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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!
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 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.
© Lisa Rastl
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
Ausstellungsraum der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
Eschenbachgasse 11, Ecke Getreidemarkt, 1010 Wien
+43 (0) 664 80887-1304
The exhibition space of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is positioned at the interface between university artistic-scientific research and art practice as well as the international art field. Not least through the twice-yearly presentations of final theses, xhibit functions as a mirror of the university’s activities to the outside world. It opens up the contemporary knowledge and art production of the academy to a broad public.
Portal Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Foto: Adrian Brodressa © Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
basement
Grundsteingasse 8/TOP 34-35, 2. Hof 1160 Wien
+4369919230722, +4319230722
6 times a year basement transforms from an artist studio into an exhibition space. In recent years, the program has evolved from a focus on Eastern European countries to an intensive collaboration between Austrian and international artists. Since 2008, there has been an annual program presenting 5-6 exhibitions in which Austrian and international artists exhibit together.
Eva Grün (AT) / Julia Tschaikner (D), Oktober 2021, Der Lauf der Dinge an sich / FADE
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.
For many decades, the Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Public Service and Sport has provided working studios for visual artists at the 2 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
Franz-Josefs-Kai 3/16, 1010 Wien
+43 699 17 33 85 44
The Creative Cluster is a curated, cross-disciplinary creative incubator and art incubator, as well as a business location and communication platform. Since August 2019 it has been housed in a former school of the City of Vienna. On 3.600m2, about 140 creative people from the fields of painting, film, photography, sculpture, media art, installation, performance, graphics, illustration, stage design, music, dance, text, design, architecture, furniture construction and much more work here.
Foto: Florian Mair
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.
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
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
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
Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman
Seilerstätte 7, 1010 Wien
+43 151 20 840
Founded in 1977, the Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman Gallery focuses intensively on contemporary art – especially painting and sculpture – and works with its artists on a long-term basis, accompanying their works: exhibitions in the gallery, publications, work productions, artists’ editions. 2011 Opening of the Vienna Gallery at Seilerstätte 7.
The focus of our gallery work is the representation of some of the probably most important contemporary international artists from Austria such as Gunter Damisch, Bruno Gironcoli, Hermann Nitsch, Walter Pichler, Arnulf Rainer, Franz West and others.
Striking international positions, which stand in a cultural context, such as John M Armleder, Günther Förg, Jürgen Klauke, Tal R complete our profile.
The younger generation is represented by Herbert Brandl, Carmen Brucic, Thomas Feuerstein, Michael Kienzer, Florin Kompatscher, and others.
Galerie Ernst Hilger
Dorotheergasse 5, 1010 Wien
+43 1 512 53 15
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.
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 Ernst Hilger Ballgasse, © Katharina Stögmüller
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 Layr
Singerstraße 27, 1010 Wien
+43 1 945 1791
The gallery LAYR was founded as a continuation of the former gallery LayrWüstenhagen (2005-2011) 2011 by Emanuel Layr in Vienna, Austria. The gallery’s program focuses on the contextualization and confrontation of concepts and artistic manifestations of conceptual art with the relevant social, political and cultural issues of today. Starting from a city with a long history of oscillating between the hemispheres – East and West, North and South – the program strives for an interplay between artists of different generations and cultural or discursive backgrounds. The gallery exclusively represents the estate of the late Slovak neo-avant-gardist Stano Filko and the Belgian-American artist Cécile B. Evans. Since January 2017 it has been developing and operating a branch in Rome, Italy, which adds a further dimension of exchange, expansion and integration to its profile.
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.
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.
Das entwendete Meisterwerk. Bilder als Zeitmaschinen. Exhibition, Gemäldegalerie, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, 08.04.–29.01.2022
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
Hilger Next
+431/512 53 15
Hilger Next is a space for young contemporary art and is used for projects such as exhibitions by academy classes.
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.
hinterland, ©Jakob Lindner
A condemned office building turns into the exhibition venue for the VIENNA ART WEEK and becomes a unique creative experimental space. On three floors and a total of 1,000 m2 , around 40 national and international artists and performers question existing orders, canons and systems and invite us to challenge our own preconceived opinions and concepts.
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
k48 – Offensive für zeitgenössische Wahrnehmung
Kirchengasse 48/Lokal 2, 1070 Wien
+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
KÖNIG WIEN
Friedrichstraße 7, 1010 Wien
KLEINES HAUS DER KUNST
In May 2015, KÖNIG GALERIE took up St. Agnes, a monumental former Brutalist church built in the 1960s. In April 2021, the gallery branch KÖNIG SEOUL opened in the South Korean capital, followed by KÖNIG WIEN in October 2021.
The gallery has successfully placed works in various private and public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Guggenheim Foundation. The artists represented have solo exhibitions with institutions worldwide and regularly partake in prestigious group exhibitions, such as Documenta and the biennials in Venice, Berlin, New York, and others. They have been awarded many significant prizes, commissions, and outdoor projects.
