Art | Metropole

Mark Rothko makes his first appearance in Austria, with a comprehensive retrospective spanning his entire career. Unconstrained by the boundaries o...

Jakob Weizman - April 10, 2019

Art

Women’s Art at the Fringe

The Kunstforum brings the women of Art Brut to the forefront With the current Zeitgeist’s fondness for inclusivity, it is perhaps unsurprising that...

Kaja Seruga - March 18, 2019

Art

Back from Oblivion

Vienna’s female artists get some long overdue time in the limelight at the Lower Belvedere. Three women gaze down from the wall: One in a red dre...

Katharina Groeblinger - February 26, 2019

Art

A Feast for the Senses

The MAK honors Koloman Moser influential and abundant body of work "Koloman Moser Universalkünstler" proclaims the publicity by the Museum of Appli...

Simon Ballam - February 14, 2019

Art

The View from the Other Side

The Galerie Wienerroither & Kohlbacher presents the twisted dreamscapes of Alfred Kubin. Austrian artist Alfred Kubin (1877-1959) once remarked...

Paraskevi Peglidou - January 17, 2019

Art

The Resurrection of Beauty

Designers Sagmeister & Walsh make a plea for pleasing aesthetics. The question is almost impossible: What is beauty, ...

Simon Ballam - December 6, 2018

Art

Culture Art | November

An Old Master Comes to Town The KHM journeys into the quotidian magnificence of Pieter Bruegel the Elder The works of Flemish renaissance painter...

David Mathews - November 26, 2018

Art

Metropole’s Top 5 Picks for Vienna Art Week 2018

As the annual Vienna Art Week rolls in again, the city fills to the brim with artists, with hundreds from around the world dropping by to open an exhi...

Binu Starnegg - November 20, 2018

Art

Must-See Art Events This Month

Take a closer look at Claude Monet's impressive collections at the Albertina, and celebrate up-and-coming local and international art at the Vienna De...

The Editors - August 24, 2018

Art

Revealing Spaces

At the Architekturzentrum Wien, the exhibits are just the tip of the iceberg. If you can’t make it to Kannikegården this month to see Lundgaard &...

Andrew Standen-Raz - August 23, 2018

Art

Buying Art for the First Time | An Essential Guide to Viennese Etiquette

Metropole and viennacontemporary join forces to help new buyers navigate the local art scene in style When you visit the sauna for the first time...

Lisanne Brouwer - July 16, 2018

Art

A Golden Age for Gentle Radicals | Josef Hoffmann & Koloman Moser

The cruelest punishment imaginable,” said the Viennese modernist architect Adolf Loos, “would be to be locked up in a prison cell decorated by Josef H...

Simon Ballam - June 30, 2018

Art

Hide from the Heat at the Cool Calle Libre Street Art Festival

See how Street Art breaks boundaries in the world of art As summer scorches Vienna, the torturous heat may tempt locals and visitors into momenta...

Helen Ifeagwu - June 30, 2018

June 2018

The Female Gaze | Florentina Pakosta’s Retrospective at the Albertina

The combative artist gets a large retrospective There is no denying that throughout the history of art, the bulk of works has come from men who p...

Lisanne Brouwer - May 28, 2018

Art

What Do Refugees Take With Them? The Wien Museum’s Fluchtspuren Exhibit Has Answers

The exhibition What Remains: Traces of Refugees (Fluchtspuren) leaves its mark with a few personal objects Size isn’t everything, especially when y...

Andrew Standen-Raz - May 28, 2018

Art

Wow! Or Never | The Heidi Horten Collection

The Heidi Horten Collection at the Leopold Museum spins recent art history into an aesthetic narrative. Imagine a greatest hits collection of 20t...

Gautam Babbar - May 17, 2018

Art

The MAK Celebrates Otto Wagner’s 100th Anniversary

The MAK shows the enduring influence of the seminal architect, from the 19th century to today. Leaving an epochal impact on Vienna’s appearance, ...

The Editors - May 3, 2018

Art

Get a Glimpse of the Man Behind ‘The Kiss’

The Klimt Villa offers an insightful glance into the private life of the iconic painter. “I am convinced that I am not particularly interesting a...

Lisanne Brouwer - May 3, 2018

Art

Rachel Whiteread, Creator of Vienna’s Holocaust Memorial, Returns for a Major Exhibit

The celebrated British sculptor gets her first extensive review in Austria. Best known in Vienna for her Holocaust memorial on Judenplatz, Turner...

