artists of the “Jugend am Werk” association.
Andreas Perkmann Berger und Rainer Stadlbauer betreiben in der Schönbrunnerstraße seit 2013 den Kunstraum SUPER. Neben dem eigenen Atelier und einer Werkstatt gibt es einen Ausstellungs- und Projektraum im dem unterschiedlichste künstlerische Experimente etabliert werden.



KUNSTZELLE
Museumsquartier Wien, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna, forecourt in front of the entrance to the Q21 showrooms right of the main entrance
The KUNSTZELLE, a former telephone booth, has been a venue for artistic installation and intervention since 2006. In the program, curated by initiator Christine Baumann with Pablo Chiereghin, art projects of duration alternate with short after-show interventions. During the general renovation in the WUK Werkstätten- und Kulturhaus, the original location of the KUNSTZELLE, it stands as a guest of the Museumsquartier Wien on its forecourt.
Kunstzelle: Beate Schachinger: Ein-Zelle – Zellatmung (MQ Vorplatz / Q21 Schauräume, 1.4. - 3.6.2022) Foto: eSeL.at - Lorenz Seidler



IG Bildende Kunst
Gumpendorfer Straße 10-12, 1060 Wien
+43 1 524 09 09
IG Bildende Kunst represents the political, social, economic, legal and other professional interests of visual artists. In addition, IG Bildende Kunst curates exhibitions with a programmatic orientation that reflect the work of the advocacy and publishes the magazine Bildpunkt four times a year.
IG Bildende Kunst,© Maximilian Pramatarov
HINTERLAND is an independent art space and platform dedicated to the promotion of intercultural and interdisciplinary projects with emerging and established artists from the Middle East with a focus on Iran. HINTERLAND is an international meeting point where social, cultural, political, creative and other relevant contemporary topics are discussed and put into practice.
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SOHO STUDIOS are an open space for art, culture and social exchange in Sandleitenhof, Vienna-Ottakring.
The program includes exhibitions, performances, tool talks, workshops, story mornings, concerts with free admission – with a special focus on culturally interested audiences of all generations and the neighborhood.
SOHO STUDIOS, with the Kunstlabor, Freiraum and kunstschule.wien, have more than 800m2 of exhibition space and house six studios. The premises of SOHO STUDIOS can also be rented.
„Schachblatt“, Josephine Riemann im Rahmen der Ausstellung Natur/Struktur
Since 1978, the artists’ collective Medienwerkstatt Wien has been one of the locations that reflect, mediate and co-determine questions and approaches of media art in both the technological and theoretical fields. Regular interdisciplinary events and exhibitions build a bridge between production and discourse.
Eröffnung KEINE NATURSTUDIE, KEIN ERLEBNISAUFSATZ, PHILOSOPHISCH, MÖGLICHST GROSS Gerda Lampalzer, Hanna Schimek 1990/91 revisited 2022 Foto: Manfred Neuwirth



k48 – Offensive for contemporary perception
Kirchengasse 48/Lokal 2, 1070 Wien
T +43 699 17 71 17 37
Project Space Oliver Hangl
Since 2008, Oliver Hangl has been running his own project space, which, as a scene- or trend-free platform, represents a dynamic production and discourse site for artistic innovation – a playful non-commercial alternative to established Viennese art positions and their marketplaces.
k48 - Projektraum Oliver Hangl
Foto: Rupert Steiner, © Heidi Horten Collection



Art & Science, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Salzgries 14, 2nd floor, 1010 Vienna
+43-1-71133-2250



Exhibition space of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Eschenbachgasse 11, at the corner of Getreidemarkt, 1010 Wien
+43 (0) 664 80887-1304
The exhibition space of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna operates at the interface between universitarian artistic-scholarly research and artistic practice and the international field of art. Not least with its semi-annual presentations of the students’ final works, xhibit serves as a mirror of the activities at the university for the outside world. It presents the Academy’s contemporary production of knowledge and art to the general public.
During the general refurbishment of the Academy building on Schillerplatz until 2021, the shows are presented in the exhibition space on the corner of Eschenbachgasse and Getreidemarkt.
Portal Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Foto: Adrian Brodressa © Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
ALBERTINA MODERN is one of the largest museums for modern and contemporary art. ALBERTINA’s second location opened on May 27, 2020. It has a collection of over 60,000 works by 5,000 artists. On more than 2,000 square meters, ALBERTINA MODERN presents comprehensive exhibitions of modern and contemporary art, based on its own holdings and, above all, major works of the Essl Collection, which has been housed in ALBERTINA since 2017.
Foto (Mockup) © Rupert Steiner



Weltmuseum Wien
Heldenplatz, 1010 Vienna
+43 1 534 30-5052
The Weltmuseum Wien is one of the world’s prime ethnographic museums. It shows a culturally diverse array of content, stories, and ways of living in an entertaining way with unique cultural treasures from all over the globe. Highlights include ancient Mexican feather headdresses, the collection of James Cook, and objects from 19th-century expeditions.
© KHM-Museumsverband



Atelierhaus der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
Léhargasse 6-8, 1060 Wien
+43 1 588 16-1817
One of the oldest art universities in Europe, the Academy sees itself as both an arena for international experimentation in contemporary art and architecture, and a site for exploring the poles of theory and practice, scholarship and art, teaching and research.
The Academy has important historical art collections, a painting gallery, an engravings collection, and a sculpture gallery.
Main building currently located at temporary quarters:
Augasse 2–6
1090 Vienna
© Lisa Rastl





Bildraum 01
Strauchgasse 2, 1010 Wien
+43 (1) 815 26 91-31



University of Applied Arts Vienna
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, 1010 Wien
+43 1 71133
The University of Applied Arts Vienna is committed to promoting an open society, fostering intellectual and creative freedom, and ensuring critical and empathic discourse. Working with faculty and researchers, students and graduates, staff and partners, the school develops artistic and radical solutions for designing and coping with technological, media and social change.
©Georg H
Located in the historical heart of Vienna, the Albertina combines Imperial flair with great art. A magnificent former residence of the Habsburgs and an art museum of international renown, the Albertina stands for one of the most important collections of graphic art, attracting city and cultural tourists from all over the world.
© Harald Eisenberger



KUNST HAUS WIEN. Museum Hundertwasser
Untere Weißgerber Straße 13, 1030 Wien
+43-1-712 04 91-0
Vienna’s first “green” museum dedicates large special exhibitions to contemporary photography. Again and again, thematic photographic exhibitions also focus on ecology and sustainability. In the “Garage”, various projects are shown that today are at the interface between art and nature – an aspect that museum founder Hundertwasser had already anchored in his work.
© Eva Kelety



KÖR Kunst im öffentlichen Raum GmbH (Public Art Vienna)
Hörnesgasse 2/1,
1030 Wien
+43 1 361 01 99-0
KÖR aims to (re)enliven public space in Vienna as a place of socio-political and cultural debate with permanent and temporary artistic projects that reinforce the identity of the city and individual districts. KÖR conceives art in public space not as decoration, but as an invitation to debate and a symbolic marking of hitherto culturally abstinent territories.



mumok – Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna
Museumsplatz 1,
1070 Wien
+43 1 52 500-0
The largest museum for modern and contemporary art in Central Europe houses an exceptional collection of major works ranging from classical modernism to Pop Art, minimalism, conceptual art, Viennese Actionism, and art from the present. With exhibitions including monographic and themed shows, it is a forum not only for modernism and the neo-avant-garde, but also and particularly for contemporary artists.