KRINZINGER SCHOTTENFELD
Schottenfeldgasse 45, 1070 Wien, Österreich
+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.
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
Kunst im öffentlichen Raum GmbH (KÖR)
Hörnesgasse 2/1, 1030 Wien
+43 1 361 01 99-0
The task of KÖR is to (re)animate the public space of the city of Vienna as a place of socio-political and cultural debate by means of permanent and temporary artistic projects. In this way, the identity of the city and individual neighborhoods is to be strengthened. KÖR understands art in public space not as decoration, but as an offer for debate and as a symbolic marking of previously culturally abstinent territories.
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
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
Built by Karl Hasenauer and Gottfried von Semper between 1871 and 1891, the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien ranks among the most renowned museums in the world. Its magnificent architecture provides a worthy setting for collections the Habsburgs built over centuries. These encompass objects from five millennia, i.e. from the time of Ancient Egypt to the end of the 18th century.
© KHM-Museumsverband
The Vienna Künstlerhaus, Association of Austrian Artists, is an autonomous, non-profit artists’ association. It has been engaging visitors with an open, discursive, and interdisciplinary program of exhibitions and events since its founding in 1861.
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
© Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Foto: eSeL.at – Joanna Pianka
Andreas Perkmann Berger and Rainer Stadlbauer have been running the art space SUPER in Schönbrunnerstraße since 2013. In addition to their own studio and a workshop, there is an exhibition and project space in which a wide variety of artistic experiments are established.
KUNSTZELLE
Museumsquartier Wien, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien, Vorplatz vor dem Eingang zu den Q21 Schauräumen rechts vom Haupteingang
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
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
The largest museum for modern and contemporary art in Central Europe houses an exceptional collection with major works ranging from Classical Modernism, Pop Art, Minimal Art, Conceptual Art, Viennese Actionism to contemporary art. The exhibition program includes monographic as well as thematic projects and offers, in addition to modern and neo-avant-garde, especially contemporary artists a forum.
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
OpenCave
Kaisermühlenstraße 14, 1220 Wien
+43 670 400 09 07
OpenCave consists of a basement studio and a showroom (offCave) on the ground floor, which can be viewed 24/7. Our goal is to promote contemporary art in a non-artistic environment, which we realize in the form of individual and group exhibitions, as well as screenings and ArtCrits.
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.
Projektraum Viktor Bucher
Praterstraße 13/1/2, 1020 Wien
+43 676 561 988 0
“I see myself as a kind of “talent scout” and my mission since the founding of the projektraum (project room) more than 20 years ago is to filter out some “outstanding artistic positions with impact and quality” from a multitude of possibilities and to install them in an international environment position. Artists such as JULIE HAYWARD, MARLENE HAUSEGGER, CANAN DAGDELEN, ALFREDO BARSUGLIA, ALDO GIANNOTTI, MICHAEL SCHRATTENTHALER, HADRIEN DUSSOIX or MICHAIL MICHAILOV have also gained international success.
Right from the start I made a conscious decision to use the term “projektraum” (project room) and not gallery, as this term allows me more opportunities in the selection of artistic positions.”
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
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
Sammlung Friedrichshof Stadtraum
Schleifmühlgasse 6 / im Hof, 1040 Wien
+ 43 0664 918 37 80
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
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.
SOHO Studios
Sandleiten Hof, Liebknechtgasse 32, 1160 Wien
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, www.josephine-riemann.com, www.georgeye.com
STRABAG Kunstforum
Donau-City-Straße 9, 1220 Wien
+43 1 224 22 18 48
The STRABAG Artlounge presents itself as an exciting and interesting two-storey exhibition space. In contrast to the usual, sterile white cube, the Artlounge offers a wonderful panoramic view of the whole of Vienna thanks to its glass façade. Artists and their artworks correspond and act with the environment, but also have to assert themselves against it.
Julia Steiner, Days and Spaces, 2017, Foto: Rudi Froese Photography
Since 2013, studio das weisse haus has offered studios for Vienna-based artists as well as a residency program for international artists, curators, theorists, and critics.
Founded in 1974, SUPPAN is an internationally active art gallery with three locations in Vienna, representing a selection of international contemporary and modern artists as well as artists’ estates. The exhibition programme includes solo exhibitions and major retrospectives as well as curated thematic group exhibitions with the aim of establishing a dialogue between emerging and established contemporary positions with selected masters of the 20th century. Since its founding year, the gallery has organised over 200 exhibitions and, with its in-house publishing house SUPPAN EDITION, over 50 publications have appeared, including catalogues, monographs and art-historically compiled books.
Copyright Kunst-Dokumentation.com / SUPPAN Wien
Only partially barrier-free.
Copyright Kunst-Dokumentation.com / SUPPAN Wien
tart.vienna
Seilerstätte 7, 1010 Wien
+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.
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
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 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
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.
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.