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The European Society of Radiology is proud and happy to present you with an extensive and distinguished cultural programme for your time at ECR 2017. Vienna fulfils anew its reputation as cultural capital of the world, providing a boundless variety of artistic endeavours. Be it the virtuosity of Vienna’s famous orchestras led by the world’s leading conductors, the transcendent beauty of the opera, or the sheer abundance of fine arts ranging from ancient Greek sculptures to Baroque paintings, from Art Nouveau furniture to installations representing visionary views of the 21st century – there is sure to be found something for every artistic taste. On the following pages you will find details and information regarding opera, concerts, museums, exhibitions, theatre and dance. We hope this brochure will help you make the most of your spare time during the congress. Enjoy your stay in Vienna!

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Classical Music March 1, 19:30 Wiener KammerOrchester, Konzerthaus conductor Stefan Vladar Isabelle van Keulen, violin The Wiener Konzerthaus, inaugurated in 1913, is W.A. Mozart: Concerto for violin and one of the most important and artistically advanced orchestra d major K 218; L. van Beethoven: musical institutions in Europe. Each season around Romance for violin and orchestra g 700 performances featuring more than 3,000 differ- major op. 40, Romance for violin and ent compositions are held in the Konzerthaus’ four orchestra f major op. 50; F. Schubert: concert halls. With its broad, diverse and exciting Symphony No. 8 c major D 944 programme, the Konzerthaus ranks alongside the Vienna State Opera and the Musikverein in contribut- March 2, 19:30 ing to Vienna’s fame as a city of music. The mix of the David Krakauer old and the new as presented in its opening concert, The Big Picture (world music) featuring works by Richard Strauss and Ludwig van Beethoven, has remained a significant characteristic March 3, 19:30 of the Konzerthaus’ repertoire to this day. The Konz- Wolfgang Muthspiel Quintet erthaus not only stages the works of major classical Jazz composers – including Bach, Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert, to name but a few – but promotes contem- porary music as well. March 4, 19:30 Wiener Symphoniker, conductor Philippe Jordan February 27, 19:30 J.S. Bach: Johannespassion Matti Bye Ensemble (St. John Passion) BMV 245 Music to ‘Erotikon’, a movie by Mauritz Stiller (Sweden, 1920) March 5, 15:30 Wiener Symphoniker, February 28, 19:30 conductor Philippe Jordan Wiener KammerOrchester, J.S. Bach: Johannespassion conductor Stefan Vladar (St. John Passion) BMV 245 Isabelle van Keulen, violin W.A. Mozart: Concerto for violin and orchestra d major K 218; L. van Beethoven: Romance for violin and orchestra g major op. 40, Romance for violin and orchestra f major op. 50; F. Schubert: Symphony No. 8 c major D 944

1030 Vienna, Lothringerstraße 20 www.konzerthaus.at

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Musikverein March 1, 19:30 Orchestre Nationale du Capitole de Music lovers throughout the world know the Toulouse, conductor Tugan Sokhiev Musikverein as the centre of Viennese musical culture, J. Massenet: Don Quijote as the focus of the international concert circuit, and as the Eldorado of classical music. The Musikverein – a March 2, 19:00 resonant name, a scintillating idea. Strictly speaking, Les Arts Florissants, it has a twofold meaning; the concert hall at Vienna’s conductor Paul Agnew Karlsplatz and the society to which this building C. Monteverdi: L’Orfeo belongs, the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde (Society of Music Lovers). Its members wrote enthusiastically March 4, 19:30 on the occasion of the building’s opening in 1870, “This building is, and should remain, dedicated to Concentus Musicus Wien the learning and mastery of the art of music: a work María Hinojosa Montenegro, soprano of art in itself, a home of music, a credit to the city U. van Wassenaer; A. Vivaldi; L. Boccherini and the empire.” March 5, 11:00 Concentus Musicus Wien María Hinojosa Montenegro, soprano U. van Wassenaer; A. Vivaldi; L. Boccherini

1010 Vienna, Bösendorferstraße 12 www.musikverein.at

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Jazz & Soul March 1, 20:30 Koglmann / Arcari / Pasztor Porgy & Bess (Austria/Italy) Porgy & Bess is a jazz and music club with a pluralistic March 2, 20:30 approach. It acts as a central meeting point for the Pasquale Stafano (Italy) contemporary Austrian scene with all its different styles, as well as a representative forum for co-opera- March 3, 20:30 tions between national and international musicians. OZMA ‘Welcome Home’ (France) The club features an internet café, a restaurant and three bars for the audience. March 4, 20:30 Accordion Festival February 27, 20:30 La Bandada Mancini (Spain) Accordion Festival Filippo Gambetta & Emilyn Stam (Italy/ March 5, 20:30 Canada) / Flamenco Experience Sextet Zhenya Strigalev’s Never Group with (Slovakia/Czech Republic/Spain/Serbia) Federico Dannemann / Linley Marthe / Eric Harland (Romania/Argentina/US) February 28, 20:30 The Nova Jazz & Blues Nights 1010 Vienna, Riemergasse 11 present John Mayall (UK) www.porgy.at

La Bandada Mancini

10 John Mayall

11 Cymbals Eat Guitars

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Pop & Alternative Arena Once standing in the Arena, one cannot blame its founders for having chosen such a name. With its four concert halls, its open air stage and its setting in an ancient infinite factory, the place is simply immense. So is its musical offer with a programme including stars like Shaggy, the Babyshambles, Toto, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Cardigans, and many more.

February 27, 20:00 Cymbals Eat Guitars (US)

March 1, 19:00 Antilopen Gang (Germany)

March 3, 20:00 State Champs (US)

1030 Vienna, Baumgasse 80 www.arena.co.at

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Gasometer This place owes its name to its previous function: a gasholder. Gas was indeed produced and stored in its four circular brick-buildings until 1969. Today, the ‘Gasometer City’ is a massive and improbable structure which shelters residences, dormitories, a shopping mall, a cinema and a concert hall. The latter welcomes diversified artists of international standing such as Evanescence, Mia and Seal – among others.

March 4, 20:00

Kalkbrenner Fritz BA-CA Halle Gasometer 1110 Vienna, Guglgasse 8 www.planet.tt

Kalkbrenner Fritz

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Szene Wien Started as an association, Szene Wien welcomes art- ists from various geographical and musical horizons. From rock to ethno music up to dance performances, it presents almost every night talented interpreters from all over the world.

February 27, 20:00 Helmet

February 28, 20:00 Against the Current 1110 Vienna, Hauffgasse 26 www.szenewien.com

Helmet

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Miscellaneous Arnold Schönberg Center The Foundation is a cultural institution designed exclusively for public scholarly and educational pur- poses, including establishing the Arnold Schönberg Archive in Vienna, its maintenance and preservation, the education of the public with regard to Schönberg’s interdisciplinary artistic influence, as well as teaching and publicising Schönberg’s contributions to music and other achievements.

It has made its name by teaching, researching, and further educating musicians, scholars, and the public at large, but especially through the regular organisa- tion of exhibitions, concerts, and other events, always Palais Fanto with regard to the life and work of Arnold Schönberg. 1030 Vienna, Schwarzenbergplatz 6 Schönberg’s paintings and drawings are on permanent Opening hours: display; lectures, conferences and symposia provide Monday–Friday 10 am–5 pm the theoretical background for the works of this fas- www.schoenberg.at cinating, versatile artist.

Arnold Schönberg, Erwin Stein, Anton Webern, Zandvoort, March 1914

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Haus der Musik Mozarthaus Vienna The House of Music Vienna makes music heard, seen Domgasse 5 is the only one of Mozart’s apartments and felt in various experience zones on seven floors. that still exists today. As Mozarthaus Vienna it is a Visitors are prompted to engage in interactive play centre devoted to the life and works of Mozart. The with music, they are given information on the history composer lived here from 1784 to 1787 in grand of music; they experience unexpected sounds, and style, with four large rooms, two small ones and a will come to know the House of Music as a centre for kitchen. The life and works of this musical genius are aesthetic, scientific, popular and artistic encounters presented here on four exhibition levels. In addition with music. The House of Music offers – metaphori- to Mozart’s apartment, visitors can find out about the cally speaking – musical language courses and hopes times in which Mozart lived and his most important to play a role in helping its visitors to speak as well as works. The exhibition focuses on his years in Vienna, understand the language of music. which marked a high point in his creativity; right in this apartment he wrote ‘The Marriage of Figaro’, one of his most famous operas. The tour starts on the 3rd floor of the building with details of Mozart’s time in Vienna: where he lived and performed, who his friends and supporters were, his relationship to the Freemasons, his passion for games and much more. 1010 Vienna, Seilerstätte 30 The presentation on the 2nd floor deals with Mozart’s Opening hours: daily 10 am–10 pm st www.hausdermusik.com operatic works, and the apartment on the 1 floor, the real heart of the building, focuses on the two and a half years that Mozart lived there.

Franz Schubert’s glasses

1010 Vienna, Domgasse 5 Opening hours: daily 10 am–7 pm www.mozarthausvienna.at

17 Bettina Ehrlich-Bauer, Self-portrait, 1928 Arnold Schönberg Center Beethoven Pasqualatihaus Bestattungsmuseum Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes Esperanto Museum Globenmuseum Haus der Musik Haydnhaus Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Hofmobiliendepot Johann Strauss Wohnung Josephinum Jüdisches Museum Wien Literaturmuseum Albertina Mozarthaus Vienna Bank Austria Kunstforum Naturhistorisches Museum Belvedere Österreichisches Theatermuseum Gemäldegalerie der Akademie Pathologisch-Anatomische Sammlung der bildenden Künste Wien im Narrenturm Kunsthalle Pratermuseum Kunst Haus Wien Römermuseum Kunsthistorisches Museum Schubert Geburtshaus Leopold Museum Sigmund Freud-Museum MAK Technisches Museum MUMOK Stiftung Ludwig Uhrenmuseum OstLicht Galerie Volkskundemuseum Secession Wien Museum WestLicht Galerie Wiener Kriminalmuseum 21er Haus ZOOM Kindermuseum

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Fine Arts Albertina The Albertina houses one of the world’s largest and The Albertina is distinguished for its collections from most precious graphic collections. Presently it con- the 20th century, including the works of Schiele, Klimt tains almost 70,000 drawings and more than one and Kokoschka, as well as Warhol, Rauschenberg million graphic prints from all of the significant art and Baselitz. The photographic collection contains eras from the late Gothic period to the contemporary. examples of scientific photography, studio photog- The range of outstanding works spans from Leonardo, raphy, early colour photography and pictorial works. Michelangelo and Raphael, to Albrecht Dürer, Rem- The architecture collection consists of almost 25,000 brandt and Rubens, and further to Lorrain, Delacroix, drafts, sketches and models. The core pieces are the Manet and Cézanne. architectural models by Otto Wagner, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and Alvar Aalto.

