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OPERA & MUSICAL THEATRE

MUSEUMS & EXHIBITIONS

THEATRE & DANCE

CONCERTS & SOUNDS

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Burgtheater, around 1900

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Welcome to ECR Arts & Culture!

The European Society of Radiology is proud and happy to present you with an extensive and distinguished cultural programme for your time at ECR 2017.

Vienna fulfils anew its reputation as cultural capital of the world, providing a boundless variety of artistic endeavours. Be it the virtuosity of Vienna’s famous orchestras led by the world’s leading conductors, the transcendent beauty of the opera, or the sheer abundance of fine arts ranging from ancient Greek sculptures to Baroque paintings, from Art Nouveau furniture to installations representing visionary views of the 21st century – there is sure to be found something for every artistic taste.

On the following pages you will find details and information regarding opera, concerts, museums, exhibitions, theatre and dance.

We hope this brochure will help you make the most of your spare time during the congress.

Enjoy your stay in Vienna!

Julia Patuzzi ESR Office – Department of PR & Media

Stefan Vladar

KonzerthausMusikverein

Porgy & BessArena

GasometerSzene Wien

Arnold Schönberg CenterHaus der Musik

Mozarthaus Vienna

CONCERTS & SOUNDS

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Classical Music

Konzerthaus

The Wiener Konzerthaus, inaugurated in 1913, is one of the most important and artistically advanced musical institutions in Europe. Each season around 700 performances featuring more than 3,000 differ-ent compositions are held in the Konzerthaus’ four concert halls. With its broad, diverse and exciting programme, the Konzerthaus ranks alongside the Vienna State Opera and the Musikverein in contribut-ing to Vienna’s fame as a city of music. The mix of the old and the new as presented in its opening concert, featuring works by Richard Strauss and Ludwig van Beethoven, has remained a significant characteristic of the Konzerthaus’ repertoire to this day. The Konz-erthaus not only stages the works of major classical composers – including Bach, Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert, to name but a few – but promotes contem-porary music as well.

February 27, 19:30

Matti Bye Ensemble

Music to ‘Erotikon’, a movie by

Mauritz Stiller (Sweden, 1920)

February 28, 19:30

Wiener KammerOrchester,

conductor Stefan Vladar

Isabelle van Keulen, violin

W.A. Mozart: Concerto for violin and

orchestra d major K 218; L. van Beethoven:

Romance for violin and orchestra g

major op. 40, Romance for violin and

orchestra f major op. 50; F. Schubert:

Symphony No. 8 c major D 944

March 1, 19:30

Wiener KammerOrchester,

conductor Stefan Vladar

Isabelle van Keulen, violin

W.A. Mozart: Concerto for violin and

orchestra d major K 218; L. van Beethoven:

Romance for violin and orchestra g

major op. 40, Romance for violin and

orchestra f major op. 50; F. Schubert:

Symphony No. 8 c major D 944

March 2, 19:30

David Krakauer

The Big Picture (world music)

March 3, 19:30

Wolfgang Muthspiel Quintet

Jazz

March 4, 19:30

Wiener Symphoniker,

conductor Philippe Jordan

J.S. Bach: Johannespassion

(St. John Passion) BMV 245

March 5, 15:30

Wiener Symphoniker,

conductor Philippe Jordan

J.S. Bach: Johannespassion

(St. John Passion) BMV 245

1030 Vienna, Lothringerstraße 20www.konzerthaus.at

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Classical MusicConcerts & Sounds

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Musikverein

Music lovers throughout the world know the Musikverein as the centre of Viennese musical culture, as the focus of the international concert circuit, and as the Eldorado of classical music. The Musikverein – a resonant name, a scintillating idea. Strictly speaking, it has a twofold meaning; the concert hall at Vienna’s Karlsplatz and the society to which this building belongs, the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde (Society of Music Lovers). Its members wrote enthusiastically on the occasion of the building’s opening in 1870, “This building is, and should remain, dedicated to the learning and mastery of the art of music: a work of art in itself, a home of music, a credit to the city and the empire.”

March 1, 19:30

Orchestre Nationale du Capitole de

Toulouse, conductor Tugan Sokhiev

J. Massenet: Don Quijote

March 2, 19:00

Les Arts Florissants,

conductor Paul Agnew

C. Monteverdi: L’Orfeo

March 4, 19:30

Concentus Musicus Wien

María Hinojosa Montenegro, soprano

U. van Wassenaer; A. Vivaldi; L. Boccherini

March 5, 11:00

Concentus Musicus Wien

María Hinojosa Montenegro, soprano

U. van Wassenaer; A. Vivaldi; L. Boccherini

1010 Vienna, Bösendorferstraße 12www.musikverein.at

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Tugan Sokhiev

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La Bandada Mancini

Jazz & Soul

Porgy & Bess

Porgy & Bess is a jazz and music club with a pluralistic approach. It acts as a central meeting point for the contemporary Austrian scene with all its different styles, as well as a representative forum for co-opera-tions between national and international musicians. The club features an internet café, a restaurant and three bars for the audience.

February 27, 20:30

Accordion Festival

Filippo Gambetta & Emilyn Stam (Italy/Canada) / Flamenco Experience Sextet

(Slovakia/Czech Republic/Spain/Serbia)

February 28, 20:30

The Nova Jazz & Blues Nights present John Mayall (UK)

March 1, 20:30

Koglmann / Arcari / Pasztor

(Austria/Italy)

March 2, 20:30

Pasquale Stafano (Italy)

March 3, 20:30

OZMA ‘Welcome Home’ (France)

March 4, 20:30

Accordion Festival

La Bandada Mancini (Spain)

March 5, 20:30

Zhenya Strigalev’s Never Group with

Federico Dannemann / Linley Marthe /

Eric Harland (Romania/Argentina/US)

1010 Vienna, Riemergasse 11www.porgy.at

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Jazz & SoulConcerts & Sounds

John Mayall

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Cymbals Eat Guitars

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Pop & Alternative

Arena

Once standing in the Arena, one cannot blame its founders for having chosen such a name. With its four concert halls, its open air stage and its setting in an ancient infinite factory, the place is simply immense. So is its musical offer with a programme including stars like Shaggy, the Babyshambles, Toto, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Cardigans, and many more.

February 27, 20:00

Cymbals Eat Guitars (US)

March 1, 19:00

Antilopen Gang (Germany)

March 3, 20:00

State Champs (US)

1030 Vienna, Baumgasse 80www.arena.co.at

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Gasometer

This place owes its name to its previous function: a gasholder. Gas was indeed produced and stored in its four circular brick-buildings until 1969. Today, the ‘Gasometer City’ is a massive and improbable structure which shelters residences, dormitories, a shopping mall, a cinema and a concert hall. The latter welcomes diversified artists of international standing such as Evanescence, Mia and Seal – among others.

March 4, 20:00

Kalkbrenner Fritz BA-CA Halle Gasometer1110 Vienna, Guglgasse 8www.planet.tt

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Szene Wien

Started as an association, Szene Wien welcomes art-ists from various geographical and musical horizons. From rock to ethno music up to dance performances, it presents almost every night talented interpreters from all over the world.

February 27, 20:00

Helmet

February 28, 20:00

Against the Current

1110 Vienna, Hauffgasse 26www.szenewien.com

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Miscellaneous

Arnold Schönberg Center

The Foundation is a cultural institution designed exclusively for public scholarly and educational pur-poses, including establishing the Arnold Schönberg Archive in Vienna, its maintenance and preservation, the education of the public with regard to Schönberg’s interdisciplinary artistic influence, as well as teaching and publicising Schönberg’s contributions to music and other achievements.

It has made its name by teaching, researching, and further educating musicians, scholars, and the public at large, but especially through the regular organisa-tion of exhibitions, concerts, and other events, always with regard to the life and work of Arnold Schönberg. Schönberg’s paintings and drawings are on permanent display; lectures, conferences and symposia provide the theoretical background for the works of this fas-cinating, versatile artist.

Palais Fanto1030 Vienna, Schwarzenbergplatz 6Opening hours: Monday–Friday 10 am–5 pmwww.schoenberg.at

Arnold Schönberg,

Erwin Stein, Anton Webern,

Zandvoort, March 1914

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MiscellaneousConcerts & Sounds

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Haus der Musik

The House of Music Vienna makes music heard, seen and felt in various experience zones on seven floors. Visitors are prompted to engage in interactive play with music, they are given information on the history of music; they experience unexpected sounds, and will come to know the House of Music as a centre for aesthetic, scientific, popular and artistic encounters with music. The House of Music offers – metaphori-cally speaking – musical language courses and hopes to play a role in helping its visitors to speak as well as understand the language of music.

1010 Vienna, Seilerstätte 30Opening hours: daily 10 am–10 pmwww.hausdermusik.com

Mozarthaus Vienna

Domgasse 5 is the only one of Mozart’s apartments that still exists today. As Mozarthaus Vienna it is a centre devoted to the life and works of Mozart. The composer lived here from 1784 to 1787 in grand style, with four large rooms, two small ones and a kitchen. The life and works of this musical genius are presented here on four exhibition levels. In addition to Mozart’s apartment, visitors can find out about the times in which Mozart lived and his most important works. The exhibition focuses on his years in Vienna, which marked a high point in his creativity; right in this apartment he wrote ‘The Marriage of Figaro’, one of his most famous operas. The tour starts on the 3rd floor of the building with details of Mozart’s time in Vienna: where he lived and performed, who his friends and supporters were, his relationship to the Freemasons, his passion for games and much more. The presentation on the 2nd floor deals with Mozart’s operatic works, and the apartment on the 1st floor, the real heart of the building, focuses on the two and a half years that Mozart lived there.

1010 Vienna, Domgasse 5Opening hours: daily 10 am–7 pmwww.mozarthausvienna.at

Franz Schubert’s glasses

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Bettina Ehrlich-Bauer, Self-portrait, 1928

MUSEUMS & EXHIBITIONS

Arnold Schönberg CenterBeethoven Pasqualatihaus

BestattungsmuseumDokumentationsarchiv des

österreichischen WiderstandesEsperanto Museum

GlobenmuseumHaus der Musik

HaydnhausHeeresgeschichtliches Museum

HofmobiliendepotJohann Strauss Wohnung

JosephinumJüdisches Museum Wien

LiteraturmuseumMozarthaus Vienna

Naturhistorisches MuseumÖsterreichisches Theatermuseum

Pathologisch-Anatomische Sammlung im NarrenturmPratermuseum

RömermuseumSchubert Geburtshaus

Sigmund Freud-MuseumTechnisches Museum

UhrenmuseumVolkskundemuseum

Wien MuseumWiener Kriminalmuseum

ZOOM Kindermuseum

AlbertinaBank Austria Kunstforum

BelvedereGemäldegalerie der Akademie

der bildenden Künste WienKunsthalle

Kunst Haus WienKunsthistorisches Museum

Leopold MuseumMAK

MUMOK Stiftung LudwigOstLicht Galerie

SecessionWestLicht Galerie

21er Haus

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Fine Arts

Albertina

The Albertina houses one of the world’s largest and most precious graphic collections. Presently it con-tains almost 70,000 drawings and more than one million graphic prints from all of the significant art eras from the late Gothic period to the contemporary. The range of outstanding works spans from Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael, to Albrecht Dürer, Rem-brandt and Rubens, and further to Lorrain, Delacroix, Manet and Cézanne.

The Albertina is distinguished for its collections from the 20th century, including the works of Schiele, Klimt and Kokoschka, as well as Warhol, Rauschenberg and Baselitz. The photographic collection contains examples of scientific photography, studio photog-raphy, early colour photography and pictorial works. The architecture collection consists of almost 25,000 drafts, sketches and models. The core pieces are the architectural models by Otto Wagner, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and Alvar Aalto.

Gerhard Richter, Abstract Painting, 2001

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January 25 – April 25, 2017

Special Exhibition:

Poussin to David.

French drawings at the Albertina

Whether poetic love stories or mythological epics, whether atmospheric portrait studies or picturesque ruins – today, the masterpieces of French Baroque art are more enthralling than ever.

70 major works selected from the Albertina’s rich holdings of drawings sweep visitors into the dreamy and multi-layered cosmos of French art from the Baroque and Rococo periods: the works on display include Nicolas Poussin’s breath-taking free landscape studies as well as Claude Lorrain’s light-drenched depictions of nature, and playful masterpieces by François Boucher and Jean-Honoré Fragonard like-wise assume their rightful places here, as do the lovely scenes of Jean-Baptiste Greuze. The crowning conclu-sion of this showing, which reflects two centuries of French art, is provided by the imposing creations of Jacques Louis David.

February 22 – June 18, 2017

Special Exhibition:

Egon Schiele

The masterpieces of Egon Schiele: works both passion-ate and ruthlessly blunt, and at once highly subjective and allegorical.

To kick off the commemoration of the 100th anni-versary of Schiele’s death, the Albertina is devoting a broadly conceived exhibition to this seminal artist. The selection for this showing introduces visitors to an oeuvre centred on the great theme of human beings’ existential loneliness. Works from the Albertina’s extensive collection provide this exhibition’s concep-tual starting point and are complemented by various important loan works from Austrian and foreign col-lections and museums. The showing thus presents a unique perspective on Schiele’s artistic development, which was so abruptly terminated upon his untimely death at the tender age of 28.

July 11, 2016 – March 19, 2017

Special Exhibition:

Contemporary Art.

Andy Warhol to Anselm Kiefer

The focus of Contemporary Art lies on art from the second half of the 20th century, featuring both the stars and the broad diversity of art after 1945. In this year’s presentation of contemporary output at the Albertina, works by Anselm Kiefer, Gerhard Richter, Arnulf Rainer, Georg Baselitz, Alex Katz and Maria Lassnig, and others take centre-stage.

