Belvedere 21: Kazuko Miyamoto
12 september 2024 – 2 march 2025 Belvedere 21: exhibition Kazuko Miyamoto
Belvedere
ÖMSUBM: a museum for Black culture and popular music in the German-speaking world
With its inauguration on May 14, 2022, the ÖMSUBM is set to become the foremost museum for Black culture and popular music in the German-speaking world
The Canaletto View: Vienna Seen from the Belvedere
The Canaletto View, Upper Belvedere, 29 June to 14 October 2018 The Canaletto View is probably the most famous vista of the city and has fascinated people and inspired artists for centuries. Vienna Seen from the Belvedere is the original name of the painting by Bernardo Bellotto, called Canaletto. Here, at the very place where […]
Hans Bischoffshausen @BelvedereWien #MoreThanZero
The Carinthian painter Hans Bischoffshausen, born in Feld am See in 1927, was one of the leading representatives of the Austrian post-war avant-garde of the 1950s and 1960s. His exhibitions in Venice, Milan, and Paris permitted Bischoffshausen to gain first experiences with the ZERO movement and monochrome painting. Along the lines of ZERO art’s purism, his initially gloomy, material-based […]
Jasper Johns: Regrets
With Jasper Johns: Regrets, the Upper Belvedere is presenting not only one of the most important and multifaceted American artists, but also premieres the artist’s most recent body of work, developed over the last year and a half, and gives visitors the chance to see one of the most important series in Jasper Johns’s contemporary […]
Danse Macabre: Egger-Lienz and the War
Existential questions about life and death permeate the entire work of painter Albin Egger-Lienz (1868–1926). Today his war images are regarded as poignant memorials, as warnings against the horrors of battle and violence. He was also deeply influenced by his experiences on the front as a war painter. From 7 March to 9 June 2014 […]
Vienna – Berlin. The Art of Two Cities
As early as the late nineteenth century, both Berlin and Vienna were considered as rising metropolises. Nevertheless they have always, to the very present, represented divergent models of identification and different cultural self-concepts. Whereas the mutual exchange between the two cosmopolitan cities has already been intensively explored in terms of literature, theatre, and music, the juxtaposition of developments in the visual art and an analysis of their correlations constitute a blind spot. From an art historical perspective, they have merely been recognised in the form of individual biographic studies.
Emil Nolde
Emil Nolde – In Radiance and Colour
Belvedere
Oct 25, 2013 – Feb 2, 2014
“This is why I tended to avoid all previous contemplation, a vague idea of radiance and colour was enough for me […],” Emil Nolde wrote in 1936 about his instinctive approach and the uninhibited handling of colour that characterize his works.
Andreas Urteil
Andreas Urteil
Belvedere
Nov 6, 2013
For November 2013, the Belvedere is planning an exhibition on the oeuvre of
Andreas Urteil, who as a student and assistant of Fritz Wotruba conceived a strikingly autonomous early work that attracted a lot of attention.
Gold
Gold
Lower Belvedere
15 March – 17 June 2012
The exhibition is devoted to the precious metal gold and its use in art. Displaying 200 works by 125 artists, this comprehensive show staged in the Lower Belvedere, the Orangery, and the Palace Stables highlights various applications of the shimmering metal. Since the Middle Ages, there have never been more artists working with gold than today. On view are familiar examples and numerous new discoveries, including works by Stephan Balkenhol, Georg Baselitz, Willi Baumeister, William Blake, James Lee Byars, Sylvie Fleury, Richard Hamilton, Yves Klein, Imi Knoebel, Emil Orlik, Gerhard Richter, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Giandomenico Tiepolo, Victor Vasarely, Andy Warhol, and Franz West.