The Editors - May 3, 2018

Art

Austrian to Take the Helm at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art

Max Hollein, the current director and CEO of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, is poised to take over what is regarded as one of the world’s mos...

Christopher Puhm - April 13, 2018

Art

Retrospective | Anton Romako

A big retrospective presents outstanding works from Anton Romako, a painter ahead of his time. One of the great pioneers of Modernism, Anton Romako...

Lisanne Brouwer - March 29, 2018

Art

“The Shape of Time” Brings New Masters to the Kunsthistorisches Museum

Old Masters meet the new, bridging the gaps in the KHM’s collection with an new exhibit, "The Shape of Time". Despite representing some 5,000 years...

Lisanne Brouwer - March 29, 2018

Art

Elina Brotherus Is Coming to the Kunst Haus Wien

The noted contemporary photographer Elina Brotherus blends formality with playfulness. Autobiographical and perfectionistic, Elina Brotherus’ m...

Mahnoor Jalal - March 2, 2018

Art

The Albertina is Paying Tribute to Keith Haring in a Retrospective until June 24th

A tribute to the artist,  from graffiti to the Guggenheim. One of the most recognized artists of the 1980s, Keith Haring channeled ancient cave...

Leonie Binder - March 2, 2018

Art

Klimt in Virtual Reality | See Frederick Baker’s Klimt’s Magic Garden at the MAK

Frederick Baker’s tour de force Klimt’s Magic Garden premiers a work and a technology. This is not the Klimt that launched a thousand place mat...

Simon Ballam - March 2, 2018

Art

Underrated Martha Jungwirth Will Surprise You at the Albertina

The renowned Austrian artist Martha Jungwirth garners some late fame. Pointedly setting spots of paint, blurred surfaces and strong colors, Aus...

The Editors - January 31, 2018

Art

Photography Icon Man Ray is Coming Vienna! Check Him out at the Kunstforum

A glimpse beyond the iconic artist’s photographs. One of Dadaism and Surrealism’s most recognizable artists, Man Ray became a household name as...

Leonie Binder - January 31, 2018

Art

Detergent, Knackwurst and Socialism

The Waschsalon in the historic Karl Marx-Hof shows how the Social Democrats shaped Vienna. The museum Das Rote Wien im Waschsalon (Red Vienna at ...

Andreas Rainer - January 31, 2018

Art

Baroque Star

Rubens – The Power of Transformation shows a master channeling the past to create something entirely original. Enormously productive, Peter Paul ...

Claudia Paccosi - December 8, 2017

Art

The Westlicht Explores Polaroids in What Might Be Their Final Exhibit

Predating Instagram by several decades, Polaroid’s instant photographs were a hit from the mid-20th century up to the digital revolution, fitt...

Claudia Paccosi - December 1, 2017

Art

The University of Applied Arts Celebrates its 150th Birthday

A spawning ground for many venerable creators, the Universität für Angewandte Kunst (University of Applied Arts) – or Angewandte for short – i...

Corinna Berger - December 1, 2017

Art

In Heimat:Machen, the Volkskundemuseum Confronts its own Role in Shaping National Identity

The past is only foreign if you deny its powerful impact on the present Thanks to fresh research by curators Birgit Johle...

Andrew Standen-Raz - November 30, 2017

Art

130 of Rafael’s Paintings and Drawings are Coming to the Albertina

The iconic Raphael awes at the Albertina as an iconic painter and draftsman If imitation is the sincerest form of flatter...

Anja Stevic - October 31, 2017

Art

Vienna’s New Weltmuseum Takes You Around the World in 14 Rooms

The Weltmuseum revises our approach to ethnology while celebrating our diversity As the world changes, so do our perspect...

Christopher Puhm - September 28, 2017

Art

Bringing Bruegel Back to the Albertina

The Flemish master is shown to be a meticulous draughtsman Combining exceptional craftsmanship with a keen eye and attent...

Anja Stevic - September 28, 2017

Art

The World of 2017 Captured in Moments at Westlicht

Photojournalism proves its impact anew with the winners of the 60th annual contest Bearing witness to the momentous event...

Anja Stevic - September 28, 2017

Art

Get Ready for Sign Week Vienna!

The first Sign Week Vienna is all about exhibiting Viennese storefront design, public typography and sign painting Given Vienna’s great tradition...

