Exhibitions
in Vienna
Exhibitions
in Vienna
A MONTHLY OVERVIEW
EXHIBITIONS IN VIENNA
As promised, you will now receive detailed information on the events taking place each month!
Simply click on the desired month and you will receive the desired information on exhibitions, festivals and other activities!
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Who writes and tests the exhibitions for you?
We are Céline & Susi, and we are testing the exhibitions in Vienna for you!
Céline is always busy picking out the highlights of the months for you, and we both go to the museums and visit the exhibitions! And of course, we love doing that 🙂
So have fun browsing and visiting!
Exhibition tip October
Marina Abramović
From 10 October you can see the contemporary artist Marina Abramović. Marina is a Serbian performance and conceptual artist, considered one of the most important representatives of performance art and body art, and is currently arguably the most famous performance artist in the world. And you can see her work in Vienna this year.
The exhibition was initially planned for the Kunstforum Wien, but was then moved to the Albertina Modern.
October 10, 2025, to March 1, 2026
In collaboration with the Kunstforum Wien and the Royal Academy of Arts, London
We already visited the exhibition!
October 2025
Top 3 Exhibitions
Marxhalle
The Legend of the Titanic (Immersive Exhibition)
1 October 2025 to 6 January 2026
What awaits you?
Experience the Titanic like never before – with 360º projections, interactive stories, and virtual reality. Join the Callaghan family on their journey, marvel at the legendary rooms, and immerse yourself in the Titanic’s final moments – emotional, impressive, and technically state-of-the-art.
I visited the Titanic exhibition in Barcelona (with my children). Tickets are sold through the same provider, but I can’t say at this point whether it will be exactly the same exhibition. We’ll stay tuned!
Albertina Modern
Marina Abramović
October 10, 2025, to March 1, 2026
In collaboration with Kunstforum Wien and the Royal Academy of Arts, London
What can you expect?
The exhibition at the Albertina Modern showcases the work of performance artist Marina Abramović and provides an overview of her most important works. You can relive well-known performances and see how her art has evolved over the years. The show provides an in-depth understanding of how Abramović engages body, mind, and audience in her work.
Tickets on sale now!
Special exhibition tickets from 10 October 2025!
Lower Belvedere:
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt: More than Character Heads
31 October 2025 to 6 April 2026
One of my favorite sculptors. The character heads are so unique – you have to see them. There was already an exhibition about Messerschmidt at the Upper Belvedere in 2022, and of course I was there. Here’s my report!
other exhibitions
in October
Albertina
Gothic Modern: Munch, Beckmann, Kollwitz
until 11 January 2026
What can you expect?
The exhibition sheds light on how key modern artists – including Edvard Munch, Max Beckmann and Käthe Kollwitz – were inspired by the dark, spiritual and existential themes of Gothic art. Their works combine medieval symbolism with the fears and hopes of modernity and impressively show how Gothic imagery found a new form of expression in the 20th century.
Jitka Hanzlová
until 26 October 2025
Brigitte Kowanz: Light is what you see
until 9 November 2025
The Viennese Bohème: Works of the Hagen Society
until 12 October 2025
Lisette Model: Retrospective
30 October 2025 to 22 February 2026
Albertina Modern
Marina Abramović
10 October 2025 to 1 March 2026
In collaboration with Kunstforum Wien and the Royal Academy of Arts, London
What can you expect?
The exhibition at the Albertina Modern showcases the work of performance artist Marina Abramović and provides an overview of her most important works. You can relive well-known performances and see how her art has evolved over the years. The show provides an in-depth understanding of how Abramović engages body, mind, and audience in her work.
Tickets on sale now!
Special exhibition tickets from 10 October 2025!
Damien Hirst: Drawings
Until 8 October 2025
Architekturzentrum Wien
Wealth instead of capital. Anupama Kundoo
until 16 February 2026
Belvedere 21
Ashley Hans Scheirl
until 1 February 2026
Wotruba international
until 11 January 2026
Civa – Contemporary Immersive Virtual Art
2 October 2025 to 22 February 2026
Dommuseum Wien
Everything in Progress
until August 30, 2026
What can you expect?
The exhibition at the Dom Museum Vienna is dedicated to the complex topic of “work” – as a social necessity, a personal question of meaning, and a political challenge. Works from the Middle Ages to the present day are on display, revealing different forms of work – from physical and creative to invisible, unpaid, or refused work. Drawing on historical and contemporary perspectives, the show illuminates how work structures our lives, shapes identity, and is continually renegotiated.
Tickets for the Dommuseum – The exhibition should be included in the ticket.
Tickets Dommuseum + Stephansdom
Foto Arsenal Wien
Science/Fiction – A Non-History of Plants
4. Oktober bis 18. Januar 2026
Where: Arsenalplatz, Objekt 19, Arsenal
Furniture Museum Vienna
Josef Frank and the others. New furniture 1920-1940
until 11 January 2026
Haus der Geschichte Wien (House of History Vienna)
It transmits! Austria between propaganda and protest
Until 6 January 2026
Alma Rosé Plateau
Liberation 1945 – An open end, a fragile future
Until 6 January 2026
Main exhibition + Alma Rosé Plateau
Heidi Horten Collection
The line
until 8 March 2026
What can you expect?
The exhibition is dedicated to the line as an elementary form of expression in art. On display are works from classical modernism to the present day (Paul Klee, Fontana, Basquiat, etc.) that utilise the line as a structure, gesture or concept – sometimes strictly geometric, sometimes spontaneous and free. The show invites visitors to rediscover the versatility and power of the line in the visual arts.
Vienna, Vienna only you alone: Wigand – Alt – Oláh
Until 15 October 2025
Photographs by Ouriel Morgensztern
21 October 2025 to March 2026
Immersium: Wien
Animal Planet – The Immersive Exhibition
A fascinating show for all ages, with adventure and nature to immerse yourself in. It’s not just about the immersive experience; the show is also exciting and educational! Experience the world of animals in a completely different way!
Extended until 2 November 2025
Jewish Museum Vienna
Tell me where the flowers are… 80 years after the war – photographs by Roger Cremers
Until 18 January 2026 (the Anselm Kiefer exhibition in Amsterdam had the same name!)
130 years of JMW
Until 31 December 2025
Black Jews, White Jews? On Skin Color and Prejudice
22 October 2025 to 26 April 2026
KHM (Vienna Art Museum)
Pieter Claesz: Still Life
until 15 March 2026
What can you expect?
The exhibition highlights the work of the Dutch master of the Golden Age. Claesz is considered one of the most important representatives of still life – his paintings are characterised by sophisticated lighting, subtle colour nuances and symbolic details. The show presents selected works that sharpen our view of transience, pleasure and the art of the everyday.
Buy Tickets for the permanent museum & still life exhibition
Michaelina Wautier, female painter
until 22 February 2026
Special tickets for this exhibition via the official website!
News in Brief from the Ancient World
until 25 January 2026
Splendour & embossing: The emperors and their court artists
In the Coin Cabinet: until 23 October 2025
Buy Tickets for the permanent museum & still life exhibition
Kunsthalle Vienna
Ibrahim Mahama
until 2 November 2025
In the MuseumsQuartier
Burn The Diaries, Read Them Out Loud
until 19 October 2025
At the Karlsplatz
Guan Xiao
8 October 2025 to 6 January 2026
Kunst Haus Wien – Hundertwasser House
FUZZY EARTH – Your gut knows before your brain
16 October 2025 to 25 January 2026
Julius von Bismarck
until 8 March 2026
Leopold Museum
Hidden Modernity: Fascination with the Occult around 1900
until 18 January 2026
What can you expect?