Sigmund Freud Museum
Berggasse 19, 1090 Wien
+43 1 319 15 96-11
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19. This is the address where Sigmund Freud lived and worked for 47 years until he was forced to flee from the Nazi regime in 1938. In 1971 , the Sigmund Freud Museum was founded here, and after extensive renovation and expansion reopened in 2020. Three permanent exhibitions in Freud’s former living and office rooms, an art presentation in the Showroom Berggasse 19 as well as special exhibitions present Freud’s multi-layered cultural legacy: they are dedicated to his life and work, the development of psychoanalysis in theory and practice, and its importance for the fields of society, science, and art. The history of the house at Berggasse 19 and the fates of its occupants are also brought into focus.
The MAK focuses on the role of applied art in the design of our living spaces. It operates at the interface of design, architecture and contemporary art in order to create new perspectives and explore boundary areas. The MAK would like to provide answers to the question as to how design can contribute to shaping the world and expanding possibilities for action and decision-making.



Dorotheum
Palais Dorotheum, Dorotheergasse 17, 1010 Wien
+43 1 515 60-0
Today, more than 300 years after its imperial foundation in 1707, the Dorotheum is one of the world’s leading auction houses. Approximately 700 auctions are held each year, with highlights being the four major international auction weeks at the magnificent Palais Dorotheum in Vienna. The focus is on contemporary and modern art, 19th century paintings, Old Masters, antiques, design, jewelry and classic cars.
Franz Joseph Halle © Dorotheum



Vereinigung bildender KünstlerInnen Wiener Secession
Friedrichstraße 12, 1010 Wien
+43 1 587 53 07
In spirit of their motto “Die Zeit ihre Kunst. Der Kunst ihre Freiheit”, the Secession presents relevant contemporary forms of artistic expression in internationally oriented solo and thematic exhibitions. The Association of Visual Artists of the Vienna Secession is the world’s oldest independent exhibition house dedicated to contemporary art and has always been run by artists.
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Sammlung Friedrichshof Stadtraum
Schleifmühlgasse 6 (in the courtyard), 1040 Wien
+43 0660 143 52 54
In the exhibition rooms of the Friedrichshof Collection in Zurndorf, central works of Viennese Actionism from the collection’s holdings are presented and contextualized through temporary exhibitions of international positions. The Stadtraum is the branch of the Friedrichshof Collection in Vienna and the office of the Estate Otto Muehl.
SAMMLUNG FRIEDRICHSHOF, Ausstellungshalle von Adolf Krischanitz, Foto: Lukas Roth, © Sammlung Friedrichshof



Nitsch Foundation
Hegelgasse 5,
1010 Wien
+43 1 513 55 30
The Nitsch Foundation is the official contact for Hermann Nitsch. It supports all activities that serve the research and presentation of the artist and his Orgies Mysteries Theatre. All projects are carried out in close cooperation with Rita and Hermann Nitsch and Studio Hermann Nitsch.
Built by Karl Hasenauer and Gottfried von Semper between 1871 and 1891, the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien ranks among the most renowned museums in the world. Its magnificent architecture provides a worthy setting for collections the Habsburgs built over centuries. These encompass objects from five millennia, i.e. from the time of Ancient Egypt to the end of the 18th century.
© KHM-Museumsverband



Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz
Treitlstraße 2, 1040 Wien
+43 1 521 89 33
The Kunsthalle Wien is the exhibition house for contemporary art of the City of Vienna. At its two locations, thematic group exhibitions and individual presentations offer insight into the current national and international art scene. With its numerous activities it is one of the most attractive exhibition venues for contemporary art in Europe.
© Kunsthalle Wien 2018, Foto: Jorit Aust



Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier
Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien
+43 1 521 89 33
The Kunsthalle Wien is the exhibition house for contemporary art of the City of Vienna. At its two locations, thematic group exhibitions and individual presentations offer insight into the current national and international art scene. With its numerous activities it is one of the most attractive exhibition venues for contemporary art in Europe.
Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier, Foto: Stephan Wyckoff
Located directly on Stephansplatz, Dom Museum Wien showcases the Cathedral’s most valuable treasures, including the earliest portrait in the Occident showing Habsburg scion Rudolf IV. Also on display are modern and avant-garde works from the Otto Mauer Collection, along with contemporary art. The juxtaposition of old and new is the focus of special exhibitions.
Dom Museum Wien Foto: Hertha Hurnaus, Dom Museum Wien Johanna Schwanberg Foto: Lena Deinhardstein, Dom Museum Wien



Architekturzentrum Wien
MuseumsQuartier, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien
+43 1 522 31 15
The Az W shows, discusses and investigates how architecture and urban development shape our daily life. Its program encompasses international themed exhibitions, a permanent exhibition of Austrian architecture, and a total of over 500 events each year including lectures, city excursions, film screenings, and hands-on formats.
AZW, Architekturzentrum Wien Sept. 2018
Housed in the former residential palace of Prince Eugene of Savoy, the Modern Gallery opened in the early 20th century at the Secessionists’ behest and has featured a rotating program of cutting-edge contemporary art exhibitions ever since. Shows here place works from the Belvedere Collection in an international context or juxtapose the Baroque palace with contemporary artistic approaches.
Foto: Roland Voraberger, © Belvedere, Wien
The Upper Belvedere features some 420 masterpieces created over eight centuries of art history, from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. Its program focuses on Viennese Modernism and the world-famous “Kiss” by Gustav Klimt, complemented by IN-SIGHT exhibitions and the current-era Carlone Contemporary series.
Oberes Belvedere
Since 1978, the artists’ collective Medienwerkstatt Wien has been one of the locations that reflect, mediate and co-determine questions and approaches of media art in both the technological and theoretical fields. Regular interdisciplinary events and exhibitions build a bridge between production and discourse.
Eröffnung KEINE NATURSTUDIE, KEIN ERLEBNISAUFSATZ, PHILOSOPHISCH, MÖGLICHST GROSS Gerda Lampalzer, Hanna Schimek 1990/91 revisited 2022 Foto: Manfred Neuwirth
Kunstraum Niederoesterreich at Palais Niederösterreich creates space for young, experimental and transmedial art projects. In addition to the conception and realization of group and solo exhibitions, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich focuses on the medium of contemporary performance.
Tue-Fri 11:00–19:00, Sa 11:00–15:00
Eröffnung KEINE NATURSTUDIE, KEIN ERLEBNISAUFSATZ, PHILOSOPHISCH, MÖGLICHST GROSS Gerda Lampalzer, Hanna Schimek 1990/91 revisited 2022 Foto: Manfred Neuwirth




Kunsthalle Exnergasse
Währinger Straße 59,
1090 Wien
+43 1 401 21 15 70
Kunsthalle Exnergasse postions itself as an exhibition space and platform for experimental, contemporary art in all its different forms, and attaches great importance to local and international collaborations.
Kunsthalle Exnergasse
Hegelgasse 14 is the sixth location of the Kunstverein das weisse haus. In a former school building, the weisse haus uses the rooms in the basement and the round room on the second floor for exhibitions, talks, performances and other events.
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The Leopold Museum houses the art collection established by Rudolf Leopold. Its highlight is the “Vienna 1900” presentation, featuring the world’s most important collection of works by Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Viennese Modernism, international Classical Modernism and the Wiener Werkstätte. The museum also shows special exhibitions in the context of the collection.
© Leopold Museum, Wien | Foto: Ouriel Morgensztern
The Vienna Künstlerhaus, Association of Austrian Artists, is an autonomous, non-profit artists’ association. It has been engaging visitors with an open, discursive, and interdisciplinary program of exhibitions and events since its founding in 1861.



Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
1., Schillerplatz 3
+43 1 588 16-0
One of the oldest art universities in Europe, the Academy sees itself as both an arena for international experimentation in contemporary art and architecture, and a site for exploring the poles of theory and practice, scholarship and art, teaching and research.
The Academy has important historical art collections, a painting gallery, an engravings collection, and a sculpture gallery.



Belvedere 21 – Museum of Contemporary Art
Arsenalstraße 1,
1030 Wien
+43 1 795 57-0
Belvedere 21 is both a venue for contemporary art, film, and performance, and a social meeting place in an urban district of the future. Austrian and international art from the 1960s to the present is shown on three brightly lit levels in Karl Schwanzer’s adapted world exhibition pavilion.
Lukas Schaller, © Belvedere, Wien
The Vienna Business Agency offers a “360° service” for companies in Vienna, including funding and advice, workshops and coaching for start-ups, assistance with the search for industrial space or office premises, and networking. It positions Austria’s capital city in the international economic environment, supports international companies settling in Vienna, and is the first point of contact for expats arriving in Vienna.



Paintings Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
1., Schillerplatz 3
+43 1 588 16-2201
Hungry For Time, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Wien, Vienna, 2021
The MQ is a place where art is not only seen, but is also produced. The creative area at Q21 spans 7,000 square meters across several floors of the baroque building. Q21 is a workplace for initiatives, associations, galleries, agencies, and editorial offices; it also houses international artists-in-residence and serves as a venue for artistic presentations and exhibitions.
MQ Libelle © Hertha Hurnaus
Since 1978, the artists’ collective Medienwerkstatt Wien has been one of the locations that reflect, mediate and co-determine questions and approaches of media art in both the technological and theoretical fields. Regular interdisciplinary events and exhibitions build a bridge between production and discourse.
Eröffnung KEINE NATURSTUDIE, KEIN ERLEBNISAUFSATZ, PHILOSOPHISCH, MÖGLICHST GROSS Gerda Lampalzer, Hanna Schimek 1990/91 revisited 2022 Foto: Manfred Neuwirth
Kunstraum Niederoesterreich at Palais Niederösterreich creates space for young, experimental and transmedial art projects. In addition to the conception and realization of group and solo exhibitions, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich focuses on the medium of contemporary performance.
Tue-Fri 11:00–19:00, Sa 11:00–15:00
Eröffnung KEINE NATURSTUDIE, KEIN ERLEBNISAUFSATZ, PHILOSOPHISCH, MÖGLICHST GROSS Gerda Lampalzer, Hanna Schimek 1990/91 revisited 2022 Foto: Manfred Neuwirth




Kunsthalle Exnergasse
Währinger Straße 59,
1090 Wien
+43 1 401 21 15 70
Kunsthalle Exnergasse postions itself as an exhibition space and platform for experimental, contemporary art in all its different forms, and attaches great importance to local and international collaborations.
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Franz Braun
Aichholzgasse 51-53/36, 1. OG, 1120 Wien
The visual artist and political activist concentrates on the individual in his socio-political and artistic examination. His realistic oil paintings focus on portraits of the people who surround and influence the artist in his everyday life. The motifs reveal clear references to historical works of art. At the same time, the choice of the people depicted and their surroundings bring the European portrait tradition into the present. He studied painting at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and received the honorary award of the Federal Ministry of Science and Research in 2014 for his diploma thesis.
The socio-critical moment of art production goes beyond the production of a work of art. It is the task of artists to think about the context in which art is presented and its content is communicated. For the challenging process of emancipating art from market interests, networking and organizing in collectives of artists is an inevitable necessity. What do such cooperations look like and in which areas do they operate? What is the socio-political task of artists and what are the conditions for fulfilling it?










Ting-Jung Chen
Beheimgasse 64, Ladenlokal, Souterrain, 1170 WienTür links von dem Haupteingang,
www.info-tingjungchen.com/Ting-Jung Chen (*Taiwan) uses sound installations, sculptures, and interventions as language. Her art praxis which relates to historiography and cultural and political semiotics, focuses on collective memories, appropriation, and processes of empowerment. By reproducing artifacts of the culture industry, representation of ideology, and their relationship to human beings, the artist explores transformations of identity and draws the overlapping culture mingling into a spatial atlas. In 2022 Chen presents her solo show in Taipei Fine Arts Museum. She is the recipient of the MAK-Schindlers-Scholarship 2019, and the Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2018.
"Orders" probably create a state of harmony - at least under an absolute power. My works discuss the tension of the complex counter-positions of a structure in the system of power. With my art practice I want to deconstruct the biased interpretations, appropriations and the representations of an identity solidified by the counter-positions. I transmit a noise, a sound that does not fit homophony, that can connect many different soundscapes and tell alternative narratives- challenging harmony, challenging orders.










With my artistic work I want to give an expression of my understanding of the world that surrounds me. The work of art is more complex than mundane communication media. I am using painting, drawing, photography, text, sculpture, found objects, everything can be used, on its own or in connection with each other. Mostly some certain uneasiness with circumstances around me motivates me to work on a specific theme.
The events that change our history usually happen suddenly in our perception, no opinion research, no poll, announced them. In 2020 a new virus surprised us and in 2022 a war in Europe. Unpleasant events show us that we never perceive everything, often consider an erroneous path to be right, or at least passable, and want to continue as usual. The diffuse unease that moves me to devote myself to a subject comes from my social entanglement in the real world. And that is why art, if it is fed by a keen sense of how we live together, can perhaps contribute to changing paradigms.










Felix Dennhardt (*1995) studied digital art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and Fine Arts at Chelsea College of Arts, London. His works can be seen in exhibitions and theater. In his site-specific installations, he works with different mediums trying to evoke a sensitivity for sound and space. In 2019 he was an artist in residence for Robert Wilsons Byrd Hoffmann Foundation at Watermill Center, NY. In 2021 he founded the artist in residence program auf! auf! residency at the Lehártheater Bad Ischl. Since April 2021 he works in the studio together with Luka Berchtold, Lukas Gschwandtner, Raphael Haider, Sebastian Koeck, David Meran, Marlene Posch and Clemens Tschurtschenthaler.