The Editors - September 16, 2017

Art

Rediscovering Raphael: The Italian Master Returns to the Albertina

A new show on the Renaissance polymath demonstrates the creative process of a genius Mentioned in the same breath as Leonardo and Michelangelo, R...

Robert Tunn - August 30, 2017

Art

Express Yourself! Unsung Austrian Expressionist Anton Kolig at the Leopold Museum

One of Austria’s finest expressionists receives his first major show in over 50 years With a dynamic and dazzling figural style marked by a fierc...

Magdalena Schwarz - August 30, 2017

Art

The Startling Rise of Viennacontemporary in the European art Scene

No longer in its infancy, Viennacontemporary asserts itself as the leading art marketplace in Austria The best art fairs offer a little something...

Genevieve Doyle - August 30, 2017

Art

Woman: The Mumok Revisits the Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s

Showcasing photos, videos and performance pieces from the feminist avant-garde of the 1970s, this exhibition at the Mumok is fascinating - and more re...

Magdalena Schwarz - July 1, 2017

Art

This Year’s Vienna Biennale Delves into the Robot Revolution

The Vienna Biennale explores the disruptions and innovations affecting the world of work as we know it To live and work with robots is not a scie...

Aline Lara Rezende - July 1, 2017

Art

“How to Live Together” at the Kunsthalle Wien is a Guide for Better World

A new group show at the Kunsthalle encourages us to shed our preconceptions and love the things that set us apart. The tempting possibility of a ...

Andrew Standen-Raz - June 1, 2017

Art

Raw art From Crazy and Untrained Minds at Museum Gugging

Art brut and its origins are laid bare at Museum Gugging. Amongst the many startling visions on display at the Museum Gugging is an unassuming pe...

David Mathews - June 1, 2017

Art

Discover Never-Before-Seen art by Maria Lassnig at the Albertina This Summer

The celebrated Austrian artist is shown in a new light with many previously unseen works Somewhat ironically for an artist of such renown, Maria ...

Sam Jackson - April 29, 2017

Art

Edward Burtynsky’s Stunning Photography Shows our Impact on the Planet at the Kunst Haus Wien

Mankind’s effect on the mother nature captured by the renowned Canadian photographer In a journey of seven years that spanned five continents and...

Nejra Rizvanović - April 29, 2017

Art

Anoka Faruqee’s art Seems to Capture Time Itself at the Vienna Secession

Faruqee’s pulsating compositions make their solo debut in Europe Most revolutions turn stuffy with time. But the Secession certainly tries to cul...

Tristan Bath - April 29, 2017

Art

Albertina Exhibition Proves That Egon Schiele’s Drawings are as Good as his Paintings

The Albertina displays a different view of Egon Schiele's oeuvre. The cultural landscape of Vienna is indelibly marked by the work of Egon Schiel...

David Mathews - March 31, 2017

Art

Spanish Photographer Christina Garcia Rodero on View at Insituto Cervantes

Her unreleased masterpieces presented at new exhibition. One of Spain’s most renowned artists, Cristina Garcia Rodero approaches photography wi...

Nicolas Kristen - March 31, 2017

Art

Was Painter Carl Spitzweg the Erwin Wurm of the Biedermeier era?

A Leopold Museum exhibition juxtaposes the past and present with two artists famous for their satirical takes on everyday social norms. Somewhat ...

Nicolas Kristen - March 31, 2017

Art

Don’t Exaggerate, Unless You’re a Caricaturist Exhibiting at Vienna’s Eurocature F...

Eurocature, the annual conference and exhibition of caricature artists, brings together international talent to create spitting images. Now in ...

Jennifer Cornick - March 31, 2017

Art

Indulge Your Macabre Curiosity at the Narrenturm’s Sensational Medical Museum

The world’s first psychiatric clinic lives on as the pathological-anatomical museum. Hidden away in a corner of the Altes AKH (Vienna’s former ge...

David Mathews - March 31, 2017

Art

Everything you Wanted to Know About Biedermeier Glass but Were Afraid to ask

Glasses from the Empire and Biedermeier Period documents a rising middle class and its search for its own aesthetic There’s nothing new about con...

Simon Ballam - March 6, 2017

Art

Vulgar Fashion

The Belvedere’s Winterpalais takes a walk on fashion’s exquisite ugly side exploring vulgar fashion Plunging necklines, exposed straps, emblazone...