For the first time in Vienna, the exhibition sheds light on the spiritual and esoteric currents around 1900 that had a lasting impact on art and society. Artists such as Munch, Gerstl and Schiele sought new forms of expression beyond materialism in symbolism, theosophy and spiritualism. Psychology, Far Eastern influences and the quest for the ‘new man’ also played a central role. The exhibition shows how closely modernism and magic were linked – with a critical look at utopias of the past and present.
KOWANZ. ORTNER. SCHLEGEL
10 October 2025 to 11 January 2026
Lower Belvedere
Cézanne, Monet, Renoir: French Impressionism from the Museum Langmatt
until 8 February 2026
What can you expect?
The exhibition at the Belvedere presents highlights from the Villa Langmatt collection – one of the earliest private collections of French Impressionists in Switzerland. Jenny and Sidney Brown began collecting works by artists such as Gauguin, Monet, Cézanne and especially Renoir in 1907. Their collection is an expression of their personal passion for art, but also symbolises the modern self-image of the Swiss upper middle classes.
Other Exhibitions at the Lower Belvedere:
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt: More than Character Heads
31 October 2025 to 6 April 2026
One of my favorite sculptors. The character heads are so unique – you have to see them. There was already an exhibition about Messerschmidt at the Upper Belvedere in 2022, and of course I was there. Here’s my report!
Radical! Women artists* and modernism 1910-1950
until 12 October 2025
What can you expect?
The Radikal! exhibition brings together over 60 female artists from more than 20 countries who sought new ways of depicting modern life. Their works show how actively they helped to shape social change and responded to the challenges of their time.
MAK
JOHANN STRAUSS: Intoxication and ecstasy
Feminist expressive dance in posters 1900-1933
until 2 November 2025
HITO STEYERL: The bullet flew in one ear and out the other for humanity
Until 11 January 2026
MAK FILM FORUM: Valentina Triet, Josef Dabernig
until 22 March 2026
BICYCLE AND LOBSTER: Sparkling tree decorations from Gablonz
until 1 February 2026
TURNING PAGES: Contemporary Artists’ Books
until March 22, 2026
Marxhalle
The Legend of the Titanic (Immersive Exhibition)
1 October 2025 to 6 January 2026
What awaits you?
Experience the Titanic like never before – with 360º projections, interactive stories, and virtual reality. Join the Callaghan family on their journey, marvel at the legendary rooms, and immerse yourself in the Titanic’s final moments – emotional, impressive, and technically state-of-the-art.
I visited the Titanic exhibition in Barcelona (with my children). Tickets are sold through the same provider, but I can’t say at this point whether it will be exactly the same exhibition. We’ll stay tuned!
mumok
Tobias Pils: Shh
until 12 April 2026
What can you expect?
The exhibition presents new works by the Austrian artist that oscillate between abstraction and figuration. In large-format drawings and paintings, Pils explores the tension between intuition and structure – often in black and white colours, with dense, almost meditative imagery. The exhibition invites visitors to immerse themselves in a quiet, ambiguous visual language.
The world of tomorrow will have been another present
Until 6 April 2026
What can you expect?
The exhibition presents five large-scale installations by Nikita Kadan, Barbara Kapusta, Frida Orupabo, Lisl Ponger and Anita Witek. Each of these artists engages with works of classical modernism from the mumok collection and enters into an exciting dialogue with them. The show combines contemporary perspectives with art historical references, thus creating new interpretations and contexts. With further works by Alberto Giacometti, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Fernand Léger, René Magritte, Man Ray and many others.
Mapping the 60s: Art Stories from the mumok Collections
Until 1 February 2026
Jongsuk Yoon: Kumgangsan
from 7 June 2025
Kazuna Taguchi: I’ll never ask you
until 16 November 2025
Natural History Museum Vienna
Safe sex: the comeback of sexually transmitted diseases
Exhibition in the Narrenturm
until 18 April 2026
Released – shipped: 500 years of collecting and exhibiting rhinos
until 5 January 2026
Two views on plants. 3D-Fotos by Sebastian Cramer
until 1 March 2026
Stadthalle Wien
Salvador Dalí – Dalí the Limitless
until 12 October 2025
Studio F
Technical Museum Vienna
More than Recycling
from June 2025
Innovation Corner: Circular economy
A museum stage for pioneering innovations from Austria
No end date known
Upper Belvedere
IN VIEW: Gustav Klimt: The Bride
Until 5 October 2025
CARLONE CONTEMPORARY: Sarah Ortmeyer
Until 19 October 2025
Vienna Museum
Leopold Kessler: Works in public space
until 25 January 2026
More than a newspaper. 30 years of Augustin
until 23 November 2025
Cellar stories: a mysterious Roman building at the farmers’ market
until 30 May 2027
In the Roman Museum
Meat
October 2, 2025, to February 22, 2026
Society and Economy
October 30, 2025, to January 25, 2026
Vienna. My history.
The new presentation of the Wien Museum on Karlsplatz
Location: Karlsplatz
World museum Wien
Colonialism on the windowsill
until 25 May 2026
Who wears the trousers?
Until 1 February 2026
Shannon Alonzo: Washerwoman
Until 5 October 2025
at the Theseus Temple
Tabita Rezaire
Calabash Nebula: Cosmological Tales of Connection
until 11 Januar 2026
Wiener Secession (Viennese Secession)
June Crespo
until 16 November 2025
JohnS mith
until 16 November 2025
Atelier Bow-Wow
until 16 November 2025
the somewhat different museum
IKONO Vienna
After Barcelona, Madrid and Rome, we can now also visit IKONO in Vienna!
It’s a world of light, music and art constellations that will inspire you.
It’s all about having fun and taking the best photo for social media!
So pack your fully charged mobile phone and dive into this world!
Also suitable for families with children aged 5 and over!
Top combination!
3 museums with one purchase
With the museum ticket from Tiqets you can combine three museums and save up to EUR 7.90!
Combine
the KHM or the Leopold Museum with
the Albertina or the Upper Belvedere and with the
the Heidi Horten Collection, the Theatre Museum, the Imperial Treasury (surcharge) or the MAK (surcharge).
If you combine the KHM, Albertina and the Heidi Horten Collection, you can save 7.90 euros!
November 2025
Top 3 Exhibitions
Heidi Horten Collection
The line
until 8 March 2026
What can you expect?
The exhibition is dedicated to the line as an elementary form of expression in art. On display are works from classical modernism to the present day (Paul Klee, Fontana, Basquiat, etc.) that utilise the line as a structure, gesture or concept – sometimes strictly geometric, sometimes spontaneous and free. The show invites visitors to rediscover the versatility and power of the line in the visual arts.
Albertina Modern
Marina Abramović
until March 1, 2026
In collaboration with Kunstforum Wien and the Royal Academy of Arts, London
What can you expect?
The exhibition at the Albertina Modern showcases the work of performance artist Marina Abramović and provides an overview of her most important works. You can relive well-known performances and see how her art has evolved over the years. The show provides an in-depth understanding of how Abramović engages body, mind, and audience in her work.
We have been there! More about the exhibition
Leopold Museum
Hidden Modernity: Fascination with the Occult around 1900
until 18 January 2026
What can you expect?