Furthermore, a generous donation by Gottfried Helnwein has made it possible to show seven high-quality paintings by the famous Austrian artist at the exhibition.

Around 80 masterpieces serve to illustrate the mul-tifaceted nature of postmodernism, ranging from Hyperrealism to abstraction and from colour aesthet-ics to political themes, while also providing a clear impression of the complex parallel trends of the past few decades.

Featured artists:Karel Appel | Georg Baselitz | Lucio Fontana | Sam Francis | Gottfried Helnwein | Hans Hofmann | Jörg Immendorff | Alex Katz | Anselm Kiefer | Yves Klein | Maria Lassnig | Roy Lichtenstein | Morris Louis | Markus Prachensky | Arnulf Rainer | Gerhard Richter | Hubert Scheibl | Sean Scully | Victor Vasarely | Andy Warhol | Tom Wesselmann

Alex Katz,

Black Hat 2, 2010

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Permanent Exhibition:

Monet to Picasso. The Batliner Collection

Under the title ‘Monet to Picasso’, the Albertina exhib-its its vast holdings of paintings from the period of Modernism, which are primarily made up of works from the Batliner Collection. The epochs covered by this reinstallation of the museum’s permanent col-lection range from Impressionism and Fauvism to German Expressionism, the Bauhaus, and the Russian avant-garde; the presentation concludes with works by Picasso.

January 18 – March 19, 2017

Special Exhibition:

Markus Prachensky. A tribute

“Very early on, the idea came to me that red was the colour of my life,” said Markus Prachensky (1932–2011).

The Austrian artist’s radiant, dynamic, and contrast-rich red brushstrokes virtually dance through his oeuvre. The individual works, at turns wild in their gestures and serene in their composition, are at once energetic and meditative.

Markus Prachensky, whose strong anchoring in Aus-tria’s art scene dates back to the 1950s, is among today’s best-regarded Austrian artists internationally. And with its tribute on what would have been his 85th birthday, the Albertina brings together prominent works from its own collection with hitherto unknown works from Prachensky’s extensive artistic estate. This exhibition also presents Prachensky’s generous gift to the Albertina of four important paintings – key works in his oeuvre – as well as a number of outstanding drawings.

1010 Vienna, Albertinaplatz 1Opening hours:daily 10 am–6 pmWednesday 10 am–9 pmwww.albertina.at

Edgar Degas, Spanish dancer and leg studies, ca. 1882

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Markus Prachensky, Red on Black, Puglia, 1976

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Bank Austria Kunstforum

The Kunstforum is a top address for art lovers, espe-cially for classical modern painting of the post-war years. Every year, 300,000 people visit the temporary exhibitions held in this private institution, shows that are unique across the globe. Leading museums present their works here as well as private collectors. Whether van Gogh or Miró, Kandinsky or Chagall, Warhol or Lichtenstein, the great names of art are united here. Since 2000, there have also been exhibitions devoted to contemporary artists.

December 7 – March 26, 2017

Special Exhibition: Georgia O’Keeffe

Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) was a founder of American Modernism and a pioneer as an artist. The opportunities to see O’Keeffe in Europe are rare: her paintings are distributed around the leading US col-lections, where they have gained an iconic status. This retrospective now provides for the first time in Austria a view of O’Keeffe’s oeuvre, which encompasses seven decades. Among the exhibits is also Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 (1932), the most expensive picture by a woman artist ever auctioned.

O’Keeffe debuted in 1916 in an artistic circle domi-nated by men surrounding her later husband, the photographer Alfred Stieglitz. The exhibition starts off with her lesser known early work, with its close affinity to Wassily Kandinsky’s ‘spiritual’ abstraction. O’Keeffe’s monumental flower pictures of the 1920s, which under the influence of the writings of Sigmund Freud evoked strongly sexualising interpretations, are among her most popular subjects. Formal specifics like the sharp focus, the cutting-edge delineation and the close-up are a visual demonstration of O’Keeffe’s innovative transposition of photographic strate-gies into painting. The show underlines this artistic dialogue with a selection of photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams and Paul Strand. O’Keeffe’s almost abstract late landscapes inspired by the bleak, endless desert of New Mexico embody the creation of ‘The Great American Thing’, a specific American art, and anticipate the art trends of Abstract Expres-sionism and Minimalism. The exhibition accentuates O’Keeffe’s singular position, assumed through her bridge-building between European Modernism and American post-war abstraction, also through her constant mediation between a relationship with nature and abstraction, between organic and geometric, feel-ing and de-personalisation.

The exhibition was organised by Tate Modern in cooperation with the Bank Austria Kunstforum and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.

1010 Vienna, Freyung 8Opening hours: daily 10 am–7 pmFriday 10 am–9 pmwww.kunstforumwien.at

Georgia O’Keeffe,

Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1, 1932

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Georgia O’Keeffe,

Black Cross with Stars and Blue, 1929

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An image of a remarkably modern painter emerges, a woman who co-founded and taught at Vienna’s art school for women and girls and, as a courageous and independent personality, exerted a tremendous influ-ence on the next generation of young female artists.

February 17 – June 11, 2017

Special Exhibition:

The Klewan Collection.

Portrait(s) of Modernism

Helmut Klewan is a passionate art expert and gallerist who has worked in Vienna and Munich. Over the past four decades he has amassed an impressive collec-tion of important works ranging from international classical modernism to key examples of post-war art.

Now 193 works by over fifty artists from this col-lection are being showcased in the Orangery at the Lower Belvedere. The main focus is on portraits by very different artists, for example Francis Bacon and the nearly unknown Armand Francois Henrion. By extension, the show also represents a portrait of mod-ernism in all its variety.

Yet the Klewan collection is not only distinguished by its diversity but also by its highly individual char-acter. It even includes some unusual works that are categorised as kitsch. Another distinctive feature is the collection of key works of post-1945 Austrian art. Helmut Klewan (b. 1943) was in close contact with major Austrian artists including Arnulf Rainer, Maria Lassnig, and Friedensreich Hundertwasser. As a gallerist he made an important contribution to promoting Austrian art abroad.

The exhibition features works by Christian Ludwig Attersee, Francis Bacon, Giorgio de Chirico, Jean Dubuffet, Salvador Dalí, Alberto Giacometti, Maria Lassnig, Pablo Picasso, Arnulf Rainer, Hans Stau-dacher, Fritz Wotruba, and many other artists.

Belvedere

The Belvedere is one of the world’s most important museums with collections spanning from the Middle Ages to the present day. The museum is housed in the Belvedere Palace, which Prince Eugene of Savoy had built as a summer residence. The collections of the 19th and 20th centuries are housed in the Upper Belvedere with works by Biedermeier artists (Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Jakob Alt etc.), French Impressionists (Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir etc.) and masterpieces by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Oskar Kokoschka. In the Lower Belvedere the Museum of Medieval Art and the Baroque Museum are located. The two build-ings are linked by a unique Baroque garden. The entire ensemble ranks among the world’s most beautiful and best preserved historic palaces and parks. From the north side of the Upper Belvedere one can appreciate the renowned and stunning view of Vienna.

December 16, 2016 – April 9, 2017

Special Exhibition:

Tina Blau. Masterpieces in Focus

One hundred years after her death, the Belvedere is paying tribute to the painter Tina Blau in an exhibi-tion from the series ‘Masterpieces in Focus’. The show features major works from every stage in Tina Blau’s career as well as previously unknown paintings that came to light during the research for the new cata-logue raisonné of the artist’s work.

Born in Vienna in 1845 as the daughter of a Jewish doctor, Tina Blau became one of the most successful landscapists in her day. She started taking private tuition at the age of fifteen and went on her first study trip to Transylvania at sixteen. After study-ing in Vienna and Munich, from 1870 she made a vital contribution to developing a style of Austrian landscape painting known as ‘Stimmungsimpression-ismus’ (literally mood or atmospheric impressionism). Periods in Hungary, Holland, Italy, Germany, France, and Switzerland not only provided insights into the latest developments in European painting but also an abundance of subject matter for her to hone her skills.

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Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien

The Picture Gallery of the

Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

You will be quite surprised to discover right in the middle of the artists’ ateliers at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts – Austria’s major school of contemporary art – a worldwide renowned collection of highlights of European painting from the 14th to the 19th centuries. The 300 year old unit of an art school and collection remains a rare historical monument nowadays. In 1822, thanks to a donation of about 750 paintings by Count Lamberg-Sprinzenstein to the Academy, the Gemäldegalerie was opened to the general public as the first art museum in Austria. A splendid tour through the history of European painting leads from Bosch’s Last Judgement Triptych to Titian’s late art as well as to a series of exuberant works by Rubens. Dutch painting of the 17th century is present in most of its many facets; the Italian 18th century shows its splendour in G.B. Tiepolo’s and F. Guardi’s works. A unique ensemble of canvases and sculptures by Füger, Abel, Wutky, Zauner, and Canova gives an idea of the florescence of the neoclassical arts at the Vienna Academy around 1800.

1010 Vienna, Schillerplatz 3Opening hours: Tuesday–Sunday 10 am–6 pmwww.akademiegalerie.at

Marcel Odenbach,

Durchblicke (Detail), 2007

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Kunsthalle

The Kunsthalle Wien has established itself as one of the liveliest facilities for international contemporary art in Vienna at two locations in the centre of the city (Karlsplatz and the MuseumsQuartier). Programme highlights range from photography, video, film and installations to new media. Large, subject-specific exhibitions present developments and correlations from Modernism to the present-day art world. Other programme elements are dedicated to retrospectives of important contemporary artists and significant contributions to Austrian art after 1945. In 2002, the Italian arts magazine ARTE ranked the Kunsthalle Wien among the six best modern art institutions in Europe (together with Tate Modern, London, the Kiasma, Helsinki, the Centre Pompidou, Paris and the Bilbao Guggenheim).

February 5 – April 30, 2017

Special Exhibition:

Marcel Odenbach. Proof of Nothing

Marcel Odenbach one of the most important con-temporary video artists, has overwritten his first solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien with the title of a poem by Ingeborg Bachmann. Beweis zu nichts (Proof of Nothing) deals with the persistence of the victim-perpetrator structure within post-war German society.

Beweis zu nichts (Proof of Nothing) is also the title Odenbach has given to his new film, focusing on the memorial Bertolt Brecht, together with sculptor Fritz Cremer, designed for the former concentration camp Buchenwald. His film works observe international crises and the reconciliation of populations follow-ing armed conflicts or genocide, illustrating the fact that dealing with the past is not only a European dif-ficulty. Be it the video installation In stillen Teichen lauern Krokodile/In Still Waters Crocodiles Lurk, which deals with the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, or Im Kreise drehen/Turning in Circles, another film concerning a memorial (in this case at the site of the former con-centration camp Majdanek), Odenbach repeatedly considers social justice. In approaching the problem of dealing with the past, Odenbach’s works reflect on the resonance of Nazism in the present. The artist observes various cultures and political constellations, allowing them to influence his work. Reflections on the familiar and the foreign, on his own biography and the biographies of others, are vital motifs in his work that put forth arguments in such a way that are as aesthetic as they are political.

Marcel Odenbach, born 1953 in Cologne, lives and works in Cologne and Berlin.

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Kunst Haus Wien

Suitable premises for a permanent exhibition of Friedensreich Hundertwasser’s paintings were found in the building of the former furniture factory of the Thonet Brothers built in 1892. The size of the building made it possible not only to establish a Hundertwasser museum, but also to include rooms for alternating exhibitions of international stature in the planning. In 1991 Kunst Haus Wien was officially opened. On the first two upper floors a cross-section of Hunder-twasser’s œuvre is on display, including paintings, graphics, tapestries, and architectural models. The third and fourth floors are dedicated to international exhibitions.

November 16, 2016 – March 5, 2017

Special Exhibition:

Peter Dressler. Vienna Gold

With the first retrospective in Vienna, Kunst Haus Wien is paying tribute to the work of Peter Dressler, an oeuvre in which the city of Vienna itself plays a central role. As a photographer and filmmaker, acad-emy teacher, collector and critical participant in the art scene, Dressler (1942–2013) influenced Austrian photography since the 1970s like few other figures. His artistic interest in the photography medium always went hand in hand with a fascination with the history of the medium.

Dressler found the material for his early documentary series and visual narratives in Vienna, where, as he observed, “substance, quality, quite simply the magic of everyday life still exists in large measure”. Later, his ‘seventies’ realism’, as he called it, was replaced by tableaux and image series and a poetic, filmic approach. The particular charm of Zwischenspiel, a major artist’s book he published in 1989, lies in the manifold references and allusions that connect the individual pictures.

Toward the end of the 1980s, his photographic idiom changes again: the artist emerges as the actor and main character in his work, appearing in melancholic, even grotesque narratives that have him preparing ‘Rather Rare Recipes’ or playing solo tennis in the empty Semper Depot building. With vibrant wit, he inserts himself into found and invented scenarios to bring them to life, teasing out art-historical as well as social implications and highlighting the peculiarities of human behaviour. His work is often sublimely funny, but his humour is always energised by a sober aware-ness of the tragicomic sides of human existence and the subtle possibilities of the photographic medium.