Lana Sharp - March 6, 2017

Art

On Display: Vienna Art Fair – Five Things Worth Seeing This Week

From Feb 23–26, 2017, Art Vienna presents works from Austrian and select international galleries. The debut of this art fair will be held at the Le...

Nina Prader - February 23, 2017

Art

Film Stills: Magical Moments

Film stills as drama suspended, art as advertisement: Even if you’ve never seen the movie, chances are you know the image They are the indelible ...

Simon Ballam - February 6, 2017

Art

Georgia O’Keeffe: The Reluctant Icon

Georgia O’Keeffe stars in her largest retrospective outside of her home country Most people first get to know Georgia O’Keeffe through her volupt...

Dardis McNamee - February 6, 2017

Art

Franz West at the 21er Haus

The prolific artist’s collaborations with other notables underline the significance of participation A firm believer in communication and partici...

Jennifer Cornick - December 5, 2016

Art

That Clinking Clanking Sound can Make the World go ‘Round

The Money Museum documents the country’s history with cold hard cash Money is ubiquitous; after all it makes the world go round. However, for a m...

Nina Prader - December 5, 2016

Art

Sarah Morris. Falls Never Breaks

Visual artist Sarah Morris’ solo exhibition focuses on her cinematographic work No stranger to the weird of the everyday, painter and filmmaker S...

Jennifer Cornick - December 5, 2016

Art

The Color Woodcut in Vienna Around 1900

How the Vienna Secession revived an archaic technique – in brilliant color Exploring a lesser-known chapter of the storied Secession, Vienna’s fi...

Jennifer Cornick - November 1, 2016

Art

Hubert Scheibl, Austrian Contemporary Artist, Between Abstract and Bold art

The prominent Austrian artist redecorates the Belvedere’s Orangerie Celebrated as one of Austria’s most prominent contemporary artists, Hubert Sc...

Catherine Lankes - November 1, 2016

Art

Walking the Talk

Vienna Art Week explores the finer points of aesthetics under the theme Seeking Beauty Vienna is in for an arts talkathon. From November 14-20, t...

Veronica Buckley - November 1, 2016

Art

Home-Field Advantage at Viennacontemporary

Nina Prader brings you her impressions of the viennacontemporary art fair Last week, you read her account of how Austrian artists repre...

Nina Prader - October 1, 2016

Art

Artist Martin Kippenberger, Enjoying One Last Laugh

Germany’s jocular anti-traditionalist genius returns to Vienna posthumously. Widely regarded as one of the most talented German artists of the late...

Genevieve Doyle - October 1, 2016

Art

Spot-On Masterpieces

The Albertina pin-points Pointillism’s meticulously methodical mark-making. Georges Seurat once insisted that, although some saw poetry in his pa...

Genevieve Doyle - October 1, 2016

Art

Shunga: Erotic Art from Japan

One of the foremost collections of erotic art from the floating world makes waves in Vienna. Despite countless attempts by officials to prohibit ...

Genevieve Doyle - October 1, 2016

Art

Austria at ABC – Showing Presence, Making Monuments

In this two-part article, Nina Prader examines how Austrian contemporary art shows its colors at fairs in Berlin and Vienna. Part I: Wieners and Cu...

Nina Prader - September 22, 2016

Art

World Press Photo ‘16

Photojournalism’s finest comes to Vienna With the dissemination of images today moving faster than the shutter speed of a camera, it’s easy to fe...

Genevieve Doyle - September 16, 2016

Art

Vienna Contemporary 2016

Austria’s leading contemporary art fair presents emerging talent, highlighting collaborative new work from around Central Europe Showcasing both ne...

Genevieve Doyle - September 1, 2016

Art

Foreign Gods at Leopold Museum

The Leopold Museum unveils a fine collection of tribal art Serving as inspiration from the turn of the last century onward, African and Oceanic art...

Genevieve Doyle - September 1, 2016

Art

Metamorphoses on Canvas

Painting 2.0 tracks the art form and its adaptation to the information age At the exhibition Painting 2.0, the state of the art begins with its dem...

Nina Prader - September 1, 2016

Art

On Display: Calle Libre – Living Walls

The Calle Libre Festival turns urban walls into galleries When Jakob Kattner looks around Vienna, he doesn’t see the historic architecture that ...

Andrew Standen-Raz - July 1, 2016

Art

On Display: Heritage Twice Removed

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei explores the meaning of migration at Vienna’s 21er Haus Ai Weiwei is thrilled by the possibilities of his ...

