Exhibitions
Vienna What's on
16 Dec-3 April. Exhibition dedicated to the creations of modernist architect, designer and design critic Josef Frank whose prodigious body of work is still considered "contemporary" in today's design...
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19 Nov-29 Feb. The artwork from Austrian cigarette advertising in the 1920s is the subject of this exhibition at the Leopold Museum.
In 1928 the JTI tobacco company invited celebrated Secession ar...
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13 Nov-21 Feb. The Albertina is showing important works from the artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement known as Romanticism, an era which lasted throughout the 19th century and used na...
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Farbenrausch. Masterpieces of German Expressionism
9 Oct-11 Jan. German Expressionism is celebrated at the Leopold Museum with an exhibition comprising around 30 portrait paintings and 80 works on paper from the collection of the Osthaus Museum in Hag...
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17 July-26 Oct. Exhibition marking the 150th anniversary of the death of Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793-1865), one of Austria's most important 19th-century Austrian artists.
Waldmüller is best k...
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Rembrandt - Titian - Bellotto: Spirit and splendour of the Dresden Picture Gallery
Around 100 works by grand masters are currently on display at Vienna's winter palace.
The paintings are from the Dresden Picture Gallery, an important collection amassed by the electors of Saxony,...
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Wally Neuzil: Her life with Egon Schiele
The Leopold Museum shines light on the woman featured in the melancholic painting Portait of Wally, one of the best-known works by Austrian painter Egon Schiele (1890-1918).
"Wally" was the nicknam...
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Tracey Emin | Egon Schiele: Where I Want to Go
The Leopold Museum presents Vienna's most significant exhibition dedicated to Britain artist Tracey Emin, whose work is displayed alongside that of the Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele (1890-1918)....
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Degas, Cézanne, Seurat: The Dream Archive from the Musée d'Orsay
The Albertina presents around 130 works by seminal French artists from the 19th and 20th centuries, on loan from the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.
The exhibition offers a broad overview of F...
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Looking at Monet. The Great Impressionist and his Influence on Austrian Art
The Belvedere focuses on the concept of French Impressionist master Claude Monet (1840-1926) as a source of inspiration for his artist peers in Vienna.
Monet was particularly popular in the Austria...
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Velázquez, Painter to the King
Exhibition dedicated to the work of Spanish master Diego Velázquez (1599-1660).
A leading painter of Spain's Golden Age, Velázquez was court painter to King Philip IV and was famed fo...
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The Path to Modernism
The Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien commemorates the birth of leading French post-impressionist Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) whose work laid the foundations for Modernism.
Toulouse-Lautrec is kn...
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The Albertina holds a comprehensive retrospective dedicated to the internationally-acclaimed Vienna artist Arnulf Rainer on his 85th birthday.
Rainer has always been to the forefront of development...
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The Austrian Museum of Contemporary Art - MAK commemorates its 150th birthday with a number of celebratory events.
Two exhibitions run concurrently from 11 June-5 October: Exemplary: From Arts and...
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Exhibition dedicated to the work and career of the recently-deceased Austrian architect Hans Hollein (1924-2014).
A key exponent of postmodern architecture, Hollein was a Pritzker Prize-winning arc...
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The Other Side: Mirrors and Reflections in Contemporary Art
The Belvedere highlights the varied role played by mirrors in contemporary art, examining in particular how in the 20th century the mirror was promoted from an artist's subject to an actual material a...
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Klimt and Warhol: Kiss and Kiss
The Belvedere examines the interpretations of "The Kiss" by two important figures in 20th century art: Austrian symbolist Gustav Klimt and American pop artist Andy Warhol.
Though united by the kiss...
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The wonderful world of bejewelled Fabergé eggs comes to Vienna from the collections of the Moscow Kremlin Museum and the Fersman Mineralogical Museum, also in the Russian capital.
The exhibi...
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Vienna - Berlin. The Art of Two Cities
The exhibition spans from the early 20th century to the interwar years and examines the artistic parallels and differences between Berlin and Vienna.
In particular it compares and contrasts the tw...
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The Albertina presents around 160 works by Henri Matisse and other artists from the short-lived avant garde movement known as the Fauves (wild animals).
Founded in Paris in the early 20th century...
