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Vienna is one of a kind when it comes to art, as exemplified by its dense landscape of museums, exhibition spaces and art universities.
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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.
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Vienna’s galleries feature both established and new contemporary art. Seize the opportunity to gain inside knowledge in one-on-one conversations!
“Glass Pavilion” des 20. Bezirksmuseum
Jägerstraße 47, Brigttaplatz, 1200 Wien
+43664 1337809
It is a glass display case, newly renamed the “Glass Pavilion,” whose unusual dimensions oscillate between macro- and microworlds. Built during the expansion of the U6 line, it was originally used to showcase locomotive technology, marking an infrastructural transformation that culminated with the opening of the Jägerstraße section in 1996. Today, situated somewhat outside the realm of conventional exhibition practice and at the margins of public awareness, the pavilion unfolds strong symbolic and spatial potential.
© Michael Nagl 2024
AIL – Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab
Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Wien
+431711332007
Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab is a space and a platform for projects at the intersection of art, science and artistic research. Founded in 2014 by the University of Applied Arts Vienna as an initiative by Gerald Bast, it was launched to enable exchange among different disciplines and to open up art and artistic research. AIL is dedicated to facilitating dialogue between all visitors and participants as well as various fields of knowledge and connects partners from the fields of science, arts, design, research with the resources of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Wien
+43 1 588 16-0
As one of the oldest art universities in Europe, the Academy today sees itself as an international field of experimentation in contemporary art and architecture, as well as a place of debate in the area of tension between theory and practice, science and art, teaching and research.
The academy has important historical art collections, a picture gallery, a copperplate engraving cabinet and a glyptothek.
Located in the historical heart of Vienna, the Albertina combines Imperial flair with great art. A magnificent former residence of the Habsburgs and an art museum of international renown, the Albertina stands for one of the most important collections of graphic art, attracting city and cultural tourists from all over the world.
© Harald Eisenberger
Albertina Klosterneuburg
An der Donau-Au 1, 3400 Klosterneuburg
+43 1 534 83 0
With the opening of ALBERTINA KLOSTERNEUBURG, the ALBERTINA Museum is pursuing an important goal: to make a large part of its collection of post-1945 art accessible to the public. Artworks that are neither being shown in exhibitions at the ALBERTINA Museum or ALBERTINA MODERN nor currently on loan elsewhere will be presented to the interested public in Klosterneuburg. The museum’s present-day contemporary art holdings encompass around 65,000 works (paintings, drawings, printed graphics, photography, sculptures, videos, and installations).
ALBERTINA KLOSTERNEUBURG | Foto © Stefan Olah
ALBERTINA MODERN is one of the largest museums for modern and contemporary art. ALBERTINA’s second location opened on May 27, 2020. It has a collection of over 60,000 works by 5,000 artists. On more than 2,000 square meters, ALBERTINA MODERN presents comprehensive exhibitions of modern and contemporary art, based on its own holdings and, above all, major works of the Essl Collection, which has been housed in ALBERTINA since 2017.
Albertina Modern, Foto (Mockup) © Rupert Steiner
Architekturzentrum Wien
Museumsplatz 1 im MuseumsQuartier (Eingang Volkstheater), 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.
Auditorium der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, EG, 1030 Wien
+43 1 71133
The University of Applied Arts Vienna is committed to an open society, creates intellectual, creative freedom and ensures a discourse that is as critical as it is empathetic. Together with teachers and researchers, students and graduates, staff and partners, the University of Applied Arts develops artistic and radical solutions for shaping and managing technological, media and social change.
© Georg Herder
Belvedere 21 – Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst
Arsenalstraße 1, 1030 Wien
+43 1 795 57-0
Belvedere 21 is a venue for contemporary art, film and performance as well as a social meeting place in an urban future area. In Karl Schwanzer’s adapted World’s Fair Pavilion, Austrian and international art from the 1960s to the present is shown on three light-flooded levels.
Lukas Schaller, © Belvedere, Wien
Bildraum 01
Strauchgasse 2, 1010 Wien
+43 (1) 815 26 91-31
In Vienna, once not far from the MuseumsQuartier and once directly in the heart of the Inner City, two exhibition spaces offer the best conditions for contemporary artists to position themselves in the cultural landscape.
While Bildraum 01 in Vienna’s Strauchgasse focuses on contemporary photography and graphic art, Bildraum 07 in Burggasse presents mainly painting, installation and object art.