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Peter Dressler, In unmittelbarer Nähe, 2003

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Kunsthistorisches Museum

Museum of Art History

The magnificent architecture of this building, designed by Semper and Hasenauer in the style of the Italian Renaissance, and ceremoniously opened in 1891, creates a fitting setting for the artistic treasures assembled by the Habsburgs, who were for centuries the most enthusiastic patrons and collectors. The col-lections of the Kunsthistorisches Museum are amongst the most important and spectacular in the world. The 16th century Kunst- und Wunderkammer (art and treasure chambers) together with the baroque collections form the nucleus of the museum’s out-standing compilations, in which the taste and artistic preferences of the Imperial family are still discernible today, thus conveying a sense of the Imperial glory of the art-loving Habsburg dynasty. The museum’s collections range from Ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman antiquities to the Collections of Medieval Art to the splendid Renaissance and Baroque Collections. The world famous Picture Gallery contains main works by P. Bruegel the Elder, Dürer, Rubens, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Titian, Raphael, Tintoretto, Veronese, Caravaggio, Velázquez et al.

May 24, 2016 – March 5, 2017

Special Exhibition: The Emperor’s Gold

As part of the 125th anniversary celebrations of the Kunsthistorisches Museum the Coin Collection is showing a special exhibition featuring selected gold coins from the Imperial Numophylaciums, the Emper-or’s coin collection.

Renowned for its size and the quality and rarity of its holdings, the world-famous collection in Vienna owes its fame to generations of Austrian rulers and their love of collecting. From gold coins in everyday circulation to veritable gold giants (singular com-memorative issues commissioned by the Emperor for representational purposes) to so-called ‘splendid’ medals (Prunkmedaillen) made exclusively as gifts for the Emperor, the exhibition showcases the collection’s exceptional range of historical gold coinages and looks at ‘The Emperor’s Gold’ in all its glittering facets.

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Johann Zoffani,

Francis I (1708–1765), 1776/77

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Leopold Museum

After five decades of compiling, the Leopold Collec-tion finally found its home in 2001 within the building complex of the MuseumsQuartier, where it quickly became the most frequented of the various museums. The essence of the collection is made up by Austrian art of the first half of the 20th century with principal works by Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Richard Ger-stl, Koloman Moser, and Oskar Kokoschka. The art historical context is represented by the élite of the Austrian art world of the 19th and 20th century. In the spacious, light pervaded exhibition halls visitors will find paintings and drawings, as well as original arte-facts and furniture by Adolf Loos, Otto Wagner, Josef Hoffmann, and other artists of the Wiener Werkstätte.

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Egon Schiele.

Self-abandonment and self-assertion

The Leopold Museum is home to the largest and most eminent Schiele collection in the world. It comprises 42 paintings and 187 works on paper by Egon Schiele (1890–1918).

The new presentation of the collection illustrates Schiele’s artistic progression through a chronologi-cal hanging of the Leopold Museum’s works. The exhibition starts with the young Schiele and traces his development from being influenced by Gustav Klimt to his radically expressive phase, which was particularly esteemed by Rudolf Leopold, closing with the works from his ‘late oeuvre’ created shortly before Schiele’s untimely death.

Schiele’s paintings are juxtaposed with biographical information, quotes and pictures. This new presenta-tion makes the artist’s world accessible to visitors in a transparent and coherent manner.

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Vienna 1900.

Art from the Leopold Collection

The Leopold Museum is presenting a totally recon-figured exhibition of Viennese art at the turn of the century, titled Vienna 1900.

The Jugendstil, Vienna’s Art Nouveau movement, endeavoured to encompass all areas of life within a so-called ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’ (‘total work of art’). Its main exponents Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser and Josef Hoffmann are synonymous with the art of the Vienna Secession around 1900. This new presentation of the Leopold Museum’s holdings – complemented by several significant works on loan – features the works from the Vienna Secession together with paintings and prints from Expressionism to the end of the First World War (Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka, Anton Kolig, Herbert Boeckl and many others) as well as sev-eral fascinating examples of Wiener Werkstätte design. Furniture, silver, glass and jewellery are presented together with paintings and graphics, showing what could be termed the most exciting era in the history of Viennese art as a unique aesthetic experience.

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Richard Gerstl, Portrait of Henryka Cohn, 1908

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MAK

Austrian Museum of Applied Arts /

Contemporary Art

In a way that is virtually unparalleled by any other institution, the MAK stands for the fruitful combina-tion of the past with the future, something which can be clearly sensed and experienced when visiting its extensive collection, large exhibition halls, themed special exhibitions and discourse-centred programme of events. Bringing together applied arts, design, archi-tecture, and contemporary art is one of the museum’s core competencies, in light of which it becomes appar-ent which contribution the interplay of these areas is capable of making to overall cultural development.

The MAK is one of the most important museums of its kind worldwide. Founded as the ‘Imperial Royal Austrian Museum of Art and Industry’ in 1863, today’s museum – with its unique collection of applied arts and as a first-class address for contemporary art – can boast an incomparable identity. Originally estab-lished as an exemplary source collection, today’s MAK Collection continues to stand for an extraordinary union of applied art, design, contemporary art and architecture.

December 14, 2016 – April 9, 2017

Special Exhibition:

handiCRAFT.

Traditional Skills in the Digital Age

The MAK exhibition handiCRAFT: Traditional Skills in the Digital Age reflects on the significance and status of handicraft as an integral component of material culture and cultural identity. In six sections, this com-prehensive MAK exhibition encompasses handicraft from historical times to current European perspec-tives, examines how handicraft can help preserve natural resources, explores new developments on the interface to digital technologies, and presents master-pieces from a range of craft disciplines.

Currently the terms ‘handicraft’ and ‘handmade’ are used in an inflationary manner in advertising and life-style media. The Maker Movement and DIY culture are enormously successful, creating a worldwide hype. Globally operating luxury labels explicitly foreground handicraft as a mark of quality and distinction, in contrast to the reality of locally operating craftspeople struggling for recognition and a fair wage.

In the introductory exhibition section, ‘Past and Pre-sent’, a wide range of exhibits – from Hephaestus, the god of blacksmiths, to personal objects owned by the Hapsburgs, to the Chanel outfits of the 2014/15 Métiers d’Art Collection – discursively illustrate the social status of handicraft over the centuries.

Under the title ‘Perspectives’ the second exhibition section presents European initiatives and institutions active in the fields of apprenticeship and marketing, to include the Crafts Council and the Compagnons du Devoir.

The section ‘Materials and Tools’ presents a wide range of material samples and 99 work tools, mostly originating from the 16th and 17th centuries. A walk-through installation offers visitors the haptic experience of handling different samples of natural materials.

In a ‘Live Workshop’, the fourth exhibition section, a total of 20 craftspeople demonstrate their skills to the public daily.

1010 Vienna, Stubenring 5Opening hours:Wednesday–Sunday 10 am–6 pmTuesday 10 am�–10 pm(free admission from 6 pm) www.mak.at

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The fifth exhibition section, ‘Quality and Excellence’, juxtaposes historical objects from the MAK collection with contemporary handicraft products from 18 Euro-pean countries. Exhibits include furniture, wallpapers, tiles, carpets, clothing, hats, gloves, glasses, cutlery, and tableware made by 50 craftspeople.

The final exhibition section is devoted to the key fac-tor of ‘Sustainability’. To raise consumer awareness of product biographies, six handcrafted products made in Vienna are presented together with comprehensive information on the materials used and the manu-facturing process. This section is complemented by a research lab set up by the Vienna University of Economics and Business and a video interview with the sociologist Richard Sennett, whose book The Craftsman provided significant inspiration for the exhibition.

January 18 – April 17, 2017

Special Exhibition:

The Glass of the Architects:

Vienna 1900–1937

After the success of last year’s exhibition ‘The Glass of the Architects’ in the rooms of Le Stanze del Vetro in Venice, which presented over 300 glasses from the period between 1900 and 1937 – largely from the MAK Collection – the entire show has now moved to Vienna, where it is on display for the first time. As designers of glassware, the architects of Viennese Modernism greatly influenced the products’ form and technique, with glass becoming established in this period as the material of modernism.

A group of young architects – at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Otto Wagner, at the School of Arts and Crafts, and at the University of Technol-ogy – developed a special interest in glass design. Their contact with established glass manufacturers in Vienna such as E. Bakalowits & Söhne and J. & L. Lobmeyr, as well as with art reform movements such as the ‘Union of Austrian Artists – Vienna Secession’, the Wiener Werkstätte, and the Austrian Werkbund, ensured the realisation of radically new design con-cepts by manufacturers like Johann Loetz Witwe.

Now world-famous protagonists of Viennese Modern-ism, such as Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956), Koloman Moser (1868–1918), Joseph Maria Olbrich (1867–1908), Leopold Bauer (1872–1938), Otto Prutscher (1880–1949), Oskar Strnad (1879–1935), Oswald Haerdtl (1899–1959), and Adolf Loos (1870–1933), launched groundbreaking new designs for decorative and practical glass.

Viennese art glass after architects’ designs became both a permanent feature and a trademark of the important arts and crafts exhibitions – from the 8th Secession exhibition in Vienna in 1900 and the Werk-bund exhibition in Cologne in 1914 to the Exposi-tion internationale des Arts décoratifs et industriels modernes in Paris 1925, as well as of the Wiener Werkstätte’s product range.

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MUMOK Stiftung Ludwig

Museum of Modern Art

The Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (MUMOK) is one of the most renowned museums for modern and contemporary art worldwide. Together with the Leopold Museum and the Kunsthalle Wien, the MUMOK building, a bold cube covered with grey basalt, is one of the main attractions of Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier, located in the baroque setting of Fischer von Erlach’s former Imperial stables. In addi-tion to classical modernity, the collection is mainly comprised of significant works of Pop Art and Pho-torealism (Austrian Ludwig Foundation), Fluxus and Nouveau Réalisme (Hahn Collection), as well as Viennese Actionism. This body of works allows visitors to gain unique insights into recent history, its avant-garde tendencies, and its focus on reality and action. Other progressive movements, represented by major works of Conceptual Art, Minimal Art, Land Art, and Arte Povera, can also be viewed, and gain new topicality and poignancy in the context of instal-lation and object art as well as more recent examples of media art and discourse.

November 25, 2016 – April 17, 2017

Special Exhibition:

Július Koller. One Man Anti Show

Július Koller (1939–2007) is one of the most important Eastern European artists working since the 1960s, whose art had and has considerable international significance. This is the most comprehensive exhibi-tion of the Slovak artist’s work to date, documenting his independent contribution to the neo-avantgarde and based on painstaking research into his art and archives.

Koller’s work developed in critical distance to the communist authorities and their official art, and it also questioned traditions in modernism and the conven-tions of the Western art business. Since the mid-1960s he designed Antihappenings and Antipictures, creating a playfully ironic oeuvre that combined a Dadaist

spirit with radical-skeptical stance. Koller painted object-images in white latex and pictures of question marks that became the universal symbol of his critical view of everyday life and reality.

Koller saw tennis and table tennis as participatory art forms and here too he combined sport with political statement by demanding that the rules of the game and fair play be adhered to – as the basis of all social action. After the Prague Spring was put down, Koller began his U.F.O.naut series that challenged reality with ‘cultural situations’ and utopias of a new, cosmohu-manistic culture and future.

September 10, 2015 – April 24, 2016

Special Exhibition:

Construction_Reflection

In an exhibition entitled Construction_Reflection the collectors Gertraud and Dieter Bogner present a selec-tion of works from their own collection that they donated to mumok in 2007 and that has since been continually expanded. With more than a hundred paintings, sculptures, and objects, and three hundred drawings, gouaches, prints, autographs, artists’ books, and archive materials, this is the largest single dona-tion to the museum to date.

The Bogners bucked trends by focusing on the ‘con-tents’ of art as a key category in constructivist, geomet-rical-abstract, and conceptual art. In this exhibition, the interplays between forms and contents, or the politics of form as content, are presented in a number of different interrelated thematic sections. The key motifs are theoretical relations between painting and colour, the reflection of history and society, and rela-tions between architecture, sculpture, and abstraction in the tradition of a critical modernism.

Construction_Reflection presents a dynamic and sen-sual and also analytically precise collection of instal-lations, paintings, videos, photos, texts, and publica-tions by Robert Adrian X, Hartmut Böhm, Heinz Gappmayr, Dan Graham, Thomas Kaminsky, Richard Paul Lohse, Dorit Margreiter, Dóra Maurer, François Morellet, museum in progress, Jorrit Tornquist, Peter Weibel, Heimo Zobernig, and many other artists.

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OstLicht Galerie

Photo Collections

OstLicht Gallery, Vienna’s new centre for contem-porary photography, was opened on the premises of a former bread factory, Vienna’s latest, dynamically evolving cultural centre, in June 2012. The loft offers approximately 500 m² of exhibition space for group and solo exhibitions of contemporary photo art, fea-turing both national and international positions.

The publicly accessible library of Galerie OstLicht comprises a collection of more than 20,000 books and magazines on the art and technology of photography as well as a selection of photography magazines. Fea-turing also a bookshop and a bar, OstLicht intends to function as a meeting place and centre for everyone with an interest in photography.

Architect Gregor Eichinger designed the rooms of OstLicht, taking the historical industrial architecture into consideration.

1100 Vienna, Absberggasse 27Opening hours: Wednesday–Saturday 1 pm–6 pmwww.ostlicht.at

Secession

The Association of Visual Artists Vienna Secession was founded in 1897 and presented its first exhibition in 1898, the same year the new Secession building was completed according to the designs of Joseph M. Olbrich. Today, the Secession is the world’s oldest independent gallery devoted entirely to exhibitions of contemporary art. One of the basic objectives of the Association is the presentation of current develop-ments in Austrian and international art, as well as to cultivate openness for experimentation.

The Vienna Secession was adapted and renovated several times in the course of its hundred year his-tory. The entrance hall was already being altered in 1901. In 1908, part of the ornamentation and the slogan ‘Der Zeit ihre Kunst. Der Kunst ihre Freiheit (For every time its art. For art its freedom)’ were removed. The building was damaged by bombings during World War II and set on fire by the retreating German army. During the reconstruction in 1963 the original décor was renewed and a second floor inserted in the entrance hall.