Gerhard Richter, Abstract Painting, 2001

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January 25 – April 25, 2017 July 11, 2016 – March 19, 2017 Special Exhibition: Special Exhibition: Poussin to David. Contemporary Art. French drawings at the Albertina Andy Warhol to Anselm Kiefer Whether poetic love stories or mythological epics, The focus of Contemporary Art lies on art from the whether atmospheric portrait studies or picturesque second half of the 20th century, featuring both the stars ruins – today, the masterpieces of French Baroque art and the broad diversity of art after 1945. In this year’s are more enthralling than ever. presentation of contemporary output at the Albertina, works by Anselm Kiefer, Gerhard Richter, Arnulf 70 major works selected from the Albertina’s rich Rainer, Georg Baselitz, Alex Katz and Maria Lassnig, holdings of drawings sweep visitors into the dreamy and others take centre-stage. and multi-layered cosmos of French art from the Baroque and Rococo periods: the works on display Furthermore, a generous donation by Gottfried include Nicolas Poussin’s breath-taking free landscape Helnwein has made it possible to show seven high- studies as well as Claude Lorrain’s light-drenched quality paintings by the famous Austrian artist at the depictions of nature, and playful masterpieces by exhibition. François Boucher and Jean-Honoré Fragonard like- wise assume their rightful places here, as do the lovely Around 80 masterpieces serve to illustrate the mul- scenes of Jean-Baptiste Greuze. The crowning conclu- tifaceted nature of postmodernism, ranging from sion of this showing, which reflects two centuries of Hyperrealism to abstraction and from colour aesthet- French art, is provided by the imposing creations of ics to political themes, while also providing a clear Jacques Louis David. impression of the complex parallel trends of the past few decades.

February 22 – June 18, 2017 Special Exhibition: Egon Schiele The masterpieces of Egon Schiele: works both passion- ate and ruthlessly blunt, and at once highly subjective and allegorical.

To kick off the commemoration of the 100th anni- versary of Schiele’s death, the Albertina is devoting a broadly conceived exhibition to this seminal artist. The selection for this showing introduces visitors to an oeuvre centred on the great theme of human beings’ existential loneliness. Works from the Albertina’s Alex Katz, Black Hat 2, 2010 extensive collection provide this exhibition’s concep- tual starting point and are complemented by various Featured artists: important loan works from Austrian and foreign col- Karel Appel | Georg Baselitz | Lucio Fontana | Sam lections and museums. The showing thus presents a Francis | Gottfried Helnwein | Hans Hofmann | Jörg unique perspective on Schiele’s artistic development, Immendorff | Alex Katz | Anselm Kiefer | Yves Klein which was so abruptly terminated upon his untimely | Maria Lassnig | Roy Lichtenstein | Morris Louis | death at the tender age of 28. Markus Prachensky | Arnulf Rainer | Gerhard Richter | Hubert Scheibl | Sean Scully | Victor Vasarely | Andy Warhol | Tom Wesselmann

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From October 21, 2011 January 18 – March 19, 2017 Permanent Exhibition: Special Exhibition: Monet to Picasso. The Batliner Collection Markus Prachensky. A tribute Under the title ‘Monet to Picasso’, the Albertina exhib- “Very early on, the idea came to me that red was its its vast holdings of paintings from the period of the colour of my life,” said Markus Prachensky Modernism, which are primarily made up of works (1932–2011). from the Batliner Collection. The epochs covered by this reinstallation of the museum’s permanent col- The Austrian artist’s radiant, dynamic, and contrast- lection range from Impressionism and Fauvism to rich red brushstrokes virtually dance through his German Expressionism, the Bauhaus, and the Russian oeuvre. The individual works, at turns wild in their avant-garde; the presentation concludes with works gestures and serene in their composition, are at once by Picasso. energetic and meditative.

Markus Prachensky, whose strong anchoring in Aus- tria’s art scene dates back to the 1950s, is among today’s best-regarded Austrian artists internationally. And with its tribute on what would have been his 85th birthday, the Albertina brings together prominent works from its own collection with hitherto unknown 1010 Vienna, Albertinaplatz 1 works from Prachensky’s extensive artistic estate. This Opening hours: exhibition also presents Prachensky’s generous gift to daily 10 am–6 pm the Albertina of four important paintings – key works Wednesday 10 am–9 pm in his oeuvre – as well as a number of outstanding www.albertina.at drawings.

Edgar Degas, Spanish dancer and leg studies, ca. 1882

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Markus Prachensky, Red on Black, Puglia, 1976

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Bank Austria December 7 – March 26, 2017 Special Exhibition: Georgia O’Keeffe Kunstforum Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) was a founder of The Kunstforum is a top address for art lovers, espe- American Modernism and a pioneer as an artist. The cially for classical modern painting of the post-war opportunities to see O’Keeffe in Europe are rare: her years. Every year, 300,000 people visit the temporary paintings are distributed around the leading US col- exhibitions held in this private institution, shows that lections, where they have gained an iconic status. This are unique across the globe. Leading museums present retrospective now provides for the first time in Austria their works here as well as private collectors. Whether a view of O’Keeffe’s oeuvre, which encompasses seven van Gogh or Miró, Kandinsky or Chagall, Warhol or decades. Among the exhibits is also Jimson Weed/ Lichtenstein, the great names of art are united here. White Flower No. 1 (1932), the most expensive picture Since 2000, there have also been exhibitions devoted by a woman artist ever auctioned. to contemporary artists. O’Keeffe debuted in 1916 in an artistic circle domi- nated by men surrounding her later husband, the 1010 Vienna, Freyung 8 photographer Alfred Stieglitz. The exhibition starts Opening hours: off with her lesser known early work, with its close daily 10 am–7 pm affinity to Wassily Kandinsky’s ‘spiritual’ abstraction. Friday 10 am–9 pm O’Keeffe’s monumental flower pictures of the 1920s, www.kunstforumwien.at which under the influence of the writings of Sigmund Freud evoked strongly sexualising interpretations, are among her most popular subjects. Formal specifics like the sharp focus, the cutting-edge delineation and the close-up are a visual demonstration of O’Keeffe’s innovative transposition of photographic strate- gies into painting. The show underlines this artistic dialogue with a selection of photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams and Paul Strand. O’Keeffe’s almost abstract late landscapes inspired by the bleak, endless desert of New Mexico embody the creation of ‘The Great American Thing’, a specific American art, and anticipate the art trends of Abstract Expres- sionism and Minimalism. The exhibition accentuates O’Keeffe’s singular position, assumed through her bridge-building between European Modernism and American post-war abstraction, also through her constant mediation between a relationship with nature and abstraction, between organic and geometric, feel- ing and de-personalisation.

The exhibition was organised by Tate Modern in cooperation with the Bank Austria Kunstforum and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.

Georgia O’Keeffe, Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1, 1932

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Belvedere An image of a remarkably modern painter emerges, a woman who co-founded and taught at Vienna’s art The Belvedere is one of the world’s most important school for women and girls and, as a courageous and museums with collections spanning from the Middle independent personality, exerted a tremendous influ- Ages to the present day. The museum is housed in the ence on the next generation of young female artists. Belvedere Palace, which Prince Eugene of Savoy had built as a summer residence. The collections of the 19th and 20th centuries are housed in the Upper Belvedere February 17 – June 11, 2017 with works by Biedermeier artists (Ferdinand Georg Special Exhibition: Waldmüller, Jakob Alt etc.), French Impressionists The Klewan Collection. (Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir etc.) and masterpieces Portrait(s) of Modernism by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Oskar Kokoschka. Helmut Klewan is a passionate art expert and gallerist In the Lower Belvedere the Museum of Medieval Art who has worked in Vienna and Munich. Over the past and the Baroque Museum are located. The two build- four decades he has amassed an impressive collec- ings are linked by a unique Baroque garden. The entire tion of important works ranging from international ensemble ranks among the world’s most beautiful and classical modernism to key examples of post-war art. best preserved historic palaces and parks. From the north side of the Upper Belvedere one can appreciate Now 193 works by over fifty artists from this col- the renowned and stunning view of Vienna. lection are being showcased in the Orangery at the Lower Belvedere. The main focus is on portraits by very different artists, for example Francis Bacon and December 16, 2016 – April 9, 2017 the nearly unknown Armand Francois Henrion. By Special Exhibition: extension, the show also represents a portrait of mod- Tina Blau. Masterpieces in Focus ernism in all its variety. One hundred years after her death, the Belvedere is Yet the Klewan collection is not only distinguished paying tribute to the painter Tina Blau in an exhibi- by its diversity but also by its highly individual char- tion from the series ‘Masterpieces in Focus’. The show acter. It even includes some unusual works that are features major works from every stage in Tina Blau’s categorised as kitsch. Another distinctive feature is career as well as previously unknown paintings that the collection of key works of post-1945 Austrian came to light during the research for the new cata- art. Helmut Klewan (b. 1943) was in close contact logue raisonné of the artist’s work. with major Austrian artists including Arnulf Rainer, Born in Vienna in 1845 as the daughter of a Jewish Maria Lassnig, and Friedensreich Hundertwasser. doctor, Tina Blau became one of the most successful As a gallerist he made an important contribution to landscapists in her day. She started taking private promoting Austrian art abroad. tuition at the age of fifteen and went on her first The exhibition features works by Christian Ludwig study trip to Transylvania at sixteen. After study- Attersee, Francis Bacon, Giorgio de Chirico, Jean ing in Vienna and Munich, from 1870 she made a Dubuffet, Salvador Dalí, Alberto Giacometti, Maria vital contribution to developing a style of Austrian Lassnig, Pablo Picasso, Arnulf Rainer, Hans Stau- landscape painting known as ‘Stimmungsimpression- dacher, Fritz Wotruba, and many other artists. ismus’ (literally mood or atmospheric impressionism). Periods in Hungary, Holland, Italy, Germany, France, 1030 Vienna, Prinz Eugen-Straße 27 and Switzerland not only provided insights into the Opening hours: latest developments in European painting but also an daily 10 am–6 pm abundance of subject matter for her to hone her skills. Wednesday 10 am–9 pm www.belvedere.at

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Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien The Picture Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

You will be quite surprised to discover right in the middle of the artists’ ateliers at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts – Austria’s major school of contemporary art – a worldwide renowned collection of highlights of European painting from the 14th to the 19th centuries. The 300 year old unit of an art school and collection remains a rare historical monument nowadays. In 1822, thanks to a donation of about 750 paintings by Count Lamberg-Sprinzenstein to the Academy, the Gemäldegalerie was opened to the general public as the first art museum in Austria. A splendid tour through the history of European painting leads from Bosch’s Last Judgement Triptych to Titian’s late art as well as to a series of exuberant works by Rubens. Dutch painting of the 17th century is present in most of its many facets; the Italian 18th century shows its splendour in G.B. Tiepolo’s and F. Guardi’s works. A unique ensemble of canvases and sculptures by Füger, Abel, Wutky, Zauner, and Canova gives an idea of the florescence of the neoclassical arts at the Vienna Academy around 1800.