In Vienna, once not far from the MuseumsQuartier and once directly in the heart of the Inner City, two exhibition spaces offer the best conditions for contemporary artists to position themselves in the cultural landscape.
While Bildraum 01 in Vienna’s Strauchgasse focuses on contemporary photography and graphic art, Bildraum 07 in Burggasse presents mainly painting, installation and object art.
Blickle Raum Spiegelgasse
Spiegelgasse 2, 5. Stock (DG), 1010 Wien
T +43 662 211 20 77
The Blickle Raum Spiegelgasse is a place for research, a white cube, a projection screen, a temporary studio, a stage, a meeting room, or a place for discourse. Above all, however, it is a space for possibilities and artistic work. It is provided by the Ursula Blickle Foundation and is located in the heart of Vienna.
© Foto Dieter Auracher
For many decades, the Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sports has been providing subsidized studios for artists working in the fields of visual arts, photography, and media art. At present, studios are available at two locations: Westbahnstraße and Wattgasse.
Charim Galerie
Dorotheergasse 12/1, 1010 Wien
+43 1 512 09 15
Charim Galerie, founded in 1997, presents internationally active artists at two locations in Vienna. Accompanied by events and publications, the gallery also addresses a broader public in order to provide young, emerging artists in particular with publicity and market access. An essential part of our gallery work, in addition to participation in fairs and the placement of works in private and public collections, is networking through collaboration with curators and art institutions.
Collectors Agenda Editionengalerie
Franz-Josefs-Kai 3/16, 1010 Wien
Franz-Josefs-Kai 3, with a view on Vienna’s Danube canal, is a well-established dot on Vienna’s cultural map, housing several art spaces and galleries at the same address. In its project space on the 3rd floor, Collectors Agenda has been showcasing since 2017 exclusive editions and work series from artist collaborations as solo or curated duo shows, often in cooperation with the artists’ representing galleries. Many of the international artists presented by Collectors Agenda, are showing in Austria for the very first time.
© Leonard Hilzensauer
“The Nuell” is an artist-run studio house in Vienna’s 10th district, located across from the Favoriten police station. Once home to the city’s child and youth services (MA11), the building now hosts an open interim use. Artists and theorists work side by side, transforming the site into a temporary fabric of production, exchange, and shared imagination.
credit Kerim El Mokdad
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.
WUK is an acronym and stands for “Werkstätten- und Kulturhaus”, roughly meaning “House for Workshops and Culture”. The building islaid out on 12,000 square metres and includes a stage, a concert hall, an exhibition hall and photo gallery, workshops and studios, work spaces for socio-political groups, a place for education and counselling, a senior citizens’ centre and school, rehearsal studios for music and dance, an intercultural centre, work stations and a party space.
The WUK is a place for study, for trying and doing things, for participation and sharing. The WUK creates leeway for creativity. It is a laboratory and a place of practice in one.
The Kunst VHS offers a wide range of courses for adults as well as for children and young people in the following areas:
Drawing, painting, nudes and portraits, printmaking, sculpture, architecture, photography, film, computers and multimedia, art history and lectures, writing, applied arts and crafts, sewing and textile design, ceramics and pottery, jewelry design, bookbinding, music, voice training and singing, modern dance, performing arts.
All course instructors are artists themselves and accompany and support beginners and advanced students in their artistic development.
© Ludwig Schedl, VHS GmbH
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
Domgasse 6 – Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder
Domgasse 6, 1010 Wien
+43 1 512 12 66
On the stylish ground floor of the Kleine Bischofshof, the gallery opens its new 65square meters exhibition space, which will expand the current program. Located in close proximity to the main, renowned gallery at Grünangergasse 1 with its spacious exhibition rooms on the second floor and its LOGIN window gallery, the space at Domgasse 6 boasts a unique character. Structured by arches and niches, it conveys a baroque-like modernity that contrasts with the spatial idea of the “White Cube”. Like a cabinet of curiosities, different genres and perspectives can unfold – special series of works as well as significant sculptural approaches and installations.
