Exhibitions in Vienna
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WOW! The Heidi Horten Collection
16 Feb-29 July. For the first time the private collection of Austrian billionaire Heidi Horten is shown in public, in an exhibition comprising 150 works and spanning 100 years of art history. The show...
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Vienna 1900: Klimt – Moser – Gerstl – Kokoschka
18 Jan-10 June. The Leopold Museum celebrates Viennese Modernism with a selection of works by two of the movement's main exponents: Gustav Klimt and Koloman Moser, alongside works by pioneering expr...
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Ferdinand Hodler: Elective Affinities from Klimt to Schiele
13 Oct-22 Jan. The Leopold Museum presents Austria's most comprehensive retrospective devoted to Ferdinand Hodler since the artist’s successful showing at the 1904 Secession exhibition.
Hodler (185...
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Thomas Bayrle: If It’s Too Long—Make It Longer
25 Oct-2 April. This installation by German artist Thomas Bayrle combines traditional craft techniques with computer-generated art.
Born in Berlin in 1937, Bayrle is known for his so-called superfo...
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100 Best Posters: Germany-Austria-Switzerland
18 Oct-25 Feb. The MAK – Austrian Museum of Contemporary Art presents the 100 winning projects of the most popular graphic design competition in the German-speaking world.
The winning entries were...
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22 Sept-8 Jan. The Leopold Museum celebrates the work of Anton Kolig (1886–1950), an important Austrian painter from the first half of the 20th century.
Kolig's paintings are characterised by lumino...
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21 June-1 Oct. With the subheading Design between Human and Machine, this comprehensive exhibition examines our relationship with new technology and the opportunities and challenges presented by robot...
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Egon Schiele: Self-Abandonment and Self-Assertion
10 July- 20 Dec. This exhibition at the Leopold Museum displays its collection of works by Austrian painter and leading figure of Austrian Expressionism Egon Schiele (1890-1918).
The works are presen...
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Female Images: From Biedermeier to Early Modernism
7 July-18 Sept. The Leopold Museum presents an exhibition dedicated to "female images" including portraits of girls, women and mothers, from youth to old age, as well as female nudes and works created...
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Poussin to David: French Drawings at the Albertina
25 Jan-25 April. The Albertina displays 70 painted drawings and ink studies from France's Baroque and Rococo periods.
The exhibition includes works, all from the Albertina collection, by Nicolas P...
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22 Feb-18 June. The Albertina marks the upcoming 100th anniversary of the death of Austrian painter Egon Schiele (1890-1918) with an exhibition of his work whose raw sexuality shocked early 20th-centu...
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Film Stills: Photography Between Advertising, Art and the Cinema
4 Nov-26 Feb. The Albertina devotes an exhibition to the film still and its place between photography and film.
The 130 images on display date from 1910 to the 1970s and show how movie photographe...
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Foreign Gods: Fascination Africa and Oceania
23 Sept-9 Jan. The Leopold Museum’s comprehensive collection of African and Oceanic art, assembled by the museum's founder Rudolf Leopold, is presented for the first time.
This large-scale exhibit...
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Seurat, Signac, Van Gogh: Ways of Pointillism
16 Sept-8 Jan. Major exhibition dedicated to the founders of Pointillism, a painting technique in which small, distinct dots of colour are applied in patterns to form an image.
Developed by George...
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The Magic of Landscapes: From Waldmüller to Boeckl
15 Sept–6 Feb. Exhibition highlighting the art created in the newly-formed Austria following the collapse of the once-powerful Austro-Hungarian Empire in the wake of world war one.
The show highli...
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Albertina Contemporary: Andy Warhol to Anselm Keifer
11 July-19 March. The annual Albertina Contemporary exhibition showcases art from the second half of the 20th century.
This year’s presentation includes works by Anselm Kiefer, Gerhard Richter, Ar...
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24 June-2 Oct. The Albertina celebrates the 80th birthday of Jim Dine with 60 of the American artist's self-portraits.
The works on display are a representative selection from the 232 self-portrai...
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Pioneers of Post-War Modern Art
13 May-5 March 2017. The mumok dedicates an exhibition to two important figures involved in building up the museum's collection of post-war art: Werner Hofmann and Viktor Matejka.
Hofmann (1928-20...
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18 March-19 June. The Albertina presents the first comprehensive retrospective dedicated to the woodcuts of leading German contemporary artist Anselm Kiefer.
The exhibition comprises some 35 monum...
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Chagall to Malevich: The Russian Avant-Gardes
26 Feb-26 June. The Albertina examines Russia's contribution to the avant-garde period, between 1910 and 1920, when modernism advanced at a rapid pace and embraced numerous styles.
The exhibition...
