EXHIBITION
Wien, Wien nur du allein
Wigand – Alt – Oláh
Stefan Oláh
Rudolf von Alt
Balthasar Wigand
The exhibition is dedicated to the work of three artists—Balthasar Wigand, Rudolf von Alt, and Stefan Oláh—and their engagement with the city of Vienna. Spanning two centuries, this exploration begins with Wigand, whose most significant works were created around 1820, it continues with Rudolf von Alt, the quintessential "chronicler" of 19th-century Vienna, and concludes with Stefan Oláh, who has revisited the city from diverse perspectives for over two decades.
Wien, Wien nur du allein adopts the vantage points of his predecessors, revisiting their locations and capturing, through his photographs, how the city and its surroundings present themselves today. The selection of subjects is far from random. It is guided by Wigand’s exquisite Vienna miniatures, set into opulent cassettes, and by five outstanding watercolors by Rudolf von Alt.
May to October 2025
The exhibition offers a unique opportunity to compare the "then" and "now" while discovering the works of these three artists from a singular perspective.
This journey takes visitors from the Spinnerin am Kreuz through the heart of Vienna, featuring landmarks such as St. Stephen’s Cathedral and Karlskirche, to Schönbrunn Palace and, finally, into the Gastein Valley. Oláh’s gaze is unflinching, devoid of judgment, yet profoundly analytical. He reveals places that have remained virtually unchanged over two centuries and others that have been irrevocably altered, sometimes to the point of being "built over."
EXHIBITION
Experiment Expressionismus
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Weiblicher Akt im Badezauber, 1912 © Heidi Horten Collection
Alexej von Jawlensky, Er und Sie, 1912 © Heidi Horten Collection
Max Pechstein, Die gelbe Maske II., 1910 © Bildrecht, Vienna, 2024
Egon Schiele, Damenbildnis (Wally Neuzil), 1912 © Heidi Horten Collection
Experiment Expressionismus - Schiele meets Nosferatu is a comprehensive, cross-genre exhibition on Expressionism. Important works from the Heidi Horten Collection act as a starting point of the exhibition that is curated by Roland Fischer-Briand and Rolf Johannsen. In particular works by the Expressionist painters Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emil Nolde and Max Pechstein, among others. These artists are shown in context with works by Austrian Expressionist painters like Herbert Boeckl, Helene Funke, Oskar Kokoschka, Max Oppenheimer, Egon Schiele, Helene von Taussig and others.
11.04.-31.08.2025
In addition to visual arts, painting and sculpture, the exhibition also focuses on silent film - the new, if not leading medium of the time - which is illustrated in the exhibition with posters, film stills and excerpts from classics such as Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari or Nosferatu – eine Symphonie des Grauens, but also films less familiar to the general public such as Genuine or Der müde Tod.
During the exhibition, the museum offers an evening program presenting silent films that will be shown for the first time in long version, accompanied by live music.
EXHIBITION
The Line
Paul Klee, Die Geschwister, 1930 © Heidi Horten Collection
There are cheerful lines, somber ones, serious, tragic, exuberant, weak, and strong lines. They are an independent language to express emotions, energy, rhythm, space, light, and movement.
—Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko
The exhibition Die Linie | The Line is dedicated to the line as a fundamental element of visual art. Like tones in music and characters in language, the line constitutes an essential principle of design in drawing and painting. Between subjective gestures and constructive abstraction, the line serves endless functions: it structures surfaces and defines forms, creates contours and boundaries, separates and connects. It documents and records space and time, depicts reality, creates illusion, and captures the imaginary.
September 2025 to March 2026
Starting from the classical medium of drawing, the exhibition explores exemplary ways in which the line can be used to create artistic worlds and respond artistically to the world. A particular focus is placed on contemporary works that transcend traditional genre boundaries by extending the line into three-dimensional space. The exhibition also includes works that make the line tangible within the context of artistic engagement with social and political spaces.
Artists featured in the exhibition include:
Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, John M Armleder, Kader Attia, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Angela Bulloch, Marie Cool/Fabio Balducci, Edgar Degas, Fred Eerdekens, Dan Flavin, Lucio Fontana, Lucian Freud, Antony Gormley, Keith Haring, David Hockney, Alexej Jawlensky, Donald Judd, Birgit Jürgenssen, Zilvinas Kempinas, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Gustav Klimt, Edgar Knoop, Brigitte Kowanz, Alfred Kubin, Roy Lichtenstein, Constantin Luser, Henri Matisse, Agnes Martin, Vera Molnár, Nick Oberthaler, Pablo Picasso, Giulia Piscitelli, Sigmar Polke, Dieter Roth, Fred Sandback, Egon Schiele, Chiharu Shiota, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Cy Twombly, and Andy Warhol.
