April 2024
May 2024
June 2024
July 2024
Format
Venues
Various
27.07.
30.08. –
08.09.2024
10:00 AM –
6:00 PM
30.08. – 08.09. | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Opening: CRITICAL CONSUMPTION
50
MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst
Stubenring 5
1010 Wien
Opening of the exhibition CRITICAL CONSUMPTION
Micro trends, fashion giants releasing dozens of new collections every year, precarious conditions for textile workers, luxury brands shredding unworn garments, and ecosystems being destroyed by mountains of textile waste: fashion—and the fashion industry—are increasingly coming under the spotlight for their approach to consumption, production processes, and sustainability. With the exhibition CRITICAL CONSUMPTION, the MAK is viewing with a critical eye a sector that is unrivaled in the way it drives consumption, the desire for the new, and rapid change.
For over a year, the MAK Gallery will play host to historical objects, contemporary designs, and artistic approaches that encourage us to contemplate the pressing issues of our age: “What are our clothes worth?” or “Who can afford not to shop?” Our consumption of fashion can be considered a paradigm of the mass consumption of capitalist societies in the Global North.
Opening Hours:
Di 10–21 Uhr
Mo geschlossen
02.02. –
31.07.2024
12:00 PM –
6:00 PM
Closed that day
02.02. – 31.07. | 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Closed that day
Regina Anzenberger: Gstettn
14
Brotfabrik Wien
Absberggasse 27
1100 Wien
At the Collector’s Room we are showing new works from the series GSTETTN by Regina Anzenberger within the frame of the first Klima Biennale Wien.
Gstettn is a place of wilderness and freedom, a plot of land waiting to be used for housing and that has been taken over by nature in the meantime. From 2017 to 2021, Regina Anzenberger set about capturing the essence of this small piece of land just behind the Anker bakery. Flats for 3000 people will be built now, where once the buildings of Europe's largest bread factory stood.
With her photographs, which are painted over, extended by drawings and augmented with found objects, the artist has captured the natural experience of Gstettn in the seven chapters Winter Flowers, Nature Planets, The Illusion of Summer, Native Grounds, The Reconquest of Nature/6 Columns, Snails and Frost. In her works, Regina blurs the boundary between object and reality and takes us on an adventure.
Opening Hours:
MI - FR: 12:00 - 18:00
und nach Vereinbarung
29.02. –
26.01.2025
10:00 AM –
6:00 PM
29.02. – 26.01. | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
On the Backs of Camels
84
Weltmuseum Wien
Neue Hofburg, Heldenplatz
1010 Wien
Living together with camels and their close relatives shapes cultures. It is a source of livelihood for people around the world and part of their cultural identity. In a special exhibition scheduled to begin in 2024, the Weltmuseum Wien will explore the many aspects of life with dromedaries, Bactrian camels, llamas, and alpacas and will examine the effect that these animals, broadly called camelids, have had on the societies of which they are part.
Featuring films, photographs, artworks, and artefacts from the collections of the Weltmuseum Wien, several of which will be on public view for the first time, and with numerous loans from other institutions, the exhibition in six galleries narrates encounters with camelids past, present, and future.
Opening Hours:
10:00 AM -
6:00 PM
06.03. –
15.09.2024
10:00 AM –
6:00 PM
06.03. – 15.09. | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Angelika Loderer. Soil Fictions
12
Belvedere 21
Arsenalstraße 1
1030 Wien
For her solo exhibition at Belvedere 21, Angelika Loderer is designing a site-specific installation that uses soil as the common ground, highlighting its ecological, economic, political, and cultural narratives.
An interest in the subterranean and the stories that lurk there, the tension between what is visible and what is hidden, what is ephemeral and what is permanent run like a thread through the work of sculptor Angelika Loderer. For her critical examination of the concept of sculpture with regard to form and authorship, the artist occasionally engages in a creative dialogue with non-human beings whose habitat is the earth: she uses natural caves and passages shaped by animals as molds for casting or incorporates the transformative properties of fungal mycelium to alter and shape materials. The result of this creative process gives rise to a chance-driven and posthumanist coexistence of living beings.
Opening Hours:
Mo:nur an Feiertagen
Di: 11 bis 18 Uhr
Mi: 11 bis 18 Uhr
Do: 11 bis 21 Uhr
Fr: 11 bis 18 Uhr
Sa: 11 bis 18 Uhr
So: 11 bis 18 Uhr
06.03. –
15.09.2024
11:00 AM –
6:00 PM
06.03. – 15.09. | 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Belvedere 21
12
Belvedere 21
Arsenalstraße 1
1030 Wien
Opening Hours:
Mo:nur an Feiertagen
Di: 11 bis 18 Uhr
Mi: 11 bis 18 Uhr
Do: 11 bis 21 Uhr
Fr: 11 bis 18 Uhr
Sa: 11 bis 18 Uhr
So: 11 bis 18 Uhr
06.04. –
11.08.2024
10:00 AM –
6:00 PM
06.04. – 11.08. | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Into the Woods
1
KunstHausWien
Untere Weißgerberstraße 13
1030 Wien
In association with Klima Biennale Wien, KUNST HAUS WIEN presents a comprehensive group exhibition on one of the world’s most vital ecosystems: the forest. Sixteen contemporary artistic positions reflect on the forest as a habitat, its ecological processes, as well as the threats it faces.
More than ever, the world’s forests have become monuments to the imbalances found on our planet. Forests filter water and air, and supply resources and food. As habitats for the majority of terrestrial animals, forests are beneficial to human health, and, as vital carbon stores, help stabilize the planet’s climate. Logging and the profit-oriented exploitation of woodlands are accelerating the ecological crisis while climate change fuels deforestation.
