Program

EVENT LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

Rodrigo Braga is a contemporary Brazilian artist who explores the complex relationships between humans and their environment through various artistic media such as performance, sculpture, video, photography, drawing, and painting. Highlighting the utilitarian exploitation of nature, his works indirectly touch on central aspects of current socio-ecological discourse. Braga addresses themes such as transformation, identity, and the vulnerability of the human body, using his own physical presence to create symbolically charged pieces that evoke emotional responses.

In this expansive installation, specifically designed for this space, Rodrigo Braga draws upon works from his series “Ponto Zero” (Point Zero), which he has been developing since 2018. Videos, photographs, and sculptures are complemented by textile works, object arrangements, and mural drawings created on site. Braga uses materials such as charcoal and limestone, an archaic substance formed hundreds of millions of years ago. The black-and-white hues of these materials represent the interdependent dualities of impermanence and growth, inner life and outer world, creation and destruction. These materials are repeatedly combined in his works, conveying the constant tension and interaction of opposing yet interdependent forces.

The egg and the eye are key symbols in “Ponto Zero”. The egg symbolizes the beginning of life, fragility, and potential, while the eye stands for consciousness, insight, and the ability to see and understand the world.
In the center of the room, the artist positions seating around the central object, which represents a symbiosis of egg and eye. Visitors are invited to linger, to meditate, or to reflect on and talk about what they perceive. Braga creates an artistic reflection on the origins, fragility, and fundamental processes of life, combining personal and universal perspectives.

Rodrigo Braga (*1976 in Manaus, Brazil) studied Fine Arts at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco in Recife. His work has been exhibited in solo presentations at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2016), and at the 30th Bienal de São Paulo (2012). He has received the PIPA prize for Brazilian Visual Art and the MASP Award for the Visual Arts – Best Emerging Talent. Rodrigo Braga lives and works in Rio de Janeiro and Paris.

Curated by Verena Kaspar-Eisert, chief curator MuseumsQuartier

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

The Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna is presenting a new series of works by the renowned Austrian jewellery artist Anna Heindl (born 1950) in the Kunstkammer.

The diptych ‘The Marriage of St Catherine’ (around 1400) by the so-called Master of Heiligenkreuz served as a central source of inspiration for Heindl’s latest creations. In an intensive artistic and researching process, Heindl explored the important work from the painting gallery, and puts 30 sculptural decorative objects into a delightful dialogue with the panel painting.

The exciting interplay between contemporary jewellery design and the Gothic sacred painting is a first for the Kunsthistorisches Museum in this form.

As part of VIENNA ART WEEK, a guided tour with the artist will take place in the Kunstkammer.

Registration required. FULLY BOOKED.

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

The exhibition Ins Dunkle schwimmen presents contemporary art that explores the shaping of the individual into a creative subject under “aesthetic capitalism.” It asks for continuations and deconstructions of the hopes that modernism placed in art as a supposedly authentic expression of inner life and in creativity as a tool for improving living conditions.

The curators Robert Müller und Cosima Rainer will guide you through the exhibition.

Exact address: Schönlaterngasse 5, Staircase 8, 1st Floor, 1010 Vienna

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

Art is capable of documenting and capturing time, connecting past and present and thus sensitizing us to issues relevant to our times. Art is able to imagine the future.

In keeping with the motto of this year’s VIENNA ART WEEK, the Heidi Horten Collection invites visitors on a kind of journey through time, approaching past eras from the perspective of today, as well as examining contemporary art for continuity and historical references and exploring current issues. While the permanent exhibition Klimt ⇄ Warhol illuminates important chapters in the (art-)history of the 20th century, the special exhibition Light Sound Senses with works of contemporary art shows time under different aspects: on the one hand as an objectively measurable physical unit, on the other as a subjective quantity in which individual and collective experiences are inscribed and in which transience is revealed

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EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN/ENGLISH

Artists:

Susanna Ojeda and collective | David Osthoff | Franziska Thurnauer and Fabian Holzinger

Cooperation:

Institute for artistic teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

In the exhibition “A collective journey to climate justice: learning together, acting together”, complex relationships between historical, social and economic causes of the injustices that have developed and are closely linked to ecological developments will be made visible and tangible through contemporary artistic practices. Themes such as criticism of the hierarchical relationship between humans and nature; ecofeminism*; ongoing colonial exploitation of humans, plants, animals and other planetary beings will be incorporated as well as indigenous knowledge from communities of “Abya Yala” (pre-colonial name for America). Time here is related to the cycles of nature and the heritage of the ancestors, breaking with the linearity of our understanding of time.