A total of about 20 exhibitions take place in the Vienna Secession (in the Main Hall, Gallery, Graphic Cabinet and Ver Sacrum Room) each year. All of the exhibi-tions are accompanied by a publication and often by parallel events, lectures, symposia, art discussions, etc. The world famous Beethoven Frieze by Gustav Klimt is permanently on show.

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February 2 – March 26, 2017

Special Exhibition:

Svenja Deininger.

Echo of a mirror fragment

With Svenja Deininger the Secession is presenting an artist who represents a younger generation of Austrian painters in its main exhibition space. Deininger, who was born in Vienna in 1974 first studied in Münster under conceptual artist Timm Ulrichs and later paint-ing under Albert Oehlen in Düsseldorf. Her idiosyn-cratic pictorial composition on the one hand and, on the other, the specific way in which the painting is designed layer by layer is characteristic of her works, which balance between abstraction and a figuration that is – at least – hinted at. This method of working corresponds to her interest in suggesting spaciality on the flat canvas or asserting a certain materiality that is permanently poised between becoming concrete and remaining indefinite. Deininger regards painting as a process: she does not consider her pictures, on which she often works over long periods of time, to be self-contained entities. It is, rather, that the process of creating an image serves to stimulate reflection and acts as a mental continuation of a form or composi-tion – the imagining of the future picture and how is located in a spatial context are thus essential elements of the artistic process. As if working on a text the artist elaborates and polishes the syntax of her art. She considers her works to be parts of a system that require their interrelations to be analysed whenever they encounter one another. She alternates large and small format pictures and by means of combining and positioning them in a space she creates a tension, which, together with her range of shapes, results in a ‘Deiningerian idiom’.

February 2 – March 26, 2017

Special Exhibition:

Angelika Loderer

One might classify Angelika Loderer’s work as media reflexive sculptures in as far as the artist allows the characteristics of the material she uses and the work processes themselves to feed into the design process as fundamental parameters. Her sculptures are fre-quently made of cast metal or consist of secondary material from the area of metal casting – wax, for example, or special mould sand which, because of its high level of form stability, is particularly well-suited for casting. It is essential for the production of the mould but it leaves no traces on the finished product and so is invisible. Loderer elevates this auxiliary aid to her medium and builds fragile, temporary sculptures which, due to their character as mould sand, make allusions to metal while simultaneously setting up an exciting and paradoxical dialogue between the enduring nature of the one and the ephemerality of the other.

Angelika Loderer, born in 1984 in Feldbach, Styria, lives and works in Vienna.

1010 Vienna, Friedrichstraße 12Opening hours:Tuesday–Sunday 10 am–6 pmwww.secession.at

Svenja Deininger,

Echo of a Mirror Fragment, exhibition view

Angelika Loderer, exhibition view

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WestLicht Galerie

Photo Collections

The first large photo and camera gallery in Vienna was founded in 2001 through the private initiative of cam-era collectors and lovers of photography. WestLicht, as a centre of photography in Vienna, aims to show the relationship between photographic apparatus and the art of photography. The renowned architects Eichinger oder Knechtl furnished the fine and retiringly design for the loft which was a glass factory in the fifties. Before the modification it was used as a photo-studio. Specially designed cabinets and lighting system were created to emphasise minimalist space and give a focus to the importance of the exhibits, which comprise a permanent collection of 800 historic and techni-cally important exhibits on loan from institutions and private collectors. The gallery shows exhibitions from the 19th century to the present time covering historical, national and international developments in the photographic medium. The photo museum is home to approximately 40,000 objects of various photographic techniques, ranging from plate photo-graphs and glass transparencies to a wide variety of printing processes. It encompasses historic and classic photography as well as works of contemporary art with special focuses on daguerreotypes, early paper prints, historic travel photography, nude photogra-phy, editorial photography, photojournalism, Cuban photography and Viennese Actionism.

February 14 – May 14, 2017

Special Exhibition:

Alfons Schilling. Beyond photography

Moving and setting in motion – the rebellious experi-mental spirit that drove Alfons Schilling (1934–2013) from the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna, where with Günter Brus he had paved the way for Actionism, to Paris and New York in 1962, was also evident dur-ing the artist’s long career in his photographic works. They push the medium well beyond its traditional boundaries and provide the missing link between Eadweard Muybridge’s 19th century movement studies and current notions of cyberspace. Schilling’s inves-tigation of lenticular photography added a dynamic dimension to seeing and merged several images into a single picture. Holograms and stereophotography turn pictures into a virtual space. Those who travel the three-dimensional world today with head-mounted displays are merely following a path that Schilling embarked on in the 1970s. The exhibition focuses for the first time on the visionary’s expanded photogra-phy, presenting it alongside selected vision machines, paintings and film experiments. The central thrust of his pioneering work is a critique of perception and the liberation of the act of seeing itself: “It’s not what’s on the picture – it’s what is behind it.”

1070 Vienna, Westbahnstraße 40Opening hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 2 pm–7 pmThursday 2 pm–9 pmSaturday+Sunday 11 am–7 pmwww.westlicht.com

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Alfons Schilling, Frame from the movie Jackie Curtis, 1970

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21er Haus

The Museum of Contemporary Art

The 21er Haus was built in 1958 by the Austrian architect Karl Schwanzer (1918–1975) as a pavilion or temporary showroom for the Universal Exhibition in Brussels. In January 1958, the daily newspaper Die Presse described the exhibition hall originally designed for the Expo as “a virtually ideal founda-tion for a Museum of Modern Art”. Karl Schwanzer adapted the steel skeleton construction to the muse-um’s purposes: the ground floor was glazed, the courtyard was covered with a roof, all façades were substantially modified, and the whole structure was reinstalled in the Schweizer Garten. The new museum was opened on September 20, 1962. The building served as an exhibition hall for the Museum of Mod-ern Art until its collection was moved to the Museum of Modern Art – Ludwig Foundation in Vienna’s new MuseumsQuartier in late 2001.

The 21er Haus was finally incorporated into the Bel-vedere in the early summer of 2002. It is to be under-stood as a place of artistic production, reception, and reflection. The focus is on Austrian art of the twen-tieth and twenty-first centuries and its embedding in an international context.

December 14, 2016 – April 23, 2017

Special Exhibition:

Franz West. Artistclub

The 21er Haus presents central works by the Austrian artist Franz West (1947–2012) in an exhibition enti-tled Franz West – ARTISTCLUB. The works on view were made by 36 different artists in collaboration with Franz West. The so-called ARTISTCLUB began as a participatory project started by West in 1999. Even though it did not achieve its desired form while the artist was alive, here it can be experienced as a cura-torial idea in the sense of an interactive exhibition. Viewer participation and the collaboration with other artists play a central role in West’s artistic practice. He continually challenged the relationship between the artist, the artistic work, and the recipient. The exhibition aims to reflect West’s concepts of art as a participatory act, the inclusion of various artistic positions via the process of collaboration, and the associated idea of authorship.

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Franz West – Tamuna Sirbiladze, Moonlight, 2001

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Other Museums

Arnold Schönberg Center

The Foundation is a cultural institution designed exclusively for public scholarly and educational pur-poses, including establishing the Arnold Schönberg Archive in Vienna, its maintenance and preservation, the education of the public with regard to Schönberg’s interdisciplinary artistic influence, as well as teaching and publicising Schönberg’s contributions to music and other achievements.

It has made its name by teaching, researching, and further educating musicians, scholars, and the public at large, but especially through the regular organisa-tion of exhibitions, concerts, and other events, always with regard to the life and work of Arnold Schönberg. Schönberg’s paintings and drawings are on permanent display; lectures, conferences and symposia provide the theoretical background for the works of this fas-cinating, versatile artist.

November 16, 2016 – March 19, 2017

Special Exhibition:

Arnold Schönberg in Focus.

Photographs 1880–1950

An exhibition as an open archive: 3,500 historic pho-tographs surviving in Schönberg’s archive illuminate the medium’s development, providing an authentic and moving view of the artist, paterfamilias, friend and contemporary.

A cultural and quotidian history in images: Visitors accompany Schönberg on his travels, encounter him in his private apartments, take part in his life full of chequered history.

A variety of photographical objects: Prints from the photo shop and large-format artist’s enlargements are found among family albums and cameras from Schönberg’s time.

Palais Fanto1030 Vienna, Schwarzenbergplatz 6Opening hours: Monday–Friday 10 am–5 pmwww.schoenberg.at

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Other MuseumsMuseums & Exhibitions

Beethoven Pasqualatihaus

The ‘Pasqualatihaus’, named after its owner Josef Benedikt Baron Pasqualati, was built in the eight-eenth century and is located on Mölker Bastei, part of the remains of the old city fortifications. Altogether Ludwig van Beethoven worked in Vienna for thirty-five years. Thereof he spent eight years living in this apartment on the fourth floor. The spectacular view over the then still undeveloped site of the fortification approaches towards the northern and north-western suburbs of Vienna kept drawing the composer back to Mölker Bastei after his various short stays in the coun-try. Here he worked on his 4th, 5th, 7th and 8th sympho-nies, among others, and above all on his opera ‘Fidelio’. Besides numerous documents illustrating the life and work of Beethoven, there is the famous 1804/05 por-trait of Beethoven by Willibrord Joseph Mähler and many personal items owned by the composer.

Bestattungsmuseum

Undertakers’ Museum

In Vienna in the 1900s more than eighty private funeral companies competed for the business of bury-ing the city’s citizens in its many grand suburban cemeteries. Since 1951 the Municipal Funeral Service alone has been responsible for funerals, and the fas-cinating Undertakers’ Museum tells the whole story. More than 900 artefacts document the well-known Viennese interest in death and burial. The museum contains the elaborate black outfits and regalia worn by both the pallbearers as well as the liveries worn by the hearse-pulling horses. There are also wreathes, sashes, lanterns, torches, black flags and different coloured palls signifying the deceased’s profession and former position in life. The unique location of the museum at Vienna’s central cemetery invites the visitor for an atmospheric stroll through the second largest cemetery in Europe.

Beethoven Pasqualatihaus Bestattungsmuseum

1010 Vienna, Mölker Bastei 8 Opening hours: Tuesday–Sunday 10 am–1 pm & 2 pm–6 pmwww.wienmuseum.at

1110 Vienna, Simmeringer Hauptstraße 234Opening hours:Monday–Friday 9 am–4:30 pm Saturday 10 am–5:30 pmwww.bestattungsmuseum.at

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Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes

Documentation Centre of

Austrian Resistance

The Centre was founded in 1963 by ex-resistance fighters and anti-Fascist historians. Its research focuses on the topics resistance and persecution from 1934 to 1945, exile, Nazi crimes (especially the Holocaust), right-wing extremism after 1945 and restitution. The permanent exhibition of the Centre is located in rooms on the ground floor of Vienna’s Old Town Hall (Altes Rathaus). The main themes on view are the persecution of Austrians on racist, reli-gious or national-patriotic grounds, the expulsion of 130,000 Austrians from their native land following the German invasion of March 1938, and the resistance to the Nazi occupation. A separate section deals with extreme right-wing and neo-Nazi currents in Austria since the war. A computer programme enables visitors to receive further and more in-depth information on the exhibition’s topics through texts, documents, and photographs. Moreover, visitors can use databases to query the names of Austrian Holocaust victims or of victims of the Gestapo.

Esperanto Museum

The Esperanto Museum of the Austrian National Library conveys the vicissitudes of the history of Esperanto, and also presents in a general way the topic of the relationship of man to language. With interactive media stations and through acoustic aids visitors can get to know not only Esperanto, but also other planned languages, such as the mystical Lingua Ignota of Hildegard of Bingen or Klingon from the television series Star Trek. One of the media stations draws attention to the little known fact that so-called natural languages also have portions of artificially cre-ated vocabulary. That rules of grammar can be easily learned and can be acquired without intense swotting is proved by an automat through which you can get a grasp of the grammar of Esperanto using the now legendary Pacman game. A video course of the BBC gives an impression of how spoken Esperanto sounds.

Since its founding in 1927 the Esperanto Museum has had a comprehensive library, which is now the world’s biggest of its kind and in 1990 received the title of Department of Planned Languages.

1010 Vienna, Wipplingerstraße 6–8Opening hours:Monday–Friday 9 am–5 pm Thursday 9 am–7 pmwww.doew.at

1010 Vienna, Herrengasse 9Opening hours: Tuesday–Sunday 10 am–6 pm Thursday 10 am–9 pmwww.onb.ac.at

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Globenmuseum

Globe Museum

The Globe Museum of the Austrian National Library in Palais Mollard is the world’s only institution in which terrestrial and celestial globes and globes of earth’s moon and various planets, as well as instru-ments linked with globes (armillary spheres) and instruments in which globes are an integral part (plan-etaria, telluria, lunaria) are acquired, researched, and presented to the public. The Museum is divided into an exhibition area, in which a most comprehensive collection of globes and globe related instruments is set up and accessible to the public, and a store section and a study area.

In the permanent displays the globes are presented to the visitors as specific cartographic expressions, but also as valuable aesthetic objects of high artistic quality and craftsmanship. Particular aspects of the study of globes are emphasised: the history of globes, their production, the spectrum of topics presented on globes, but also questions relevant to the history of culture, such as the use of globes and their reception. Examples make it easy to follow the development of geographic and cosmographic concepts and knowl-edge in the past centuries. The Museum shows not only three-dimensional objects: digital presentations offer a gripping connection between the old treas-ures that may not be touched and modern means of communication.