For the first time in Vienna, the exhibition sheds light on the spiritual and esoteric currents around 1900 that had a lasting impact on art and society. Artists such as Munch, Gerstl and Schiele sought new forms of expression beyond materialism in symbolism, theosophy and spiritualism. Psychology, Far Eastern influences and the quest for the ‘new man’ also played a central role. The exhibition shows how closely modernism and magic were linked – with a critical look at utopias of the past and present.
other exhibitions
in November
Albertina
Gothic Modern: Munch, Beckmann, Kollwitz
until 11 January 2026
What can you expect?
The exhibition sheds light on how key modern artists – including Edvard Munch, Max Beckmann and Käthe Kollwitz – were inspired by the dark, spiritual and existential themes of Gothic art. Their works combine medieval symbolism with the fears and hopes of modernity and impressively show how Gothic imagery found a new form of expression in the 20th century.
Brigitte Kowanz: Light is what you see
until 9 November 2025
Lisette Model: Retrospective
until 22 February 2026
Leiko Ikemura: Motherscapes
14 November 2025 to 6 April 2026
Albertina Modern
Marina Abramović
until March 1, 2026
In collaboration with Kunstforum Wien and the Royal Academy of Arts, London
What can you expect?
The exhibition at the Albertina Modern showcases the work of performance artist Marina Abramović and provides an overview of her most important works. You can relive well-known performances and see how her art has evolved over the years. The show provides an in-depth understanding of how Abramović engages body, mind, and audience in her work.
We have been there! More about the exhibition
Architekturzentrum Wien
Wealth instead of capital. Anupama Kundoo
until 16 February 2026
Belvedere 21
Ashley Hans Scheirl
until 1 February 2026
Wotruba international
until 11 January 2026
Civa – Contemporary Immersive Virtual Art
2 October 2025 to 22 February 2026
Dommuseum Wien
Everything in Progress
until August 30, 2026
What can you expect?
The exhibition at the Dom Museum Vienna is dedicated to the complex topic of “work” – as a social necessity, a personal question of meaning, and a political challenge. Works from the Middle Ages to the present day are on display, revealing different forms of work – from physical and creative to invisible, unpaid, or refused work. Drawing on historical and contemporary perspectives, the show illuminates how work structures our lives, shapes identity, and is continually renegotiated.
Tickets for the Dommuseum – The exhibition should be included in the ticket.
Tickets Dommuseum + Stephansdom
Foto Arsenal Wien
Science/Fiction – A Non-History of Plants
until 18. Januar 2026
Where: Arsenalplatz, Objekt 19, Arsenal
Furniture Museum Vienna
Josef Frank and the others. New furniture 1920-1940
until 11 January 2026
„ALLES POLKA“ – 20 years POLKA Designstudio
bis 11 January 2026
Haus der Geschichte Wien (House of History Vienna)
It transmits! Austria between propaganda and protest
Until 6 January 2026
Alma Rosé Plateau
Liberation 1945 – An open end, a fragile future
Until 6 January 2026
Main exhibition + Alma Rosé Plateau
Heidi Horten Collection
The line
until 8 March 2026
What can you expect?
The exhibition is dedicated to the line as an elementary form of expression in art. On display are works from classical modernism to the present day (Paul Klee, Fontana, Basquiat, etc.) that utilise the line as a structure, gesture or concept – sometimes strictly geometric, sometimes spontaneous and free. The show invites visitors to rediscover the versatility and power of the line in the visual arts.
Photographs by Ouriel Morgensztern
until March 2026
X-MAS SERIES: Merry Christmas Number 2
26 November 2025 to 2 February 2026
Immersium: Wien
Animal Planet – The Immersive Exhibition
A fascinating show for all ages, with adventure and nature to immerse yourself in. It’s not just about the immersive experience; the show is also exciting and educational! Experience the world of animals in a completely different way!
Extended until 2 November 2025
Jewish Museum Vienna
Tell me where the flowers are… 80 years after the war – photographs by Roger Cremers
Until 18 January 2026 (the Anselm Kiefer exhibition in Amsterdam had the same name!)
130 years of JMW
Until 31 December 2025
Black Jews, White Jews? On Skin Color and Prejudice
until 26 April 2026
Secret Imperial Matter ‘Johann Strauss’
until 16 January 2026
Museum Dorotheergasse
KHM (Vienna Art Museum)
Pieter Claesz: Still Life
until 15 March 2026
What can you expect?
The exhibition highlights the work of the Dutch master of the Golden Age. Claesz is considered one of the most important representatives of still life – his paintings are characterised by sophisticated lighting, subtle colour nuances and symbolic details. The show presents selected works that sharpen our view of transience, pleasure and the art of the everyday.
Buy Tickets for the permanent museum & still life exhibition
Michaelina Wautier, female painter
until 22 February 2026
Special tickets for this exhibition via the official website!
News in Brief from the Ancient World
until 25 January 2026
Head & Collar. Coins Make Fashion
11 November 2025 to 6 September 2026
Extra display case: Delicately engraved, briskly painted, well hidden
Inscriptions on Greek vases
until 1 March 2026
Oliver Laric. Threshold Creatures
6 November 2025 to 15 February 2026
Buy Tickets for the permanent museum & still life exhibition
Kunsthalle Vienna
Ibrahim Mahama
until 2 November 2025
At the MuseumsQuartier
Richard Hawkins
27 November 2025 to 5 April 2026
Guan Xiao
until 6 January 2026
Sophie von Hellermann: Get Your Head Around It
until 29 March 2026
Kunst Haus Wien – Hundertwasser House
FUZZY EARTH – Your gut knows before your brain
until 25 January 2026
Julius von Bismarck
until 8 March 2026
Leopold Museum
Hidden Modernity: Fascination with the Occult around 1900
until 18 January 2026
What can you expect?
For the first time in Vienna, the exhibition sheds light on the spiritual and esoteric currents around 1900 that had a lasting impact on art and society. Artists such as Munch, Gerstl and Schiele sought new forms of expression beyond materialism in symbolism, theosophy and spiritualism. Psychology, Far Eastern influences and the quest for the ‘new man’ also played a central role. The exhibition shows how closely modernism and magic were linked – with a critical look at utopias of the past and present.
KOWANZ. ORTNER. SCHLEGEL
until 11 January 2026
Lower Belvedere
Cézanne, Monet, Renoir: French Impressionism from the Museum Langmatt
until 8 February 2026
What can you expect?
The exhibition at the Belvedere presents highlights from the Villa Langmatt collection – one of the earliest private collections of French Impressionists in Switzerland. Jenny and Sidney Brown began collecting works by artists such as Gauguin, Monet, Cézanne and especially Renoir in 1907. Their collection is an expression of their personal passion for art, but also symbolises the modern self-image of the Swiss upper middle classes.
Other Exhibitions at the Lower Belvedere:
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt: More than Character Heads
until 6 April 2026
One of my favorite sculptors. The character heads are so unique – you have to see them. There was already an exhibition about Messerschmidt at the Upper Belvedere in 2022, and of course I was there. Here’s my report!
MAK
JOHANN STRAUSS: Intoxication and ecstasy
Feminist expressive dance in posters 1900-1933
until 2 November 2025
HITO STEYERL: The bullet flew in one ear and out the other for humanity
Until 11 January 2026
MAK FILM FORUM: Valentina Triet, Josef Dabernig
until 22 March 2026
BICYCLE AND LOBSTER: Sparkling tree decorations from Gablonz
until 1 February 2026
TURNING PAGES: Contemporary Artists’ Books
until 22 March 2026
100 BEST POSTERS 24: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
12 November 2025 to 12 April 2026
Marxhalle
The Legend of the Titanic (Immersive Exhibition)
until 6 January 2026
What awaits you?