Courtesy Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Foto: Markus Wörgötter
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
Exhibit Galerie – Ausstellungsraum der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Wien, 1. Stock, Eingang über Foyer Gemäldegalerie
Exhibit Gallery at Schillerplatz hosts graduation presentations as well as projects engaging with contemporary themes of discourse at the Academy and current trends in contemporary art. Efforts are made to ensure that projects develop out of the teaching processes of the institutes and departments and/or involve deliberate collaboration across historical periods to link the collections with contemporary academic art production. The exhibition committee selects one exhibition per semester through a call.
Portal Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Foto: Adrian Brodressa © Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
FABRIKRAUM KUNSTVEREIN
Johnstrasse 25-27 R02/2 1150 Wien
+4366565143593
Kultur und Kunstverein FABRIKRAUM is a non-profit cultural association based in Vienna. Founded in 2018, our collective creates a platform for artists, curators, and researchers to share work and collaborate. We organize workshops, seminars, lectures, exhibitions, public interventions, fairs, artist talks, and discussions, embracing multidisciplinary approaches and new media art.
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flat1_artspace
Radetzkystraße 4, 1030 Wien
+43 699 12 01 02 03
Since 2009, flat1_artspace has been showing thematic group exhibitions. Interdisciplinary performances form an additional program. Another focus is the promotion of exchange between inter/national artists and the creation of networks. The program is designed by the visual artists Karin Maria Pfeifer and Sula Zimmerberger, who expand the spectrum of their artistic activities through their curatorial work.
FLUX 2 der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, 2. OG, 1030 Wien
+43 1 71133
The University of Applied Arts Vienna is committed to an open society, creates intellectual, creative freedom and ensures a discourse that is as critical as it is empathetic. Together with teachers and researchers, students and graduates, staff and partners, the University of Applied Arts develops artistic and radical solutions for shaping and managing technological, media and social change.
© Georg Herder
Fotogalerie Wien
Währinger Straße 59/WUK, 1090 Wien
+43 1 40 85 462
FOTOGALERIE WIEN, founded in 1981, is a non-profit gallery and constituted as an association: “Verein zur Förderung künstlerischer Fotografie und neuer Medien”.
It sees itself as an information gallery that operates independently of the dictates of the commercial mainstream. The gallery’s objective is to show contemporary photographic art, interdisciplinary projects and new media as well as to react directly to current, controversial topics and issues.
Curatorial activity is an essential feature of the gallery. Together, the collective, which currently consists of 11 artists and theoreticians, develops thematic exhibitions that are put together from submissions and collected ideas.
© FOTOGALERIE WIEN
FUTURAMA°LAB – Art & Science for Ecological Transformation
Rögergasse 1A, 1090 Wien
+43 650 6000 776
The initiators of the FUTURAMA°LAB would like to emphasize the urgency of promoting ecological engagement in the fields of art and culture in order to exploit their potentials.
The LAB promotes, develops and communicates artistic creation with a focus on sustainability and ecological change in society. We work worldwide with and for art institutions, foundations, universities, philanthropists and companies.
Galerie Eva Presenhuber
Lichtenfelsgasse 5, 1010 Wien
+43 1 890 17 43
Galerie Kandlhofer
Brucknerstrasse 4, 1040 Wien
+43 1 5031167
Galerie Kandlhofer was founded in 2016 and represents both emerging Austrian and international artists. The gallery is located in the center of Vienna and has become a vibrant meeting place for artist, curators and collectors, both national and international. Within the program, Galerie Kandlhofer presents artists of varying mediums from painting, sculptures, drawings, photography to performance with a particular interest in artists whose practices engage in interdisciplinary art forms. Furthermore, Galerie Kandlhofer actively curates the gallery program with an ethos off engaging with diverse voices and perspectives.
Installation View, Film Stills, 2025, Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna. Photo Credits: Manuel Carron Lopez
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
Galerie Lukas Feichtner
Seilerstätte 19, 1010 Wien
0676 3387145
Galerie Lukas Feichtner features international as well as Austrian art, focussing on painting, photographic works, collages and installations by a young and innovative generation of artists in confrontation with well established artists.
Barrier-free, except for an additional room in the basement.
Lukas Feichtner Galerie_Ausstellung J Deutsch_Face Space and Mental Landscape 2021
Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder
Grünangergasse 1, 1010 Wien
+43 1 512 12 66
The Galerie nächst St. Stephan represents a lively tradition of engagement with modern art. Since the 1920s, it has been located in the same place in the centre of Vienna at Grünangergasse 1.
