The Beauty of Diversity moves in the field of tension between an established understanding of art and its renewal. The exhibition unfolds its persuasive power in the juxtaposition of renowned artists who have always wanted to strain the canon and yet have become canonised, and new discoveries as well as those who irritate viewing habits, swim against the tide, shake the foundations of high culture, break the norm and thus establish the aesthetics of diversity.
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Roy Lichtenstein, the master of Pop Art, is 100 years old. The ALBERTINA Museum is celebrating the artist with a comprehensive retrospective that brings together over 90 paintings, sculptures and prints.
On the occasion of Gottfried Helnwein’s 75th birthday, the ALBERTINA presents a comprehensive exhibition of his works from the last three decades. In each of his paintings, Helnwein, the artist born in Vienna in 1948, raises an indictment against cruelty and ruthlessness as well as the horrors of fascism.
From October 13th to November 13th, Gallery at the Albertina ▪ Zetter dedicates a representative overview of the extensive artistic oeuvre spanning six decades to the universal artist Christian Ludwig Attersee…
The master of the Renaissance: Michelangelo is one of that handful of artists whose fame has remained unbroken for centuries. Although his art and ideals are deeply rooted in the thinking of his time – the heyday of the Renaissance and the advancing 16th century – the impact of his art extends to the present day.
ALBERTINA MODERN’s major fall exhibition is dedicated to outstanding artists from both countries. However, it does not focus on the long history that connects us, but allows important collection positions of the ALBERTINA to enter into an exciting dialogue in a direct juxtaposition – for example Maria Lassnig with Georg Baselitz, Arnulf Rainer with Gerhard Richter, Franz West with Sigmar Polke.
This presentation is dedicated to Georg Baselitz (*1938) and his generous decision to donate 100 of his own outstanding and pioneering works on paper to the ALBERTINA Museum and the Morgan Library, from which he invited the two museums to choose 50 each for their collections.
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death, the ALBERTINA commemorates Pablo Picasso – the greatest and most influential artist of the 20th century: a trailblazer for the first half of the century with Cubism, a major representative of Symbolism with his Blue Period, the pioneer of Classicism in the 1920s, and the ideal for the Neo-Expressionist movements of the 1980s with his late work. His oeuvre of approximately 50,000 works reflects the vast political changes and fast-moving avant-garde movements of his era from the turn of the century to the early 1970s.
Jackson Pollock to Maria Lassnig: 15.10. 2022 – 22.1. 2023 – The end of the Second World War also marks a turning point in modern painting: the ALBERTINA MODERN’s autumn exhibition is dedicated to Abstract Expressionism of the New York School, which celebrated a brilliant triumph in Europe after 1945. As an expression of individual Freedom gives the spontaneous artistic gesture great meaning and symbolic charge.
Basquiat. Of Symbols and Signs is the first major museum retrospective of the extraordinary work of Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988) in Vienna …
The ALBERTINA Museum is the first institution of its kind to devote a sweeping retrospective presentation to Michela Ghisetti. The oeuvre of this artist, born in Bergamo, Italy in 1966 and a resident of Vienna since 1992, fluctuates between the poles of abstraction and figuration …
The exhibition “The 80s” at ALBERTINA MODERN presents over 160 works by artists who not only defined this decade, but whose work reaches far into the art of the 21st century …
Nobuyoshi Araki (*1940) numbers among Japan’s most important and productive contemporary photographers …
Although the sun held back nobly, the premiere of “KATTUS Organic Buschenschank am Nussberg by Feuerwehr-Wagner” at the end of May was a complete success and attracted Viennese gourmets as well as international guests who enjoyed the charming ambience with a unique view over the federal capital together. On 30 July 2022, from 11 a.m., the relaxed culinary event in the vineyard, which appeals to all the senses, continues at the Nussberg.
Artistic labels and maximum customization makes the Domenico Clerico L’Arte Langhe Rosso DOC even more unique and precious, the ultimate expression of this type of wine …
Vienna – Albrecht Dürer
Berlin – “Original Bauhaus
Miami – art district
Miami – Art Basel