Experience the Titanic like never before – with 360º projections, interactive stories, and virtual reality. Join the Callaghan family on their journey, marvel at the legendary rooms, and immerse yourself in the Titanic’s final moments – emotional, impressive, and technically state-of-the-art.
I visited the Titanic exhibition in Barcelona (with my children). Tickets are sold through the same provider, but I can’t say at this point whether it will be exactly the same exhibition. We’ll stay tuned!
mumok
Never Final! The Museum in Transition
until 12 April 2026
What can you expect?
“Never final” – this phrase, coined by Hertha Firnberg, continues to define mumok as a dynamic place of change. The exhibition focuses primarily on one date: 26 April 1979. This marks a milestone for today’s mumok: the expansion of the collections of the former 20er Haus through extensive and art-historically significant permanent loans from Peter and Irene Ludwig of Aachen.
Tobias Pils: Shh
until 12 April 2026
What can you expect?
The exhibition presents new works by the Austrian artist that oscillate between abstraction and figuration. In large-format drawings and paintings, Pils explores the tension between intuition and structure – often in black and white colours, with dense, almost meditative imagery. The exhibition invites visitors to immerse themselves in a quiet, ambiguous visual language.
The world of tomorrow will have been another present
Until 6 April 2026
What can you expect?
The exhibition presents five large-scale installations by Nikita Kadan, Barbara Kapusta, Frida Orupabo, Lisl Ponger and Anita Witek. Each of these artists engages with works of classical modernism from the mumok collection and enters into an exciting dialogue with them. The show combines contemporary perspectives with art historical references, thus creating new interpretations and contexts. With further works by Alberto Giacometti, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Fernand Léger, René Magritte, Man Ray and many others.
Mapping the 60s: Art Stories from the mumok Collections
Until 1 February 2026
Jongsuk Yoon: Kumgangsan
since 7 June 2025
Kazuna Taguchi: I’ll never ask you
until 16 November 2025
Natural History Museum Vienna
Safe sex: the comeback of sexually transmitted diseases
Exhibition in the Narrenturm
until 18 April 2026
Released – shipped: 500 years of collecting and exhibiting rhinos
until 5 January 2026
Two views on plants. 3D-Fotos by Sebastian Cramer
until 1 March 2026
Stadthalle Wien
Body Worlds – At the cutting edge
21 November 2025 to 22 March 2026
Technical Museum Vienna
More than Recycling
from June 2025
Innovation Corner: Circular economy
A museum stage for pioneering innovations from Austria
No end date known
Upper Belvedere
Carlone contemporary: Elmar Trenkwalder
6 November 2025 to 14 March 2026
Vienna Museum
Leopold Kessler: Works in public space
until 25 January 2026
More than a newspaper. 30 years of Augustin
until 23 November 2025
Cellar stories: a mysterious Roman building at the farmers’ market
until 30 May 2027
In the Roman Museum
Knowledge for all: Isotype – The visual language from Vienna
6 November 2025 to 5 April 2026
Meat
until 22 February 2026
Society and Economy
until 25 January 2026
Vienna. My history.
The new presentation of the Wien Museum on Karlsplatz
Location: Karlsplatz
World museum Wien
Colonialism on the windowsill
until 25 May 2026
Who wears the trousers?
Until 1 February 2026
Tabita Rezaire
Calabash Nebula: Cosmological Tales of Connection
until 11 Januar 2026
The Colours of the Earth: Modern Textile Art in Mexico
until 6 April 2026
Indah Arsyad: The Ultimate Breath
26 November 2025 to 25 May 2026
Wiener Secession (Viennese Secession)
June Crespo
until 16 November 2025
JohnS mith
until 16 November 2025
Atelier Bow-Wow
until 16 November 2025
Duane Linklater
29 November 2025 to 15 February 2026
Mimi Ọnụọha
29 November 2025 to 22 February 2026
Cevdet Erek
29 November 2025 to 22 February 2026
Top 3 Exhibitions
December 2025
KHM (Vienna Art Museum)
Michaelina Wautier, female painter
until 22 February 2026
Special tickets for this exhibition via the official website!
Lower Belvedere
Cézanne, Monet, Renoir: French Impressionism from the Museum Langmatt
until 8 February 2026
What can you expect?
The exhibition at the Belvedere presents highlights from the Villa Langmatt collection – one of the earliest private collections of French Impressionists in Switzerland. Jenny and Sidney Brown began collecting works by artists such as Gauguin, Monet, Cézanne and especially Renoir in 1907. Their collection is an expression of their personal passion for art, but also symbolises the modern self-image of the Swiss upper middle classes.
Albertina Modern
Marina Abramović
until 1 March 2026
In collaboration with Kunstforum Wien and the Royal Academy of Arts, London
What can you expect?
The exhibition at the Albertina Modern showcases the work of performance artist Marina Abramović and provides an overview of her most important works. You can relive well-known performances and see how her art has evolved over the years. The show provides an in-depth understanding of how Abramović engages body, mind, and audience in her work.
other exhibitions
in December
Albertina
Gothic Modern: Munch, Beckmann, Kollwitz
until 11 January 2026
What can you expect?
The exhibition sheds light on how key modern artists – including Edvard Munch, Max Beckmann and Käthe Kollwitz – were inspired by the dark, spiritual and existential themes of Gothic art. Their works combine medieval symbolism with the fears and hopes of modernity and impressively show how Gothic imagery found a new form of expression in the 20th century.
Lisette Model: Retrospective
until 22 February 2026
Leiko Ikemura: Motherscapes
until 6 April 2026
Fascination with Paper: From Titian to Kiefer
11 December 2025 to 22 March 2026
Albertina Modern
Marina Abramović
until 1 March 2026
In collaboration with Kunstforum Wien and the Royal Academy of Arts, London
What can you expect?
The exhibition at the Albertina Modern showcases the work of performance artist Marina Abramović and provides an overview of her most important works. You can relive well-known performances and see how her art has evolved over the years. The show provides an in-depth understanding of how Abramović engages body, mind, and audience in her work.
We have been there! More about the exhibition
Architekturzentrum Wien
Wealth instead of capital. Anupama Kundoo
until 16 February 2026
Belvedere 21
Ashley Hans Scheirl
until 1 February 2026
Wotruba international
until 11 January 2026
Civa – Contemporary Immersive Virtual Art
until 22 February 2026
Dommuseum Wien
Everything in Progress
until 30 August 2026
What can you expect?
The exhibition at the Dom Museum Vienna is dedicated to the complex topic of “work” – as a social necessity, a personal question of meaning, and a political challenge. Works from the Middle Ages to the present day are on display, revealing different forms of work – from physical and creative to invisible, unpaid, or refused work. Drawing on historical and contemporary perspectives, the show illuminates how work structures our lives, shapes identity, and is continually renegotiated.
Tickets for the Dommuseum – The exhibition should be included in the ticket.
Tickets Dommuseum + Stephansdom
Foto Arsenal Wien
Science/Fiction – A Non-History of Plants
until 18. Januar 2026
Where: Arsenalplatz, Objekt 19, Arsenal
Furniture Museum Vienna
Josef Frank and the others. New furniture 1920-1940
until 11 January 2026
„ALLES POLKA“ – 20 years POLKA Designstudio
bis 11 January 2026
Haus der Geschichte Wien (House of History Vienna)
It transmits! Austria between propaganda and protest
Until 6 January 2026
Alma Rosé Plateau
Liberation 1945 – An open end, a fragile future
Until 6 January 2026
Main exhibition + Alma Rosé Plateau
Heidi Horten Collection
The line
until 8 March 2026
What can you expect?