With the exhibition: Signs, Floods, Signals – New Constructive and Parallel, Rosemarie Schwarzwälder presented a programme in 1984 whose basic elements are still valid today in numerous solo and group exhibitions. International positions of abstraction and conceptually based art in the fields of painting, sculpture, installation, photography and video are continuously present in the gallery programme.
Galerie Sturm & Schober
Kohlmarkt 9/2/5, 1010 Wien
+43 676 555 17 77
Galerie Sturm & Schober has been open at Am Kohlmarkt 9/2/5 since March 2019. The gallery owner Gabriele Schober, formerly Galerie bäckerstrasse4, and the Stuttgart gallery owner Michael Sturm, Galerie Michael Sturm, want to enrich the Viennese gallery scene with a diverse program of young and established female artists and strengthen international positions in Vienna.
Galerie Sturm & Schober
Galerie wechselstrom
Grundsteingasse 44, 1160 Wien. Galerieeingang ist links neben dem Hauseingang
+43 676 3098066
“wechselstrom” was founded by Christoph Theiler and Renate Pittroff in 2004 and is based in Vienna’s 16th district. This is also the location of the off-space “galerie wechselstrom,” which is used as a workspace and temporary exhibition and performance space. Annual events include “Räume für Notizen” and the “Grundstein-Festival”.
In addition to works for theater and radio plays, “wechselstrom” is active in the fields of sound installation, media art, and social sculpture:
REPLY was a project for the Mozart Year, in which Mozart’s begging letters were sent once again under his own name to the 100 richest Germans and Austrians. SAMENSCHLEUDER aimed to transform automobile driving into an environmentally friendly activity. In the TRACKER DOG project, owners followed their dogs. New hiking maps for Lower Austria were created from the routes recorded with GPS. A PIEFKEDENKMAL was built in Gänserndorf near Vienna in 2009. It is a sound sculpture made of Corten steel.
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Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Wien
+43 1 588 16-2201
The Paintings Gallery, one of the most important Old Master collections in Vienna, unparalleled treasures such as the Last Judgment Triptych by Hieronymus Bosch and masterpieces by renowned artists such as Cranach the Elder, Titian, Rubens, Rembrandt and Guardi. A selection of the works can be seen in the permanent collection.
Photocredit: Iris Ranzinger
The museum hotspot in the heart of Vienna represents the fulfillment of a passionate collector’s visions. Spectacular architecture meets world class artworks from Klimt to Matisse, Picasso and Warhol.
Foto: Rupert Steiner, © Heidi Horten Collection
The Jewish Museum Vienna sees itself as a place of urban diversity. With its exhibitions, its event and educational programs at both museum locations, but also with its digital offerings, it conveys the breadth of Jewish life and Jewish cultures in the past and present. It shows the history of the relationship between the Jewish and non-Jewish population and addresses aspects such as identity, inclusion and exclusion from a Jewish perspective.
It is an open place that conveys and lives democracy and diversity, an inclusive museum that offers opportunities for participation and inclusion, tries out new formats and works to be barrier-free in every respect.
JMW Dorotheergasse © www.wulz.cc
KÖR Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Wien
Nestroyplatz 1/1/14, 1020 Wien
+43 1 361 01 99-0
KÖR Vienna brings contemporary art in all its facets into the public space of the city of Vienna. With the aim of anchoring art as a natural component in the center of society, the institution creates cultural spaces for action – concrete art locations as well as intellectual free spaces. The aim is to give art an active role in shaping the city and its pluralistic identity and to make public space visible as a place of cultural and political exchange.
KRINZINGER SCHOTTENFELD
Schottenfeldgasse 45, 1070 Wien
+43 1 5128142
Krinzinger Schottenfeld was founded in 2002 as Krinzinger Projekte. Various exhibitions are held at the Krinzinger Schottenfeld Gallery, presenting not only artists from the gallery programme but also young, emerging talents. Together with the Krinzinger Gallery, Krinzinger Schottenfeld invites young artists from Austria and abroad to participate in the gallery’s artist-in-residence programme, which currently includes destinations in Austria, Croatia, Hungary and Sri Lanka.
Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz
Treitlstraße 2, 1040 Wien
+43 1 521 89 33
Kunsthalle Wien is the City of Vienna’s institution for international contemporary art and discourse. At its venues in Museumsquartier and on Karlsplatz, it presents exhibitions of contemporary art and contextualizes them in their social and political contexts.