Bernhard Frue's works are often based on biographical moments and everyday observations, which he translates into model-like situations with the help of various transformation processes. This process of transfer fragments the original references to the source material in such a way that they are no longer present as a superstructure, but create a relationship of tension between idea and image, between index and symbol. The aspect of the graphic repeatedly plays a central role in Bernhard Frue's artistic practice as a starting point and system of reference.










Hilde Fuchs
Maysedergasse 2/28, VBKÖ, 4. OG, 1010 Wien
As a research artist, my work includes spatial/video/object installations, text/ sound works, art in public space and since 2001 experimental performance projects, in which the aim is to visualize the aesthetic potential of body dynamics. Many of my performances and projects are based on an elaborate concept including comprehensive research and preparatory work.
Salzburg: GRAU-GRÜN! - on the subject of dress codes in Salzburg in the 1930s and the refusal by women to comply with the law. Documentary video of a performance, dress objects. Based on research on the law for a Salzburg Landesanzug in 1935, the project traces a transformation process from historical forms of traditional dress in Salzburg to the "Trachtenerneuerung" of the modern and urban embodied identity politics of the 1930s. The Landesanzug for men was required by law for state officials until 1975. The Landesanzug for women was never formally established.










*1978, freelance artist in Vienna, studied photography I refer to the female body, its surrounding and the materiality of the image carrier. Selected architectures are starting points from which, following a staging, a narrative of familiarity and uncanniness develops, which is about the representation of injury, dissolution, ephemerality and loneliness. Photographs are exposed analogically on surfaces that are related to what is depicted, such as concrete, sandpaper, cardboard and the wall: a photo is exposed directly onto it, the space is the image carrier. Unevenness in the wall or bubbles in the concrete contribute to the character of the picture.
The investigation of female manifestations, the representation of fragility and the disappearance vs. presence and surface, as well as their fragmentation and complexity have to do with this year's motto. I perforate, cut, pour; the coarse, rough materials and approaches used, complement the totality of fragile beings whose manifestation is ephemeral, the presence manifested through these perforations, stripes and concrete surfaces. The works elude the gaze, depending on the angle and lighting conditions. It requires interaction to become visible, which can be read as a refusal and questioning of existing orders.










My works encompass diverse media, including site-specific installations and ephemeral interventions in public space as well as performances, photography, video, artist books, and posters. The miscellaneous works are related by the recurrent intermingling of truth and fiction, which is an invitation to a critical examination of granted constructions of reality. Examining social patterns of perception, I challenge hegemonic values of everyday objects, images, norms, and ideologies.
In the performance lecture "ohne Rückgabe und ohne Garantie" (without return and without guarantee) Lisa Großkopf reads out various private sales offers of artworks, all of which depict Burgenland locations. By juxtaposing the clichéd depictions of Austria's youngest province with the utilitarian classified ad text, she transfers the romantic motifs into the concrete economies of the market. The advertisements open up a parallel world to the usual academically confirmed art theories and art business discourses and thus comment ironically on the search for a generally comprehensible concept of art.










Lena Rosa Händle
Schwarzenbergstraße 5, studio das weisse haus, 1010 WienToreinfahrt ÖBV Buchhandlung,
lenarosahaendle.de/Lena Rosa Händle was born in Berlin (1978), since 2018, she has been studio artist at studio das weisse haus in Vienna. Ranging across photography, installations, collages and sculptures, her practice negotiates a vast openness in conjunction with an intense focus on people and their social realities, their visibilities and cultural codes. Lena Rosa Händle’s works critically reflect on ecological, political and historical issues and foreground, utopian potentials for more livable futures. She is distinguished with several residencies, scholarships, fundings and purchases and her work was shown in Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden, Barcelona, Wien, Salzburg, Graz and Istanbul.
In the current time of ecological crisis, pandemic and destruction, the starting point of my new work is the idea of a radical rethinking. Robin Wall Kimmerer writes in her book "Braided Sweetgrass" about respect, exchange and positive reciprocity in individual relationships between human and non-human actors and between plants. She shows that nature is wise and that we can enter into a positive reciprocal relationship with the environment. Based on these thoughts, I exaggerate, amplify and alter real existing organic forms and develop images and sculptures of reciprocity, exchange and interconnectedness.










Julia Haugeneder
Tautenhayngasse 24, 2. OG, 1150 WienDas Haus neben dem Renault-Gebäude,
www.juliahaugeneder.comJulia Haugeneder (*1987 in Vienna) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and in London at Central Saint Martins, UAL graphics and printmaking techniques. Besides that, she has a degree in art history as well as philosophy, theatre, film and media studies, that she received at the University of Vienna and the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her works have most recently been shown at Museum Liaunig (2022), Landesgalerie Krems (2022), Museum der Moderne Salzburg (2022), Post Headquarter Vienna (2021), new now art space Frankfurt (2021), 5020 Salzburg (2021), Kunstverein Baden (duo, 2021), Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman Innsbruck (solo, 2021), Galerie Sophia (solo, 2020).










Kinga Jakabffy
Alserbachstraße 13/6, Stiege 1, 1. OG, 1090 Wienauf 6 und grüne Anruftaste drücken,
www.kingajakabffy.comAs a queer artist to an immigrant family, Kinga Jakabffy deals with questions of sexual ownership and identity empowerment in general. She often portrays caring interpersonal relationships and a sense of loving collectiveness - which is one of the most important support systems in the LGBTQ+ community - may it be through dance, hugs or kisses. The subjects find a moment of warmth and freedom to be their true selves in the midst of inequality, abuse, harassment and even murder due to gender and sexual orientation.
With "Challenging Orders" the VIENNA ART WEEK focuses on a highly relevant topic that has repeatedly caused upheavals and furor in art. A focus that Kinga Jakabffy shares when she refers to gender relations, questions of sexuality and identity formation in our patriarchal society. Unfortunately, even in 2022, it is still characterized by imbalances, gender biases and restrictions on personal freedom and authenticity. Facing these challenges, making people feel positive, but on closer inspection also making them aware of the downsides, is evident in Jakabffy's work.










My work is mainly concerned with issues of responsibility and manipulation, and the ways mass media, educational systems or family contexts influence society.
Ich finde Regeln to... toll... Weil... weil Regeln... einen Wilden davon abhalten, entweder bei Rot zu gehen, oder... oder bei Grün nicht zu gehen... und, und das war’s. Es ist nicht erlaubt, bei Rot zu gehen, es ist erlaubt, bei Grün zu gehen, und es ist nicht erlaubt, zum Beispiel in manchen Ländern, zu schnell zu fahren mit dem Auto *excerpt from the libretto of the opera performance "Conversations: I don't know that word... yet" by Dejan Kaludjerovic










Studied at Slade School of Fine Art London as well as at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. 2022: awarded with state grand for fine art. My artistic practice centres around drawing, more precisely, 3B pencil on paper. The simplicity of the means is what I am interested in, being the most direct and immediate way of giving shape to thoughts, and, at the same time, allowing me to create and construct complex gestures with it. In small and large-scale formats as well as installations, I pursue a drawing’s ability to slip into different roles, all being unfamiliar to the technique. I am interested in the ambiguity of shapes and their respective overlappings and boundaries.
My most recent works – and also the ones I’ll work on in the next couple of months, are meant to fill the middle part of the staircase from top to bottom in my studio building. Rather than extending in a horizontal space – as we expect exhibitions to do, an extra long drawing/an assembly of various paper webs (attached to each other) cover the space and invite visitors to look at an artwork while moving vertically in space, i.e. going up and down the stairs and thus circling around the work, which has no front or back. This new perspective is a door to a new way of looking at my work. Similar to a portal to somewhere new.