1010 Vienna, Schillerplatz 3 Opening hours: Tuesday–Sunday 10 am–6 pm www.akademiegalerie.at

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Kunsthalle February 5 – April 30, 2017 Special Exhibition: The Kunsthalle Wien has established itself as one of Marcel Odenbach. Proof of Nothing the liveliest facilities for international contemporary Marcel Odenbach one of the most important con- art in Vienna at two locations in the centre of the city temporary video artists, has overwritten his first solo (Karlsplatz and the MuseumsQuartier). Programme exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien with the title of a poem highlights range from photography, video, film and by Ingeborg Bachmann. Beweis zu nichts (Proof of installations to new media. Large, subject-specific Nothing) deals with the persistence of the victim- exhibitions present developments and correlations perpetrator structure within post-war German society. from Modernism to the present-day art world. Other programme elements are dedicated to retrospectives Beweis zu nichts (Proof of Nothing) is also the title of important contemporary artists and significant Odenbach has given to his new film, focusing on the contributions to Austrian art after 1945. In 2002, the memorial Bertolt Brecht, together with sculptor Fritz Italian arts magazine ARTE ranked the Kunsthalle Cremer, designed for the former concentration camp Wien among the six best modern art institutions in Buchenwald. His film works observe international Europe (together with Tate Modern, London, the crises and the reconciliation of populations follow- Kiasma, Helsinki, the Centre Pompidou, Paris and ing armed conflicts or genocide, illustrating the fact the Bilbao Guggenheim). that dealing with the past is not only a European dif- ficulty. Be it the video installation In stillen Teichen lauern Krokodile/In Still Waters Crocodiles Lurk, which deals with the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, or Im Kreise drehen/Turning in Circles, another film concerning a memorial (in this case at the site of the former con- centration camp Majdanek), Odenbach repeatedly considers social justice. In approaching the problem of dealing with the past, Odenbach’s works reflect on the resonance of Nazism in the present. The artist observes various cultures and political constellations, allowing them to influence his work. Reflections on the familiar and the foreign, on his own biography and the biographies of others, are vital motifs in his work that put forth arguments in such a way that are as aesthetic as they are political.

Marcel Odenbach, born 1953 in Cologne, lives and works in Cologne and Berlin.

1070 Vienna, Museumsplatz 1 Opening hours: daily 11 am–7 pm Thursday 11 am–9 pm www.kunsthallewien.com

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Kunst Haus Wien November 16, 2016 – March 5, 2017 Special Exhibition: Suitable premises for a permanent exhibition of Peter Dressler. Vienna Gold Friedensreich Hundertwasser’s paintings were found With the first retrospective in Vienna, Kunst Haus in the building of the former furniture factory of the Wien is paying tribute to the work of Peter Dressler, Thonet Brothers built in 1892. The size of the building an oeuvre in which the city of Vienna itself plays a made it possible not only to establish a Hundertwasser central role. As a photographer and filmmaker, acad- museum, but also to include rooms for alternating emy teacher, collector and critical participant in the exhibitions of international stature in the planning. art scene, Dressler (1942–2013) influenced Austrian In 1991 Kunst Haus Wien was officially opened. On photography since the 1970s like few other figures. His the first two upper floors a cross-section of Hunder- artistic interest in the photography medium always twasser’s œuvre is on display, including paintings, went hand in hand with a fascination with the history graphics, tapestries, and architectural models. The of the medium. third and fourth floors are dedicated to international exhibitions. Dressler found the material for his early documentary series and visual narratives in Vienna, where, as he observed, “substance, quality, quite simply the magic of everyday life still exists in large measure”. Later, his ‘seventies’ realism’, as he called it, was replaced by tableaux and image series and a poetic, filmic approach. The particular charm of Zwischenspiel, a major artist’s book he published in 1989, lies in the manifold references and allusions that connect the individual pictures.

Toward the end of the 1980s, his photographic idiom changes again: the artist emerges as the actor and main character in his work, appearing in melancholic, even grotesque narratives that have him preparing ‘Rather Rare Recipes’ or playing solo tennis in the empty Semper Depot building. With vibrant wit, he inserts himself into found and invented scenarios to bring them to life, teasing out art-historical as well as social implications and highlighting the peculiarities of human behaviour. His work is often sublimely funny, but his humour is always energised by a sober aware- ness of the tragicomic sides of human existence and the subtle possibilities of the photographic medium.

1030 Vienna, Untere Weißgerberstraße 13 Opening hours: daily 10 am–6 pm www.kunsthauswien.com

30 Peter Dressler, In unmittelbarer Nähe, 2003

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Kunsthistorisches May 24, 2016 – March 5, 2017 Special Exhibition: The Emperor’s Gold Museum As part of the 125th anniversary celebrations of the Museum of Art History Kunsthistorisches Museum the Coin Collection is showing a special exhibition featuring selected gold The magnificent architecture of this building, coins from the Imperial Numophylaciums, the Emper- designed by Semper and Hasenauer in the style of or’s coin collection. the Italian Renaissance, and ceremoniously opened in 1891, creates a fitting setting for the artistic treasures Renowned for its size and the quality and rarity of assembled by the Habsburgs, who were for centuries its holdings, the world-famous collection in Vienna the most enthusiastic patrons and collectors. The col- owes its fame to generations of Austrian rulers and lections of the Kunsthistorisches Museum are amongst their love of collecting. From gold coins in everyday the most important and spectacular in the world. circulation to veritable gold giants (singular com- The 16th century Kunst- und Wunderkammer (art memorative issues commissioned by the Emperor and treasure chambers) together with the baroque for representational purposes) to so-called ‘splendid’ collections form the nucleus of the museum’s out- medals (Prunkmedaillen) made exclusively as gifts for standing compilations, in which the taste and artistic the Emperor, the exhibition showcases the collection’s preferences of the Imperial family are still discernible exceptional range of historical gold coinages and looks today, thus conveying a sense of the Imperial glory at ‘The Emperor’s Gold’ in all its glittering facets. of the art-loving Habsburg dynasty. The museum’s collections range from Ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman antiquities to the Collections of Medieval Art to the splendid Renaissance and Baroque Collections. The world famous Picture Gallery contains main works by P. Bruegel the Elder, Dürer, Rubens, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Titian, Raphael, Tintoretto, Veronese, Caravaggio, Velázquez et al.

1010 Vienna, Maria Theresien-Platz Opening hours: Tuesday–Sunday 10 am–6 pm Thursday 10 am–9 pm (Coin Cabinet closes at 6 pm) www.khm.at Drawer with bohemian gold coins

32 Johann Zoffani, Francis I (1708–1765), 1776/77

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Leopold Museum From 2015 Permanent Exhibition: After five decades of compiling, the Leopold Collec- Vienna 1900. tion finally found its home in 2001 within the building Art from the Leopold Collection complex of the MuseumsQuartier, where it quickly The Leopold Museum is presenting a totally recon- became the most frequented of the various museums. figured exhibition of Viennese art at the turn of the The essence of the collection is made up by Austrian century, titled Vienna 1900. art of the first half of the 20th century with principal works by Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Richard Ger- The Jugendstil, Vienna’s Art Nouveau movement, stl, Koloman Moser, and Oskar Kokoschka. The art endeavoured to encompass all areas of life within a historical context is represented by the élite of the so-called ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’ (‘total work of art’). Its Austrian art world of the 19th and 20th century. In the main exponents Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser and spacious, light pervaded exhibition halls visitors will Josef Hoffmann are synonymous with the art of the find paintings and drawings, as well as original arte- Vienna Secession around 1900. This new presentation facts and furniture by Adolf Loos, Otto Wagner, Josef of the Leopold Museum’s holdings – complemented by Hoffmann, and other artists of the Wiener Werkstätte. several significant works on loan – features the works from the Vienna Secession together with paintings and prints from Expressionism to the end of the First From 2014 World War (Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka, Anton Permanent Exhibition: Kolig, Herbert Boeckl and many others) as well as sev- Egon Schiele. eral fascinating examples of Wiener Werkstätte design. Self-abandonment and self-assertion Furniture, silver, glass and jewellery are presented The Leopold Museum is home to the largest and most together with paintings and graphics, showing what eminent Schiele collection in the world. It comprises could be termed the most exciting era in the history of 42 paintings and 187 works on paper by Egon Schiele Viennese art as a unique aesthetic experience. (1890–1918).

The new presentation of the collection illustrates Schiele’s artistic progression through a chronologi- cal hanging of the Leopold Museum’s works. The exhibition starts with the young Schiele and traces his development from being influenced by Gustav Klimt to his radically expressive phase, which was particularly esteemed by Rudolf Leopold, closing with the works from his ‘late oeuvre’ created shortly before Schiele’s untimely death.

Schiele’s paintings are juxtaposed with biographical information, quotes and pictures. This new presenta- tion makes the artist’s world accessible to visitors in a transparent and coherent manner.

1070 Vienna, Museumsplatz 1 Opening hours: Wednesday–Monday 10 am–6 pm Thursday 10 am–9 pm www.leopoldmuseum.org

34 Richard Gerstl, Portrait of Henryka Cohn, 1908

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MAK December 14, 2016 – April 9, 2017 Special Exhibition: Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / handiCRAFT. Contemporary Art Traditional Skills in the Digital Age The MAK exhibition handiCRAFT: Traditional Skills In a way that is virtually unparalleled by any other in the Digital Age reflects on the significance and status institution, the MAK stands for the fruitful combina- of handicraft as an integral component of material tion of the past with the future, something which can culture and cultural identity. In six sections, this com- be clearly sensed and experienced when visiting its prehensive MAK exhibition encompasses handicraft extensive collection, large exhibition halls, themed from historical times to current European perspec- special exhibitions and discourse-centred programme tives, examines how handicraft can help preserve of events. Bringing together applied arts, design, archi- natural resources, explores new developments on the tecture, and contemporary art is one of the museum’s interface to digital technologies, and presents master- core competencies, in light of which it becomes appar- pieces from a range of craft disciplines. ent which contribution the interplay of these areas is capable of making to overall cultural development. Currently the terms ‘handicraft’ and ‘handmade’ are used in an inflationary manner in advertising and life- The MAK is one of the most important museums of style media. The Maker Movement and DIY culture its kind worldwide. Founded as the ‘Imperial Royal are enormously successful, creating a worldwide hype. Austrian Museum of Art and Industry’ in 1863, today’s Globally operating luxury labels explicitly foreground museum – with its unique collection of applied arts handicraft as a mark of quality and distinction, in and as a first-class address for contemporary art – contrast to the reality of locally operating craftspeople can boast an incomparable identity. Originally estab- struggling for recognition and a fair wage. lished as an exemplary source collection, today’s MAK Collection continues to stand for an extraordinary In the introductory exhibition section, ‘Past and Pre- union of applied art, design, contemporary art and sent’, a wide range of exhibits – from Hephaestus, the architecture. god of blacksmiths, to personal objects owned by the Hapsburgs, to the Chanel outfits of the 2014/15 Josef Hoffmann, War Glasses, before 1916 Métiers d’Art Collection – discursively illustrate the social status of handicraft over the centuries.