© Kunsthalle Wien 2018, Foto: Jorit Aust
Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier
Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien
+43 1 521 89 33
Kunsthalle Wien is the City of Vienna’s institution for international contemporary art and discourse. At its venues in Museumsquartier and on Karlsplatz, it presents exhibitions of contemporary art and contextualizes them in their social and political contexts.
Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier, Foto: Stephan Wyckoff
KunstHausWien
Untere Weißgerber Straße 13, 1030 Wien
+43-1-712 04 91-0
As the first “green museum,” KunstHausWien sees itself as a central location where issues relating to the environment and sustainability are addressed in the context of contemporary art. Based on the work of Friedensreich Hundertwasser and his commitment to ecological and socio-political responsibility, the museum presents exhibitions of contemporary art and links them to an interdisciplinary, in-depth discourse program.
© Eva Kelety
Built by Karl Hasenauer and Gottfried von Semper between 1871 and 1891, the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien ranks among the most renowned museums in the world. Its magnificent architecture provides a worthy setting for collections the Habsburgs built over centuries. These encompass objects from five millennia, i.e. from the time of Ancient Egypt to the end of the 18th century.
© KHM-Museumsverband
Künstlerhaus Vereinigung
Karlsplatz 5, 1010 Wien
+43 1 587 96 63
The Vienna Künstlerhaus, Association of Austrian Artists, is an autonomous, non-profit artists’ association. It has been engaging visitors with an open, discursive, and interdisciplinary program of exhibitions and events since its founding in 1861.
Foto: Michael Nagl
Kunstraum am Schauplatz
Praterstraße 42, 1020 Wien
+43 677 617 966 78
The “Kunstraum am Schauplatz” is located in the premises of a former horse stable in Vienna’s 2nd district. It was founded in 2008 and has been run by Lukas Willmann ever since.
The profile and self-image of the art space is that it operates as a project space with the commissioning of exhibition concepts and formats by changing, independent curators.
One focus is the presentation of mid-career artists: national and international curators and artists are invited in a balanced ratio, and the commitment also lies in the cooperation with other institutional exhibition venues, with an interest in an international orientation.
The KUNSTZELLE, a former telephone box from the 1960s, stands prominently in the courtyard of the WUK Werkstätten- und Kulturhaus and has been a venue for artistic installations and interventions since 2006. The program is curated by initiator Christine Baumann together with Pablo Chiereghin. The KUNSTZELLE offers artists a pivotal point from which to address their work to a broad audience of visitors and passers-by and has been explored anew again and again for almost 20 years. In addition to artists with longer professional experience, students from the TransArts / die Angewandte class show selected works every three years.
Leopold Museum
Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien
+ 43 1 525 70-0
The Leopold Museum houses the art collection established by Rudolf Leopold. Its highlight is the “Vienna 1900” presentation, featuring the world’s most important collection of works by Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Viennese Modernism, international Classical Modernism and the Wiener Werkstätte. The museum also shows special exhibitions in the context of the collection.
© Leopold Museum, Wien | Foto: Ouriel Morgensztern
The role of applied art in shaping our living spaces is the focus of the MAK, which operates at the interface of design, architecture and contemporary art in order to create new perspectives and explore borderline areas. The MAK aims to provide answers to the question of how design can help shape the world and expand possibilities for action and decision-making.
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
mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
Museumsplatz 1,1070 Wien
+43 1 52 500-0
mumok is one of the largest museums in Central Europe for art since modernism.
The MuseumsQuartier is one of the world’s largest cultural areas and offers around 5 million visitors a year a diverse program of art and culture in the various museums and institutions onsite. It is a place of cultural diversity, experimentation, action and mediation.
The MQ E+B also programs and curates a diverse public program with events, installations and exhibitions both in the outdoor areas and in its own exhibition spaces and runs an artist-in-residence program comprising eight studios.
(c) Alexander Eugen Koller
Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
Burgring 7, 1010 Wien
+ 43 1 52177-0
The Natural History Museum Vienna conveys the diversity of nature, the evolution of planet Earth and life as well as the associated cultural development of mankind and offers an inspiring meeting place where dialog and exchange between science and society take place.