The exhibition is dedicated to the line as an elementary form of expression in art. On display are works from classical modernism to the present day (Paul Klee, Fontana, Basquiat, etc.) that utilise the line as a structure, gesture or concept – sometimes strictly geometric, sometimes spontaneous and free. The show invites visitors to rediscover the versatility and power of the line in the visual arts.
Photographs by Ouriel Morgensztern
until March 2026
X-MAS SERIES: Merry Christmas Number 2
until 2 February 2026
Jewish Museum Vienna
Black Jews, White Jews? On Skin Color and Prejudice
until 26 April 2026
Tell me where the flowers are… 80 years after the war – photographs by Roger Cremers
Until 18 January 2026 (the Anselm Kiefer exhibition in Amsterdam had the same name!)
130 years of JMW
Until 31 December 2025
Secret Imperial Matter ‘Johann Strauss’
until 16 January 2026
Museum Dorotheergasse
KHM (Vienna Art Museum)
Pieter Claesz: Still Life
until 15 March 2026
What can you expect?
The exhibition highlights the work of the Dutch master of the Golden Age. Claesz is considered one of the most important representatives of still life – his paintings are characterised by sophisticated lighting, subtle colour nuances and symbolic details. The show presents selected works that sharpen our view of transience, pleasure and the art of the everyday.
Buy Tickets for the permanent museum & still life exhibition
Michaelina Wautier, female painter
until 22 February 2026
Special tickets for this exhibition via the official website!
News in Brief from the Ancient World
until 25 January 2026
Head & Collar. Coins Make Fashion
until 6 September 2026
Extra display case: Delicately engraved, briskly painted, well hidden
Inscriptions on Greek vases
until 1 March 2026
Oliver Laric. Threshold Creatures
until 15 February 2026
Buy Tickets for the permanent museum & still life exhibition
Kunsthalle Vienna
Richard Hawkins
until 5 April 2026
Guan Xiao
until 6 January 2026
Sophie von Hellermann: Get Your Head Around It
until 29 March 2026
Kunst Haus Wien – Hundertwasser House
FUZZY EARTH – Your gut knows before your brain
until 25 January 2026
Julius von Bismarck
until 8 March 2026
Leopold Museum
Hidden Modernity: Fascination with the Occult around 1900
until 18 January 2026
What can you expect?
For the first time in Vienna, the exhibition sheds light on the spiritual and esoteric currents around 1900 that had a lasting impact on art and society. Artists such as Munch, Gerstl and Schiele sought new forms of expression beyond materialism in symbolism, theosophy and spiritualism. Psychology, Far Eastern influences and the quest for the ‘new man’ also played a central role. The exhibition shows how closely modernism and magic were linked – with a critical look at utopias of the past and present.
KOWANZ. ORTNER. SCHLEGEL
until 11 January 2026
Lower Belvedere
Cézanne, Monet, Renoir: French Impressionism from the Museum Langmatt
until 8 February 2026
What can you expect?
The exhibition at the Belvedere presents highlights from the Villa Langmatt collection – one of the earliest private collections of French Impressionists in Switzerland. Jenny and Sidney Brown began collecting works by artists such as Gauguin, Monet, Cézanne and especially Renoir in 1907. Their collection is an expression of their personal passion for art, but also symbolises the modern self-image of the Swiss upper middle classes.
Other Exhibitions at the Lower Belvedere:
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt: More than Character Heads
until 6 April 2026
One of my favorite sculptors. The character heads are so unique – you have to see them. There was already an exhibition about Messerschmidt at the Upper Belvedere in 2022, and of course I was there. Here’s my report!
MAK
HELMUT LANG
10 December 2025 to 3 May 2026
HITO STEYERL: The bullet flew in one ear and out the other for humanity
Until 11 January 2026
MAK FILM FORUM: Valentina Triet, Josef Dabernig
until 22 March 2026
BICYCLE AND LOBSTER: Sparkling tree decorations from Gablonz
until 1 February 2026
TURNING PAGES: Contemporary Artists’ Books
until 22 March 2026
100 BEST POSTERS 24: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
until 12 April 2026
Marxhalle
The Legend of the Titanic (Immersive Exhibition)
until 6 January 2026
What awaits you?
Experience the Titanic like never before – with 360º projections, interactive stories, and virtual reality. Join the Callaghan family on their journey, marvel at the legendary rooms, and immerse yourself in the Titanic’s final moments – emotional, impressive, and technically state-of-the-art.
I visited the Titanic exhibition in Barcelona (with my children). Tickets are sold through the same provider, but I can’t say at this point whether it will be exactly the same exhibition. We’ll stay tuned!
mumok
Tobias Pils: Shh
until 12 April 2026
What can you expect?
The exhibition presents new works by the Austrian artist that oscillate between abstraction and figuration. In large-format drawings and paintings, Pils explores the tension between intuition and structure – often in black and white colours, with dense, almost meditative imagery. The exhibition invites visitors to immerse themselves in a quiet, ambiguous visual language.
Never Final! The Museum in Transition
until 12 April 2026
What can you expect?
“Never final” – this phrase, coined by Hertha Firnberg, continues to define mumok as a dynamic place of change. The exhibition focuses primarily on one date: 26 April 1979. This marks a milestone for today’s mumok: the expansion of the collections of the former 20er Haus through extensive and art-historically significant permanent loans from Peter and Irene Ludwig of Aachen.
The world of tomorrow will have been another present
Until 6 April 2026
What can you expect?
The exhibition presents five large-scale installations by Nikita Kadan, Barbara Kapusta, Frida Orupabo, Lisl Ponger and Anita Witek. Each of these artists engages with works of classical modernism from the mumok collection and enters into an exciting dialogue with them. The show combines contemporary perspectives with art historical references, thus creating new interpretations and contexts. With further works by Alberto Giacometti, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Fernand Léger, René Magritte, Man Ray and many others.
Mapping the 60s: Art Stories from the mumok Collections
Until 1 February 2026
Claudia Pagès Rabal: Feudal Holes
4 December 2025 to 31 May 2026
Jongsuk Yoon: Kumgangsan
since 7. June 2025
Natural History Museum Vienna
Safe sex: the comeback of sexually transmitted diseases
Exhibition in the Narrenturm
until 18 April 2026
Released – shipped: 500 years of collecting and exhibiting rhinos
until 5 January 2026
Two views on plants. 3D-Fotos by Sebastian Cramer
until 1 March 2026
Stadthalle Wien
Body Worlds – At the cutting edge
until 22 March 2026
Technical Museum Vienna
More than Recycling
from June 2025
Innovation Corner: Circular economy
A museum stage for pioneering innovations from Austria
No end date known
Upper Belvedere
Carlone contemporary: Elmar Trenkwalder
until 14 March 2026
Vienna Museum
Leopold Kessler: Works in public space
until 25 January 2026
Cellar stories: a mysterious Roman building at the farmers’ market
until 30 May 2027
In the Roman Museum
Knowledge for all: Isotype – The visual language from Vienna
until 5 April 2026
Meat
until 22 February 2026
Society and Economy
until 25 January 2026
Vienna. My history.
The new presentation of the Wien Museum on Karlsplatz
Location: Karlsplatz
World museum Wien
Colonialism on the windowsill
until 25 May 2026
Who wears the trousers?
