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For 25 years, Klaus Albrecht Schröder shaped the Albertina, transforming it into one of the world’s leading art institutions. A retrospective from the Director General on his achievements.

Besides Maria Lassnig and VALIE EXPORT, she is one of the most important feminist artists in Austria: In cooperation with the Sprengel Museum Hannover, the

For the first time, the Albertina dedicates a solo retrospective to the Viennese painter Martha Jungwirth (born 1940), with key works and series arranged according

Keith Haring was not only an artist, he also was an activist. He advocated for human rights, and later vehemently for the cause of HIV and of AIDS, the disease

Displaying the property, the journeys or the family: The art of the Viennese watercolor had its heyday in the 18th and 19th centuries before it was finally

Architectural drawing as an autonomous form of art: „Masterworks of Architectural Drawing“ is the title of the exhibition in the Albertina, the second part

«Whatever makes for cultural development is working also against war.» (Sigmund Freud in a letter to Albert Einstein, 1932) For half a century, Sigmund

„Raphael was a very economical draughtsman who was able to convey great emotions with just a few outlines“ says Achim Gnann, art historian and expert for Italian art between the 15th and 19th century who curated the new exhibition in the Albertina, working on the preparations for five years.

Gottfried Helnwein is doubtlessly one of the most prominent and controversial hyperrealist painters of our time. . Hyperrealist painting stands in contrast

Drawing, graphic print and painting can be different forms of expression for one artistic idea, therefore the Albertina focused on groups or series of works

The strange familiar : Austria in the focus of the native lens at Albertina Museum in Vienna. Landscapes, spaces, identities and social environments, disappearing

What you see isn't what you really get. There is something else—the effect of photography. According to curator Heike Eipeldauer, to an unsuspecting visitor

Under the title « Dialogues », the Albertina museum shows 80 drawings and watercolours by the great Austrian painter Maria Lassnig, who passed away in 2014.

Eduard Angeli's art is on display at Albertina Museum in Vienna. His work defies categorizations. The works seem to be structured either by complementary or

In his short but intensive creative life, Egon Schiele repeatedly focused on the human figure as his central subject. He did not only question roles and displays of lifestyles, he also used to assign roles in his pictures.

Eduard Angeli’s paintings pose a big problem for art lovers. His work can not be duly appreciated when not seen live « in the flesh ». Of course it is generally

The third exhibition with material from the Albertina’s own photography collection focuses on forms of presentation. On the basis of about 120 photographs

Egon Schiele has a special significance for the artist Gottfried Helnwein, because he is the first artist in the modern sense, i.e. an artist who is not firmly

Egon Schiele’s preferred way of expression was drawing with its immediacy. In his short, 10 year-long career, he produced about 3000 of them. His paintings

Egon Schiele’s nudes are often the center of discussions that place him between depiction and pornography. The exhibition „Egon Schiele“ in the Albertina

„Poussin to David“: The new exhibition in the Albertina Museum gives an insight into the world’s largest collection of drawings of the French baroque,

From Marilyn Monroe to James Stewart. Iconic film-stills from seven decades of film history on display at Museum Albertina in Vienna, proof: What was meant

Twins, even when they look identical, are always distinguished and recognized as two different persons, even if sometimes confounded because of their perceived alikeness.

For Jim Dine - who we interviewed at his current exhibition at Albertina Museum in Vienne - the self-portrait is a meditation about the way an artist recognizes

"What can painting do?" More than 40 years, Artist Erwin Bohatsch explores the possibilities of painting in his artistic work and doing so, he moved from figurative

“Sound Chair”, “Sound Dome”, “Serpentinata”, “Sound Column”… - Bernhard Leitner’s sound space objects and installations are all accessible

Klaus Albrecht Schröder, Albertina museum director and curator of the exhibition "Chagall to Malevich - The Russian Avant-Gardes" leads us through the  developments

Find out why "drawing is everything" to New York based artist Chloe Piene in our special lecture series. Within the exhibition program of "Drawing Now: 2015"

“I was walking along the road with two friends – the sun was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red – I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on

In our film the curator Dieter Buchhart leads us through Munchs "Frieze of Life" at the museum Albertina in Vienna. One of the chief works, the Frieze of

"The Organ Grinder" is the first work, Alfred Kubin gave his artist-friend Lyonel Feininger as a present. Eva Michel, curator at museum Albertina in Vienna,

While Monika Grzymala and other artists of the exhibition Drawing Now at the museum Albertina in Vienna transcend the two-dimensionality of drawing, Rainer

40 years after the legendary Drawing Now exhibition, organized in cooperation with the MoMA in New York, the Albertina shows another overview of the current

With the Sturtevant exhibition, the Albertina inaugurates the new Tietze Galleries for Prints and Drawings, on a surface of 450 sqm.

What makes art art? Is there an aura of authenticity? Can a copy be an original? Is it reference or usurpation? Who is the author?

Twenty years of groundwork with a dense and varied programme, including both familiar and previously untold stories about the built and dreamt-of world, lie

The Viennese Kunsthistorisches Museum shows in its second exhibition Festum II at the re-opened Theseus Temple a work by the Belgian artist Kris Martin.

The Viennese Kunsthistorisches Museum opened its exhibition series at Theseus Tempel at the Volksgarten with the swiss based artist Ugo Rondinone. CastYourArt

Object and image, true and false, natural and artificial, credible and incredible – Evan Penny’s figures are all of the above. An exhibition-portrait on

Between mythical creatures and human forms, between dream and nightmare, we find ourselves in a world where life crawls and insects swarm: Welcome to the land

„The 1960ies: a fantastic modern“ in the MUSA Vienna reveals the spirit of a decade marked by radical upheaval, along the way the entire who’s who of

Irene Andessner resuscitates the Tableau vivant with “Art Protectors” in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. The exhibition 'The Gold Age. Dutch Group

Irene Andessner’s self-dramatizations are revivals of historical personalities that utilize memory as a source of reactivation. Irene Andessner began her

“And if there ever was an age when one sees varied and wondrous things I believe that ours is one” (Mateo Bandello, 1554) This podcast was realised with the kind support of UNIQUA ArtCercles.

There has been substantial evidence for the theory, according to the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk, that it is far less important for humans to know who

What would a virtual world be like without computers? The artist Johannes Deutsch tries to make the answers to this question tangible through his art project,

The early work of Nadine Rennert can be considered abstract art. It explores the formal possibilities of its material. It plumbs the depths of its soul, says the artist.

Monica Reyes has just released her new CD, "Frühbar", which features original compositions from the vocalist and actress – witty and tipsy pop-chansons that

The job description for Marten Spangberg encompasses many terms. He got his start as a dance critic, writes on theory, is active as a performer, dance dramaturge,

Ian Fleming, the inventor of the character James Bond, published a book in 1964 which he dedicated to his son, Caspar. The story is about a poor inventor called