In the ‘Collectors’ Gallery’ objects on permanent loan from important private Viennese collections are on display – among them the oldest globe extant in Austria, the terrestrial globe of Gemma Frisius (about 1536), a unique object from the collection of Rudolf Schmidt, Vienna.

Haus der Musik

House of Music

The House of Music Vienna makes music heard, seen and felt in various experience zones on seven floors. Visitors are prompted to engage in interactive play with music, they are given information on the history of music; they experience unexpected sounds, and will come to know the House of Music as a centre for aesthetic, scientific, popular and artistic encounters with music. The House of Music offers – metaphori-cally speaking – musical language courses and hopes to play a role in helping its visitors to speak as well as understand the language of music.

1010 Vienna, Herrengasse 9Opening hours: Tuesday–Sunday 10 am–6 pmThursday 10 am–9 pmwww.onb.ac.at

1010 Vienna, Seilerstätte 30Opening hours: daily 10 am–10 pmwww.hausdermusik.com

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Haydnhaus

Haydn Apartment

Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) spent the last twelve years of his life in Gumpendorf, at that time an outlying village of Vienna. Having bought his house between two periods of stay in England, he extended it by one floor, moving in aged 65 in 1797. Here he died on May 31, 1809. To mark the 200th anniversary of his death last year, the permanent exhibition in the Haydnhaus has been completely redesigned. The focus is on the last years of the composer’s life, linking them to the political and social setting of his time. The garden has been reconstructed according to historical models and is now accessible to visitors for the first time ever – a green oasis in the built-up area of Mariahilferstrasse. At the centre of the exhibition is Joseph Haydn’s music, his lifestyle and his growing old. Haydn’s popularity and reputation had reached its zenith at this time. Celebrated internationally, he was admired by his fellow-composers, and courted by music publishers. Numerous visitors from both home and abroad paid their respects to Haydn. Their records and memoirs have been used to help structure the exhibition. The most important works of the composer’s old age were created in this last residence, including the two ora-torios ‘The Creation’ (1796–1798) and ‘The Seasons’ (1799–1801). Here Haydn experienced one of the most creatively fruitful periods of his life.

Heeresgeschichtliches Museum

Museum of Military History

The Museum of Military History is situated right in the centre of the Arsenal. It was built according to plans of Ludwig Foerster and Theophil Hansen from 1850 to 1856 and was thus the first Viennese museum. The styles of this town’s oldest historic building range from Byzantine, Hispano-Moorish to Neo-Gothic. In five major sections the museum shows the history of the Habsburg Empire from the end of the 16th century until 1918 and Austria’s fate after the dissolution of the monarchy up to the year 1945.

1060 Vienna, Haydngasse 19Opening hours:Tuesday–Sunday 10 am–1 pm & 2 pm–6 pmwww.wienmuseum.at

1030 Vienna, Arsenal Objekt 1Opening hours: daily 9 am–5 pmwww.hgm.or.at

Haydnhaus

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Hofmobiliendepot

Imperial Furniture Collection

The Imperial Furniture Collection possesses the world’s largest collection of furniture. This museum brings to life the world of imperial living at the Hab-sburg court, with special emphasis on the Bieder-meier, Empire, Historicist and Jugendstil eras. In 1747 Empress Maria Theresia founded the Court Furniture Depository. Today this is one of the world’s largest museums of furniture and furnishings. The Habsburgs furnished their residences and palaces according to the style of the times and their own aesthetic predilec-tions. Any item that was no longer needed ended up in the depository. Today almost 160,000 objects fill the storerooms. On display are numerous original items of Habsburg furniture, from commodes to imperial thrones. At the same time, the exhibition gives an overview of the history of Viennese cabinet-making and interior design. All the personalities who left their mark on the history of Viennese design, from the craftsmen who supplied the imperial court to the famous artists of the early 20th century such as Adolf Loos, Otto Wagner and Josef Hoffmann are represented here.

Johann Strauss Wohnung

Johann Strauss Apartment

In 1867 in this apartment, Johann Strauss composed the world-famous waltz ‘The Blue Danube’, Austria’s ‘unofficial national anthem’! Strauss lived seven years on Praterstrasse, then a fashionable and elegant Vien-nese suburban street. His own instruments, furniture and paintings illustrate Strauss’s work as a composer, musician and conductor, but the whole presentation brings Strauss close to us in private as well, a man who married three times, an enthusiast at billiards and cards, and a caricaturist. Moreover, there are reminiscences of his other apartments, the Vienna ballrooms and concert halls of his time, and also the other composers in the family circle: Johann Strauss the Elder and the talented brothers Josef and Eduard.

1070 Vienna, Andreasgasse 7Opening hours:Tuesday–Sunday 10 am–6 pmwww.hofmobiliendepot.at

1020 Vienna, Praterstraße 54Opening hours:Tuesday–Sunday 10 am–1 pm & 2 pm–6 pmwww.wienmuseum.at

Johann Strauss Apartment

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Josephinum

Institute for the History of Medicine

The Institute for the History of Medicine and its col-lections have been housed since 1920 in the Josephi-num, a classicist edifice built in 1785 under Emperor Joseph II. Dedicated to the world-famous Vienna Medical Schools of the 18th, the 19th and the early 20th century, it exhibits documents, pictures, original instruments and preparations, as well as personal memorabilia of some of the most distinguished and prominent protagonists of medical sciences. The greatest treasure of the Josephinum, namely the unique collection of anatomical and obstetric wax models, has remained in virtually pristine condition over the passage of two centuries since their creation.

Since 2007, the museum at the Josephinum forms part of the ‘Collections of the Medical University of Vienna’ and the long-term plan envisages a whole new concept.

Jüdisches Museum Wien

Jewish Museum of Vienna

The theme of ‘remembrance’ is omnipresent through-out the Jewish Museum Vienna. It is a key to Jewish culture and permeates the Museum right down to the smallest detail. But remembering also means active confrontation, and the museum is therefore a place to meet, communicate and discuss. Apart from the exhibitions, it offers a wide range of symposiums, lectures, panel discussions, concerts and many other events. The permanent exhibition is supplemented every year by numerous temporary exhibitions on Jewish history, religion and culture.

November 4, 2016 – May 1, 2017

Museum Dorotheergasse

Special Exhibition:

The Better Half:

Jewish Women Artists Before 1938

Female artists in Vienna had a very difficult time before 1938. It is therefore all the more surprising how many women managed to succeed in this métier. A large number of them came from assimilated Jewish families. Painters like Tina Blau, Broncia Koller-Pinell, Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, or ceramic artists Vally Wieselthier and Susi Singer have established a place for themselves in the history of art. But many others have unjustifiably sunk into oblivion—the sculptor Theresa Feodorowna Ries, the painters Grete Wolf-Krakauer and Helene Taussig, or the painter and graphic artist Lili Rethi. The exhibition presents forty artists and describes their unusual training and careers, marked by a struggle for recognition in a male-dominated art world. It also looks at promising careers that were interrupted through exile or ended forever in the Nazi extermination camps. An exhibi-tion with lots of new discoveries.

1090 Vienna, Währingerstraße 25Opening hours:Wednesday 4 pm–8 pmFriday+Saturday 10 am–6 pmwww.josephinum.ac.at

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September 28, 2016 – March 26, 2017

Museum Dorotheergasse

Special Exhibition:

The Glück Family Living Room

The living room of the Glück family is a completely normal Viennese living room from the 1920s, and then again not, since while most of the furniture belonging to the Jews of Vienna was “aryanized” after 1938, the Glück family’s ended up in New York in 1939.

The exhibition relates the history of a Jewish furrier family, from its arrival in Vienna from the north-eastern crown lands around 1900 to its escape after the annexation of Austria in 1938 to France and the USA. Henry (Heinz) Glück, who donated this furniture to the Jewish Museum Vienna two years ago, was born in Vienna in 1934. His father Erwin escaped from Vienna in 1938 with the family’s furniture, initially to Paris. He arrived a while later with his brother in New York, where they once again opened a furrier’s workshop on 7th Avenue in the garment district. Henry and his mother Lily (née Greif) were unable to get away. Lily was deported and murdered in Auschwitz after a police raid in Nice in August 1942. Henry found refuge for a while in a monastery and was hidden from 1943 by a Catholic family in Aix-en-Provence.

The apartment and living room furniture in New York were given up in 2012 following the death of Erwin and his second wife Herta Kleeblatt Glück. The Jew-ish Museum Vienna is celebrating the return of this Viennese living room from New York with a very personal exhibition about living but also about escape and migration in the twentieth century.

Gertrud Fischel, Abundance, c. 1921

Sofie Korner, The Bed

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December 2, 2016 – May 28, 2017

Museum Judenplatz

Special Exhibition:

Horowitz: fifty years of portrait photos

This exhibition at Museum Judenplatz offers an insight into the portrait photography of Michael Horowitz, photographer, journalist, and author, born in Vienna in 1950. He has written biographies of Heimito von Doderer, Egon Erwin Kisch, Karl Kraus, Helmut Qualtinger, and H.C. Artmann, inspired by his father, a well-known theater photographer. The family came from Galicia to Vienna in the 1920s to join relatives who managed a textile company. Forced to leave Austria, they survived World War II in Shanghai and France. Michael Horowitz started taking pictures at the age of sixteen and through his job as a journalist and editor-in-chief of Freizeit met countless celebrities from the world of politics, science, art, and culture—and photographed them all. His photography is effectively a document of contemporary history.

Permanent exhibition

at the Museum Judenplatz

In the Middle Ages Vienna was home to a thriving Jewish community, which was one of the largest and most important in Europe. Famous Rabbis taught and worked here and made Vienna into a centre of Jewish knowledge. This lively and creative atmosphere has come to an abrupt end in 1420/21 by the expulsion and murder of the Viennese Jews. In 1995 the remains of the destroyed synagogue were excavated. They stand as a strong witness to the rich community life and its destruction. In 2000, the Museum Judenplatz was opened as an outpost of the Jewish Museum. At the same time Rachel Whiteread’s memorial for the victims of the Shoah was unveiled. Today new sources, scientific and architectural findings shed a new and more detailed light on the life of the Jews in the medieval city of Vienna. The Jewish Museum will show these new findings state of the art. Start-ing with the development of Jewish communities in the Middle Ages through a reconstruction of Jewish Vienna, to the everyday life of Jews at the time the new permanent exhibition offers a unique overview of this fascinating period. A virtual tour allows us to walk through Jewish Vienna of the 14th century and leads us to the Jewish festivals and the customs of that time. This helps to understand how the life of the Jewish community was organised.

1010 Vienna, Dorotheergasse 11Opening hours:Sunday–Friday 10 am–6 pm1010 Vienna, Judenplatz 8Opening hours: Sunday–Thursday 10 am–6 pm Friday 10 am–2 pmwww.jmw.at

Helmut Qualtinger as pilot

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Literaturmuseum

Literature Museum

Johann Nestroy, Arthur Schnitzler, Franz Kafka, Ilse Aichinger, Ingeborg Bachmann, Thomas Bernhard, Friederike Mayröcker – these are only some of the names of major Austrian authors whose letters, works and creativity are presented in the Literature Museum of the Austrian National Library featuring unique original sources and numerous media points.

A varied and innovative presentation is found on two floors of the building, while from 2016 the third floor will be used for special exhibitions. The ground floor is available for readings, workshops and discussions. Occupying a total of 750 m², the Literature Museum presents a living and open picture of Austrian litera-ture from the end of the 18th century to the present.

The focus is on the authors and the phenomena of literary life that were or are of importance within the Austrian borders at the relevant time. Thus the Literature Museum has not just an Austrian but also a European dimension. A combination of thematic and chronological chapters guides the visitor to significant historical milestones and caesuras – from the Enlight-enment and Biedermeier via Vienna around 1900 as the laboratory of modern age, the two world wars, the interwar and Nazi periods, exile and the Cold War up to the immediate present.

1010 Vienna, Johannesgasse 6Opening hours: Tuesday–Sunday 10 am–6 pm Thursday 10 am–9 pmwww.onb.ac.at

Literature Museum

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Mozarthaus Vienna

Domgasse 5 is the only one of Mozart’s apartments that still exists today. As Mozarthaus Vienna it is a centre devoted to the life and works of Mozart. The composer lived here from 1784 to 1787 in grand style, with four large rooms, two small ones and a kitchen. The life and works of this musical genius are presented here on four exhibition levels. In addition to Mozart’s apartment, visitors can find out about the times in which Mozart lived and his most important works. The exhibition focuses on his years in Vienna, which marked a high point in his creativity; right in

1010 Vienna, Domgasse 5Opening hours: daily 10 am–7 pmwww.mozarthausvienna.at

this apartment he wrote ‘The Marriage of Figaro’, one of his most famous operas. The tour starts on the 3rd floor of the building with details of Mozart’s time in Vienna: where he lived and performed, who his friends and supporters were, his relationship to the Freemasons, his passion for games and much more. The presentation on the 2nd floor deals with Mozart’s operatic works, and the apartment on the 1st floor, the real heart of the building, focuses on the two and a half years that Mozart lived there.

Le Nozze di Figaro 1786

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Naturhistorisches Museum

Museum of Natural History

The imposing palace of Natural History has been the home of ever increasing collections since 1889. In 39 display halls covering 8,700 sq. m. visitors can travel through our planet’s history, through the breathtaking diversity of nature, and back to the origins of our cul-ture. On the upper ground floor you will come across fascinating and valuable precious stones and minerals, rare fossils and gigantic dinosaurs, as well as famous prehistoric works of art. Some of the most important pieces are the 25,000 year-old figure of ‘Venus von Willendorf ’, the skeleton of a Diplodocus, the long-est terrestrial vertebrate that ever lived, a giant topaz weighing 117 kg, and the valuable bouquet of jewels which Maria Theresia had made as a present for her husband. The first floor presents the overwhelming species variety of the animal world, from protozoa to the most highly developed mammals.