I am Peruvian Artist based in Vienna, born and raised in Lima. I belong to a Peruvian artisan silversmith family. I have been interested in closing a gap and in reconnecting with indigenous, Andean and Amazonian cosmovisions and thoughts that have partly been suppressed and discriminated against. At the core of my performative practice lies a critique of the human-centered modes of relating to Nature is. My Artwork aims at offering other ways to think and feel with Nature, intending to offer a vision of different worldviews. This way, my artwork approaches understandings of different communities as well as to open up the idea of a pluriverse.
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Nadine Lemke studied fine arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In her works, textile fragments become architectural extensions and partial breakthroughs. In this way, orders of space are dissolved and viewpoints are set in motion.
Like strange signs, objects stretch across the walls. Something that is in progress and could continue to expand in its communication with the space. Independent small bodies begin to dissolve what is inscribed in the space.










Anna Lerchbaumer is a sound and video artist who explores the relationship between humans, nature and technology. The sculptural aspect plays an important role in her work. She works with found objects and discarded technologies that are brought to life in the process of making them. She combines obsolescence, raw materials and things spatially and acoustically to create humorous and critical connections. She moves in the field of tension between fine art, research and sound art. A book on the Toxic Temple project (together with Kilian Jörg) has just been published.
Can our time of disasters be re-examined through a cult of pollution? Rubbish dumps are the new temples. In my work things that some call waste, rubbish or litter, crap, debris or discards gain new life in colourful assemblages. In my studio together with Anja Nowak I still try to find order in the chaos, that’s a real challenge. As a mother of two sons, I try to find a balance between my work as an artist and childcare.










Xenia Lesniewski
1. Haidequerstraße 3-5, / Konstruktionsbüro, 2. OG, 1110 Wien Wien
www.Xenia-Lesniewski.deXenia Lesniewski (*1985) is an ultra-contemporary, multidisciplinary artist. She has studied painting and experimental Animation with Judith Eisler at the University of applied Arts Vienna and Visual Communication at Hessen State University of Art and Design Offenbach. Her work includes videos, paintings, installations, collaborative projects, performative situations and curatorial practice. Her oeuvre moves at the interface of art and life as well as within the examination of current social developments and public space. A process-oriented, interdisciplinary approach as well as contemporary discourse are of Lesniewski’s main interest.
For me, this year's motto is very closely connected with my approach and implemented projects. The expanded concept of art, the blurring of genres and the attempt to be politically, socially and artistically active play a significant role in my artistic practice. The interface between art and life aka. utopia and everyday life as well as the idea of art as a potentially progressive force with real reciprocities on society shape my work. I am interested in the interconnectedness of economy, power and democracy under neoliberal auspices as well as the art world and cross-societal dialogue.










Born in Zofingen/CH. Lives and works in Vienna, graduated from Angewandte, ibid. Intervention, object, video & photography. Rafael´s work originates in the constellation of the everyday. Instable and transitory situations highlight the potential of failing, a certain uncertainty that is tied to our perception as well as our moral concepts. Through the process of modification, disguise and assimilation, his artistic investigation follows the relations between the people and their worlds, our surrounding structures. Specifically, how objectives are repeated and turn into routine, routines which are eventually facilitated by the use of objects and those objects become extensions of the body.
To challenge orders, we need to understand what orders are, where they come from and where to find them. There are visible and generally more direct orders, as well as hidden, unwritten ones. I am specifically interested in those orders we follow or obey internally. Are we born into such orders, by means of culture? Are we taught this way, or do we follow them to blend in, to survive?










Monica C. LoCascio’s work arrives as artifacts of her material and theoretical research with a focus on heritage craft practices, epigenetics, fermentation, and hierarchies of knowledge and power. She is interested in how phenomena can be extrapolated geometrically, and in how somatic practice can facilitate personal and collective transformation. She received her BA with honors in New Media & Visual Arts from Emerson (Boston, 2006), and her MA with honors in Art & Science from Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien (2021). Her work has been shown and published internationally and she serves on the inaugural board of the Medicine & Media Arts Initiative at UCLA.
With craft (see its definitions/epistemology) techniques inherited from maternal ancestors, I celebrate matriarchal practices. With microbes, I mother messy smelly materials. With sensitivity, I rescue fiber from dead crafters and industrial materials from decrepit structures. With research, I examine inherited/ance systems and barriers to embodied knowledge excluded from institutional discourse. With autotheoretical practice, I challenge the hierarchy of knowledge systems.










Rosmarie Lukasser
Springergasse 32, Straßenlokal, 1020 WienEingang Ecke Am Tabor,
www.rosmarielukasser.net/When a sociology of the body encounters spaces, locations and borders, in Lukasser's work a network of technomorphic approaches is involved. The laws of cool (A. Liu) within media reality emerge in their bodily forms. White icons of a man- machine-adaptation show warps that collapse into pixels of deep surfaces (M. Faßler). The materiality of their bodies allows the influence of digitally networked tele presences to be read via interfaces to the individuals’ postures associated with it. Work is carried out on a sculptural ‘anthropology of the medial’ _2010 degree_Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, since then working with Galerie Krinzinger








Martina Menegon (IT, 1988) is an artist, curator and educator working predominantly with Interactive and Extended Reality Art. In her works, Martina creates intimate and complex assemblages of physical and virtual elements that explore the contemporary self and its phygital corporeality. She experiments with the uncanny and the grotesque, the self and the body and the dialogue between physical and virtual realities, to create disorienting experiences that become perceivable despite their virtual nature. Martina’s work has been exhibited internationally online and offline and some of her works are permanently collected and exhibited.










David Meran studied at the University of Applied Arts and at Geidai - Tokyo University of the Arts and graduated in 2019. Since March 2022 he has his studio at “Millergasse“, which he shares with Luka Jana Berchtold, Felix Dennhardt, Lukas Gschwandtner, Raphael Haider, Sebastian Köck, Marlene Posch, Sarah Steiner and Clemens Tschurtschenthaler. His multidisciplinary practice, encompassing diverse artistic media such as sculpture, video, photography and installation, reflects the neoliberal, capitalist optimisation pressure of the last decades. The works are understood as a scenario of digitality, consumption, self-optimisation and nature.
For me, "Challenging Orders" focuses on the question of principles of order and power. We are currently seeing global processes of upheaval. Politically, economically, ecologically and socially. As a counterpart to a solidary, rational collectivism, egocentric ways of seeing and acting are developing, which revolve around the concepts of "mindfulness" and "wholeness". Nevertheless, the human being lives in the social network as a subject that is subordinated to the dispositive (organizing principle of a society). My artistic work explores the fragility, the tautness, the balance or even the dissonance, the contradiction of these networks of states.










