All the best exhibitions happening in Vienna right NOW & in the upcoming weeks

For Alex Katz’s 95th birthday, ALBERTINA presents a thorough tribute that includes some of the artist’s well-known pieces from the museum’s holdings. Katz is well known for his expansive figurative paintings that combine cool and hard-edge painting techniques.

His distinctive artistic style has brought him acclaim on a global scale. He is regarded as one of the most significant modern artists and a pillar of ALBERTINA’s collection.

For the first time in Austria, the Leopold Museum is displaying 200 masterpieces from the Würth Collection, one of the largest private art collections in Europe. The exhibition, which features pieces from both the classical modernist era and contemporary art, provides a singular voyage through 100 years of art history.

The exhibition’s highlights include pieces by well-known painters like Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso, Gerhard Richter, and Maria Lassnig.

Bernd Oppl’s “The Sonnenschein Rhapsodies” offers a three-dimensional experience through dance, music, and visual arts. The exhibition features a number of works that draw inspiration from the idea of rhapsody, including paintings, sculptures, and installations.

The artist invites visitors to fully immerse themselves in his universe, so they can experience the rhythm, movement, and energy of his creations.

An exhibition of work of over 40 years. He is exhibiting everything from sketches on slips of paper, envelopes, flyers, or corrugated cardboard and also real paintings.

This exhibition is directly influenced by (rock) music and pop culture and convey the artist’s sociopolitical concerns by deftly negotiating social values, norms, and ideals. The breadth of an emotional spectrum, from vulnerability to existential depth to rebellion and unruliness, demonstrates Nara’s mastery of drawing.

The mumok is showcasing Elisabeth Wild’s varied body of work, including some of her earlier, less well-known pieces, in its first thorough retrospective. Displacement and national identity have moulded Wild’s life, and her artistic endeavours include collage, painting, sculpture, and textile design.

The Mumok exhibition will demonstrate the artist’s development and draw attention to the connections between her early and later works. A voyage through the history of 20th and 21st-century art is encouraged by the show.

A Journey into the New Virtuality investigates the potential of virtual reality for architectural and urban planning.

The show includes pieces by modern architects, designers, and artists from around the world that explore the possibilities of the virtual world and its consequences for infrastructure, politics, the environment, and society.

The exhibition is structured into four chapters that highlight various methods for developing new stories, viewpoints, and opportunities in the virtual world.

The artwork of French-born artist Laure Prouvost will thrill your senses and pique your imagination.

You will embark on a voyage of wonderful misunderstandings and whimsy thanks to her innovative audiovisual vocabulary, which is characterized by comedy, sensory aspects, and language ambiguity.

Herwig Zens used to sketch and write about his life on copper plates EVERY DAY. He did that until he passed away in 2019.

The first 28 years of it were documented on a huge sheet of paper with a random erasing technique, which is currently regarded as the longest etching in history! One of the three copies of this masterwork, which is held by the Kunsthistorisches Museum, is on display now along with other art pieces where Zen participated.

Gather ’round, ladies and gentlemen, to witness a piece of history: the Women’s Pavilion at the 1873 Vienna World Exhibition, where the world’s eyes were awakened to the idea of women working (gasp!).

This Jubilee Exhibition delves deeper into this historical occasion and its ramifications for society. Stay for the wonder at how far we’ve come (or have we?) and come for the history.

Prepare to delve into the Atlas universe in Anja Manfredi’s exhibition!

This exhibition explores all things Atlas-related, from the Atlas Mountains in Morocco to the Farnese-Atlas built of marble in Naples, from the Karyatids in Vienna to the Atlas vertebra carrying the human head. Included are the intriguing jellyfish that live in the Atlantic Ocean and are known in German as “Medusen der Meere”

“Viva Frida Kahlo” is an immersive exhibition of the works of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. It takes visitors on a sensory journey to her home in Mexico and showcases colourful paintings and self-portraits as a testament to her life full of grace, pain, and unbroken will.

The exhibition uses high-performance projectors to bring Kahlo’s images to life on walls and the floor, creating a truly immersive experience. Warning: it may trigger seizures in persons with epilepsy, and some of the works may contain sensitive content.