Art

You don’t have to be an expert to enjoy the wide world of contemporary art – but enthusiasm and courteousness helps.

After delays and controversy, Albertina Modern opens with an extensive review of Austrian art from 1945-1980.

There was a time when the Vienna school system was among the most respected in Europe. Current PISA results are far from that

You couldn’t miss it if you tried. After the vast vineyards, golden sunflower fields, apricot trees heavy with fruit and century-old farmhouse...

Artist Andreas Kattner shares his top 10 moments from the Venice Art Biennale.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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 &...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Visual artist Sarah Morris’ solo exhibition focuses on her cinematographic workNo stranger to the weird of the everyday, painter and filmmaker S...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...