November 23, 2016 – April 17, 2017

Special Exhibition:

Diversity counts!

An expedition through biodiversity

Featuring more than 50 interactive objects and media installations, this exciting new hands-on exhibition invites visitors to become scientists and explorers themselves by discovering the world of biodiversity and biodiversity research.

The exhibition DIVERSITY COUNTS! is a fascinating journey through three categories of habitat currently being investigated with the support of the German Research Foundation (DFG) using intensive and inno-vative research techniques: meadows, forests, and seas.

Hidden object puzzles provide fascinating insights into these ecosystems. Of course, a mountain rainfor-est has little in common with a European mixed forest. But there are also many different kinds of meadow looking rather similar at first sight: dry grass and lush pastures, nutrient-poor grassland and heathland. This exhibition explains the differences between them in a clear, easy-to-understand way. Biodiversity is more than just the range of plants and animals living on our planet. It also includes the manifold genera, species, and habitats with all their many interconnections and interactions, as well as their influences on mankind.

Meadows, forests, lakes, rivers, and seas – each eco-system delivers invaluable services to every country, company, and individual, as well as to our planet as a whole. Fertile soil, clean water, and unpolluted air used to be seen as resources available in unlimited quantities and free of charge to all. This perception is now changing dramatically. The question whether future generations will have enough natural resources depends first and foremost on how much importance we attach in the next few years and decades to these still very cheap or free services provided by the Earth’s ecosystems.

The beginning of everything, CERN detail

1010 Vienna, Burgring 7Opening hours: Thursday–Monday 9 am–6:30 pmWednesday 9 am–9 pm www.nhm-wien.ac.at

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October 19, 2016 – May 1, 2017

Special Exhibition:

The beginning of everything.

About galaxies, quarks and collisions

What does the universe consist of? Where does the universe end? How many dimensions are there in the universe? What is the universe expanding into? These and similar questions have bothered humans for centuries and still bring us to the limits not only of our knowledge but also of our imagination. ‘The beginning of everything’ presents answers to at least part of these questions by taking visitors for a jour-ney more than 13 billion years back into the past, to the start of the universe, and by communicating most recent scientific knowledge of particle physics and cosmology in a readily comprehensible manner. In addition, artists offer a contrasting approach to this complex topic from different visual, optical and acoustic angles and perspectives.

The first section refers to the observable universe, with impressive images of our solar system and spectacular pictures of stars and galaxies taken by the Hubble Space telescope. The life cycle of a star is documented, and meteorites lead to the question “How did life on Earth get started?”

The second part of the exhibition focuses on the first 380,000 years after the Big Bang. Supersymmetry, the Higgs particle as well as the dominance of dark matter in the universe are presented, a moment before

quarks and gluons formed protons and neutrons. In the exhibition, these invisible, incredibly tiny particles figuratively seem to gain in substance as visitors are invited to give rise to new quarks and play soccer with protons. The very early universe is the subject of intensive research. The crucial question, however, the question about the instant of the Big Bang itself, is still unanswered. Scientists think they can pick up the story after a few fractions of a second, but the very beginning of the universe remains pretty hazy.

The third part of the exhibition is devoted to CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) where physicists and engineers are probing the fundamen-tal structure of the universe and bring its earliest moments into sharper and sharper focus. Visitors learn about the most recent scientific findings and get to know the world’s largest and most complex scientific instruments like particle accelerators and particle detectors.

Just as we do not know how the universe exactly started, we also do not know how exactly it will end. Therefore, visitors are given the chance to create their favourite possible scenario for the end of the universe themselves, by choosing between Big Crunch, Big Rip, or Big Freeze.

The beginning of everything, exhibition view

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Österreichisches Theatermuseum

Austrian Theatre Museum

The Austrian Theatre Museum at Palais Lobkowitz was founded in 1991, finally gaining independence from the Austrian National Library, whose theatrical collections from 1922 onwards create the basis for this museum. Its permanent exhibition presents the most beautiful and most interesting of the museum’s over 1.6 million objects, illustrating the fields of costume design, stage design, photography, posters, sketches, props, and other parts of the world of theatre.

September 22, 2016 – April 17, 2017

Special Exhibition:

His freedom, our freedom.

Václav Havel and the Viennese Burgtheater

Václav Havel who would have celebrated his 80th birthday on October 5, 2016, was a playwright and dissident, critical of the regime, who was repeat-edly sentenced to prison, before becoming President of Czechoslovakia. Under director Achim Benning numerous of Václav Havel’s plays premiered success-fully at the Burgtheater – the reason why the man, who refused to lie, respectfully called this theatre his mother stage – mateřské divadlo.

Anna Freimanová, Václav Havel’s companion for many years and consultant during his presidency curated the show which was produced by the Václav-Havel-Library Prague. The Theatermuseum presents this exhibition in cooperation with the Czech Centre Vienna.

1010 Vienna, Lobkowitzplatz 2Opening hours:Wednesday–Monday 10 am–6 pmwww.theatermuseum.at

His freedom, our freedom. Exhibition view

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Pathologisch- Anatomische Sammlung im Narrenturm

Pathologic-Anatomical Collection

in the Fool’s Tower

The museum was actually founded as early as 1796 under Emperor Franz I as part of the pathologic-anatomical institute. It has been an official federal museum since 1974 and is housed in the so-called ‘Narrenturm (Fool’s Tower)’, which was built in 1784 under Emperor Joseph II as the first psychiatric hos-pital in Europe.

Pratermuseum

Something as special as the Prater itself is the Prater Museum in the planetarium building. It gives a vivid impression of the changes in the history of Viennese entertainment culture, and is as fascinating as it is bizarre and spine-chilling. Amusement and melan-choly make a poignant mix in such things as the ‘International Marriage Agency’ automatic fortune-telling machine, the legendary ventriloquist doll ‘Max’, or a dragon (lindworm) from a grotto ride torn down a long time ago. The large original model of the 1873 Vienna World Exhibition reminds the visitor of both the city’s desire to show off its best side and a pain-ful flop – visitors stayed away because the threat of cholera hung over the city. The homunculus shoes, the giant’s suit and the ‘Bodiless Lady’ are relics of the freak and sensation shows of the late nineteenth cen-tury, so alienating to today’s taste. Vienna’s legendary ‘strong men’ are also represented in the show.

1090 Vienna, Uni Campus Court 6, Spitalgasse 2 (entrance: Van-Swieten-Gasse)Opening hours:Wednesday 10 am–6 pmSaturday 10 am–1 pmwww.nhm-wien.ac.at

1020 Vienna, Oswald-Thomas-Platz 1Opening hours: Friday–Sunday & public holidays10 am–1 pm & 2 pm–6 pmwww.wienmuseum.at

Narrenturm exterior view

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Römermuseum

Roman Museum

Were all Romans Italians? What did a legionary do in peace time? What was life like in Vindobona, where about 30,000 people lived at that time? Find the answers to these questions here in the Roman Museum. Fascinating archaeological finds enable you actively to experience the Roman history of Vienna – both of the city and the culture. You can catch a glimpse of a Roman legionary’s life in the basement – take the entrance to the left via the steps into the basement.

Schubert Geburtshaus

Schubert’s Birthplace

This is the house where the great composer Franz Schubert was born on 31 January 1797. It was then called ‘Zum roten Krebsen’ (The Red Crab) and was situated in the Viennese suburb of Himmelpfortgr-und. Here Schubert spent the first four and a half years of his childhood. The apartment of the large fam-ily consisted solely of one room and a ‘Rauchkuchl’ (kitchen with open fire). Today a large part of the top floor is dedicated to the memory of the composer. It presents an impressive documentation of his musical development, his circle of friends, and the important stages of his life. One of the rooms shows numerous portraits of the composer. But the item that fascinates the public most is a seemingly unspectacular pair of spectacles belonging to the composer, which became the ‘trademark’ of Schubert veneration.

1010 Vienna, Hoher Markt 3Opening hours:Tuesday–Sunday 9 am–6 pm www.wienmuseum.at

1090 Vienna, Nußdorfer Straße 54Opening hours: Tuesday–Sunday 10 am–1 pm & 2 pm–6 pmwww.wienmuseum.at

Celtic drinking vessel, 1st century BCE

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Sigmund Freud-Museum

In the former living quarters and office of Sigmund Freud in the house at Berggasse 19 in Vienna’s ninth district, the Sigmund Freud Museum presents an exhi-bition documenting the life and work of the founder of psychoanalysis. Freud lived and worked in this house from 1891 until 1938, when he was forced by the Nazis to flee with his family into exile in England. The interior decoration of the museum was carried out in 1971 with the help of Anna Freud, Sigmund Freud’s youngest daughter. Original furnishings, including the waiting room, a selection from Freud’s collection of antiquities, as well as signed copies and first editions of his works provide a glimpse into Freud’s biography, his cultural environment, and the development of psychoanalysis. Today Anna Freud’s rooms house a collection of contemporary art, the Foundation for the Arts, Sigmund Freud-Museum Vienna, and an Anna Freud memorial room. Historical film clips assembled and commentated by Anna Freud that depict moments in the private life of Freud and his family are shown in a video room.

From January 31, 2017

Special Exhibition:

“The apartment is doing well.”

The Freuds at Berggasse 19

The special aura of Sigmund Freud’s office has been described by many authors. But how did Freud and his family live at Berggasse 19? How can we picture that “intimate atmosphere of shared privacy and of open historicity” (Erik Erikson) that characterised the life of the founder of psychoanalysis at his home in Vienna?

“The apartment is doing well”. The Freuds at Berggasse 19 examines the Freuds’ family life in their rooms dating back to the Gründerzeit period. Father of six Sigmund Freud spent almost half a century as a tenant at Berggasse 19, together with his wife Martha, the children and his sister-in-law Minna Bernays, and at least two servants. The rooms changed many times over the years: various moves, conversions and use of the rooms for different purposes not only reflect the changing needs of a fast-growing family and the effects between building structures and social behav-iour in this turn-of-the-century setting. Numerous letter notes, quotations from theoretical writings, and visual documentations of the Freuds’ interior illustrate the extent to which the family and private setting also influenced the early development of the new science of the unconscious – regardless of the division between living and working areas practised by Sigmund Freud, as has been so often described in the literature. It is above all the descriptions gleaned from private correspondence – fragments of private biographical accounts – that project a kaleidoscopic image of the interior in which the history of the Freud family at Berggasse 19 was able to unfold until their expulsion in 1938.

Sigmund Freud on the patio

of his apartment at Berggasse 19 (1912)

1090 Vienna, Berggasse 19Opening hours: daily 10 am–6 pmwww.freud-museum.at

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Technisches Museum

Museum of Technology

On an area of 22,000 m², the Technisches Museum Wien offers a wide range of fascinating insights into the world of technology. Unique exhibits from the past to the present make the house a venue for exploring exciting technological developments. Texts, films, and experiments illustrate the mutual influence between technological achievements and society, economy and culture. Granting each visitor an individual approach, multimedia presentations make every tour through the museum a personal experience. The collections on show offer information on many issues and objects of technology and its history. The network of histori-cal machines, models, visitor experiments, pictures, texts, and other elements guarantees an experience that exceeds reading a book or viewing a lecture with pictures: the presented originals tell stories that awaken the visitors’ memories and challenge them to explore the highlighted subjects.

From June 2016

Special Exhibition:

The urban future. Thinking forward

There’s no denying the fact that the living space of the future will be urban. Cities account for around half the world’s population living on a mere two per cent of the world’s surface area – and by the year 2050, that figure will most probably have risen to more than two thirds.

This global trend raises all sorts of questions. How do we want to live in the future? What sort of homes will we want? How will we want to build, travel around, and supply ourselves with energy? How do we intend to feed ourselves? How will we structure our cities? And who will own our cities?

So the constant interplay between growth, social visions and real urban development needs continual innovations in order to shape the urban future and satisfy a whole range of different requirements.

The starting point of the exhibition is the new urban innovations special exhibition area which, together

with the adjoining permanent exhibitions on urban life, urban mobility and urban energy, give fresh impe-tus to the further development of our urban spaces.

From November 4, 2015

Special Exhibition:

Inventory No. 1938. Provenance research

at the Vienna Technical Museum

Cars, radios and hot-water heaters: the looting raids conducted by the Nazis did not stop at objects of everyday life. Since 1998 the TMW has been comb-ing through its collection for items once looted by the Nazis, and it has been trying to track down their rightful owners.

The public debate over provenance research is domi-nated by questions surrounding the restitution of valuable artworks such as paintings and drawings. It usually overlooks the fact that the Nazis mainly stole objects of everyday life from those persecuted on ‘racial’ and ‘political’ grounds: radio sets and cameras, furniture, bicycles, musical instruments, linen, motor vehicles and motorcycles. Since it was first established, the Technisches Museum Wien has always collected objects of everyday life, and its collection, too, has been found to comprise objects previously in Jewish ownership. The exhibition explains the day-to-day practice of Nazi raids, reconstructs the life stories of those deprived and despoiled, and documents the search currently underway to trace the rightful heirs, who are now dispersed all around the world.

Inventory No. 1938 is the first permanent exhibition of its kind on the subject of ‘provenance research’ by a museum in the German-speaking countries, and it documents the ‘Aryanisation’ of everyday objects around 1938. A database on vehicles looted by the Nazis gives visitors an opportunity to carry out some investigative research of their own.

