ONGOING & UPCOMING:
4 June – 15 November 2026
PAPER UNLIMITED_02 – ERICH GRABNER GRAPHIC PRIZE 2026, KREMS
On 3 June at 6 pm, the four recipients of the 2026 Erich Grabner Prize will be officially announced and honoured. Following the award ceremony, the exhibition paper unlimited_02 will open at museumkrems, in the Dominican Church in Krems. The exhibition presents 52 artistic positions selected by a distinguished international jury, offering a comprehensive overview of the diversity of contemporary graphic art in Austria.
1 June 2026
BOOK PRIZE: CONTINGENT AGENCIES – INQUIRING INTO THE EMERGENCE OF ATMOSPHERES
Contingent Agencies – Inquiring into the Emergence of Atmospheres, edited by Alex Arteaga and Nikolaus Gansterer, has been awarded as one of The Most Beautiful Books of Austria 2025 in the category Scientific Publications, Educational and Textbooks. The award ceremony will take place on 1 June 2026 at the Praterateliers in Vienna. The awarded books will also represent Austria in the international competition The Most Beautiful Books from All Over the World and will be presented at international book fairs and exhibitions. Developed as a designed research space, the publication brings together contributions from a wide range of disciplines exploring atmosphere as an emergent interplay of human and non-human agencies. Similar to the reduced exterior appearance of the book — with its cloud image, monochrome coloured edges, and the tactile quality created through softcover and volume paper, evoking a fragment of atmosphere itself — the interior is likewise shaped by subtlety and the omission of excessive design gestures. One typeface in three sizes and rhythmic white spaces sequence a multiplicity of texts and images into a parallel-readable constellation. Despite the thematic structuring into five chapters, the design sustains an ongoing dialogue between different modes of reading across more than 400 pages with remarkable lightness. To concretise or render tangible that which is elusive is perhaps one of the most common motivations of human cultural production. This publication is no exception — and yet something feels different: despite its manifestation as a printed object, its clearly designed pages, and its precise typographic language, a sense of processual transience remains palpable. A finished object — at least physically — that nevertheless appears unfinished and part of something larger, thereby creating one of the most beautiful sensations imaginable: holding something in one’s hands that can be felt and seen, but never fully grasped. Published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. Designed by Marie Artaker and Alexandra Möllner.
5 May — 13 June 2026
RELATIONAL FIELDS / BEZIEHUNGSFELDER, VIENNA
Festive opening on Monday, 4 May 2026, 7 pm, with an opening speech by Johan Nane Simonsen. The exhibition explores dynamic constellations between bodies, images, environments, and systems of perception, unfolding artistic practices as relational and process-based fields of exchange. The participating artists examine how identities, dependencies, and forms of coexistence emerge through relations to materials, spaces, histories, politics, and one another. Moving between performative, collaborative, and image-based practices, the exhibition reflects on the tensions and possibilities that shape contemporary collective life. With RELATIONAL FIELDS, FOTOGALERIE WIEN participates in the Independent Space Index Festival, which from 29–31 May 2026 (opening on 28 May) once again invites visitors to discover Vienna’s diverse and vibrant independent art scene. Featuring works by Nikolaus Gansterer, Apollon Glykas, Ilias Sipsas, Simona Obholzer, Julian Rosefeldt, and Ksenia Yurkova
02 May — 07 June 2026
VIENNA -COPENHAGEN. DEN FRIE, COPENHAGEN
For the exhibition Vienna–Copenhagen. Den Frie Udstilling 2026, 45 members of the artists’ association Den Frie Udstilling invite their colleagues from the sister institution, Wiener Secession, to participate as guest exhibitors. Like Den Frie, the Vienna Secession was founded in the 1890s, and the two institutions remain among the few exhibition venues in Europe still owned and run by artistsAs is the case of Den Frie Udstilling, Wiener Secession also counts some of the country’s most prominent artists among its members. The exhibition presents more than 45 artists from Den Frie Udstilling in dialogue with more than 100 Austrian artist colleagues from Wiener Secession. The exhibition is organised by Kristoffer Akselbo and Henrik Plenge Jakobsen from Den Frie Udstilling, and Sofie Thorsen, Michael Part and Jun Yang from Wiener Secession, assisted by Clemens Battisti.
