Albertina

Care Matters

An Exhibition of the VERBUND COLLECTION

Drawn from the VERBUND COLLECTION, this show follows artistic views of care work from the Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s to contemporary positions, focusing on domestic labor, motherhood, and intergenerational solidarity.

Richard Prince

The exhibition surveys Richard Prince's photographic thinking from the 1970s to today, with Cowboys, Fashion, Gangs, and lesser-known works that question authorship, advertising, and American pop imagery.

Helga Philipp

Spaces of Movement

Around 50 works trace Helga Philipp's concrete art and Op Art practice, from geometric experiments and serial structures to paintings, drawings, prints, and objects focused on perception and movement.

KAWS

Art & Comix

KAWS. Art & Comix connects the artist's characters with comics, cartoons, and contemporary art, setting his work beside positions from Basquiat, Haring, Bernhardt, and others.

Donated with Love

This Klosterneuburg presentation marks the Albertina's 250th anniversary with recent donations to the contemporary collection, including larger groups by Roy Lichtenstein and Sean Scully and works by Julie Mehretu, Katharina Grosse, and others.

Otto Meets Albertina

Otto Waalkes responds to selected masterworks from the graphic collection with humorous interventions in the Habsburg State Rooms, turning parody into a playful anniversary homage.

Collecting for the Future

250 Years of the Albertina Museum

This anniversary exhibition revisits the founding and growth of the Albertina collection through major works, with a special focus on Marie Christine's role and on female contributions to the museum's collecting history.

Vasarely – Adrian

Moving Images

At Albertina modern, Victor Vasarely's optical structures meet Marc Adrian's media-art investigations of motion, creating a dialogue around perception, geometry, color, and moving images.

The World in Focus

This photography exhibition follows 19th-century travel and expedition images, from Alpine glaciers and Middle Eastern sites to Habsburg regions and Japan, showing how photography helped map a changing world.

Picasso – Bacon

What It Feels Like to Be Human

More than 100 works set Picasso and Bacon in dialogue, tracing how both artists reinvented the human figure through distortion, vulnerability, violence, and existential intensity.

Shara Hughes

Shara Hughes's large, symbolic landscapes turn flowers, forests, waterfalls, sunsets, and night skies into charged inner worlds shaped by expressive color.

Women Artists of the Albertina

This anniversary exhibition highlights women artists in the Albertina collection from the 15th century to the 1970s, drawing on ongoing research into works that have rarely or never been shown.

Franz West

Albertina modern presents a retrospective for Franz West's 80th birthday year, following his Adaptives, sculptures, and boundary-breaking approach to art as social situation.

Down Under

Art from Australia

This Albertina modern exhibition centers on Australian First Nations art, with Emily Kame Kngwarreye at its core and photography by Australian women artists expanding the view of art from Australia.