Given the size of the subject area, collaborative methods will be used in particular, focusing on the transfer and exchange of knowledge in the sense of collective learning with all senses, as well as developing and sharing strategies for action. The exhibition aims to use methods of art, artistic-creative learning and activism to generate and mobilize a diverse audience and thus establish a connection between the loss of biodiversity and social injustice.

Register at: info@sohostudios.at

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

The universal significance of friendship as part of human social behavior, whether on a personal or socio-political level, makes it a recurring theme of artistic exploration.

In the new exhibition at the Dom Museum Wien, the many facets of friendship are explored in the usual way using works from the Middle Ages to the present day.

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EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

An excursion of the Architekturzentrum Wien

A visit to two architecture firms that, in different ways, take the liberty of defining their profession and working methods in a broader social sense: AKT , an “association for architecture, culture and theory”, and the “Trabant” SPUTNIC.

AKT is a cross-generational collective of currently 17 people who understand architecture essentially as social communication. AKT became known for its design of the Austrian Pavilion for the Architecture Biennale in Venice 2023 (together with Hermann Czech).

Norbert Steiner / SPUTNIC combines the independence of a one-man office with event-related collaborations for teaching and construction projects. He runs his office as a hospitable alleyway pub that is also a gallery.

With Susanne Mariacher, Harald Trapp / AKT; Norbert Steiner / SPUTNIC. Moderated by Maria Welzig, Az W.

Meeting point: Rüdigergasse 8, 1050 Vienna

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EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

Marc Chagall (1887 – 1985) is one of the most famous artists of the 20th century, whose unique oeuvre with early works from 1905 to the 1980s. Growing up in the small town of Vitebsk (in present-day Belarus) as the child of an Orthodox Jewish Hasidic working-class family, his early childhood experiences would always have a formative influence on the artist.

Chagall’s fantastic, poetic visual worlds fascinate and – familiar as they are to us – always pose new riddles. In terms of style and content, his artistic oeuvre moves between the traditional and the avant-garde. Chagall has lived through the developments of 20th century art from primitivism to cubism, fauvism and surrealism and has created his very own pictorial language. The essential continuity in a simultaneously diverse artistic expression is also unmistakable.
Motherhood and birth, death and love dominate Chagall’s paintings as central themes, which are reflected through repetition and variation over the years and illuminated from a new perspective. Recurring motifs such as the cockerel and donkey, the cow or the fish function as a flexible part of a variable, fantastical cosmos. The apparent contradictions and contrasts in Chagall’s compositions and pictorial worlds show the artist’s search for a ‘logic of the illogical’, through which he adds a psychological dimension to traditional pictorial forms.

The presentation at the ALBERTINA Museum, with around 100 works from all of the artist’s creative phases, focuses on this lively exploration of the most original and universal themes of life, revealing a variety of ‘impossible possibilities’.

The exhibition is a co-operation between the ALBERTINA, Vienna and the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf.curator’s tour of the Heidi Horten Collection

Registration required. FULLY BOOKED.

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

Guided tour of

Considering the Collection & Cranach’s Holy Productivity An Insert by Klaus Scherübel

with Sabine Folie and Claudia Koch

The exhibition Considering the Collection (curated by Claudia Koch) concentrates on the Baroque period, presenting a cross-section of the core of the collection, the bequest of Anton Paula Graf Lamberg-Sprinzenstein from 1822. Other points of focus are the development of representations of space in early modern painting north and south of the Alps, the work of the Renaissance artist Lucas Cranach the Elder, portraits and self-portraits of artists in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and the use of architectural fragments in Baroque painting. These topics refer to Scherübel’s insert.

Against the backdrop of his installations that engage with the museographical genre of the period room, and related conceptual works in which aspects of painting, the book, sculpture, architecture and exhibition design enter into relation with one another, Klaus Scherübel’s current project Cranach’s Holy Productivity VOL. 28 An Insert by Klaus Scherübel (curated by Sabine Folie) deals with modes of depicting space and architecture in connection with questions of artists’ self-portrayals and strategies of productivity, using the example of a work by Lucas Cranach the Elder, one of the most important painters of the German Renaissance and Reformation.

Registration required

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EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN.