Secession artists: Abdul Sharif Baruwa, Aglaia Konrad, Almut Rink, Andreas Fogarasi, Anja Manfredi, Anna Meyer, Axel Stockburger, Barbara Holub, Barbara Kapusta, Bernhard Fruer, Bruno Mokross, Carola Dertnig, Christian Egger, Christian Hutzinger, Christian Kosmas Mayer, Christian Schwarzwald, Christina Zurfluh, Christoph Weber, Claudia Märzendorfer, Elisabeth Grübl, Eva Schlegel, Fabian Seiz, Florian Pumhösl, Georg Petermichl & Stefan Reiterer with Romana Zöchling, Georgia Creimer, Gerda Lampalzer, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Gilbert Bretterbauer, Günther Selichar, Hans Schabus, Heidrun Holzfeind, Heliane Wiesauer-Reiterer, Irina Lotarevich, Johanna Tinzl & Katrin Hornek, Jojo Gronostay, Josef Trattner, Judith Fegerl, Julie Hayward, Julius Pristauz, Jun Yang, Karl-Heinz Klopf, Katrina Daschner, Klaus Mosettig, Klub Zwei (Simone Bader & Jo Schmeiser) with MAIZ, Lazar Lyutakov & Rada Boukova, Leopold Kessler, Maja Vukoje, Manfred Grübl, ManfreDu Schu, Manuel Gorkiewicz, Maria Bussmann, Maria Theresia Litschauer, Marina Faust, Markus Krottendorfer, Maruša Sagadin, Meina Schellander, Michael Gumhold, Michael Huey, Michael Kienzer, Michael Part, Min Yoon, Miriam Bajtala, Nick Oberthaler, Nicolas Jasmin, Nicole Six & Paul Petritsch, Nika Kupyrova, Nikolaus Gansterer, Nita Tandon, Norbert Pfaffenbichler, Oliver Ressler, Oscar Cueto, Patrick Baumüller, Peter Sandbichler, Peter Zolly, Ralo Mayer, Richard Hoeck, Rini Tandon, Roland Kollnitz, Ryts Monet, Sabina Hörtner, Siegrun Appelt, Siggi Hofer, Sigrid Kurz, Simone Bader, Sofie Thorsen, Sonia Leimer, Sonja Gangl, Stephanie Misa, Susanne Jirkuff, Suse Krawagna, Svenja Deininger, Thomas Baumann, Thomas Feuerstein, Thomas Reinhold, Tom Eller, Ulrike Müller, Ute Müller&Christoph Meier&Robert Schwarz&Lukas Stopczynski, Werner Feiersinger, Werner Kaligofsky, Werner Reiterer, WIENER TIMES – Susanne Schneider & Johannes Schweiger, Wolfgang Capellari, Yein Lee.
Den Frie artists: Ann Lislegaard, Bjørn Nørgaard, Camilla Berner, Danh Vo, Ebbe Stub Wittrup, Elle Klarskov Jørgensen, Elsebeth Jørgensen, Finn Reinbothe, FOS, Freddie A. Lerche, Glenn Sorensen, Henriette Heise, Henrik B. Andersen, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Jane Jin Kaisen, Jason Dodge, Jytte Høy, Jørgen Michaelsen, Kasper Akhøj, Kirsten Lockenwitz, Kirsten Ortwed, Kristoffer Akselbo, Lars Bent Petersen, Leif Kath, Lis Nogel, Margrete Sørensen, Maria Finn, Martin Erik Andersen, Mette Winckelmann, Mikkel Carl, Milena Bonifacini, Molly Haslund, Morten Stræde, Nanna Abell, Pernille With Madsen, Peter Holst Henckel, Pia Rönicke, Poul Pedersen, Signe Guttormsen, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Simon Starling, Svend Danielsen, Søren Elgaard, Søren Jensen, Søren Lose, Tamar Guimarães, Thorbjørn Lausten, Torben Ebbesen, Torben Ribe, Uffe Isolotto, Ulrik Heltoft, Yvette Brackman.
15 April – 26 May 2026
SHAKEN GROUNDS: SEISMOGRAPHIES OF PRECARIOUS PRESENCES, VIENNA
The Shaken Grounds research project brings together artists, scientists, and curators to explore how seismic disturbances — natural and anthropogenic — shape perception, bodies, and collective forms of coexistence. Situated at the intersection of artistic research, geology, somatic practice, performance, and filmmaking, the project approaches seismography as a transdisciplinary method for sensing, translating, and relating bodies, technologies, and the Earth under conditions of instability. From 16–30 April 2026, methods and artefacts developed between 2023 and 2026 (within the Austrian Science Fund’s PEEK Programme) will be presented in an experimental laboratory at AIL, accompanied by participatory film shoots, workshops, and talks.
The exhibition officially opens on 4 May 2026 18:00 at AIL Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab Vienna and outlines the first curatorial axes of a larger group exhibition and conference planned for 2027 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb. The project is supported by Creative Europe. With contributions by Valerio Acocella, Bjarki Bragason, Arno Böhler, Alexander Damianisch, Oscar Fernandez Bellon, Helga Franza, Nicolas Freytag, Sabine Folie, Aleksandar Grabovski, Nikolaus Gansterer, Mariella Greil, Jens Hauser, Victor Jaschke, Beatrice Jaschke, Peter Kozek, Anna Líndal, Vesna Meštrić, Werner Moebius, Susanna Ravelli, Sylvia Scheidl, Ana Škegro, Lucie Strecker, Kaloyan Vasev, VestAndPage. Join us for the Closing Reception and Guided Tour on 26 May, 17:00.