Under the title ‘Perspectives’ the second exhibition section presents European initiatives and institutions active in the fields of apprenticeship and marketing, to include the Crafts Council and the Compagnons du Devoir.

The section ‘Materials and Tools’ presents a wide range of material samples and 99 work tools, mostly originating from the 16th and 17th centuries. A walk-through installation offers visitors the haptic 1010 Vienna, Stubenring 5 experience of handling different samples of natural Opening hours: materials. Wednesday–Sunday 10 am–6 pm Tuesday 10 am–10 pm In a ‘Live Workshop’, the fourth exhibition section, (free admission from 6 pm) a total of 20 craftspeople demonstrate their skills to www.mak.at the public daily.

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The fifth exhibition section, ‘Quality and Excellence’, Now world-famous protagonists of Viennese Modern- juxtaposes historical objects from the MAK collection ism, such as Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956), Koloman with contemporary handicraft products from 18 Euro- Moser (1868–1918), Joseph Maria Olbrich (1867– pean countries. Exhibits include furniture, wallpapers, 1908), Leopold Bauer (1872–1938), Otto Prutscher tiles, carpets, clothing, hats, gloves, glasses, cutlery, (1880–1949), Oskar Strnad (1879–1935), Oswald and tableware made by 50 craftspeople. Haerdtl (1899–1959), and Adolf Loos (1870–1933), launched groundbreaking new designs for decorative The final exhibition section is devoted to the key fac- and practical glass. tor of ‘Sustainability’. To raise consumer awareness of product biographies, six handcrafted products made Viennese art glass after architects’ designs became in Vienna are presented together with comprehensive both a permanent feature and a trademark of the information on the materials used and the manu- important arts and crafts exhibitions – from the 8th facturing process. This section is complemented by Secession exhibition in Vienna in 1900 and the Werk- a research lab set up by the Vienna University of bund exhibition in Cologne in 1914 to the Exposi- Economics and Business and a video interview with tion internationale des Arts décoratifs et industriels the sociologist Richard Sennett, whose book The modernes in Paris 1925, as well as of the Wiener Craftsman provided significant inspiration for the Werkstätte’s product range. exhibition.

January 18 – April 17, 2017 Special Exhibition: The Glass of the Architects: Vienna 1900–1937 After the success of last year’s exhibition ‘The Glass of the Architects’ in the rooms of Le Stanze del Vetro in Venice, which presented over 300 glasses from the period between 1900 and 1937 – largely from the MAK Collection – the entire show has now moved to Vienna, where it is on display for the first time. As designers of glassware, the architects of Viennese Modernism greatly influenced the products’ form and technique, with glass becoming established in this period as the material of modernism.

A group of young architects – at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Otto Wagner, at the School of Arts and Crafts, and at the University of Technol- ogy – developed a special interest in glass design. Their contact with established glass manufacturers in Vienna such as E. Bakalowits & Söhne and J. & L. Lobmeyr, as well as with art reform movements such as the ‘Union of Austrian Artists – Vienna Secession’, the Wiener Werkstätte, and the Austrian Werkbund, ensured the realisation of radically new design con- cepts by manufacturers like Johann Loetz Witwe. handiCRAFT. Traditional Skills in the Digital Age, 2016 37 Fine Arts Museums & Exhibitions

MUMOK Stiftung spirit with radical-skeptical stance. Koller painted object-images in white latex and pictures of question Ludwig marks that became the universal symbol of his critical view of everyday life and reality. Museum of Modern Art Koller saw tennis and table tennis as participatory art The Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien forms and here too he combined sport with political (MUMOK) is one of the most renowned museums for statement by demanding that the rules of the game modern and contemporary art worldwide. Together and fair play be adhered to – as the basis of all social with the Leopold Museum and the Kunsthalle Wien, action. After the Prague Spring was put down, Koller the MUMOK building, a bold cube covered with began his U.F.O.naut series that challenged reality with grey basalt, is one of the main attractions of Vienna’s ‘cultural situations’ and utopias of a new, cosmohu- MuseumsQuartier, located in the baroque setting of manistic culture and future. Fischer von Erlach’s former Imperial stables. In addi- tion to classical modernity, the collection is mainly comprised of significant works of Pop Art and Pho- September 10, 2015 – April 24, 2016 torealism (Austrian Ludwig Foundation), Fluxus Special Exhibition: and Nouveau Réalisme (Hahn Collection), as well Construction_Reflection as Viennese Actionism. This body of works allows In an exhibition entitled Construction_Reflection the visitors to gain unique insights into recent history, its collectors Gertraud and Dieter Bogner present a selec- avant-garde tendencies, and its focus on reality and tion of works from their own collection that they action. Other progressive movements, represented by donated to mumok in 2007 and that has since been major works of Conceptual Art, Minimal Art, Land continually expanded. With more than a hundred Art, and Arte Povera, can also be viewed, and gain paintings, sculptures, and objects, and three hundred new topicality and poignancy in the context of instal- drawings, gouaches, prints, autographs, artists’ books, lation and object art as well as more recent examples and archive materials, this is the largest single dona- of media art and discourse. tion to the museum to date.

The Bogners bucked trends by focusing on the ‘con- November 25, 2016 – April 17, 2017 tents’ of art as a key category in constructivist, geomet- Special Exhibition: rical-abstract, and conceptual art. In this exhibition, Július Koller. One Man Anti Show the interplays between forms and contents, or the Július Koller (1939–2007) is one of the most important politics of form as content, are presented in a number Eastern European artists working since the 1960s, of different interrelated thematic sections. The key whose art had and has considerable international motifs are theoretical relations between painting and significance. This is the most comprehensive exhibi- colour, the reflection of history and society, and rela- tion of the Slovak artist’s work to date, documenting tions between architecture, sculpture, and abstraction his independent contribution to the neo-avantgarde in the tradition of a critical modernism. and based on painstaking research into his art and archives. Construction_Reflection presents a dynamic and sen- sual and also analytically precise collection of instal- Koller’s work developed in critical distance to the lations, paintings, videos, photos, texts, and publica- communist authorities and their official art, and it also tions by Robert Adrian X, Hartmut Böhm, Heinz questioned traditions in modernism and the conven- Gappmayr, Dan Graham, Thomas Kaminsky, Richard tions of the Western art business. Since the mid-1960s Paul Lohse, Dorit Margreiter, Dóra Maurer, François he designed Antihappenings and Antipictures, creating Morellet, museum in progress, Jorrit Tornquist, Peter a playfully ironic oeuvre that combined a Dadaist Weibel, Heimo Zobernig, and many other artists.

38 1070 Vienna, Museumsplatz 1 Opening hours: Monday 2 pm–7 pm Tuesday–Sunday 10 am–7 pm Thursday 10 am–9 pm www.mumok.at Július Koller, One Man Anti Show

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OstLicht Galerie Secession Photo Collections The Association of Visual Artists Vienna Secession was founded in 1897 and presented its first exhibition OstLicht Gallery, Vienna’s new centre for contem- in 1898, the same year the new Secession building porary photography, was opened on the premises of was completed according to the designs of Joseph a former bread factory, Vienna’s latest, dynamically M. Olbrich. Today, the Secession is the world’s oldest evolving cultural centre, in June 2012. The loft offers independent gallery devoted entirely to exhibitions of approximately 500 m² of exhibition space for group contemporary art. One of the basic objectives of the and solo exhibitions of contemporary photo art, fea- Association is the presentation of current develop- turing both national and international positions. ments in Austrian and international art, as well as to cultivate openness for experimentation. The publicly accessible library of Galerie OstLicht comprises a collection of more than 20,000 books and The Vienna Secession was adapted and renovated magazines on the art and technology of photography several times in the course of its hundred year his- as well as a selection of photography magazines. Fea- tory. The entrance hall was already being altered in turing also a bookshop and a bar, OstLicht intends to 1901. In 1908, part of the ornamentation and the function as a meeting place and centre for everyone slogan ‘Der Zeit ihre Kunst. Der Kunst ihre Freiheit with an interest in photography. (For every time its art. For art its freedom)’ were removed. The building was damaged by bombings Architect Gregor Eichinger designed the rooms of during World War II and set on fire by the retreating OstLicht, taking the historical industrial architecture German army. During the reconstruction in 1963 into consideration. the original décor was renewed and a second floor inserted in the entrance hall.

A total of about 20 exhibitions take place in the Vienna Secession (in the Main Hall, Gallery, Graphic Cabinet and Ver Sacrum Room) each year. All of the exhibi- tions are accompanied by a publication and often by parallel events, lectures, symposia, art discussions, etc. The world famous Beethoven Frieze by Gustav Klimt is permanently on show.

OstLicht Interior

1100 Vienna, Absberggasse 27 Opening hours: Wednesday–Saturday 1 pm–6 pm www.ostlicht.at

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February 2 – March 26, 2017 February 2 – March 26, 2017 Special Exhibition: Special Exhibition: Svenja Deininger. Angelika Loderer Echo of a mirror fragment One might classify Angelika Loderer’s work as media With Svenja Deininger the Secession is presenting an reflexive sculptures in as far as the artist allows the artist who represents a younger generation of Austrian characteristics of the material she uses and the work painters in its main exhibition space. Deininger, who processes themselves to feed into the design process was born in Vienna in 1974 first studied in Münster as fundamental parameters. Her sculptures are fre- under conceptual artist Timm Ulrichs and later paint- quently made of cast metal or consist of secondary ing under Albert Oehlen in Düsseldorf. Her idiosyn- material from the area of metal casting – wax, for cratic pictorial composition on the one hand and, on example, or special mould sand which, because of its the other, the specific way in which the painting is high level of form stability, is particularly well-suited designed layer by layer is characteristic of her works, for casting. It is essential for the production of the which balance between abstraction and a figuration mould but it leaves no traces on the finished product that is – at least – hinted at. This method of working and so is invisible. Loderer elevates this auxiliary aid to corresponds to her interest in suggesting spaciality on her medium and builds fragile, temporary sculptures the flat canvas or asserting a certain materiality that which, due to their character as mould sand, make is permanently poised between becoming concrete allusions to metal while simultaneously setting up and remaining indefinite. Deininger regards painting an exciting and paradoxical dialogue between the as a process: she does not consider her pictures, on enduring nature of the one and the ephemerality of which she often works over long periods of time, to the other. be self-contained entities. It is, rather, that the process of creating an image serves to stimulate reflection and Angelika Loderer, born in 1984 in Feldbach, Styria, acts as a mental continuation of a form or composi- lives and works in Vienna. tion – the imagining of the future picture and how is located in a spatial context are thus essential elements of the artistic process. As if working on a text the artist elaborates and polishes the syntax of her art. She considers her works to be parts of a system that require their interrelations to be analysed whenever they encounter one another. She alternates large and small format pictures and by means of combining and positioning them in a space she creates a tension, which, together with her range of shapes, results in a ‘Deiningerian idiom’.