Jelena Micić (*1986, Knjaževac) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2020) at the Textual sculpture class (Heimo Zobernig). MA in Philosophy (2012) and Graduated philologist of Scandinavian languages (2010) University of Belgrade. Awarded Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos Award/YVAA NY (2021), Würdigungspreis der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien for Excellent Artistic Theses (2020), Ö1 Talentestipendium Bildende Kunst (2018) and kültür gemma! Fellowship (2018). Micić is interested in socio-political aspects of color (systems). Founder of the informal group UMETNIK*. Lives and works in Vienna as a freelance artist and artistic director of the WIENWOCHE festival for art and activism.










My work explores geopolitical and cultural frictions, clashes, ruins, monuments and symbols of power that have a precise relationship with the present and collective memory. Each of my projects aims to trigger a dialogue or reflection between myself, and the viewer, and the world around us. I am interested in contemporary and late 20th century history, particularly in themes that deal with the expansion and decadence of Western culture in the world. For about 10 years I have been conducting research on collective identity symbols with direct references to public monuments but also elements of everyday use such as banknotes, stamps, etc...
During the open studio I would like to present a series of works developed in Cuba during a month-long trip in February 2022. The main work titled "Buscando el Comandante" consists in an action performed in Havana and documented through video and accompanied by a reworking of objects. The work fits in the main topic as in the action performed I reversed the status of tourist / cuban, specifically by exchanging money on the black market. The action symbolically recounts the exceptional economic crisis currently underway in Cuba (caused by the Covid-19 pandemic). The main topic subjects of the work are the monetary inflation and the deterioration the cuban identity in the capital.








Hyeji Nam
Schwarzenbergstraße 5, studio das weisse haus, / Studio 101,, 2. OG,, 1010 Wien
Hyeji Nam (1993, Seoul, lebt und arbeitet in Wien) ist eine interdisziplinäre Künstlerin, die mit den Themen Literatur, Sexualität, gesellschaftliche Tabus und Kulturpolitik arbeitet. Ihre Arbeiten befassen sich mit weiblicher Männlichkeit und damit, wie unser Körper in ein politisches Feld involviert ist. Sie arbeitet als Malerin, Klangkomponistin und Performerin. Ihre jüngsten Projekte konzentrieren sich auf die Erfindung neuer Präsentationskontexte und Bewegungssprachen durch die Kombination von digitalen Medien und realem Fleisch und hinterfragen die Beziehung zwischen unserem Geist und digitalisierten Körpern.
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Ateliergemeinschaft Westbahnstraße
Westbahnstraße 27-29 / -, -, 1070 Wien Wien










Yoshinori Niwa
Schwarzenbergstraße 5, studio das weisse haus, / STUDIO 102, 1010 Wien
yoshinoriniwa.com/Born in.1982 in Aichi, Japan and lives and works in Vienna. He was selected for “Future Greats 2014” by ArtReview , and nominated for “Follow Fluxus – After Fluxus” in 2014/2016. His practice takes the form of social interventions realised through performance concerning of historical issues or economical system. His works all bear self-explanatory, absurd action under slogan-like titles, and are executed primarily on the street and in public spaces, and all the process are documented by video. His works are included in international collections such as the KADIST Foundation, Otazu Foundation, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Mori Art Museum and others.
In this Open Studio, I will be showing work based on my consistent research on capitalist society. In addition to the Open Studio, the exhibition programme at das weisse haus will include the work 'Organising a Demonstration to Read Out in the Streets(working title)', a demonstration sound-performance using texts from various commercial advertisements on the street and texts written on passers-by's T-shirts.










Ateliergemeinschaft Schlingermarkt
Brünner Straße 34-38 / 5, R01A, 1210 Wien Wien
EVENTS
Gemeinschaftsatelier in der ehemaligen Bücherei: Brünner Straße 34-38/6/4A (Eingang Innenhofseitig):
Julian Jankovic, Bettina Eigner, Michaela Putz, Michele Yves Pauty, Katharina Schönherr, Kieran Liam Kellett
Atelier: Brünner Straße 34-38/14/1 (Eingang Marktseitig):
Maria Pia Lattanzi, Jasmin Madzia, Mirko Bandini
Siebdruckwerkstatt: Brünner Straße 34-38/10/16 (Eingang Marktseitig):
Markus Raffetseder, Andreas Nader










*1972 in Lübeck, D Graphic design degree University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Hildesheim, D Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design, Dublin, IRL since 1997 studio and center of life in Vienna, A Using drawing as a formal basis, Olaf Osten prefers to rework man-made information systems and structures, asking how autonomous or free we can actually be. His works are owned, among others, by the International Peace Institute, the Wien Museum, the Complexity Science Hub Vienna and the Vienna Chamber of Labour, among others. He is regularly active on an interdisciplinary level - project partners include, for example, the Impulstanz Festival, the Wiener Festwochen or the mumok.
An order is constructive if it is collectively reflected and constantly updated. If this is not the case from my point of view, I feel obliged to help create this state through my contribution.










Michèle Pagel studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in the specialist class for object sculpture and graduated in 2012 with Prof. Julian Göthe. Together with Leon Höllhumer she works in the green, secluded studio in the Simmeringer Haide. The intersection of the two artists lies in the ceramic material, which they explore and use in a variety of ways.










Christiane Peschek's works live between emotional alienation, self-sacralization and fluid identity research in an expanded virtual space. In images and multisensory installations, she creates dialogues marked by virtual exhaustion, intimacy and self-idealization. Observations of the physical body between on- and offline identities are a consistent theme in her projects in a post-internet reality at the intersection of technology and cosmology. Her work can be found in numerous collections and is continuously exhibited internationally such as most recently at Museum Marta Herford and NRW Forum Düsseldorf.
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Marlene Leonie Posch
Millergasse 20/4, EG, 1060 WienDurch den Eingang in den Innenhof,
www.marleneposch.atMy name is Marlene Leonie Posch, student at the University of Applied Arts in the Transmedial Art class and about to graduate. Since 2021 I have been working in the studio in Millergasse together with Felix Dennhardt, Lukas Gschwandtner, Raphael Haider, Sebastian Köck, David Meran, Luka Jana Berchtold, Sarah Steiner and Clemens Tschurtschenthaler. I work mainly in the field of sculpture and installation. In my sculptures I am in search of physical moments and memories and am interested in the real and the hypothetical as well as in the language of objects and the interweaving of different materials.










Born 1966 in Klagenfurt, studied Architecture at the Technical University Vienna as well as Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and The Cooper Union School of Art, New York. The work is characterized by broad heterogeneity, constant experimentation and exploration of the world around us. A recurring theme is chaos and order and the search for their underlying principles. Formally the most characteristic feature may be elements systematically repeated in series. The spectrum ranges from painting or video to small-scale kinetic objects as well as large-scale architecturally associated interventions and sculptural projects in public space.










