Summer 2025 in Vienna is rich in diverse exhibitions – from historical and political themes at the Wien Museum to international photography and contemporary art at OstLicht or the MUMOK, to exciting nature and family experiences at the Naturhitorisches Museum. Whether you are a lover of classical art, contemporary art or interactive exhibitions: there is something for everyone in this overview.
In this overview you will find exhibitions that will fascinate you, make you think or amaze you.
Kunsthalle Vienna
- Ibrahim Mahama: Zilijifa
Installations made from old materials tell of colonialism, work and transformation.
🗓 July 9 – November 2, 2025 - Nicola L.
Retrospective of a feminist artist whose works combine body, design and politics.
🗓 June 27 – September 14, 2025 - Burn the Diaries, Read Them Out Loud
Artistic explorations of memory, archive and (auto)biographical storytelling.
🗓 June 6 – October 19, 2025
📍Kunsthalle Wien, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna, https://kunsthallewien.at/ (Opens in a new tab or window)
Fotografie erleben bei OstLicht
- Nobuyoshi Araki
A provocative photo exhibition about eroticism, death and urban life in Tokyo.
🗓 June 13 – August 2, 2025
📍 OstLicht. Gallery for Photography, BROTFABRIK, Stiege #3, Absberggasse 27, 1100 Vienna, Austria, https://www.ostlicht.org/site/de/home (Opens in a new tab or window)
Art in the Belvedere: Classical meets modern
Oberes Belvedere
- IN-SIGHT: Gustav Klimt – The Bride
Insights into the genesis of Klimt’s unfinished work “The Bride”.
🗓 May 15 – October 5, 2025 - Sarah Ortmeyer: DIABOLUS (PROTECTOR)
Sculptures and installations on protection symbolism, rituals and female power.
🗓 March 27 – October 19, 2025
📍Upper Belvedere, Prinz Eugen-Straße 27, 1030 Vienna, https://www.belvedere.at/besuch/oberes-belvedere (Opens in a new tab or window)
Lower Belvedere
- Radical! Women*Artists and Modernism 1910-1950
presents forgotten women artists of modernism who radically renewed art and society.
🗓 June 18 – October 12, 2025 - Gustav Klimt – Pigment & Pixel
shows how digital technologies enable new perspectives on Klimt’s works.
🗓 February 20 – September 7, 2025
📍Lower Belvedere, Rennweg 6, 1030 Vienna, https://www.belvedere.at/besuch/unteres-belvedere (Opens in a new tab or window)
Belvedere 21
- Maria Hahnenkamp
Feminist image strategies that question body, language and visual media.
🗓 March 21 – August 31, 2025 - Jonathan Monk: Limited Company
Playing with reproductions and art market mechanisms – with an ironic wink.
🗓 May 23 – September 21, 2025
📍Belvedere 21, Arsenalstraße 1, 1030 Vienna, https://www.belvedere.at/besuch/belvedere-21 (Opens in a new tab or window)
Further highlights in Viennese museums
MUMOK: Kunst und Zukunft denken
- The world of tomorrow will have been another present
Works of classical modernism in a non-linear time structure, in which five expansive installations dialogically interweave past, present and future.
🗓 23 May 2025 – 6 April 2026
📍Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna, MuseumsQuartier Vienna, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna, www.mumok.at (Opens in a new tab or window)
Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
- FREIGHTED – Verfrachtet: 500 Jahre Sammeln und Ausstellen von Nashörnern
beleuchtet das koloniale Erbe, die wissenschaftliche Aneignung und die emotionale Distanz im Umgang mit Nashörnern.
🗓 ab 1. Juli 2025 - Safe Sex – Comeback of sexually transmitted diseases
shows sexually transmitted diseases from a historical and medical perspective.
🗓 from June 3, 2025 - Eiszeitkinder und ihre Welt – Neuer Kindersaal eröffnet
neu gestaltete Bereiche für Kinder mit Eiszeit-Tieren und Amphibien/Reptilien.
🗓 seit Mai 2025
📍 Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Maria-Theresien-Platz, 1010 Wien, https://www.nhm.at/ (Opens in a new tab or window)
Jüdisches Museum Wien
- G*d. The big questions between heaven and earth
Interreligious confrontation with concepts of God and existential questions.
🗓 April 2 – October 5, 2025
📍Jewish Museum Vienna, Dorotheergasse 11, 1010 Vienna, www.jmw.at (Opens in a new tab or window)
Extraordinary exhibitions that you can visit in Vienna in summer 2025
Heidi Horten Collection
- Experiment Expressionism. Schiele meets Nosferatu
combines Schiele’s expressionism with the horror film classic “Nosferatu”.
🗓 April 11 – August 31, 2025
📍Heidi Horten Collection, Hanuschgasse 3, 1010 Vienna, www.hortencollection.com (Opens in a new tab or window)
Weltmuseum Wien
- Who wears the pants?
An expression of social and cultural identity: a journey through 3,000 years of trouser history.
🗓 from March 25, 2025 - Colonialism on the windowsill
🗓 from May 28, 2025
examines plants whose origins lie outside Europe and their significance in European living rooms. - Shannon Alonzo: Washerwoman (in the Volksgarten)
Sculptural work about the memory and history of women in laundry work.
🗓 from May 16, 2025
📍Weltmuseum Wien, Neue Hofburg, Heldenplatz, 1010 Vienna, https://www.weltmuseumwien.at/ (Opens in a new tab or window)
Kunst Haus Wien
- Mika Rottenberg: Antimatter Factory
A selection of films and installations, including kinetic, partly interactive sculptures, staged as a partly absurd fantasy world.
🗓 until May 25, 2025 - Green Laundry Vienna
A critical examination of greenwashing and certifications in the face of impending green capitalism.
🗓 June 14 – September 28, 2025
📍Kunst Haus Wien, Untere Weißgerberstraße 13, 1030 Vienna, www.kunsthauswien.com (Opens in a new tab or window)
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