Angelika Loderer, exhibition view

1010 Vienna, Friedrichstraße 12 Opening hours: Svenja Deininger, Tuesday–Sunday 10 am–6 pm Echo of a Mirror Fragment, exhibition view www.secession.at

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WestLicht Galerie February 14 – May 14, 2017 Special Exhibition: Photo Collections Alfons Schilling. Beyond photography Moving and setting in motion – the rebellious experi- The first large photo and camera gallery in Vienna was mental spirit that drove Alfons Schilling (1934–2013) founded in 2001 through the private initiative of cam- from the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna, where era collectors and lovers of photography. WestLicht, as with Günter Brus he had paved the way for Actionism, a centre of photography in Vienna, aims to show the to Paris and New York in 1962, was also evident dur- relationship between photographic apparatus and the ing the artist’s long career in his photographic works. art of photography. The renowned architects Eichinger They push the medium well beyond its traditional oder Knechtl furnished the fine and retiringly design boundaries and provide the missing link between for the loft which was a glass factory in the fifties. Eadweard Muybridge’s 19th century movement studies Before the modification it was used as a photo-studio. and current notions of cyberspace. Schilling’s inves- Specially designed cabinets and lighting system were tigation of lenticular photography added a dynamic created to emphasise minimalist space and give a focus dimension to seeing and merged several images into to the importance of the exhibits, which comprise a single picture. Holograms and stereophotography a permanent collection of 800 historic and techni- turn pictures into a virtual space. Those who travel the cally important exhibits on loan from institutions three-dimensional world today with head-mounted and private collectors. The gallery shows exhibitions displays are merely following a path that Schilling th from the 19 century to the present time covering embarked on in the 1970s. The exhibition focuses for historical, national and international developments the first time on the visionary’s expanded photogra- in the photographic medium. The photo museum phy, presenting it alongside selected vision machines, is home to approximately 40,000 objects of various paintings and film experiments. The central thrust of photographic techniques, ranging from plate photo- his pioneering work is a critique of perception and the graphs and glass transparencies to a wide variety of liberation of the act of seeing itself: “It’s not what’s on printing processes. It encompasses historic and classic the picture – it’s what is behind it.” photography as well as works of contemporary art with special focuses on daguerreotypes, early paper prints, historic travel photography, nude photogra- phy, editorial photography, photojournalism, Cuban photography and Viennese Actionism.

1070 Vienna, Westbahnstraße 40 Opening hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 2 pm–7 pm Thursday 2 pm–9 pm Saturday+Sunday 11 am–7 pm www.westlicht.com

42 Alfons Schilling, Frame from the movie Jackie Curtis, 1970

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21er Haus December 14, 2016 – April 23, 2017 Special Exhibition: The Museum of Contemporary Art Franz West. Artistclub The 21er Haus presents central works by the Austrian The 21er Haus was built in 1958 by the Austrian artist Franz West (1947–2012) in an exhibition enti- architect Karl Schwanzer (1918–1975) as a pavilion tled Franz West – ARTISTCLUB. The works on view or temporary showroom for the Universal Exhibition were made by 36 different artists in collaboration with in Brussels. In January 1958, the daily newspaper Franz West. The so-called ARTISTCLUB began as a Die Presse described the exhibition hall originally participatory project started by West in 1999. Even designed for the Expo as “a virtually ideal founda- though it did not achieve its desired form while the tion for a Museum of Modern Art”. Karl Schwanzer artist was alive, here it can be experienced as a cura- adapted the steel skeleton construction to the muse- torial idea in the sense of an interactive exhibition. um’s purposes: the ground floor was glazed, the Viewer participation and the collaboration with other courtyard was covered with a roof, all façades were artists play a central role in West’s artistic practice. substantially modified, and the whole structure was He continually challenged the relationship between reinstalled in the Schweizer Garten. The new museum the artist, the artistic work, and the recipient. The was opened on September 20, 1962. The building exhibition aims to reflect West’s concepts of art as served as an exhibition hall for the Museum of Mod- a participatory act, the inclusion of various artistic ern Art until its collection was moved to the Museum positions via the process of collaboration, and the of Modern Art – Ludwig Foundation in Vienna’s new associated idea of authorship. MuseumsQuartier in late 2001.

The 21er Haus was finally incorporated into the Bel- vedere in the early summer of 2002. It is to be under- stood as a place of artistic production, reception, and reflection. The focus is on Austrian art of the twen- tieth and twenty-first centuries and its embedding in an international context.

1030 Vienna, Arsenalstraße 1 Opening hours: Friday–Sunday 11 am–6 pm Wednesday+Thursday 11 am–9 pm www.21erhaus.at

44 Franz West – Tamuna Sirbiladze, Moonlight, 2001

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Other Museums November 16, 2016 – March 19, 2017 Special Exhibition: Arnold Schönberg in Focus. Arnold Schönberg Photographs 1880–1950 Center An exhibition as an open archive: 3,500 historic pho- tographs surviving in Schönberg’s archive illuminate The Foundation is a cultural institution designed the medium’s development, providing an authentic exclusively for public scholarly and educational pur- and moving view of the artist, paterfamilias, friend poses, including establishing the Arnold Schönberg and contemporary. Archive in Vienna, its maintenance and preservation, the education of the public with regard to Schönberg’s A cultural and quotidian history in images: Visitors interdisciplinary artistic influence, as well as teaching accompany Schönberg on his travels, encounter him and publicising Schönberg’s contributions to music in his private apartments, take part in his life full of and other achievements. chequered history.

It has made its name by teaching, researching, and A variety of photographical objects: Prints from the further educating musicians, scholars, and the public photo shop and large-format artist’s enlargements at large, but especially through the regular organisa- are found among family albums and cameras from tion of exhibitions, concerts, and other events, always Schönberg’s time. with regard to the life and work of Arnold Schönberg. Schönberg’s paintings and drawings are on permanent display; lectures, conferences and symposia provide the theoretical background for the works of this fas- cinating, versatile artist.

Arnold Schönberg in Focus. Exhibition view

Palais Fanto 1030 Vienna, Schwarzenbergplatz 6 Opening hours: Monday–Friday 10 am–5 pm www.schoenberg.at

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Beethoven Bestattungsmuseum Pasqualatihaus Undertakers’ Museum The ‘Pasqualatihaus’, named after its owner Josef Benedikt Baron Pasqualati, was built in the eight- In Vienna in the 1900s more than eighty private eenth century and is located on Mölker Bastei, part funeral companies competed for the business of bury- of the remains of the old city fortifications. Altogether ing the city’s citizens in its many grand suburban Ludwig van Beethoven worked in Vienna for thirty- cemeteries. Since 1951 the Municipal Funeral Service five years. Thereof he spent eight years living in this alone has been responsible for funerals, and the fas- apartment on the fourth floor. The spectacular view cinating Undertakers’ Museum tells the whole story. over the then still undeveloped site of the fortification More than 900 artefacts document the well-known approaches towards the northern and north-western Viennese interest in death and burial. The museum suburbs of Vienna kept drawing the composer back to contains the elaborate black outfits and regalia worn Mölker Bastei after his various short stays in the coun- by both the pallbearers as well as the liveries worn by try. Here he worked on his 4th, 5th, 7th and 8th sympho- the hearse-pulling horses. There are also wreathes, nies, among others, and above all on his opera ‘Fidelio’. sashes, lanterns, torches, black flags and different Besides numerous documents illustrating the life and coloured palls signifying the deceased’s profession work of Beethoven, there is the famous 1804/05 por- and former position in life. The unique location of trait of Beethoven by Willibrord Joseph Mähler and the museum at Vienna’s central cemetery invites the many personal items owned by the composer. visitor for an atmospheric stroll through the second largest cemetery in Europe.

Beethoven Pasqualatihaus Bestattungsmuseum

1010 Vienna, Mölker Bastei 8 1110 Vienna, Simmeringer Hauptstraße 234 Opening hours: Opening hours: Tuesday–Sunday Monday–Friday 9 am–4:30 pm 10 am–1 pm & 2 pm–6 pm Saturday 10 am–5:30 pm www.wienmuseum.at www.bestattungsmuseum.at

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Dokumentationsarchiv Esperanto Museum des österreichischen The Esperanto Museum of the Austrian National Widerstandes Library conveys the vicissitudes of the history of Esperanto, and also presents in a general way the Documentation Centre of topic of the relationship of man to language. With Austrian Resistance interactive media stations and through acoustic aids visitors can get to know not only Esperanto, but also The Centre was founded in 1963 by ex-resistance other planned languages, such as the mystical Lingua fighters and anti-Fascist historians. Its research Ignota of Hildegard of Bingen or Klingon from the focuses on the topics resistance and persecution television series Star Trek. One of the media stations from 1934 to 1945, exile, Nazi crimes (especially the draws attention to the little known fact that so-called Holocaust), right-wing extremism after 1945 and natural languages also have portions of artificially cre- restitution. The permanent exhibition of the Centre ated vocabulary. That rules of grammar can be easily is located in rooms on the ground floor of Vienna’s learned and can be acquired without intense swotting Old Town Hall (Altes Rathaus). The main themes on is proved by an automat through which you can get view are the persecution of Austrians on racist, reli- a grasp of the grammar of Esperanto using the now gious or national-patriotic grounds, the expulsion of legendary Pacman game. A video course of the BBC 130,000 Austrians from their native land following the gives an impression of how spoken Esperanto sounds. German invasion of March 1938, and the resistance to the Nazi occupation. A separate section deals with Since its founding in 1927 the Esperanto Museum has extreme right-wing and neo-Nazi currents in Austria had a comprehensive library, which is now the world’s since the war. A computer programme enables visitors biggest of its kind and in 1990 received the title of to receive further and more in-depth information on Department of Planned Languages. the exhibition’s topics through texts, documents, and photographs. Moreover, visitors can use databases to query the names of Austrian Holocaust victims or of victims of the Gestapo. Esperanto Museum

1010 Vienna, Wipplingerstraße 6–8 Opening hours: Monday–Friday 9 am–5 pm Thursday 9 am–7 pm www.doew.at

1010 Vienna, Herrengasse 9 Opening hours: Tuesday–Sunday 10 am–6 pm Thursday 10 am–9 pm www.onb.ac.at

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Globenmuseum Haus der Musik Globe Museum House of Music

The Globe Museum of the Austrian National Library The House of Music Vienna makes music heard, seen in Palais Mollard is the world’s only institution in and felt in various experience zones on seven floors. which terrestrial and celestial globes and globes of Visitors are prompted to engage in interactive play earth’s moon and various planets, as well as instru- with music, they are given information on the history ments linked with globes (armillary spheres) and of music; they experience unexpected sounds, and instruments in which globes are an integral part (plan- will come to know the House of Music as a centre for etaria, telluria, lunaria) are acquired, researched, and aesthetic, scientific, popular and artistic encounters presented to the public. The Museum is divided into with music. The House of Music offers – metaphori- an exhibition area, in which a most comprehensive cally speaking – musical language courses and hopes collection of globes and globe related instruments is to play a role in helping its visitors to speak as well as set up and accessible to the public, and a store section understand the language of music. and a study area.