© NHM Wien, Christina Rittmannsperger
Nitsch Foundation
Hegelgasse 5, 1010 Wien
+43 1 513 55 30
The Nitsch Foundation was established in 2009 to promote the important position of the artist Hermann Nitsch (*1938-†2022) and to convey and preserve his legacy “the Orgien Mysterien Theater”.
“i can’t do what i set out to do alone. i’ve always claimed a lot of help. i’ve been nudged on the path toward the Gesamtkunstwerk, and i hope the foundation will help me build this school of sensual experience.” – Hermann Nitsch on 10/22/2009
The Upper Belvedere presents some 420 masterpieces from around eight centuries of art history, from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. The focus is on Viennese Modernism and the world-famous “Kiss” by Gustav Klimt. IM BLICK-exhibitions and the contemporary series Carlone Contemporary complete the presentation.
Oberes Belvedere
Österreichische Friedrich und Lillian Kiesler-Privatstiftung
Mariahilfer Straße 1b/1, 1060 Wien
+43 1 5130775
The Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation was established in 1997 with the acquisition of the estate of Frederick Kiesler (1890-1965) by the Republic of Austria and the City of Vienna with the help of numerous private donors. Its mission is to research the legacy of the Austro-American architect and to inscribe it in current architectural and artistic production.
PART, International Art Residency Austria
Meiereistraße 3, 1020 Wien
Founded in 2025 and commissioned by the Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport, PART International Art Residency Austria is conceived as a new residence programme for artistic research, interdisciplinary discourse and transnational cooperation, located in the south pavilion in Vienna’s Prater. Artists, curators and theorists from around the world are invited to deepen their engagement with the social, political and ecological questions of our time.
PART currently houses six international residence studios, a multifunctional room, The Hall and the Bar des Amateurs – spaces for production, presentation and exchange.
(c) Hertha Hurnaus
philomena+ acts as a networking platform for artists and people interested in cultural policies from Austria and the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa). In this context, philomena+ organizes public art projects, exhibitions, artists’ residencies, workshops, lectures, study trips and relevant publication projects.
puuul
Stolzenthalergasse 6/1A, im Hof rechts, 1080 Wien
+43 699 194 782 08
puuul is a versatile art space – workshop, autonomous exhibition space and studio in one. The focus of the exhibition activity is on solo exhibitions, which create opportunities to comprehensively engage with the work of an artist. But there is room for many things in the puuul, and an important part of the plan is to be open to ideas, projects and fantasies.
Queer Museum Vienna
C-Gebäude (ehem. Direktion), Baumgartner Höhe 1/Stiege 2, 1140 Wien
The Queer Museum Vienna is a museum dedicated to queer art, history, and culture. It was founded to promote the visibility and recognition of queer perspectives in Vienna’s art and cultural landscape. The museum features exhibitions that address LGBTQIA+ themes. In addition to artworks, it also provides space for discourse, education, and community events. It sees itself as an intersectional and inclusive place.
Accessibility information: Accessible with the exception of the toilet
Moneyfesta-SHIFT IV 2021, Richard Lürzer
As a project space, sehsaal is open to artistic, architectural and socio-political articulations that reflect current conceptions of space, with a special focus on in-situ interventions, dance, and film.
Photocredit: Barbara Höller
Fotos von Roman Pfeffer. 2024
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 starsky universe, newly created in 2025 in the 4th district, is an open, multidimensional, and communicative space for a colorful community of very different people. We enable simple, low-threshold, and humorous access to art. Our policy is: Everything for everyone! Free admission! We welcome everyone! At the same time, we develop and strengthen transdisciplinary collaborations and networks and create open spaces for discourse to strengthen art, feminism, humanism, and democracy, to develop charisma, and to become internationally visible.
The starsky association specializes in moments, in processes and events that can be experienced and walked through; it is a pioneer in the art of projection and a prototype for fem:art:ivimus and interventions in public space.
Foto : Eva Seebacher
STRABAG ART Site
Donau-City-Straße 9, 1220 Wien
+43 1 224 22 1850
The new exhibition space, the STRABAG ART Site in the STRABAG Haus in Vienna, offers visitors interested in art a varied exhibition program with a focus on the solo exhibitions of the award winners.
All exhibitions are open to STRABAG employees and external visitors.
For an exhibition visit including a guided tour, please register using the calendar tool or via art@strabag.art.