In a guided walk Elena Blum (cultural worker and art historian) will lead through the galleries

• Galerie Eva Presenhuber
• Galerie Peter Gaugy

There, visitors will get an overview of the galleries, as well as the exhibitions on display during VIENNA ART WEEK.

Meeting point: 

Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Lichtenfelsgasse 5, 1010 Vienna

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EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN.

In fall 2024, the Belvedere will present the first institutional exhibition in Europe of the artistic work of Ghanaian painter Amoako Boafo (* 1984 in Accra). As one of the most important voices of a new generation of Black artists, Boafo portrays friends, acquaintances and public figures in his paintings, which convey a contemporary image of Black self-empowerment and self-awareness.

The works embody the idea of a Black identity that is fed by one’s own culture, which is to be understood as an act of resistance against racist attributions by the white majority society. This form of Black subjectivity is also expressed in the appearance of the people portrayed, who confront the viewer as self-confident individuals and often seek direct eye contact. Boafo stages the clothing like collages with paper textures that not only borrow from floral and geometric wallpaper patterns, but also make references to historical and political dress codes of Black culture. The artist’s intensive preoccupation with Black history is subtly reflected in the paintings when literary works by central pioneers of the Black freedom movement are used as motifs.

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EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

The curator team Christian Bazant-Hegemark and Esther Hladik (nee Mlenek) will guide you through the SUBSTANZ exhibition, which presents national and international artists and cultural actors who take social action in their production and/or in private initiatives.

Registration required. FULLY BOOKED.

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

An extensive retrospective at the Leopold Museum is dedicated to the outstanding Austrian artist Rudolf Wacker (1893-1939).

A tour of the exhibition with curator Laura Feurle traces his life and artistic work, which was shaped by the political events of the First World War, the Russian Revolution and National Socialism in Germany and Austria.

A comparative look at works from different creative periods makes it clear how artistic technique and the pace of work also changed with stylistic development. At the same time, the temporality of the pictorial worlds depicted changes: The rhythm of the expressionist play of line and color and the moving life of things is completely stopped in the new-objective creative phase. The simply chosen motifs and compositions are increasingly reduced, condensed and intensified.

Although the accelerated realities of modern life do not find their way into Wacker’s art, these mature works are by no means out of date: with the rise of National Socialism, the proverbial “ravages of time” begin to gnaw at the world of things in Wacker’s still lifes.

These works open up associative spaces for a critical view of the zeitgeist of the 1920s and 1930s, which Wacker perceived as threatening.

Registration required. FULLY BOOKED.

Meeting point: Entrance area

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

Rembrandt van Rijn, one of the most important painters of the Dutch Golden Age, was a master at highlighting the theme of “FACING TIME” in his works. His portraits and self-portraits are profound studies of human life characterized by the passing of time.

Rembrandt’s ability to capture the traces of age, the emotions and the soul of his subjects lends his paintings a timeless quality. His self-portraits in particular, which he created over decades, impressively show how he viewed and reflected on himself and his art in the mirror of time.

Through his works, Rembrandt invites us to come to terms with the transience of life and the enduring power of art.

Registration required. FULLY BOOKED.

Meeting point: Entrance hall of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, after ticket control.

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN/ENGLISH

This year, seven guided tours will again lead through selected studios in the Vienna´s diverse districts. Guided by art mediators, visitors have the rare opportunity to get an insight into the working world of the artists and to enter into a dialogue with them.

“District Tour 2” leads through the 2nd district – and into the studios of:

• Juliana Herrero
• Valentin Aigner
• Shared studio Gianna Virginia Prein, Nika Kupyrova & Mara Novak

Meeting point: Vorgartenstraße 215/18, 1020 Vienna

Ending: Volkertplatz 8, 1020 Vienna

Walking distance: 25 min.

Due to limited capacity, registration is required. FULLY BOOKED.

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN/ENGLISH

This year, seven guided tours will again lead through selected studios in the Vienna´s diverse districts. Guided by art mediators, visitors have the rare opportunity to get an insight into the working world of the artists and to enter into a dialogue with them.

“District Tour 3” leads through the 15th district – and into the studios of:

• Florian Nitsch
• Arnold Reinthaler
• Nana Mandl
• Teresa Grandits

Meeting point: Pelzgasse 20, 1150 Vienna

Ending: Neubergenstraße 10, 1150 Vienna

Walking distance: 20 min.

Due to limited capacity, registration is required. FULLY BOOKED.