Arnold Reinthaler, *1971, Austria, studied sculpture (with Bruno Gironcoli) at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and wrote his PhD in cultural theory with Thomas Macho (on the circulation of ›nomadic‹ as a notion in the art context). Reinthaler’s work addresses systems for measuring time while focussing on the subjective activities of long-lasting work processes that he translates primarily into stone, paper and the media of light. He models the notion of 'temporality' by engraving fleeting letters onto an almost anachronistic medium like granite, or by continually testing models of 'timing' with techniques of self-recapitulation. Arnold Reinthaler lives and works in Vienna.


















Robert Schaberl
Rennweg 79-81, 1. OG, 1030 Wienrechter Hof, ganz hinten rechts,
www.robertschaberl.com/Gleaming discs, light reflections and pulsating circles in endless color variations. Robert Schaberl's concentric abstractions, which he executes in different color gradations between matt and glossy, are created by superimposing up to 70 layers of paint on a horizontally rotating image carrier. His rarely completely monochrome central forms, which consist of paintings, photographs and works on paper, expand the spectrum of an art of perception, which also unfolds its magic when deviating from a focal point: the colour-changing images change their appearance depending on the perspective. Robert Schaberl's aesthetics of roundness.










„Käthe Schönle offers simultaneous spaces of perception. The body is omnipresent in her work, not only as a form, but also as a concept, pacing the boundaries, inside and out.“ (Paula Watzl) In painting and drawing Käthe Schönle deals with the tension and ambivalence of human interaction. She questions individual and societal structures, action systems and orders with a feminist focus. Schönle studied Fine Arts and Visual Communication, Kunsthochschule Kassel / individual and group exhibitions nationally and internationally, grants and scholarships, including the Art Prize of the City of Kassel / lives and works in Vienna
By inventing the term „body politics“, the feminist movement from the 1970s on aimed at transforming the understanding of the political by calling the attention to the bodily aspects of power and politics. Roberta Sassatellis definition of the term "covers the two sides of power-body relations: the power to control bodies, on the one hand, and resistance and protest against such power, on the other.“ 1 Recent news show again that the female* „body is a battleground“ (to quote Barbara Kruger) and we are in a situation where we have to forcefully question orders and structures again and further on for all women today and tomorrow. (1 . Imke Schmincke, Body Politics 7 (2019), 11, P. 15–40)










Stefan Schweigert
Liebknechtgasse 32/6, 3. OG, 1160 Wien
Graduate of the Max Reinhardt Seminar, I have been working for 3 years on the border between film/performance/installation/radio play. Theatrically/documentarily working through socially relevant issues is at the center of my artistic work. I work closely with archival material as well as with authors and institutions such as Amnesty International or the Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance. My last performance dealt with the thought and organizational structures of the internationally networked right-wing scene and its key work, the Turner Diaries. My next project deals with the Austrian arms industry, especially the company Glock.
Let's challenge the existing borders to talk about topics that are not allowed to be talked about in our society. Let's question social narratives and let us name what nobody wants to see or name. Let's look below the surface into the abyss that is opening up more and more due to the ever more frequent giants. Let us challenge the common order to really see what is happening around us.













Michael Strasser (*1977 in Innsbruck) attended the School of Artistic Photography Vienna and studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Places and their history are often the starting point for his research-based works, which find their implementation in a variety of media and oscillate between photography, video, installation, sculpture and performance. Solo exhibitions include "One Universe" at the Biennale Innsbruck International in 2022, "You can have it" at Kunsthalle Exnergasse in 2019 and "Freedom" at the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum in 2015. Numerous grants and awards, including Bundesateliers Westbahnstraße 2021-2028 and the Special Recognition Award 2022.




















honey & bunny (Sonja Stummerer and Martin Hablesreiter) is an inter- and transdisciplinary atelier in Vienna. It focuses on the very banal and daily stuff. The two EXarchitects do research and writing, they exhibit and perform. They deal with objects and actions like food, eating and cleaning.




















Hana Usui (*1974, Tokyo) studied art history at Waseda University and calligraphy in Tokyo. Since 2014 she has been using her artistic vocabulary mainly to address injustices in the environmental, political and social fields. Exhibitions (selected): Fukushima - 10 Years later, Berlin Art Week & Vienna Art Week (2021), Japan Unlimited, frei_raum Q21 / MuseumsQuartier Vienna (2019), Show Me Your Wound, Dom Museum Wien (2018–19); The Esprit of Gestures, The National Museum in Berlin (2010); Japanese Contemporary Art on Paper, Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden State Art Collections (2009), Works on Paper, Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology, Cracow (solo, 2009).
To break rules, you have to know them well. So I learned Japanese calligraphy intensively in my youth, only to rebel against the strict hierarchical and patriarchal calligraphy world and completely break away from the lettering! That was a process as exciting as it was painful. But also the themes from Japan that I have been dealing with for years, such as the atomic bombing, the death penalty, the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, and diverse discrimination, have to do with this year's motto of the Vienna Art Week. A fight on an intellectual and artistic level against distortion or cover-up of facts and repression is more current than ever!




















My work addresses the female body (singing or protesting at its best) as an orgigin of plasticity, I focus on the agencement of this body within hyperobjective frames, which touches upon the symbolic order as well as upon the real of this body. I engage in this concern sculpture, painting, video and performance.
The order that exists does not stop being wrong, so a new one is needed. Why is the old one so resistant to all attempts to overthrow or improve it? If art remembers its function of drafting, which indeed always has a very violent effect on the conditions, and of simultaneously putting it into play as a preparation for reality, then we can get started right away. There is another way. Long live the Pipilotta State.










The focus of my artistic work lies in the examination of the themes of identity, migration, memory culture and nation-building. Often my works are linked to socio-political issues. My main forms of expression in recent years include photography, sculpture, performance and video. Research is used as the basis for my artistic activities. Through background information, personal contact and / or archive material result in links that enter into my work.
The Street. Where the world is made.* In my last works I have dealt with body presence in public space and identity politics. To symbols and signs of protest - gestures of the street, spread by photography and through media, I have dedicated two works, extracting them in different ways, re-enacting them, elaborating ambiguous gestures and creating new contexts. Video screening "The street in rhythm" (2021/2022) + installation "The street as a display (video, collage, photography and speech/text), ongoing. * the title of the Open Studio Day docks with the exhibition of the same name at MAXXI Rome 2019












Christina Zurfluh
Universumstrasse 38/1, Innenhof, 1200 Wien
I have been working as a freelance artist in Vienna for many years. My painting is based on a superimposed layering of images and its subsequent processing, this working technique I have developed and expanded over many years. In my work, I deal specifically with the subject of painting and its possibilities of further development within this topic. In which I partly quote the history of modernity in my work, disillusioning its illusionism and playfully breaking with its tradition by referring to the history of conceptual and neo-avant-garde paradigms.




