1140 Vienna, Mariahilferstraße 212Opening hours:Monday–Friday 9 am–6 pmSaturday, Sunday 10 am–6 pmwww.technischesmuseum.at

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Urban future, exhibition view

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Uhrenmuseum

Clock Museum

With more than 3,000 clocks the Clock Museum has a collection that is unique in Europe. It is accom-modated in an enchanting Viennese house in the historical city, with foundation walls dating from the Middle Ages, and situated very close to Judenplatz. At the stroke of every full hour, three floors re-echo with chimes, sounds and carillons from the many clocks that are kept working. They document the measure-ment of time and the technology of horology from the fifteenth century until the present day.

The greatest imaginable diversity of types and mod-els from all over the world is on show in the Clock Museum: witty and ingenious picture clocks with hidden dial-plates; richly decorated longcase com-mode clocks telling of the social rank of their owners; pocket watches and pendants with luxurious orna-mentation as the most exquisite pieces of jewellery. Among the highlights of a visit to the museum is the astronomical art clock by David a Sancto Cajetano from the eighteenth century. Besides telling the time, this technical masterpiece informs on the length of the day and the orbital phases of the planets, and with sensational precision.

Volkskundemuseum

Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art

The Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art, founded in 1895 and housed since 1917 in the Schönborn Garden Palace in the Josefstadt district of Vienna, displays collections of the traditional folk culture of Austria and its neighbouring countries. The renovation of the building in the 1980s and 1990s permitted a new conceptualisation and design of the exhibits on the ground floor. Not only does this now provide an overview of pre-modern folk culture, but it has also made possible a glimpse into the unique folk art collection of the Museum. The collections show culture as it is reflected in folk art, providing evidence of its many-sided expressions.

1010 Vienna, Schulhof 2Opening hours:Tuesday–Sunday 10 am–6 pmwww.wienmuseum.at

1080 Vienna, Laudongasse 15–19Opening hours:Tuesday–Sunday 10 am–5 pmwww.volkskundemuseum.at

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Wien Museum

Museum of Vienna

The Wien Museum has a very special position amongst Vienna’s museums. With its mixture of artis-tic and historical collections, it shows Vienna’s devel-opment over the past centuries. One can view valuable art treasures, and one perceives a city and its myth. Highlights of the collection are archaeological finds from the Roman time, original glass windows from St. Stephen’s Cathedral, the oldest maps of Vienna, and numerous views of the city showing its expansion and changes. Furthermore, there are selected pieces of fur-niture, garments, and precious artefacts from the 19th century on display. The permanent exhibition ‘Vienna Around 1900’ presents principal works by Klimt, Schiele, Gerstl, and artists of the Wiener Werkstätte.

February 16 – May 14, 2017

Special Exhibition:

Protestant Vienna.

Religious conflict after Luther

Martin Luther’s critique of the sale of indulgences in 1517 was the spark that ignited the Reformation. Marking the 500th anniversary of Luther’s publication of his 95 Theses, the exhibition recalls the decades when Vienna was a majority-Protestant city.

Renaissance Humanism, the discovery of the Ameri-cas, and the invention of the printing press funda-mentally altered the European worldview around 1500. Vienna, too, was undergoing transformation. University life was blossoming, and important schol-ars bestrode the city. Luther’s ideas fell on fruitful ground, even finding favour with Emperor Maximil-ian II. Yet his successors refused to tolerate any form of Protestant worship, forcing much of the population to take refuge in the castles on the outskirts of Vienna. Hernals, in particular, became a significant centre of Protestant culture.

The Reformation survived the triumphal years of the Viennese Counter Reformation in secret and in the chapels of foreign legations. Joseph II’s Patent of Toleration (1781), a declaration that accorded a circumscribed freedom of religious expression to Lutherans and Calvinists, rounds out the exhibition.

Three outstanding original documents – a printing of Luther’s theses (1517), the Augsburg Confession (1530), and the Peace of Augsburg (1555) – bring the exhibition beyond the horizons of Vienna.

1040 Vienna, Karlsplatz 8Opening hours:Tuesday–Sunday 10 am–6 pmwww.wienmuseum.at

Sermon in the Augustinian Church, Vienna,

1561, Jakob Seisenegger

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Wiener Kriminalmuseum

Viennese Museum of Criminology

In one of the oldest buildings in the 2nd district, built probably in the early 1600s, you will find this gem of a museum. In 20 rooms the history of justice and police, as well as that of criminality is presented, from the Middle Ages right to the present. Visitors will learn about medieval punishments and the final executions in Vienna, about the attempt on Emperor Franz Joseph’s life and the terror of anarchists. The ‘dark Vienna’ of 300 years comes alive in these origi-nal exhibits.

ZOOM Kindermuseum

Children’s Museum

ZOOM Children’s Museum is a place of playful inquiry, learning, and discovery for children. It gives young museum goers the chance to zoom in on new situations and use all their senses to grasp the world around them. At ZOOM Children’s Museum, children are free to explore, discover, and learn in a playful way that involves all their senses. All exhibitions and workshops are designed to encourage active and self-determined experience. Accompanying programmes foster creativity – artists encourage kids to paint, dance, make music, and explore the world – and they don’t just supervise, they join in. ZOOM’s hands-on exhibitions provide children with a meaningful intro-duction to the world of museums.

Special programmes require reservation

1020 Vienna, Große Sperlgasse 24Opening hours:Thursday–Sunday 10 am–5 pmwww.kriminalmuseum.at

Exhibition Hear, hear! Look, look!

1070 Vienna, Museumsplatz 1Opening hours:Tuesday–Friday 8:30 am–4 pmSaturday, Sunday 10 am–4 pmwww.kindermuseum.at

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Kristiane Kaiser in Don Giovanni by W.A. Mozart

Theater an der WienVolksoper

Wiener StaatsoperRaimundtheater

Ronacher

OPERA & MUSICAL THEATRE

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Theater an der Wien

Founded in 1801 by the famous librettist Emanuel Schikaneder, the Theater an der Wien is one of Vienna’s oldest and most beautiful theatres. Numer-ous world premières and legendary performances by famous artists determine its history. Today it is one of the most exquisite and elegant stages for opera in Europe.

February 27 + March 1, 19:00

Peer Gynt

by Werner EgkConducted by Leo Hussain,

directed by Peter Konwitschny

With Bo Skovhus, Maria Bengtsson,

Natascha Petrinsky, Nazanin Ezazi,

Cornelia Horak, Andrew Owens, Rainer Trost

ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien,

Arnold Schoenberg Chor

1060 Vienna, Linke Wienzeile 6www.theater-wien.at

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Opera & Musical Theatre

Volksoper

The Vienna Volksoper, founded in 1898, is Europe’s leading house for operettas. Nevertheless it offers a great variety of musical theatre: Operas of the 18th, 19th, and 20th century, operettas, classical musicals, contemporary dance, and concerts. About 300 perfor-mances present 35 different productions each season.

February 27, 19:00

Il barbiere di Siviglia

Opera by Gioachino Rossini

February 28, 19:00

Wie man Karriere macht,

ohne sich anzustrengen

Musical by Frank Loesser

March 1, 19:30

Heute im Foyer …

String quartet playing music by W.A. Mozart a.o.

March 2, 19:30

Heute im Foyer …

Music for two violins

March 3, 19:00

Don Giovanni

Opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

March 4, 18:30

Die lustige Witwe

Operetta by Franz Lehár

March 5, 16:30

Wie man Karriere macht,

ohne sich anzustrengen

Musical by Frank Loesser

Robert Meyer and Caroline Melzer

in Die lustige Witwe by Franz Lehár

1090 Vienna, Währingerstraße 78www.volksoper.at

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Natascha Mair and Davide Dato in La fille mal gardée

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Wiener Staatsoper

The Vienna State Opera is one of the world’s leading and most famous opera houses. Approximately 50 operas and 20 ballets are offered in the repertoire every season. It is not, however, the number which is important (although it is not equalled by any other opera house in the world) rather the variety offered at the highest levels of artistry. An artistic corner stone of the house is the permanently engaged ensemble of singers, always complemented by international guest singers, and of course supported by the best and most celebrated directors and conductors.

February 27, 19:30

La fille mal gardée

Ballet by Frederick Ashton, conducted by Simon Hewett

February 28, 19:30

Turandot

by Giacomo Puccini, conducted by Paolo CarignaniWith Elena Pankratova, Heinz Zednik, Ryan

Speedo Green, Stefano La Colla, Anita Hartig

March 1, 19:30

Onegin

Ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, choreography by John Cranko

1010 Vienna, Opernring 2www.wiener-staatsoper.at

March 2, 19:00

Don Giovanni

by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, conducted by Adam FischerWith Adam Plachetka, Albina Shagimuratova,

Saimir Pirgu, Olga Bezsmertna, Jongmin Park

March 3, 19:30

Turandot

by Giacomo Puccini, conducted by Paolo CarignaniWith Elena Pankratova, Heinz Zednik, Ryan

Speedo Green, Stefano La Colla, Anita Hartig

March 4, 19:30

Onegin

Ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, choreography by John Cranko

March 5, 18:30

Don Giovanni

by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, conducted by Adam FischerWith Adam Plachetka, Albina Shagimuratova,

Saimir Pirgu, Olga Bezsmertna, Jongmin Park

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Raimundtheater

The Raimund Theater was founded in 1893 as coun-terpart to the bourgeois theatres at the centre of Vienna. At the beginning of the 20th century it devel-oped into one of Vienna’s great places for operettas. Since the 1980s it has been one of this city’s most famous show grounds for musical extravaganza.


Schikaneder

Musical by Stephen Schwartz & Christian Struppeck

March 2–4, 19:30

Schikaneder


March 5, 16:30

Schikaneder


1060 Vienna, Wallgasse 18–20www.musicalvienna.at

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Katie Hall and Mark Seibert in Schikaneder

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Ensemble in Don Camillo & Peppone

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Ronacher

Originally built as Wiener Stadttheater in 1872, the Etablissement Ronacher was opened in 1888 as variety theatre. Its history after World War II was extremely varied until it fell to the Vereinigte Bühnen Wien in the 1990s. Since then it has established itself as a renowned centre for musicals, for in-house produc-tions as well as guest performances.


Don Camillo & Peppone

Musical by Michael Kunze & Dario Farina

March 2–4, 19:30



March 5, 16:30



1010 Vienna, Seilerstätte 9www.musicalvienna.at

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Ensemble in Hexenjagd by Arthur Miller

AkademietheaterBurgtheater

Kammerspiele der JosefstadtRabenhof

SchauspielhausTAG – Theater an der Gumpendorfer Straße

Theater in der JosefstadtVolkstheater

THEATRE & DANCE

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Markus Meyer in Ludwig II based on Visconti’s movie

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Akademietheater

The Akademietheater was built from 1911 to 1913, and has been the Burgtheater’s second major stage since 1922. After long years of intervention by the theatre’s most prominent actors and actresses, who longed for a smaller, more intimate room, the Thea-tre of the Academy of Music and Performing Arts was affiliated with the Burgtheater. It was ceremoni-ously opened in 1922 with Goethe’s ‘Iphigenie auf Tauris’. After World War II it was re-opened with an acclaimed production of ‘Hedda Gabler’ by Henrik Ibsen. It is still one of the foremost stages in the German-speaking world, with celebrated and often awarded performances.

February 27, 20:00

Bella Figura

by Yasmina Reza

February 28, 20:00

Claus Peymann kauft sich eine

Hose und geht mit mir essen

by Thomas Bernhard

March 1, 20:00

Ludwig II

based on Luchino Visconti’s movie

March 2, 20:00

Das Konzert

by Hermann Bahr

March 3, 19:30

Die Welt im Rücken

based on the novel by Thomas Melle

March 4, 19:30

Diese Geschichte von Ihnen

by John Hopkins

March 5, 19:00

Die Wiedervereinigung

der beiden Koreas

by Joël Pommerat

Details to be found on the Burgtheater website.

Please note that all theatre performances are in German.

1030 Vienna, Lisztstraße 1Phone: +43 1 51444 4145www.burgtheater.at

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Burgtheater

The Burgtheater (the former imperial court theatre), one of the most important theatres in Europe, is the second-oldest theatre still in existence after the Comé-die Française. Already in 1741 empress Maria Theresia donated a building at this place to the performing arts. Its first flowering period was in the early 1800s. The present house was erected in 1888. Since then the world-famous and magnificent ensemble has been the most important constant factor of the Burgtheater. The all-German programme includes all the variety of spoken theatre: classics and contemporary pieces, as well as experimental theatre and readings.

February 27, 20:00

Die Affäre Rue de Lourcine

by Eugène Labiche

February 28, 19:00

Hexenjagd

by Arthur Miller

March 1, 19:00

Hexenjagd

by Arthur Miller

March 2, 20:00

Die Affäre Rue de Lourcine

by Eugène Labiche

March 3, 20:00

Kunst

by Yasmina Reza

March 4, 20:00

Kunst

by Yasmina Reza

March 5, 19:00

Antigone

by Sophokles

Details to be found on the Burgtheater website.

1010 Vienna, Universitätsring 2Phone: +43 1 51444 4145www.burgtheater.at

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Michael Maertens in Die Affäre Rue de Lourcine by Eugène Labiche

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Erni Mangold and Neo Wulf in Harold und Maude by Colin Higgins

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Kammerspiele der Josefstadt

This is the second stage of the traditional Theater in der Josefstadt. Recently beautifully renovated, it offers intelligent urban comedies by mostly contemporary authors, dealing with socio-politically relevant topics in a light-hearted, ironic and humorous way.