In the permanent displays the globes are presented to the visitors as specific cartographic expressions, but also as valuable aesthetic objects of high artistic 1010 Vienna, Seilerstätte 30 quality and craftsmanship. Particular aspects of the Opening hours: daily 10 am–10 pm study of globes are emphasised: the history of globes, www.hausdermusik.com their production, the spectrum of topics presented on globes, but also questions relevant to the history of culture, such as the use of globes and their reception. Examples make it easy to follow the development of geographic and cosmographic concepts and knowl- edge in the past centuries. The Museum shows not only three-dimensional objects: digital presentations offer a gripping connection between the old treas- ures that may not be touched and modern means of communication.

In the ‘Collectors’ Gallery’ objects on permanent loan from important private Viennese collections are on display – among them the oldest globe extant in Austria, the terrestrial globe of Gemma Frisius (about 1536), a unique object from the collection of Rudolf Schmidt, Vienna.

1010 Vienna, Herrengasse 9 Opening hours: Tuesday–Sunday 10 am–6 pm Thursday 10 am–9 pm www.onb.ac.at Globe Museum

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Haydnhaus Heeresgeschichtliches Haydn Apartment Museum Museum of Military History Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) spent the last twelve years of his life in Gumpendorf, at that time an outlying The Museum of Military History is situated right in village of Vienna. Having bought his house between the centre of the Arsenal. It was built according to two periods of stay in England, he extended it by one plans of Ludwig Foerster and Theophil Hansen from floor, moving in aged 65 in 1797. Here he died on May 1850 to 1856 and was thus the first Viennese museum. th 31, 1809. To mark the 200 anniversary of his death The styles of this town’s oldest historic building range last year, the permanent exhibition in the Haydnhaus from Byzantine, Hispano-Moorish to Neo-Gothic. In has been completely redesigned. The focus is on the five major sections the museum shows the history of last years of the composer’s life, linking them to the the Habsburg Empire from the end of the 16th century political and social setting of his time. The garden has until 1918 and Austria’s fate after the dissolution of the been reconstructed according to historical models and monarchy up to the year 1945. is now accessible to visitors for the first time ever – a green oasis in the built-up area of Mariahilferstrasse. At the centre of the exhibition is Joseph Haydn’s music, his lifestyle and his growing old. Haydn’s popularity 1030 Vienna, Arsenal Objekt 1 and reputation had reached its zenith at this time. Opening hours: daily 9 am–5 pm Celebrated internationally, he was admired by his www.hgm.or.at fellow-composers, and courted by music publishers. Numerous visitors from both home and abroad paid their respects to Haydn. Their records and memoirs have been used to help structure the exhibition. The most important works of the composer’s old age were created in this last residence, including the two ora- torios ‘The Creation’ (1796–1798) and ‘The Seasons’ (1799–1801). Here Haydn experienced one of the most creatively fruitful periods of his life.

Haydnhaus

1060 Vienna, Haydngasse 19 Opening hours: Tuesday–Sunday 10 am–1 pm & 2 pm–6 pm www.wienmuseum.at

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Hofmobiliendepot Johann Strauss Imperial Furniture Collection Wohnung Johann Strauss Apartment The Imperial Furniture Collection possesses the world’s largest collection of furniture. This museum In 1867 in this apartment, Johann Strauss composed brings to life the world of imperial living at the Hab- the world-famous waltz ‘The Blue Danube’, Austria’s sburg court, with special emphasis on the Bieder- ‘unofficial national anthem’! Strauss lived seven years meier, Empire, Historicist and Jugendstil eras. In 1747 on Praterstrasse, then a fashionable and elegant Vien- Empress Maria Theresia founded the Court Furniture nese suburban street. His own instruments, furniture Depository. Today this is one of the world’s largest and paintings illustrate Strauss’s work as a composer, museums of furniture and furnishings. The Habsburgs musician and conductor, but the whole presentation furnished their residences and palaces according to brings Strauss close to us in private as well, a man the style of the times and their own aesthetic predilec- who married three times, an enthusiast at billiards tions. Any item that was no longer needed ended up in and cards, and a caricaturist. Moreover, there are the depository. Today almost 160,000 objects fill the reminiscences of his other apartments, the Vienna storerooms. On display are numerous original items ballrooms and concert halls of his time, and also the of Habsburg furniture, from commodes to imperial other composers in the family circle: Johann Strauss thrones. At the same time, the exhibition gives an the Elder and the talented brothers Josef and Eduard. overview of the history of Viennese cabinet-making and interior design. All the personalities who left their mark on the history of Viennese design, from the craftsmen who supplied the imperial court to 1020 Vienna, Praterstraße 54 the famous artists of the early 20th century such as Opening hours: Adolf Loos, Otto Wagner and Josef Hoffmann are Tuesday–Sunday 10 am–1 pm & 2 pm–6 pm represented here. www.wienmuseum.at

1070 Vienna, Andreasgasse 7 Opening hours: Tuesday–Sunday 10 am–6 pm www.hofmobiliendepot.at

Johann Strauss Apartment

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Josephinum Jüdisches Museum Institute for the History of Medicine Wien Jewish Museum of Vienna The Institute for the History of Medicine and its col- lections have been housed since 1920 in the Josephi- The theme of ‘remembrance’ is omnipresent through- num, a classicist edifice built in 1785 under Emperor out the Jewish Museum Vienna. It is a key to Jewish Joseph II. Dedicated to the world-famous Vienna culture and permeates the Museum right down to the th th Medical Schools of the 18 , the 19 and the early smallest detail. But remembering also means active th 20 century, it exhibits documents, pictures, original confrontation, and the museum is therefore a place instruments and preparations, as well as personal to meet, communicate and discuss. Apart from the memorabilia of some of the most distinguished and exhibitions, it offers a wide range of symposiums, prominent protagonists of medical sciences. The lectures, panel discussions, concerts and many other greatest treasure of the Josephinum, namely the events. The permanent exhibition is supplemented unique collection of anatomical and obstetric wax every year by numerous temporary exhibitions on models, has remained in virtually pristine condition Jewish history, religion and culture. over the passage of two centuries since their creation.

Since 2007, the museum at the Josephinum forms November 4, 2016 – May 1, 2017 part of the ‘Collections of the Medical University of Museum Dorotheergasse Vienna’ and the long-term plan envisages a whole Special Exhibition: new concept. The Better Half: Jewish Women Artists Before 1938 Female artists in Vienna had a very difficult time before 1938. It is therefore all the more surprising how many women managed to succeed in this métier. A large number of them came from assimilated Jewish families. Painters like Tina Blau, Broncia Koller-Pinell, Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, or ceramic artists Vally Wieselthier and Susi Singer have established a place for themselves in the history of art. But many others have unjustifiably sunk into oblivion—the sculptor Theresa Feodorowna Ries, the painters Grete Wolf- Krakauer and Helene Taussig, or the painter and graphic artist Lili Rethi. The exhibition presents forty artists and describes their unusual training and careers, marked by a struggle for recognition in a male-dominated art world. It also looks at promising careers that were interrupted through exile or ended forever in the Nazi extermination camps. An exhibi- tion with lots of new discoveries. 1090 Vienna, Währingerstraße 25 Opening hours: Wednesday 4 pm–8 pm Friday+Saturday 10 am–6 pm www.josephinum.ac.at

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September 28, 2016 – March 26, 2017 Museum Dorotheergasse Special Exhibition: The Glück Family Living Room The living room of the Glück family is a completely normal Viennese living room from the 1920s, and then again not, since while most of the furniture belonging to the Jews of Vienna was “aryanized” after 1938, the Glück family’s ended up in New York in 1939.

The exhibition relates the history of a Jewish furrier family, from its arrival in Vienna from the north- eastern crown lands around 1900 to its escape after the annexation of Austria in 1938 to France and the USA. Henry (Heinz) Glück, who donated this furniture to the Jewish Museum Vienna two years ago, was born in Vienna in 1934. His father Erwin escaped from Vienna in 1938 with the family’s furniture, initially to Paris. He arrived a while later with his brother in New York, where they once again opened a furrier’s workshop on 7th Avenue in the garment district. Henry and his mother Lily (née Greif) were unable to get away. Lily was deported and murdered in Auschwitz after a police raid in Nice in August 1942. Henry found Gertrud Fischel, Abundance, c. 1921 refuge for a while in a monastery and was hidden from 1943 by a Catholic family in Aix-en-Provence.

The apartment and living room furniture in New York were given up in 2012 following the death of Erwin and his second wife Herta Kleeblatt Glück. The Jew- ish Museum Vienna is celebrating the return of this Viennese living room from New York with a very personal exhibition about living but also about escape and migration in the twentieth century.