Until 1 February 2026
Tabita Rezaire
Calabash Nebula: Cosmological Tales of Connection
until 11 Januar 2026
The Colours of the Earth: Modern Textile Art in Mexico
until 6 April 2026
Indah Arsyad: The Ultimate Breath
until 25 May 2026
Wiener Secession (Viennese Secession)
Duane Linklater
until 15 February 2026
Mimi Ọnụọha
until 22 February 2026
Cevdet Erek
until 22 February 2026
Top 3 Exhibitions
January 2026
Albertina
Gothic Modern: Munch, Beckmann, Kollwitz
until 11 January 2026
What can you expect?
The exhibition sheds light on how key modern artists – including Edvard Munch, Max Beckmann and Käthe Kollwitz – were inspired by the dark, spiritual and existential themes of Gothic art. Their works combine medieval symbolism with the fears and hopes of modernity and impressively show how Gothic imagery found a new form of expression in the 20th century.
Heidi Horten Collection
The line
until 8 March 2026
What can you expect?
The exhibition is dedicated to the line as an elementary form of expression in art. On display are works from classical modernism to the present day (Paul Klee, Fontana, Basquiat, etc.) that utilise the line as a structure, gesture or concept – sometimes strictly geometric, sometimes spontaneous and free. The show invites visitors to rediscover the versatility and power of the line in the visual arts.
Leopold Museum
Hidden Modernity: Fascination with the Occult around 1900
until 18 January 2026
What can you expect?
For the first time in Vienna, the exhibition sheds light on the spiritual and esoteric currents around 1900 that had a lasting impact on art and society. Artists such as Munch, Gerstl and Schiele sought new forms of expression beyond materialism in symbolism, theosophy and spiritualism. Psychology, Far Eastern influences and the quest for the ‘new man’ also played a central role. The exhibition shows how closely modernism and magic were linked – with a critical look at utopias of the past and present.
other exhibitions
in January
Albertina
Gothic Modern: Munch, Beckmann, Kollwitz
until 11 January 2026
What can you expect?
The exhibition sheds light on how key modern artists – including Edvard Munch, Max Beckmann and Käthe Kollwitz – were inspired by the dark, spiritual and existential themes of Gothic art. Their works combine medieval symbolism with the fears and hopes of modernity and impressively show how Gothic imagery found a new form of expression in the 20th century.
Lisette Model: Retrospective
until 22 February 2026
Leiko Ikemura: Motherscapes
until 6 April 2026
Fascination with Paper: From Titian to Kiefer
until 22 March 2026
Albertina Modern
Marina Abramović
until 1 March 2026
In collaboration with Kunstforum Wien and the Royal Academy of Arts, London
What can you expect?
The exhibition at the Albertina Modern showcases the work of performance artist Marina Abramović and provides an overview of her most important works. You can relive well-known performances and see how her art has evolved over the years. The show provides an in-depth understanding of how Abramović engages body, mind, and audience in her work.
We have been there! More about the exhibition
Architekturzentrum Wien
Wealth instead of capital. Anupama Kundoo
until 16 February 2026
Belvedere 21
Sandra Mujinga: Skin to Skin
29 January to 31 May 2026
Ashley Hans Scheirl
until 1 February 2026
Wotruba international
until 11 January 2026
Civa – Contemporary Immersive Virtual Art
until 22 February 2026
Dommuseum Wien
Everything in Progress
until 30 August 2026
What can you expect?
The exhibition at the Dom Museum Vienna is dedicated to the complex topic of “work” – as a social necessity, a personal question of meaning, and a political challenge. Works from the Middle Ages to the present day are on display, revealing different forms of work – from physical and creative to invisible, unpaid, or refused work. Drawing on historical and contemporary perspectives, the show illuminates how work structures our lives, shapes identity, and is continually renegotiated.
Tickets for the Dommuseum – The exhibition should be included in the ticket.
Tickets Dommuseum + Stephansdom
Foto Arsenal Wien
Science/Fiction – A Non-History of Plants
until 18. Januar 2026
Daido Moriyama: Retrospective
31 January to 10 May 2026
Where: Arsenalplatz, Objekt 19, Arsenal
Furniture Museum Vienna
Josef Frank and the others. New furniture 1920-1940
until 11 January 2026
„ALLES POLKA“ – 20 years POLKA Designstudio
bis 11 January 2026
Haus der Geschichte Wien (House of History Vienna)
All Work. Women between Gainful Employment and Caregiving, Blaschka Photo Archive 1950–1966
29 January 2026 to 10 January 2027
at the Alma Rosé Plateau
It transmits! Austria between propaganda and protest
Until 6 January 2026
Alma Rosé Plateau
Liberation 1945 – An open end, a fragile future
Until 6 January 2026
Main exhibition + Alma Rosé Plateau
Embroidered. In memory of 67 people who were murdered in Hartheim in 1940
until 10 May 2026
in the foyer
Heidi Horten Collection
The line
until 8 March 2026
What can you expect?
The exhibition is dedicated to the line as an elementary form of expression in art. On display are works from classical modernism to the present day (Paul Klee, Fontana, Basquiat, etc.) that utilise the line as a structure, gesture or concept – sometimes strictly geometric, sometimes spontaneous and free. The show invites visitors to rediscover the versatility and power of the line in the visual arts.
Photographs by Ouriel Morgensztern
until March 2026
X-MAS SERIES: Merry Christmas Number 2
until 2 February 2026
Jewish Museum Vienna
Black Jews, White Jews? On Skin Color and Prejudice
until 26 April 2026
Tell me where the flowers are… 80 years after the war – photographs by Roger Cremers
Until 18 January 2026 (the Anselm Kiefer exhibition in Amsterdam had the same name!)
Secret Imperial Matter ‘Johann Strauss’
until 16 January 2026
Museum Dorotheergasse
KHM (Vienna Art Museum)
Pieter Claesz: Still Life
until 15 March 2026
What can you expect?
The exhibition highlights the work of the Dutch master of the Golden Age. Claesz is considered one of the most important representatives of still life – his paintings are characterised by sophisticated lighting, subtle colour nuances and symbolic details. The show presents selected works that sharpen our view of transience, pleasure and the art of the everyday.
Buy Tickets for the permanent museum & still life exhibition
Michaelina Wautier, female painter
until 22 February 2026
Special tickets for this exhibition via the official website!
News in Brief from the Ancient World
until 25 January 2026
Head & Collar. Coins Make Fashion
until 6 September 2026
Extra display case: Delicately engraved, briskly painted, well hidden
Inscriptions on Greek vases
until 1 March 2026
Oliver Laric. Threshold Creatures
until 15 February 2026
Buy Tickets for the permanent museum & still life exhibition
Kunsthalle Vienna
Richard Hawkins
until 5 April 2026
Guan Xiao
until 6 January 2026
Sophie von Hellermann: Get Your Head Around It
until 29 March 2026
Kunst Haus Wien – Hundertwasser House
FUZZY EARTH – Your gut knows before your brain
until 25 January 2026
Julius von Bismarck
until 8 March 2026
Leopold Museum
Hidden Modernity: Fascination with the Occult around 1900
until 18 January 2026
What can you expect?
For the first time in Vienna, the exhibition sheds light on the spiritual and esoteric currents around 1900 that had a lasting impact on art and society. Artists such as Munch, Gerstl and Schiele sought new forms of expression beyond materialism in symbolism, theosophy and spiritualism. Psychology, Far Eastern influences and the quest for the ‘new man’ also played a central role. The exhibition shows how closely modernism and magic were linked – with a critical look at utopias of the past and present.