Gironcoli-Kristall, STRABAG Artaward International 2024: Preisträger:innenausstellung mit Werken von Eva Gentner, Tina Dobrajc und Andrey Klassen, Foto: Eva Kelety
SUSSUDIO
Wolfgang-Schmälzl-Gasse 19, 1020 Wien
+43 664 242 0659
Sussudio is a space for art founded by the artist Katharina Stiglitz and the architect and designer Stephan Vary. Sussudio sees itself as an artistic and curatorial project that aims to strengthen and publicise Austrian and international positions in art, design and architecture.
The aim is to develop a high-quality and varied programme with a focus on solo and group exhibitions with accompanying events.
TU Wien Bibliothek
Resselgasse 4, 1040 Wien
+43 1 58801 44001
The TU Wien Library provides the largest media collection of scientific and engineering literature in Austria and makes knowledge accessible to everyone. Located at the heart of our university and the city of Vienna, it serves as an urban knowledge hub, fostering connections between people and the sciences as well as the exchange between science and culture.
Foto: Raimund Appel. Information zum Bild: Lichtinstallation „Suche nach der Wahrheit“ des Architekten und Konzeptkünstlers Fabian Dembski an der Eulenplastik des Hauptgebäudes der TU Wien Bibliothek (2017). Fabian Dembski versucht die Idee des heterotopischen Raums der Bibliothek mit seiner Umgebung zu verbinden. Als Wissensspeicher und Lernort unterstützt die Bibliothek der TU Wien die Suche nach Wahrheit.
Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, 1010 Wien
+43 1 71133
The University of Applied Arts Vienna is committed to an open society, creates intellectual, creative freedom and ensures a discourse that is as critical as it is empathetic. Together with teachers and researchers, students and graduates, employees and partners, the University of Applied Arts develops artistic and radical solutions for shaping and managing technological, media and social change.
© Georg Herder
Universitätsgalerie im Heiligenkreuzer Hof Wien
Heiligenkreuzer Hof Stiege 8, 1.Stock (Eingang über Schönlaterngasse 5), 1010 Wien
Gallery of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Universitätsgalerie der Angewandten im Heiligenkreuzer Hof, Schönlaterngasse 5, 1010 Wien
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Modern Gallery was founded in the former private rooms of Prince Eugene of Savoy at the request of the Secessionists. To this day, temporary exhibitions are presented here with their finger on the pulse of the times. They place works from the Belvedere Collection in an international context or confront the baroque palace with contemporary positions.
Foto: Roland Voraberger, © Belvedere, Wien
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.
©Secession
Weltmuseum Wien
Heldenplatz, 1010 Wien
+43 1 534 30-5052
The Weltmuseum Wien offers insights into cultural diversity, indigenous knowledge, and traditional craftsmanship, encouraging reflection on sustainability as well as the historical and colonial contexts behind many of its collection objects – including how they were acquired in colonial settings and the power dynamics involved.
© KHM-Museumsverband
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.
The WEST is an interim use of the old WU. Together with people working in the arts and culture, the former business university on Althangrund is becoming a centre for creativity, culture and urbanity. People, projects and initiatives come together here to work, exchange ideas and further their education.
The WEST offers space for the new, the spectacular, the everyday and innovative ideas. Already four of the seven floors offer space for temporary offices and studios, workshops, seminars, events, exhibitions, symposia and talks.
WEST@DANIELA+TROST
Wiener Aktionismus Museum (WAM)
Weihburggasse 26, 1010 Wien
+43 1 35 35 07 0
Since its opening in 2024, the WAM has been the only place in the world to permanently present Viennese Actionism as the most radical art movement of the 20th century and place it in a contemporary context.
Photographs, drawings, sculptural objects, and a comprehensive documentation of its leading figures – Günter Brus, Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch, and Rudolf Schwarzkogler – provide the basis for scholarly exploration of this art, which remains relevant today.
WAM Wiener Aktionismus Museum, Wien ©Boxquadrat, courtresy WAM
WIRTSCHAFTSAGENTUR WIEN
Mariahilfer Straße 20, 1070 Wien
1070 Wien
+43 1 25200
The Vienna Business Agency offers companies in Vienna a “360° service” with subsidies and advice, workshops, coaching in the course of setting up a business, help in finding business or office space and networking opportunities. It positions Austria’s capital city in the international business environment, assists international companies in settling in Vienna and is the point of contact for expats upon their arrival in Vienna.