Eva Beresin
Mollardgasse 85a/75-75, Stiege 2, 2. OG, 1060 WienIm Hof Seiteneingang ,
www.evaberesin.com/Born in Budapest in 1955, Beresin started drawing and painting in her childhood while spending countless afternoons with her parents at vibrant Café Gerbeaud in Budapest. There she loved to observe the other guests especially the older ladies with their wild makeup and styling. After finishing the School of Visual Arts in Budapest she moved to Vienna. “The art of Eva Beresin, in the face of such unfathomable hideousness, offers solace and hope in a world that seemingly goes from worse to worse, without respite. Something for which I am eternally grateful.” (Kenny Schachter)


























Soli Kiani
Frankenberggasse 2-4, 1040 WienGeschäftslokal, Frankenberggasse Ecke Apfelgasse,
www.solikiani.com… If one overarching substantive theme can be identified in Soli Kiani's art, which encompasses painting, photography, sculpture, collage and drawing, it is censorship. The artist, born in 1981 in Shiraz, Iran, has lived in Austria since 2000; here, at a safe distance from her native country, she uses her art to shed light on the social, political and religious everyday realities faced by people in Islamic Iran. … Kiani, who studied with Christian Ludwig Attersee at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, moves confidently between various media, always displaying a strong sense of her work’s presence in space in her exhibitions. … (Lisa Ortner-Kreil)










I am very concerned with political, social and socio-political issues, which are often addressed in my work with a certain humor. My work is mainly based on photography, film, video and mixed media installations. Already in the House of losing control I have provided a room with an interactive installation and a 4-channel video installation. I have been represented for years at a variety of national and international exhibitions and film festivals and would be very happy to be part of Vienna Art Week again this year. I define myself as genderqueer and prefer the pronoun "they" or no pronoun.
The theme Challenging Orders in particular is already a description of my work. Starting with the cinema documentary "Festival of Democracy", which critically documents the events and protests surrounding the G20 summit in Hamburg, to a variety of short films dealing with the asylum policy of the EU, transsexuality in Russia or ironic and serious works on pornography, to many photographic works, my oeuvre can be well described with "Challenging Orders".












Guido Maria Kucsko
Marc Aurel Straße 2/V/32, 1010 WienHauseingang ist das letzte Haustor vor dem Eck zum Hohen Markt,
www.kucsko.com/Guido Kucsko (born 1954 in Vienna) is an Austrian conceptual artist and lawyer, living and working in Vienna. As a lawyer, he specializes in intellectual property law. In his work as an artist, he concentrates on the principal issues thought, feeling and creative action. His mostly site-specific installations and photo and video works have been on view at, among others, Palazzo Ducale - Mantua, Domus Medie. Oslo, Fészek Muvészklub - Budapest, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art - Thessaloniki, Albertina - Vienna, Sigmund Freud Museum - Vienna and Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts.
CHALLENGING ORDERS inspired me to propose two conceptual, performative works ("READING COPYRIGHT" and "THE MAYBE CHOIRE"). We should question the proliferation of legal regulations, their lack of clarity and their need for interpretation using the example of copyright: a network of more than 10 international agreements, 15 EU directives and, in addition, national laws form the corpus of legal regulations. Therefore, even the answer of specialists to seemingly simple questions is often a mere "maybe".










Barbis Ruder was born in Heidelberg in 1984 and lives and works as a media and performance artist in Vienna. She completed her studies in transmedia art with Brigitte Kowanz at the University of Applied Arts in 2015 and is currently developing sculptures between medical and body techniques as part of her doctorate and with her interdisciplinary research team Phantom Lab. In Ruders' works, the body is the starting point and object of investigation for themes such as economy, work, intimacy and convention: she plays with moving image, sound, sculpture and installations - both in the exhibition space and on stage. Her works have been awarded several prizes.








































Jakob Breit
1. Haidequerstraße / 3-5, 2. Stock, 1110 Wien






























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Ines Hochgerner
Ganglbauergasse / 38, Stiege durch den Hof durch, 1.Stock, 1160 Wien
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Maximilian Klammer
Akademie Studio-Programm - Viktor Christ Gasse / 10, 1050 Wien
www.akbild.ac.at/Portal/studium/nachwuchsfoerderung-1/akademie_studio









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Alexandra Baumgartner
Goldeggasse / 29 , Stiege Trakt A2, 3.Stock, 1040 Wien
www.alexandrabaumgartner.com/Alexandra Baumgartner, credit: Dawin Meckel/Agentur Ostkreuz


































norbert brunner
Gaudenzdorfergürtel / 43-45/3a, 3, 1120 Wien








Eva / Anna Chytilek/Zwingl
Westbahnstraße / 27-29, Stiege 2, DG / Atelier 9, 1070 Wien
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Nicoleta Auersperg
Volkertplatz / 8, Stiege Ecke Lessinggasse, GF, 1020 Wien
www.nicoletaauersperg.com/

























































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Till Krappmann
Akademie Studio-Programm - Viktor Christ Gasse / 10, 1050 Wien
www.akbild.ac.at/Portal/studium/nachwuchsfoerderung-1/akademie_studio





Susanna Klein
Akademie Studio-Programm - Viktor Christ Gasse / 10, 1050 Wien
susannaklein.blogspot.com/















Offerus Ablinger
Akademie Studio-Programm - Viktor Christ Gasse / 10, 1050 Wien
offerus-ablinger.jimdofree.com







Maximiliano León
Akademie Studio-Programm - Viktor Christ Gasse / 10, 1050 Wien
www.maximilianoleon.com/









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Ipek und Laura Hamzaoglu und Nitsch
Akademie Studio-Programm - Viktor Christ Gasse / 10, 1050 Wien
www.hekatefilmcollective.com





Anna Krumpholz
Akademie Studio-Programm - Viktor Christ Gasse / 10, 1050 Wien
www.akbild.ac.at/Portal/studium/nachwuchsfoerderung-1/akademie_studio

































Ruth Anderwald und Leonhard Grond Anderwald + Grond
Schüttelstraße / 21/4, 3rd floor, 1020 Wien
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Heinrich Dunst
WUK, Währinger Straße / 59, Stiege 4, 1, 1180 Wien
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Gabriele / Christine Fulterer & Scherrer
Blechturmgasse / 24/8A, raised ground floor, 1040 Wien
www.fulterer-scherrer.com





























Bernhard Frue
Universumstrasse / 38 / 20, EG, 1200 Wien






























Bernhard Hammer
Burggasse / 24/24, 3, 1070 Wien






Martina Steckholzer
Windhabergasse / 19, Stiege 7, 1, 1190 Wien






Tillman Kaiser
Dresdnerstrasse / 66 , Hofgebäude, 1200 Wien
www.emanuellayr.com/work/tillman-kaiser-2/



















Péter Tauber
Nikolsdorfergasse / 3-5, Erdgeschoss, 1050 Wien






























Christina Zurfluh
Universumstrasse / 38 / 20, Stiege Innenhof, Innenhof, 1200 Wien










































Michael Zinganel (Tracing Spaces)
Museum Nordwestbahnhof / Nordwestbahnstrasse / 16a, Erdgeschoss, 1200 Wien
tracingspaces.net/ und https://mhmz.at/

Philip Mentzingen
Brünnerstraße / 26-32/12/R01, -, 1210 Wien
www.philipmentzingen.com/philip-mentzingen-1







Daniel/Simon/Koloman Ferstl/Iurino/Kann
Hafengasse / 13, Souterrain, 1030 Wien






































Birgit Graschopf
Wiedner Hauptstrasse / 40/13, Stiege 1 , 5th floor, 1040 Wien
www.birgitgraschopf.com





















