KOWANZ. ORTNER. SCHLEGEL
until 11 January 2026
Lower Belvedere
Cézanne, Monet, Renoir: French Impressionism from the Museum Langmatt
until 8 February 2026
What can you expect?
The exhibition at the Belvedere presents highlights from the Villa Langmatt collection – one of the earliest private collections of French Impressionists in Switzerland. Jenny and Sidney Brown began collecting works by artists such as Gauguin, Monet, Cézanne and especially Renoir in 1907. Their collection is an expression of their personal passion for art, but also symbolises the modern self-image of the Swiss upper middle classes.
Other Exhibitions at the Lower Belvedere:
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt: More than Character Heads
until 6 April 2026
One of my favorite sculptors. The character heads are so unique – you have to see them. There was already an exhibition about Messerschmidt at the Upper Belvedere in 2022, and of course I was there. Here’s my report!
MAK
HELMUT LANG
until 3 May 2026
HITO STEYERL: The bullet flew in one ear and out the other for humanity
Until 11 January 2026
MAK FILM FORUM: Valentina Triet, Josef Dabernig
until 22 March 2026
BICYCLE AND LOBSTER: Sparkling tree decorations from Gablonz
until 1 February 2026
TURNING PAGES: Contemporary Artists’ Books
until 22 March 2026
100 BEST POSTERS 24: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
until 12 April 2026
Marxhalle
The Legend of the Titanic (Immersive Exhibition)
until 6 January 2026
What awaits you?
Experience the Titanic like never before – with 360º projections, interactive stories, and virtual reality. Join the Callaghan family on their journey, marvel at the legendary rooms, and immerse yourself in the Titanic’s final moments – emotional, impressive, and technically state-of-the-art.
I visited the Titanic exhibition in Barcelona (with my children). Tickets are sold through the same provider, but I can’t say at this point whether it will be exactly the same exhibition. We’ll stay tuned!
mumok
Never Final! The Museum in Transition
until 12 April 2026
What can you expect?
“Never final” – this phrase, coined by Hertha Firnberg, continues to define mumok as a dynamic place of change. The exhibition focuses primarily on one date: 26 April 1979. This marks a milestone for today’s mumok: the expansion of the collections of the former 20er Haus through extensive and art-historically significant permanent loans from Peter and Irene Ludwig of Aachen.
Tobias Pils: Shh
until 12 April 2026
What can you expect?
The exhibition presents new works by the Austrian artist that oscillate between abstraction and figuration. In large-format drawings and paintings, Pils explores the tension between intuition and structure – often in black and white colours, with dense, almost meditative imagery. The exhibition invites visitors to immerse themselves in a quiet, ambiguous visual language.
The world of tomorrow will have been another present
Until 6 April 2026
What can you expect?
The exhibition presents five large-scale installations by Nikita Kadan, Barbara Kapusta, Frida Orupabo, Lisl Ponger and Anita Witek. Each of these artists engages with works of classical modernism from the mumok collection and enters into an exciting dialogue with them. The show combines contemporary perspectives with art historical references, thus creating new interpretations and contexts. With further works by Alberto Giacometti, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Fernand Léger, René Magritte, Man Ray and many others.
Mapping the 60s: Art Stories from the mumok Collections
Until 1 February 2026
Jongsuk Yoon: Kumgangsan
since 7 June 2025
Claudia Pagès Rabal: Feudal Holes
until 31 May 2026
Natural History Museum Vienna
Safe sex: the comeback of sexually transmitted diseases
Exhibition in the Narrenturm
until 18 April 2026
Released – shipped: 500 years of collecting and exhibiting rhinos
until 5 January 2026
Two views on plants. 3D-Fotos by Sebastian Cramer
until 1 March 2026
Stadthalle Wien
Body Worlds – At the cutting edge
until 22 March 2026
Technical Museum Vienna
More than Recycling
from June 2025
Innovation Corner: Circular economy
A museum stage for pioneering innovations from Austria
No end date known
Upper Belvedere
Carlone contemporary: Elmar Trenkwalder
until 14 March 2026
Vienna Museum
Meat
until 22 February 2026
Leopold Kessler: Works in public space
until 25 January 2026
Cellar stories: a mysterious Roman building at the farmers’ market
until 30 May 2027
In the Roman Museum
Knowledge for all: Isotype – The visual language from Vienna
until 5 April 2026
Society and Economy
until 25 January 2026
Vienna. My history.
The new presentation of the Wien Museum on Karlsplatz
Location: Karlsplatz
World museum Wien
The Colours of the Earth: Modern Textile Art in Mexico
until 6 April 2026
Colonialism on the windowsill
until 25 May 2026
Who wears the trousers?
Until 1 February 2026
Tabita Rezaire
Calabash Nebula: Cosmological Tales of Connection
until 11 Januar 2026
Indah Arsyad: The Ultimate Breath
until 25 May 2026
Wiener Secession (Viennese Secession)
Duane Linklater
until 15 February 2026
Mimi Ọnụọha
until 22 February 2026
Cevdet Erek
until 22 February 2026
Top 3 Exhibitions
February 2026
Lower Belvedere
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt: More than Character Heads
until 6 April 2026
One of my favorite sculptors. The character heads are so unique – you have to see them. There was already an exhibition about Messerschmidt at the Upper Belvedere in 2022, and of course I was there. Here’s my report!
Albertina Modern
Marina Abramović
until 1 March 2026
In collaboration with Kunstforum Wien and the Royal Academy of Arts, London
What can you expect?
The exhibition at the Albertina Modern showcases the work of performance artist Marina Abramović and provides an overview of her most important works. You can relive well-known performances and see how her art has evolved over the years. The show provides an in-depth understanding of how Abramović engages body, mind, and audience in her work.
We have been there! More about the exhibition
mumok
Never Final! The Museum in Transition
until 12 April 2026
What can you expect?
“Never final” – this phrase, coined by Hertha Firnberg, continues to define mumok as a dynamic place of change. The exhibition focuses primarily on one date: 26 April 1979. This marks a milestone for today’s mumok: the expansion of the collections of the former 20er Haus through extensive and art-historically significant permanent loans from Peter and Irene Ludwig of Aachen.
other exhibitions
in February
Albertina
Lisette Model: Retrospective
until 22 February 2026
What can you expect?
Photographer Lisette Model (1901–1983) is one of the most important representatives of modern photography in the 20th century. The exhibition at the ALBERTINA presents a comprehensive retrospective of her works from 1933 to 1959, including well-known and rarely seen photographs. After emigrating to New York in 1938, she became famous for her haunting cityscapes and later influenced a new generation of photographers as a teacher.
Leiko Ikemura: Motherscapes
until 6 April 2026
Fascination with Paper: From Titian to Kiefer
until 22 March 2026
Honoré Daumier
6 February to date unknown
Albertina Modern
Marina Abramović
until 1 March 2026
In collaboration with Kunstforum Wien and the Royal Academy of Arts, London
What can you expect?
The exhibition at the Albertina Modern showcases the work of performance artist Marina Abramović and provides an overview of her most important works. You can relive well-known performances and see how her art has evolved over the years. The show provides an in-depth understanding of how Abramović engages body, mind, and audience in her work.