Sofie Korner, The Bed

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December 2, 2016 – May 28, 2017 Permanent exhibition Museum Judenplatz at the Museum Judenplatz Special Exhibition: In the Middle Ages Vienna was home to a thriving Horowitz: fifty years of portrait photos Jewish community, which was one of the largest and This exhibition at Museum Judenplatz offers an most important in Europe. Famous Rabbis taught and insight into the portrait photography of Michael worked here and made Vienna into a centre of Jewish Horowitz, photographer, journalist, and author, born knowledge. This lively and creative atmosphere has in Vienna in 1950. He has written biographies of come to an abrupt end in 1420/21 by the expulsion Heimito von Doderer, Egon Erwin Kisch, Karl Kraus, and murder of the Viennese Jews. In 1995 the remains Helmut Qualtinger, and H.C. Artmann, inspired by of the destroyed synagogue were excavated. They his father, a well-known theater photographer. The stand as a strong witness to the rich community life family came from Galicia to Vienna in the 1920s and its destruction. In 2000, the Museum Judenplatz to join relatives who managed a textile company. was opened as an outpost of the Jewish Museum. Forced to leave Austria, they survived World War II in At the same time Rachel Whiteread’s memorial for Shanghai and France. Michael Horowitz started taking the victims of the Shoah was unveiled. Today new pictures at the age of sixteen and through his job as a sources, scientific and architectural findings shed a journalist and editor-in-chief of Freizeit met countless new and more detailed light on the life of the Jews celebrities from the world of politics, science, art, and in the medieval city of Vienna. The Jewish Museum culture—and photographed them all. His photography will show these new findings state of the art. Start- is effectively a document of contemporary history. ing with the development of Jewish communities in the Middle Ages through a reconstruction of Jewish Vienna, to the everyday life of Jews at the time the 1010 Vienna, Dorotheergasse 11 Opening hours: new permanent exhibition offers a unique overview Sunday–Friday 10 am–6 pm of this fascinating period. A virtual tour allows us to walk through Jewish Vienna of the 14th century and 1010 Vienna, Judenplatz 8 leads us to the Jewish festivals and the customs of Opening hours: that time. This helps to understand how the life of the Sunday–Thursday 10 am–6 pm Jewish community was organised. Friday 10 am–2 pm www.jmw.at

Helmut Qualtinger as pilot

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Literaturmuseum Literature Museum

Johann Nestroy, Arthur Schnitzler, Franz Kafka, Ilse Aichinger, Ingeborg Bachmann, Thomas Bernhard, Friederike Mayröcker – these are only some of the names of major Austrian authors whose letters, works and creativity are presented in the Literature Museum of the Austrian National Library featuring unique original sources and numerous media points.

A varied and innovative presentation is found on two floors of the building, while from 2016 the third floor will be used for special exhibitions. The ground floor is available for readings, workshops and discussions. Occupying a total of 750 m², the Literature Museum presents a living and open picture of Austrian litera- ture from the end of the 18th century to the present.

The focus is on the authors and the phenomena of literary life that were or are of importance within the Austrian borders at the relevant time. Thus the Literature Museum has not just an Austrian but also a European dimension. A combination of thematic and chronological chapters guides the visitor to significant historical milestones and caesuras – from the Enlight- enment and Biedermeier via Vienna around 1900 as the laboratory of modern age, the two world wars, the interwar and Nazi periods, exile and the Cold War up to the immediate present.

1010 Vienna, Johannesgasse 6 Opening hours: Tuesday–Sunday 10 am–6 pm Thursday 10 am–9 pm www.onb.ac.at

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Mozarthaus Vienna Domgasse 5 is the only one of Mozart’s apartments this apartment he wrote ‘The Marriage of Figaro’, one that still exists today. As Mozarthaus Vienna it is a of his most famous operas. The tour starts on the 3rd centre devoted to the life and works of Mozart. The floor of the building with details of Mozart’s time composer lived here from 1784 to 1787 in grand in Vienna: where he lived and performed, who his style, with four large rooms, two small ones and a friends and supporters were, his relationship to the kitchen. The life and works of this musical genius are Freemasons, his passion for games and much more. presented here on four exhibition levels. In addition The presentation on the 2nd floor deals with Mozart’s to Mozart’s apartment, visitors can find out about the operatic works, and the apartment on the 1st floor, the times in which Mozart lived and his most important real heart of the building, focuses on the two and a works. The exhibition focuses on his years in Vienna, half years that Mozart lived there. which marked a high point in his creativity; right in

1010 Vienna, Domgasse 5 Opening hours: daily 10 am–7 pm www.mozarthausvienna.at

Le Nozze di Figaro 1786

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Naturhistorisches November 23, 2016 – April 17, 2017 Special Exhibition: Museum Diversity counts! Museum of Natural History An expedition through biodiversity Featuring more than 50 interactive objects and media The imposing palace of Natural History has been the installations, this exciting new hands-on exhibition home of ever increasing collections since 1889. In 39 invites visitors to become scientists and explorers display halls covering 8,700 sq. m. visitors can travel themselves by discovering the world of biodiversity through our planet’s history, through the breathtaking and biodiversity research. diversity of nature, and back to the origins of our cul- ture. On the upper ground floor you will come across The exhibition DIVERSITY COUNTS! is a fascinating fascinating and valuable precious stones and minerals, journey through three categories of habitat currently rare fossils and gigantic dinosaurs, as well as famous being investigated with the support of the German prehistoric works of art. Some of the most important Research Foundation (DFG) using intensive and inno- pieces are the 25,000 year-old figure of ‘Venus von vative research techniques: meadows, forests, and seas. Willendorf’, the skeleton of a Diplodocus, the long- Hidden object puzzles provide fascinating insights est terrestrial vertebrate that ever lived, a giant topaz into these ecosystems. Of course, a mountain rainfor- weighing 117 kg, and the valuable bouquet of jewels est has little in common with a European mixed forest. which Maria Theresia had made as a present for her But there are also many different kinds of meadow husband. The first floor presents the overwhelming looking rather similar at first sight: dry grass and lush species variety of the animal world, from protozoa to pastures, nutrient-poor grassland and heathland. This the most highly developed mammals. exhibition explains the differences between them in a clear, easy-to-understand way. Biodiversity is more The beginning of everything, CERN detail than just the range of plants and animals living on our planet. It also includes the manifold genera, species, and habitats with all their many interconnections and interactions, as well as their influences on mankind.

Meadows, forests, lakes, rivers, and seas – each eco- system delivers invaluable services to every country, company, and individual, as well as to our planet as a whole. Fertile soil, clean water, and unpolluted air used to be seen as resources available in unlimited quantities and free of charge to all. This perception is now changing dramatically. The question whether future generations will have enough natural resources depends first and foremost on how much importance we attach in the next few years and decades to these still very cheap or free services provided by the Earth’s ecosystems.

1010 Vienna, Burgring 7 Opening hours: Thursday–Monday 9 am–6:30 pm Wednesday 9 am–9 pm www.nhm-wien.ac.at

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October 19, 2016 – May 1, 2017 Special Exhibition: The beginning of everything. About galaxies, quarks and collisions What does the universe consist of? Where does the quarks and gluons formed protons and neutrons. In universe end? How many dimensions are there in the exhibition, these invisible, incredibly tiny particles the universe? What is the universe expanding into? figuratively seem to gain in substance as visitors are These and similar questions have bothered humans invited to give rise to new quarks and play soccer for centuries and still bring us to the limits not only with protons. The very early universe is the subject of our knowledge but also of our imagination. ‘The of intensive research. The crucial question, however, beginning of everything’ presents answers to at least the question about the instant of the Big Bang itself, part of these questions by taking visitors for a jour- is still unanswered. Scientists think they can pick up ney more than 13 billion years back into the past, the story after a few fractions of a second, but the very to the start of the universe, and by communicating beginning of the universe remains pretty hazy. most recent scientific knowledge of particle physics and cosmology in a readily comprehensible manner. The third part of the exhibition is devoted to CERN In addition, artists offer a contrasting approach to (European Organization for Nuclear Research) where this complex topic from different visual, optical and physicists and engineers are probing the fundamen- acoustic angles and perspectives. tal structure of the universe and bring its earliest moments into sharper and sharper focus. Visitors The first section refers to the observable universe, with learn about the most recent scientific findings and impressive images of our solar system and spectacular get to know the world’s largest and most complex pictures of stars and galaxies taken by the Hubble scientific instruments like particle accelerators and Space telescope. The life cycle of a star is documented, particle detectors. and meteorites lead to the question “How did life on Earth get started?” Just as we do not know how the universe exactly started, we also do not know how exactly it will end. The second part of the exhibition focuses on the first Therefore, visitors are given the chance to create their 380,000 years after the Big Bang. Supersymmetry, favourite possible scenario for the end of the universe the Higgs particle as well as the dominance of dark themselves, by choosing between Big Crunch, Big Rip, matter in the universe are presented, a moment before or Big Freeze.

The beginning of everything, exhibition view

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Österreichisches Theatermuseum Austrian Theatre Museum

The Austrian Theatre Museum at Palais Lobkowitz was founded in 1991, finally gaining independence from the Austrian National Library, whose theatrical collections from 1922 onwards create the basis for this museum. Its permanent exhibition presents the most beautiful and most interesting of the museum’s over 1.6 million objects, illustrating the fields of costume design, stage design, photography, posters, sketches, props, and other parts of the world of theatre.

September 22, 2016 – April 17, 2017 His freedom, our freedom. Exhibition view Special Exhibition: His freedom, our freedom. Václav Havel and the Viennese Burgtheater Václav Havel who would have celebrated his 80th birthday on October 5, 2016, was a playwright and dissident, critical of the regime, who was repeat- edly sentenced to prison, before becoming President of Czechoslovakia. Under director Achim Benning numerous of Václav Havel’s plays premiered success- fully at the Burgtheater – the reason why the man, who refused to lie, respectfully called this theatre his mother stage – mateřské divadlo.

Anna Freimanová, Václav Havel’s companion for many years and consultant during his presidency curated the show which was produced by the Václav- Havel-Library Prague. The Theatermuseum presents this exhibition in cooperation with the Czech Centre Vienna.