Tristan Bath - July 1, 2016

Art

On Display: Otherworlds

Michael Benson’s photo safari through the solar system While a mission to Mars, let alone the rest of the solar system, is still in the realm of ...

The Editors - June 1, 2016

Art

On Display: Wilhelm Lehmbruck

The influential sculptor gets his first major retrospective in Austria Considered one of the most important German artists of the early 20th cent...

The Editors - June 1, 2016

Art

On Display: The Future Has Arrived

At the Kunsthalle, The Promise of Total Automation imagines the shape of things to come An intriguing attempt to parse the possible futures heade...

David Mathews - May 1, 2016

Art

On Display: Talks – Tracking the Fakes

Expert Jane Kallir puts Egon Schiele’s works under the microscope There’s nothing like a good art forgery scandal to get the blood flowing: beaut...

Doina Boev - May 1, 2016

April 2016

On Display: Body, Psyche and Taboo at MUMOK

Agents Provocateurs: Vienna’s two seminal 20th century art movements go head to head. Body, Psyche and Taboo, currently showing at the MUMOK, bri...

Veronica Buckley - April 1, 2016

April 2016

On Display: Chagall to Malevich

The Russian avant-garde’s most fertile years get a comprehensive show With few artistic periods as innovative as the short window between the la...

Binu Starnegg - April 1, 2016

Art

On Display: Abstract Loop Austria

Postwar Austrian art gets a major retrospective with works by Marc Adrian, Richard Kriesche, Helga Philipp und Gerwald Rockenschaub The intention...

Veronica Buckley - March 1, 2016

Art

On Display: Welten der Romantik

A luscious but flawed exhibition bridging the Northern and Mediterranean streams of the Romantics at the Albertina Ninety years before the Secess...

Veronica Buckley - February 1, 2016

Art

On Display: Picturing the 20th Century

An exhibition of iconic photographs from the revolutionary camera that made them possible – the legendary Leica The sailor kissing a girl in Time...

Simon Ballam - February 1, 2016

Art

Exhibition Review: Elitist Populism

Art pressed into the service of political persuasion is rarely convincing. This exhibition proves a point. The online blurb is refreshingly honest: P...

Simon Ballam - January 13, 2016

Art

Eliasson’s Baroque Baroque

For the next couple of months we will exchange ideas and blog posts with TEDxVienna. The Belvedere's Winter Palace, an unexpected exhibitio...

Lyndsay Kirkham - January 8, 2016

Art

Will you be an artist in the sharing economy?

For the next couple of months we will exchange ideas and blog posts with TEDxVienna. This guest post is by Julia Fellner. Galleries, art fa...

Julia Fellner - January 7, 2016

Art

On Sale: Your Own Original

At the Kunstsupermarkt, original art has a tiny price tag. Who knows? You may pick up the next Ernst Fuchs, Hermann Nitsch or Gottfried Helnwein. ...

Margaret Childs - December 10, 2015

Art

Art for Arms

From antiquity to today, looting art for the black market remains big business There is nothing new about plundering antiquities for money. In 18...

Simon Ballam - December 9, 2015

Art

On Display: Women Through Men’s Eyes

Portraits by Klimt, Schiele and Kokoschka at the Lower Belvedere Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka are hardly new to art lovers ...

Veronica Buckley - December 1, 2015

Art

On Display: Feininger & Kubin

Illustrating the unlikely friendship between two artists, the Albertina displays over 100 works At first glance, it may not be evident that t...

Binu Starnegg - December 1, 2015

Art

On Display: We are Alone – Edvard Munch

Munch at the Albertina: Isolation and despair, yes, but absolutely worth it You may want to fortify yourself with a good lunch before going into ...

Veronica Buckley - November 1, 2015

Art

On Display: Ego, Curator

The language of remixing our world is shifting: programmers, selectors, managers, organizers and producers are all making way for curators. Curat...

Andrew Standen-Raz - October 1, 2015

Art

On Display: Curated by Vienna

“Tomorrow Today“ reflects on art and money An annual, six-week event backed by the Vienna Business Agency, Curated by Vienna brings international...

The Editors - October 1, 2015

In With The Old | Antique Shopping in Vienna

A new take on trash reduction, the 48er Tandler (The 48’s Scrap Dealer) is the latest innovation of Vienna’s beloved bright orange-clad MA 48 (Magis...

Catherine M. Hooker - October 1, 2015