We have been there! More about the exhibition
Architekturzentrum Wien
Wealth instead of capital. Anupama Kundoo
until 16 February 2026
Belvedere 21
Sandra Mujinga: Skin to Skin
until 31 May 2026
Ashley Hans Scheirl
until 1 February 2026
Civa – Contemporary Immersive Virtual Art
until 22 February 2026
Friedl Kubelka / vom Gröller: Not at home and yet at home
13 February to 7 June 2026
Sue Williams
20 February to 7 June 2026
Dommuseum Wien
Everything in Progress
until 30 August 2026
What can you expect?
The exhibition at the Dom Museum Vienna is dedicated to the complex topic of “work” – as a social necessity, a personal question of meaning, and a political challenge. Works from the Middle Ages to the present day are on display, revealing different forms of work – from physical and creative to invisible, unpaid, or refused work. Drawing on historical and contemporary perspectives, the show illuminates how work structures our lives, shapes identity, and is continually renegotiated.
Tickets for the Dommuseum – The exhibition should be included in the ticket.
Tickets Dommuseum + Stephansdom
Foto Arsenal Wien
Daido Moriyama: Retrospective
until 10 May 2026
Where: Arsenalplatz, Objekt 19, Arsenal
Haus der Geschichte Wien (House of History Vienna)
Embroidered. In memory of 67 people who were murdered in Hartheim in 1940
until 10 May 2026
in the foyer
All Work. Women between Gainful Employment and Caregiving, Blaschka Photo Archive 1950–1966
29 January 2026 to 10 January 2027
at the Alma Rosé Plateau
Heidi Horten Collection
The line
until 8 March 2026
What can you expect?
The exhibition is dedicated to the line as an elementary form of expression in art. On display are works from classical modernism to the present day (Paul Klee, Fontana, Basquiat, etc.) that utilise the line as a structure, gesture or concept – sometimes strictly geometric, sometimes spontaneous and free. The show invites visitors to rediscover the versatility and power of the line in the visual arts.
Photographs by Ouriel Morgensztern
until March 2026
X-MAS SERIES: Merry Christmas Number 2
until 2 February 2026
Jewish Museum Vienna
Black Jews, White Jews? On Skin Color and Prejudice
until 26 April 2026
KHM (Vienna Art Museum)
Pieter Claesz: Still Life
until 15 March 2026
What can you expect?
The exhibition highlights the work of the Dutch master of the Golden Age. Claesz is considered one of the most important representatives of still life – his paintings are characterised by sophisticated lighting, subtle colour nuances and symbolic details. The show presents selected works that sharpen our view of transience, pleasure and the art of the everyday.
Buy Tickets for the permanent museum & still life exhibition
Michaelina Wautier, female painter
until 22 February 2026
Special tickets for this exhibition via the official website!
Head & Collar. Coins Make Fashion
until 6 September 2026
Extra display case: Delicately engraved, briskly painted, well hidden
Inscriptions on Greek vases
until 1 March 2026
Oliver Laric. Threshold Creatures
until 15 February 2026
Buy Tickets for the permanent museum & still life exhibition
Kunsthalle Vienna
Richard Hawkins
until 5 April 2026
Sophie von Hellermann: Get Your Head Around It
until 29 March 2026
Kunst Haus Wien – Hundertwasser House
Julius von Bismarck
until 8 March 2026
Lower Belvedere
Cézanne, Monet, Renoir: French Impressionism from the Museum Langmatt
until 8 February 2026
What can you expect?
The exhibition at the Belvedere presents highlights from the Villa Langmatt collection – one of the earliest private collections of French Impressionists in Switzerland. Jenny and Sidney Brown began collecting works by artists such as Gauguin, Monet, Cézanne and especially Renoir in 1907. Their collection is an expression of their personal passion for art, but also symbolises the modern self-image of the Swiss upper middle classes.
Other Exhibitions at the Lower Belvedere:
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt: More than Character Heads
until 6 April 2026
One of my favorite sculptors. The character heads are so unique – you have to see them. There was already an exhibition about Messerschmidt at the Upper Belvedere in 2022, and of course I was there. Here’s my report!
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller: Painted from Nature
27 February to 14 June 2026
MAK
HELMUT LANG
until 3 May 2026
MAK FILM FORUM: Valentina Triet, Josef Dabernig
until 22 March 2026
BICYCLE AND LOBSTER: Sparkling tree decorations from Gablonz
until 1 February 2026
TURNING PAGES: Contemporary Artists’ Books
until 22 March 2026
100 BEST POSTERS 24: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
until 12 April 2026
mumok
Never Final! The Museum in Transition
until 12 April 2026
What can you expect?
“Never final” – this phrase, coined by Hertha Firnberg, continues to define mumok as a dynamic place of change. The exhibition focuses primarily on one date: 26 April 1979. This marks a milestone for today’s mumok: the expansion of the collections of the former 20er Haus through extensive and art-historically significant permanent loans from Peter and Irene Ludwig of Aachen.
Tobias Pils: Shh
until 12 April 2026
What can you expect?
The exhibition presents new works by the Austrian artist that oscillate between abstraction and figuration. In large-format drawings and paintings, Pils explores the tension between intuition and structure – often in black and white colours, with dense, almost meditative imagery. The exhibition invites visitors to immerse themselves in a quiet, ambiguous visual language.
The world of tomorrow will have been another present
Until 6 April 2026
What can you expect?
The exhibition presents five large-scale installations by Nikita Kadan, Barbara Kapusta, Frida Orupabo, Lisl Ponger and Anita Witek. Each of these artists engages with works of classical modernism from the mumok collection and enters into an exciting dialogue with them. The show combines contemporary perspectives with art historical references, thus creating new interpretations and contexts. With further works by Alberto Giacometti, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Fernand Léger, René Magritte, Man Ray and many others.
Mapping the 60s: Art Stories from the mumok Collections
Until 1 February 2026
Jongsuk Yoon: Kumgangsan
since 7 June 2025
Claudia Pagès Rabal: Feudal Holes
until 31 May 2026
Natural History Museum Vienna
Safe sex: the comeback of sexually transmitted diseases
Exhibition in the Narrenturm
until 18 April 2026
Released – shipped: 500 years of collecting and exhibiting rhinos
until 5 January 2026
Two views on plants. 3D-Fotos by Sebastian Cramer
until 1 March 2026
Stadthalle Wien
Body Worlds – At the cutting edge
until 22 March 2026
Technical Museum Vienna
More than Recycling
from June 2025
Innovation Corner: Circular economy
A museum stage for pioneering innovations from Austria
No end date known
Upper Belvedere
Carlone contemporary: Elmar Trenkwalder
until 14 March 2026
Vienna Museum
Meat
until 22 February 2026
Cellar stories: a mysterious Roman building at the farmers’ market
until 30 May 2027
In the Roman Museum
Knowledge for all: Isotype – The visual language from Vienna
until 5 April 2026
Vienna. My history.
The new presentation of the Wien Museum on Karlsplatz
Location: Karlsplatz
World museum Wien
Indah Arsyad: The Ultimate Breath
until 25 May 2026
The Colours of the Earth: Modern Textile Art in Mexico
until 6 April 2026
Colonialism on the windowsill
until 25 May 2026
Who wears the trousers?
Until 1 February 2026
Tabita Rezaire
Calabash Nebula: Cosmological Tales of Connection
until 11 Januar 2026
Wiener Secession (Viennese Secession)
Duane Linklater
until 15 February 2026
Mimi Ọnụọha
until 22 February 2026
Cevdet Erek
until 22 February 2026
Text and image rights: © Céline Mülich 2024 – 2025
Image rights exceptions: Screenshots from the respective exhibition posters of the museums