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN/ENGLISH

This year, seven guided tours will again lead through selected studios in the Vienna´s diverse districts. Guided by art mediators, visitors have the rare opportunity to get an insight into the working world of the artists and to enter into a dialogue with them.

“District Tour 1” leads through the 6th & 7th district – and into the studios of:

• Thaer Maarouf
• Jürgen Bauer
• Almut Rink and Katarina Matiasek
• Studio building Gumpendorferstraße 113 (mit Katja Berger, Georg Frauenschuh, Vasilena Gankovska, Sabine Jelinek, Bruno Klomfar, Lukas Schaller, Louise Schneider, Beatrix Zobl)

Meeting point: Neubaugasse 68/4s, 1070 Wien

Ending: Gumpendorfer Straße 113, 1060 Wien

Walking distance: 25 min.

Due to limited capacity, registration is required.

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EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

With its iconic objects, the Carl Auböck workshop has shaped Austrian design for over 100 years. The MAK is dedicating an extensive show to the legendary manufactory, which still produces in Bernardgasse in Vienna’s seventh district and was often ahead of its time, focusing on works from the interwar and post-war period up to the 1980s, which paint a picture of home decor as a field of experimentation.

A curator’s tour with Bärbel Vischer.

Meeting point: MAK Columned Hall

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EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

The artist and recipient of the STRABAG Artaward International Andrey Klassen and Sebastian Haselsteiner (Head of STRABAG Kunstforum) will guide you through the exhibition Séance.

In his first solo exhibition in Austria, Andrey Klassen presents recently created works. He describes his artistic approach as follows:

“I longed for peace rather than color and for asceticism in terms of technique – neither of which I found in painting but only encountered in drawing. However, draftsmanship in the classical sense was not enough for me; on the border line between painting and drawing, I stumbled upon ink painting, which I had previously only come across in art from Asia, and adapted it as my personal technique.

With ink on paper, it is possible to paint a picture, but also to write a book; that chimes very well with my approach, as I tell many stories in my images. In my works, I am like a scout, flashlight in hand and certain he knows the way, guiding the viewer towards the light, through an animated world of shadows flickering with life. It’s an adventure and a party for special guests.”

Registration required: kunstforum@strabag.com.

For barrier-free access, please contact in advance: kunstforum@strabag.com.

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

The Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport has been providing working studios for visual artists for many decades. Currently, subsidized studios are awarded at the 2 locations Westbahnstraße and Wattgasse, some more studios in the Prater area are supervised. These 48 studios for visual artists are awarded for a period of 7 or 10 years after a publicly published call for proposals and after adjudication by an independent panel of experts.

Maria Christine Holter and Klaus Speidel offer insights into the work of the artists at the studio during a guided tour. The studios of the following artists will be visited:

• Stefan Klampfer
• Katrin Hornek
• Robert Gruber
• Jörg Piringer
• Andy Boot
• Luiza Margan
• Angelika Loderer
• Birke Gorm

3rd Floor:

• Marko Zink
• Anca Benera
• Julia Haugeneder
• Edin Zenun Fakovic
• Doris Theres Hofer
• Lena Violetta Leitner

Registration required: sign up here

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

The Federal Ministry of Arts and Culture has been providing working studios for visual artists for many decades. Currently, subsidized studios are awarded at the 2 locations Westbahnstraße and Wattgasse, some more studios in the Prater area are supervised. These 48 studios for visual artists are awarded for a period of 7 or 10 years after a publicly published call for proposals and after adjudication by an independent panel of experts.

Ruth Horak and Klaus Speidel offer insights into the work of the artists at the studio during a guided tour. The studios of the following artists will be visited:

• Ernst Jäger
• Doris Piwonka
• Eva-Maria Eichinger
• Manuel Gorkiewicz
• Elisabeth Kihlström
• Michael Strasser

Registration required. FULLY BOOKED.

EVENT LANGUAGE: GERMAN

The special exhibition ‘(Un)Known Artists of the Amazon‘ focuses on Indigenous art from Brazil – from traditional feather art to contemporary works – and traces back how public perception of this art has changed.

The exhibition is a joint project between the Weltmuseum Wien and the private Museu de Arte Indígena in Curitiba, Brazil, engaging the two collections in dialogue.

With over 120 objects, the show’s curators, Claudia Augustat and Julianna Podolan Martins, reflect the manner in which autonomous works of art have evolved from functional and ritual objects, thus opening up new perspectives on the (un)known artists of the Amazon.

Registration required. FULLY BOOKED.