Opening Hours:
10:00 AM -
6:00 PM
Address:
KunstHausWien
Untere Weißgerberstraße 13
1030 Wien
Arrival by public transport:
U-Bahn Linien: U4, U3, U1 oder U2
Strassenbahn Linien: 1 oder O
24.04. –
21.04.2025
10:00 AM –
6:00 PM
24.04. – 21.04. | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
(Un)Known Artists of the Amazon
84
Weltmuseum Wien
Neue Hofburg, Heldenplatz
1010 Wien
This exhibition is a project jointly undertaken by the Weltmuseum Wien (WMW) and the private Museu de Arte Indígena (MAI) in Curitiba, Brazil. The show’s curators, Claudia Augustat (WMW) and Julianna Polodan Martins (MAI), engage these two museum collections in dialogue, reflecting thereby the manner in which autonomous works of art have evolved from functional and ritual objects.
Opening Hours:
10:00 AM -
6:00 PM
01.05. –
11.08.2024
10:00 AM –
6:00 PM
01.05. – 11.08. | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
TROIKA. Terminal Beach
50
MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst
Stubenring 5
1010 Wien
In an immersive spatial installation specially conceived for the MAK, the artist collective Troika (Eva Rucki, Conny Freyer and Sebastian Noel) focuses on the multi-layered forms of non-human intelligence. While in the digital animation "Terminal Beach" a robotic arm covered in fur fells the last tree on earth, the scenography is expanded into the real space by 3D-printed digital twins of museum objects that populate a flooded landscape as enigmatic creatures.
Opening Hours:
Di 10–21 Uhr
Mo geschlossen
01.05. –
11.08.2024
10:00 AM –
6:00 PM
01.05. – 11.08. | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
TROIKA. Terminal Beach
50
MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst
Stubenring 5
1010 Wien
In an immersive spatial installation specially conceived for the MAK, the artist collective Troika (Eva Rucki, Conny Freyer and Sebastian Noel) focuses on the multi-layered forms of non-human intelligence. While in the digital animation "Terminal Beach" a robotic arm covered in fur fells the last tree on earth, the scenography is expanded into the real space by 3D-printed digital twins of museum objects that populate a flooded landscape as enigmatic creatures.
Opening Hours:
Di 10–21 Uhr
Mo geschlossen
16.05. –
01.09.2024
12:00 AM
16.05. – 01.09. | 12:00 AM
Im Versprechen der aufgehenden Sonne
10
ArtSocialSpace Brunnenpassage
Brunnengasse 71
1160 Wien
In Zusammenarbeit mit der Kunsthalle Wien präsentiert die Brunnenpassage eine Installation von Huda Takriti. Mit der neu in Auftrag gegebenen Arbeit vertieft die Künstlerin ihre kritische Reflexion über verschiedene politische und soziale Geschichten und zeigt, wie offizielle und persönliche Erzählungen sowohl miteinander in Konflikt stehen als auch ineinandergreifen.
Ausgehend von einer früheren Arbeit – "Clarity is the Closest Wound to the Sun" [Klarheit ist die der Sonne am nächsten gelegene Wunde] (2023) – nimmt Takriti die Schriften von Zohra Drif als Ausgangspunkt, einer Freiheitskämpferin der Nationalen Befreiungsfront Algeriens. In Drifs Autobiografie las die Künstlerin ein Zitat aus dem Gedicht "Hypnos" (1946) von René Char, der in der französischen Resistance kämpfte; es wurde zum Titel der Arbeit. Bei der Lektüre des gesamten Gedichts stieß Takriti auf folgenden Absatz, der zur Grundlage des Plakats wurde: "Wir gehören niemandem außer dem goldenen Lichtpunkt jener uns unbekannten, uns unzugänglichen Lampe, die den Mut und die Stille wachhält."
Hypnos, der Gott des Schlafes, wird in Takritis Arbeit zum Symbol kollektiver Amnesie. Ihr ursprüngliches Video und das für die Brunnenpassage neu entstandene Plakat heben die Bedeutung von Frauen hervor, die gegen unterdrückerische Regime und um Freiheit kämpfen – sowohl für sich selbst als auch für die Gesellschaft im Allgemeinen.
Durch die Platzierung des Plakats im öffentlichen Raum des Yppenplatzes möchte Takriti mit den Passant*innen über unsere Verbindung zu marginalisierten Erzählungen der Vergangenheit nachdenken und darüber, wie wir uns aus heutiger Sicht kollektiv zu ihnen verhalten können.
Ausstellung am Yppenplatz / Hintereingang der Brunnenpassage
16.05. –
01.09.2024
Di, Mi, Fr, Sa, So: 11:00 - 19:00
Do: 11:00 - 21:00
16.05. – 01.09. | 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Genossin Sonne
42
Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier
Museumsplatz 1
1070 Wien
A joint exhibition of the Kunsthalle Wien and the Wiener Festwochen.
In the eighteenth century, the term “revolution” came to designate a “violent overthrow of the existing political and social order,” a meaning fixed by the French Revolution. Before that time, astronomers had long used it to describe the orbits of the celestial bodies.
This essayistic group exhibition is dedicated to works of art and artistic theories that connect the cosmos, and especially the sun – the most important provider of energy for life on earth – to social and political movements. In light of the decentering of the human being as the subject of history, we inquire into the extent to which not just the natural environment on our earth but, on a grander scale, even the universe contributes to historical processes. For instance, is there a linkage, as the Soviet cosmists asserted, between increased solar activity (more sunspots and solar winds) and revolutions on earth? And which speculative and eminently enjoyable reflections on such questions can be found in contemporary visual art and poetry?
Opening Hours:
11:00 AM -
7:00 PM