Albertina Modern Archives

·7. May 2025

Damien Hirst: Drawings Between Control and Chaos

From May 7 to October 12, 2025, ALBERTINA MODERN is showcasing Damien Hirst – Drawings, the first comprehensive exhibition of the British artist’s works on paper. A total of 138 pieces are on display, including 120 drawings that offer rare insights into Hirst’s creative process. The show is further enriched by selected sculptures and an interactive drawing machine.

Art & Culture

·20. February 2024

The Beauty of Diversity – 16.2. – 18.08.2024 Albertina, Vienna

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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·25. March 2022

Ai Weiwei. In Search of Humanity – ALBERTINA MODERN: until 4 September 2022

Ai Weiwei, a renowned a human rights activist, ranks among the most influential artists of our time. This is most comprehensive retrospective of his work to date offering insights into all periods of his career, which by now spans more than four decades, thereby revealing the unique aesthetic principles of his art ...

Art & Culture

·21. January 2025

Albertina Modern: Erwin Wurm The retrospective on his 70th birthday until 9 March 2025

Erwin Wurm (*1954, Bruck an der Mur) is one of the most influential contemporary artists of our time. To mark his 70th birthday, ALBERTINA MODERN is dedicating a comprehensive retrospective to his work. The exhibition features sculptures, drawings, photographs, and videos that highlight the paradoxes and absurdities of our world.

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·5. September 2023

ALBERTINA MODERN: Austria – Germany Painting from 1970 to 2020 | 6.9. 2023 to 21. 1. 2024

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.

Art & Culture

·27. October 2021

THE 80s. Art of the Eighties – ALBERTINA MODERN: until 13 February 2022

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 ...

Art & Culture

·13. August 2024

ALBERTINA MODERN: ALFRED KUBIN THE AESTHETICS OF EVIL 14.8. – 9.2.2025

The great draughtsman Alfred Kubin shows us the world in the clutches of evil. The exhibition at the ALBERTINA MODERN presents Kubin's early creative phase from 1899 to 1904 from the ALBERTINA's collection of around 1800 drawings. 100 works visualise his dark world, in which evil, the frightening and the gruesome prevail.

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·24. October 2022

Albertina Modern: Ways of Freedom

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.

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·26. July 2021

ARAKI – ALBERTINA MODERN: until 29 August 2021

Nobuyoshi Araki (*1940) numbers among Japan’s most important and productive contemporary photographers ...

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