February 27, 19:30

Monsieur Claude und seine Töchter

by Philippe de Chauveron und Guy Laurent

February 28, 19:30



March 1, 19:30



1010 Vienna, Rotenturmstraße 20Phone: +43 1 42 700 300www.josefstadt.org

March 2, 19:30

Harold und Maude

by Colin Higgins

March 3, 19:30

Harold und Maude

by Colin Higgins

March 4, 19:30

Die Kehrseite der Medaille

by Florian Zeller

March 5, 15:00 and 19:30

Die Kehrseite der Medaille

by Florian Zeller

Details to be found on the Josefstadt website.

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Christian Dolezal and Mathias Habjan in Kottan ermittelt

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Rabenhof

The Rabenhof theatre is located within residential premises built in the 1920s for the workers of this district. In 1989 the Theater in der Josefstadt took over this former workers’ festival hall, which had also been a movie theatre in its colourful past. Since 2001, the Rabenhof has been an independent theatre featuring a distinct programme that with its diversity and its original choice of productions is unique in Vienna’s theatrical scene. For this concept, artistic director Thomas Gratzer and his team have been rightly rewarded with the ‘Nestroy’, Vienna’s most important theatre award.

February 27+28, 20:00 / March 3, 20:00

Grünmandl

Famous Austrian actor and comedian

Andreas Vitásek revives the life and

career of a well-known predecessor

March 4, 20:00

Kottan ermittelt

Austrian cult TV show from

the 1970s brought to life on stage

Details to be found on the Rabenhof website.

1030 Vienna, Rabengasse 3Phone: +43 1 712 82 82www.rabenhoftheater.com

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Schauspielhaus

The story of the Schauspielhaus began in 1978, when the Viennese theatre director Hans Gratzer converted an old cinema into a functional theatre space. It opened in May 1978 with Jean Genet’s ‘The Balcony’. Hans Gratzer was both general and artistic director of the theatre, apart from a short interrup-tion, for 20 years until 2001. From 1987 to 1990 George Tabori was artistic director and established his concept of theatre as ‘der Kreis’ (The Circle). After Airan Berg & Barrie Kosky (2001–2007) and Andreas Beck (2007–2015), Tomas Schweigen was established as new artistic director in July 2015. His programme focuses on contemporary authors and political issues.

February 28, 20:00 / March 1+2, 20:00

Diese Mauer fasst sich selbst zusammen

und der Stern hat gesprochen,

der Stern hat auch was gesagt

by Miroslava Svolikova

Details to be found on the Schauspielhaus website.

Ensemble in Diese Mauer fasst sich selbst zusammen … by Miroslava Svolikova

1090 Vienna, Porzellangasse 19Phone: +43 1 317 01 01www.schauspielhaus.at

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TAG – Theater an der Gumpendorfer Straße

The TAG is one of Vienna’s smaller, but meanwhile highly decorated theatres. It focuses on classic plays sublimely ‘overwritten’ and transported into the pre-sent, interpreted by an excellent ensemble.

February 28, 20:00 / March 3+4, 20:00

(Ein) Käthchen.Traum

by Gernot Plass, based on ‘Das Käthchen von Heilbronn’ by Heinrich von Kleist

Details to be found on the TAG website.

Nancy Mensah-Offei and Raphael Nicholas

in (Ein) Käthchen.Traum by Gernot Plass

1060 Vienna, Gumpendorfer Straße 67Phone: + 43 1 5865222www.dastag.at

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Pauline Knof and Michael Dangl in Der Schwierige by Hugo von Hofmannsthal

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Theater in der Josefstadt

As early as 1788, the first theatre was built at this site. The building that is today the Theater in der Josefstadt was constructed in 1822 and opened with an overture by Ludwig van Beethoven who conducted it himself. In 1834 a ballroom was attached where Johann Strauss oversaw weekly dances featuring his own music as well as Josef Lanner’s. At the beginning of the 20th century, the theatre changed from being mainly a house for operas and operettas into one of Vienna’s foremost stages for spoken theatre. Artistic director Herbert Föttinger aims for contemporary views on modern classics with a focus on Austrian playwrights.

February 27, 19:30

Der Schwierige

by Hugo von Hofmannsthal

February 28, 19:30

Der Schwierige

by Hugo von Hofmannsthal

March 1, 19:30

Sieben Sekunden Ewigkeit

by Peter Turrini

March 2, 19:30

Sieben Sekunden Ewigkeit

by Peter Turrini

March 3, 19:30

Das Mädl aus der Vorstadt

by Johann N. Nestroy

March 4, 19:30



March 5, 15:00



March 5, 19:30



Details to be found on the Josefstadt website.

1080 Vienna, Josefstädter Straße 26Phone: +43 1 42 700 300www.josefstadt.org

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Gábor Biedermann, Evi Kehrstephan,

Stefanie Reinsperger, Günter Franzmeier

in Medea by Franz Grillparzer

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Volkstheater

The Volkstheater was founded in 1889 by prominent Viennese citizens as civil counterpart to the imperial Burgtheater. Being the first theatrical building com-plying with all the new security regulations following the disastrous theatre fires in Vienna and Nice, the Volkstheater became part of architectural history. In 1980/81 it was restored to its old grandeur from before the war. Until today the theatre clings to its traditional programme of exciting interpretations of the classics, regular new productions of Nestroy’s and Raimund’s plays, and numerous premières of contemporary dra-mas with a focus on Austrian plays.

February 27, 19:30

Medea

by Franz Grillparzer

February 28, 19:30

Alles Walzer, alles brennt

by Christine Eder

March 1, 19:30

Medea

by Franz Grillparzer

March 2, 19:30

Klein Zaches – Operation Zinnober

based on a story by E.T.A. Hoffmann

March 3, 19:30

Alles Walzer, alles brennt

by Christine Eder

March 4, 19:30



March 5, 15:00



Details to be found on the Volkstheater website.

1070 Vienna, Neustiftgasse 1Phone: +43 1 52111 400www.volkstheater.at

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Photo Credits

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Cover: Andreas Mitschke and Kristiane Kaiser in Don Giovanni

by W.A. Mozart © Barbara Pálffy / Volksoper Wien

Insight Front Cover Joachim Meyerhoff in Antigone by Sophokles

© Georg Soulek / Burgtheater

p. 1 Stefan Vladar © www.lukasbeck.com Bettina Ehrlich-Bauer, Self-portrait, 1928

© Belvedere Archives, Vienna Kristiane Kaiser in Don Giovanni by W.A. Mozart

© Barbara Pálffy / Volksoper Wien Ensemble in Hexenjagd by Arthur Miller

© Reinhard Werner / Burgtheaterp. 2/3 Burgtheater, around 1900,

Photochrom print (colour photo lithograph)p. 4/5 Stefan Vladar © www.lukasbeck.comp. 6 Isabelle van Keulen © Marco Borggrevep. 9 Tugan Sokhiev © Patrice Ninp. 10 La Bandada Mancini © noticiasvaldeorras.comp. 11 John Mayall © Jeff Fasanop. 12/13 Cymbals Eat Guitars © Eric Whitep. 14 Kalkbrenner Fritz © Torben Conradp. 15 Helmet © pictureofthewind.wordpress.comp. 16 Arnold Schönberg, Erwin Stein, Anton Webern,

Zandvoort, March 1914 © Arnold Schönberg Centerp. 17 Franz Schubert’s glasses © Inge Prader, Haus der Musikp. 18 Bettina Ehrlich-Bauer, Self-portrait, 1928

© Belvedere Archives, Vienna, Photo: Bruno Reiffensteinp. 20 Gerhard Richter, Abstract Painting, 2001,

Albertina, Vienna – permanent loan © Bildrecht, Vienna, 2016p. 21 Alex Katz, Black Hat 2, 2010, Albertina, Vienna –

Batliner Collection © Bildrecht, Vienna, 2016p. 22 Edgar Degas, Spanish dancer and leg studies, ca. 1882,

Musée d’Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d´Orsay) / Jean Shormans

p. 23 Markus Prachensky, Red on Black, Puglia, 1976 © Atelier Markus Prachensky

p. 24 Georgia O’Keeffe, Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1, 1932, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas © 2016 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum/Bildrecht, Wien

p. 25 Georgia O’Keeffe, Black Cross with Stars and Blue, 1929, Private collection © 2016 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum/Bildrecht, Wien

p. 27 Jean Dubuffet, Passe furtif et décor, 1955, Collection Klewan, Jean Dubuffet © VGBild-Kunst, Bonn 2016

p. 28/29 Marcel Odenbach, Durchblicke (Detail), 2007 © Marcel Odenbach & BILDRECHT GmbH, 2017, Courtesy Anton Kern Gallery, New York

p. 31 Peter Dressler, In unmittelbarer Nähe, 2003 © Fotohof Archiv

p. 32 Drawer with bohemian gold coins © KHM-Museumsverband

p. 33 Johann Zoffani, Francis I (1708–1765), 1776/77 © KHM-Museumsverband

p. 35 Richard Gerstl, Portrait of Henryka Cohn, 1908 © Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 650

p. 36 Josef Hoffmann, War Glasses, before 1916 © MAKp. 37 handiCRAFT. Traditional Skills in the Digital Age, 2016,

MAK Exhibition Hall © MAK/Georg Mayerp. 39 Július Koller, One Man Anti Show, mumok Wien,

Exhibition view, Photo: mumok / Stephan Wyckoffp. 40 OstLicht Interior © Photo Marco Pauerp. 40/41 Svenja Deininger, Echo of a Mirror Fragment, exhibition view,

Secession 2017, Photo: Markus Wörgötterp. 41 Angelika Loderer, exhibition view, Secession 2016,

Photo: Matthias Bildsteinp. 43 Alfons Schilling, Frame from the movie Jackie Curtis, 1970

© Nachlass Alfons Schilling

p. 45 Franz West – Tamuna Sirbiladze, Moonlight, 2001, Permanent loan from Ernst Ploil, Belvedere, Vienna, Photo © Belvedere, Vienna © Archiv Franz West

p. 46 Arnold Schönberg in Focus. Exhibition view © Hertha Hurnausp. 47 Beethoven Pasqualatihaus © Hertha Hurnaus / Wien Museump. 47 Bestattungsmuseum © Wiener Stadtwerkep. 48 Esperanto Museum © Österreichische Nationalbibliothekp. 49 Globe Museum © Österreichische Nationalbibliothekp. 50 Haydnhaus © Hertha Hurnaus / Wien Museump. 51 Johann Strauss Apartment © Hertha Hurnausp. 53 Gertrud Fischel, Abundance, c. 1921

© Private collection, Viennap. 53 Sofie Korner, The Bed © Privately ownedp. 54 Helmut Qualtinger as pilot © Michael Horowitzp. 55 Literature Museum © Österreichische Nationalbibliothekp. 56 Le Nozze di Figaro 1786 © ÖNB, Theatersammlungp. 57 The beginning of everything, CERN detail

© CERN, Michael Hochp. 58 The beginning of everything, exhibition view

© NHM Wien, Kurt Kracherp. 59 His freedom, our freedom. Exhibition view

© Theatermuseum / Alexander Rosoli, Wienp. 60 Narrenturm exterior view © NHM Wienp. 61 Celtic drinking vessel, 1st century BCE © Wien Museump. 62 Sigmund Freud on the patio of his apartment

at Berggasse 19 (1912) © Sigmund Freud Foundationp. 64 Urban future, exhibition view © Hertha Hurnaus, TMWp. 66 Sermon in the Augustinian Church, Vienna, 1561,

Jakob Seisenegger © Family collection of Count Harrach, Rohrau castle, Lower Austria

p. 67 Exhibition Hear, hear! Look, look! © ZOOM Kindermuseum / J.J. Kucek

p. 68/69 Kristiane Kaiser in Don Giovanni by W.A. Mozart © Barbara Pálffy / Volksoper Wien

p. 70/71 Robert Meyer and Caroline Melzer in Die lustige Witwe

by Franz Lehár © Barbara Pálffy / Volksoper Wienp. 72 Natascha Mair and Davide Dato in La fille mal gardée

© Wiener Staatsballett / Ashley Taylorp. 74/75 Katie Hall and Mark Seibert in Schikaneder

© VBW / Deen van Meer 2016p. 76/77 Ensemble in Don Camillo & Peppone

© Theater St. Gallen / Andreas J. Etterp. 78/79 Ensemble in Hexenjagd by Arthur Miller

© Reinhard Werner / Burgtheaterp. 80 Markus Meyer in Ludwig II based on Visconti’s movie

© Reinhard Werner / Burgtheaterp. 83 Michael Maertens in Die Affäre Rue de Lourcine

by Eugène Labiche © Reinhard Werner / Burgtheaterp. 84 Erni Mangold and Neo Wulf in Harold und Maude

by Colin Higgins © Erich Reismannp. 86/87 Christian Dolezal and Mathias Habjan in Kottan ermittelt

© Rita Newman / Rabenhofp. 88 Ensemble in Diese Mauer fasst sich selbst zusammen …

by Miroslava Svolikova © Matthias Heschl / Schauspielhausp. 89 Nancy Mensah-Offei and Raphael Nicholas in (Ein)

Käthchen.Traum by Gernot Plass © Judith Stehlik / TAGp. 90 Pauline Knof and Michael Dangl in Der Schwierige

by Hugo von Hofmannsthal © Erich Reismannp. 92 Gábor Biedermann, Evi Kehrstephan, Stefanie Reinsperger,

Günter Franzmeier in Medea by Franz Grillparzer © www.lupispuma.com / Volkstheater

Inside Back Cover Markus Meyer and Regina Fritsch in Ludwig II based

on Visconti’s movie © Reinhard Werner / Burgtheater

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Markus Meyer and Regina Fritsch in Ludwig II based on Visconti’s movie

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