1010 Vienna, Lobkowitzplatz 2 Opening hours: Wednesday–Monday 10 am–6 pm www.theatermuseum.at

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Pathologisch- Pratermuseum Anatomische Sammlung Something as special as the Prater itself is the Prater im Narrenturm Museum in the planetarium building. It gives a vivid impression of the changes in the history of Viennese Pathologic-Anatomical Collection entertainment culture, and is as fascinating as it is in the Fool’s Tower bizarre and spine-chilling. Amusement and melan- choly make a poignant mix in such things as the The museum was actually founded as early as 1796 ‘International Marriage Agency’ automatic fortune- under Emperor Franz I as part of the pathologic- telling machine, the legendary ventriloquist doll ‘Max’, anatomical institute. It has been an official federal or a dragon (lindworm) from a grotto ride torn down museum since 1974 and is housed in the so-called a long time ago. The large original model of the 1873 ‘Narrenturm (Fool’s Tower)’, which was built in 1784 Vienna World Exhibition reminds the visitor of both under Emperor Joseph II as the first psychiatric hos- the city’s desire to show off its best side and a pain- pital in Europe. ful flop – visitors stayed away because the threat of cholera hung over the city. The homunculus shoes, the giant’s suit and the ‘Bodiless Lady’ are relics of the freak and sensation shows of the late nineteenth cen- 1090 Vienna, Uni Campus Court 6, tury, so alienating to today’s taste. Vienna’s legendary Spitalgasse 2 ‘strong men’ are also represented in the show. (entrance: Van-Swieten-Gasse) Opening hours: Wednesday 10 am–6 pm Saturday 10 am–1 pm 1020 Vienna, Oswald-Thomas-Platz 1 www.nhm-wien.ac.at Opening hours: Friday–Sunday & public holidays 10 am–1 pm & 2 pm–6 pm www.wienmuseum.at

Narrenturm exterior view

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Römermuseum Schubert Geburtshaus Roman Museum Schubert’s Birthplace

Were all Romans Italians? What did a legionary do This is the house where the great composer Franz in peace time? What was life like in Vindobona, Schubert was born on 31 January 1797. It was then where about 30,000 people lived at that time? Find called ‘Zum roten Krebsen’ (The Red Crab) and was the answers to these questions here in the Roman situated in the Viennese suburb of Himmelpfortgr- Museum. Fascinating archaeological finds enable you und. Here Schubert spent the first four and a half years actively to experience the Roman history of Vienna of his childhood. The apartment of the large fam- – both of the city and the culture. You can catch a ily consisted solely of one room and a ‘Rauchkuchl’ glimpse of a Roman legionary’s life in the basement (kitchen with open fire). Today a large part of the top – take the entrance to the left via the steps into the floor is dedicated to the memory of the composer. It basement. presents an impressive documentation of his musical development, his circle of friends, and the important stages of his life. One of the rooms shows numerous 1010 Vienna, Hoher Markt 3 portraits of the composer. But the item that fascinates Opening hours: the public most is a seemingly unspectacular pair of Tuesday–Sunday 9 am–6 pm spectacles belonging to the composer, which became www.wienmuseum.at the ‘trademark’ of Schubert veneration.

1090 Vienna, Nußdorfer Straße 54 Opening hours: Tuesday–Sunday 10 am–1 pm & 2 pm–6 pm www.wienmuseum.at

Celtic drinking vessel, 1st century BCE

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Sigmund From January 31, 2017 Special Exhibition: Freud-Museum “The apartment is doing well.” In the former living quarters and office of Sigmund The Freuds at Berggasse 19 Freud in the house at Berggasse 19 in Vienna’s ninth The special aura of Sigmund Freud’s office has been district, the Sigmund Freud Museum presents an exhi- described by many authors. But how did Freud and his bition documenting the life and work of the founder of family live at Berggasse 19? How can we picture that psychoanalysis. Freud lived and worked in this house “intimate atmosphere of shared privacy and of open from 1891 until 1938, when he was forced by the historicity” (Erik Erikson) that characterised the life of Nazis to flee with his family into exile in England. The the founder of psychoanalysis at his home in Vienna? interior decoration of the museum was carried out in 1971 with the help of Anna Freud, Sigmund Freud’s “The apartment is doing well”. The Freuds at Berggasse youngest daughter. Original furnishings, including the 19 examines the Freuds’ family life in their rooms waiting room, a selection from Freud’s collection of dating back to the Gründerzeit period. Father of six antiquities, as well as signed copies and first editions Sigmund Freud spent almost half a century as a tenant of his works provide a glimpse into Freud’s biography, at Berggasse 19, together with his wife Martha, the his cultural environment, and the development of children and his sister-in-law Minna Bernays, and at psychoanalysis. Today Anna Freud’s rooms house a least two servants. The rooms changed many times collection of contemporary art, the Foundation for over the years: various moves, conversions and use the Arts, Sigmund Freud-Museum Vienna, and an of the rooms for different purposes not only reflect Anna Freud memorial room. Historical film clips the changing needs of a fast-growing family and the assembled and commentated by Anna Freud that effects between building structures and social behav- depict moments in the private life of Freud and his iour in this turn-of-the-century setting. Numerous family are shown in a video room. letter notes, quotations from theoretical writings, and visual documentations of the Freuds’ interior illustrate the extent to which the family and private setting also influenced the early development of the new science of the unconscious – regardless of the division between living and working areas practised by Sigmund Freud, as has been so often described in the literature. It is above all the descriptions gleaned from private correspondence – fragments of private biographical accounts – that project a kaleidoscopic image of the interior in which the history of the Freud family at Berggasse 19 was able to unfold until their expulsion in 1938.

1090 Vienna, Berggasse 19 Opening hours: daily 10 am–6 pm Sigmund Freud on the patio www.freud-museum.at of his apartment at Berggasse 19 (1912)

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Technisches Museum with the adjoining permanent exhibitions on urban life, urban mobility and urban energy, give fresh impe- Museum of Technology tus to the further development of our urban spaces.

On an area of 22,000 m², the Technisches Museum Wien offers a wide range of fascinating insights into From November 4, 2015 the world of technology. Unique exhibits from the past Special Exhibition: to the present make the house a venue for exploring Inventory No. 1938. Provenance research exciting technological developments. Texts, films, and at the Vienna Technical Museum experiments illustrate the mutual influence between Cars, radios and hot-water heaters: the looting raids technological achievements and society, economy and conducted by the Nazis did not stop at objects of culture. Granting each visitor an individual approach, everyday life. Since 1998 the TMW has been comb- multimedia presentations make every tour through ing through its collection for items once looted by the museum a personal experience. The collections the Nazis, and it has been trying to track down their on show offer information on many issues and objects rightful owners. of technology and its history. The network of histori- cal machines, models, visitor experiments, pictures, The public debate over provenance research is domi- texts, and other elements guarantees an experience nated by questions surrounding the restitution of that exceeds reading a book or viewing a lecture valuable artworks such as paintings and drawings. It with pictures: the presented originals tell stories that usually overlooks the fact that the Nazis mainly stole awaken the visitors’ memories and challenge them to objects of everyday life from those persecuted on explore the highlighted subjects. ‘racial’ and ‘political’ grounds: radio sets and cameras, furniture, bicycles, musical instruments, linen, motor vehicles and motorcycles. Since it was first established, From June 2016 the Technisches Museum Wien has always collected Special Exhibition: objects of everyday life, and its collection, too, has The urban future. Thinking forward been found to comprise objects previously in Jewish There’s no denying the fact that the living space of the ownership. The exhibition explains the day-to-day future will be urban. Cities account for around half the practice of Nazi raids, reconstructs the life stories of world’s population living on a mere two per cent of the those deprived and despoiled, and documents the world’s surface area – and by the year 2050, that figure search currently underway to trace the rightful heirs, will most probably have risen to more than two thirds. who are now dispersed all around the world.

This global trend raises all sorts of questions. How do Inventory No. 1938 is the first permanent exhibition we want to live in the future? What sort of homes will of its kind on the subject of ‘provenance research’ by we want? How will we want to build, travel around, a museum in the German-speaking countries, and and supply ourselves with energy? How do we intend it documents the ‘Aryanisation’ of everyday objects to feed ourselves? How will we structure our cities? around 1938. A database on vehicles looted by the And who will own our cities? Nazis gives visitors an opportunity to carry out some investigative research of their own. So the constant interplay between growth, social visions and real urban development needs continual innovations in order to shape the urban future and 1140 Vienna, Mariahilferstraße 212 satisfy a whole range of different requirements. Opening hours: Monday–Friday 9 am–6 pm The starting point of the exhibition is the new urban Saturday, Sunday 10 am–6 pm innovations special exhibition area which, together www.technischesmuseum.at

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Uhrenmuseum Volkskundemuseum Clock Museum Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art

With more than 3,000 clocks the Clock Museum has The Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art, a collection that is unique in Europe. It is accom- founded in 1895 and housed since 1917 in the modated in an enchanting Viennese house in the Schönborn Garden Palace in the Josefstadt district historical city, with foundation walls dating from the of Vienna, displays collections of the traditional folk Middle Ages, and situated very close to Judenplatz. At culture of Austria and its neighbouring countries. the stroke of every full hour, three floors re-echo with The renovation of the building in the 1980s and 1990s chimes, sounds and carillons from the many clocks permitted a new conceptualisation and design of the that are kept working. They document the measure- exhibits on the ground floor. Not only does this now ment of time and the technology of horology from the provide an overview of pre-modern folk culture, but it fifteenth century until the present day. has also made possible a glimpse into the unique folk art collection of the Museum. The collections show The greatest imaginable diversity of types and mod- culture as it is reflected in folk art, providing evidence els from all over the world is on show in the Clock of its many-sided expressions. Museum: witty and ingenious picture clocks with hidden dial-plates; richly decorated longcase com- mode clocks telling of the social rank of their owners; pocket watches and pendants with luxurious orna- mentation as the most exquisite pieces of jewellery. Among the highlights of a visit to the museum is the astronomical art clock by David a Sancto Cajetano 1080 Vienna, Laudongasse 15–19 from the eighteenth century. Besides telling the time, Opening hours: this technical masterpiece informs on the length of Tuesday–Sunday 10 am–5 pm the day and the orbital phases of the planets, and with www.volkskundemuseum.at sensational precision.

1010 Vienna, Schulhof 2 Opening hours: Tuesday–Sunday 10 am–6 pm www.wienmuseum.at

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Wien Museum February 16 – May 14, 2017 Special Exhibition: Museum of Vienna Protestant Vienna. Religious conflict after Luther The Wien Museum has a very special position Martin Luther’s critique of the sale of indulgences amongst Vienna’s museums. With its mixture of artis- in 1517 was the spark that ignited the Reformation. tic and historical collections, it shows Vienna’s devel- Marking the 500th anniversary of Luther’s publication opment over the past centuries. One can view valuable of his 95 Theses, the exhibition recalls the decades art treasures, and one perceives a city and its myth. when Vienna was a majority-Protestant city. Highlights of the collection are archaeological finds from the Roman time, original glass windows from St. Renaissance Humanism, the discovery of the Ameri- Stephen’s Cathedral, the oldest maps of Vienna, and cas, and the invention of the printing press funda- numerous views of the city showing its expansion and mentally altered the European worldview around changes. Furthermore, there are selected pieces of fur- 1500. Vienna, too, was undergoing transformation. niture, garments, and precious artefacts from the 19th University life was blossoming, and important schol- century on display. The permanent exhibition ‘Vienna ars bestrode the city. Luther’s ideas fell on fruitful Around 1900’ presents principal works by Klimt, ground, even finding favour with Emperor Maximil- Schiele, Gerstl, and artists of the Wiener Werkstätte. ian II. Yet his successors refused to tolerate any form of Protestant worship, forcing much of the population to take refuge in the castles on the outskirts of Vienna. Hernals, in particular, became a significant centre of Protestant culture.

Sermon in the Augustinian Church, Vienna, The Reformation survived the triumphal years of 1561, Jakob Seisenegger the Viennese Counter Reformation in secret and in the chapels of foreign legations. Joseph II’s Patent of Toleration (1781), a declaration that accorded a circumscribed freedom of religious expression to Lutherans and Calvinists, rounds out the exhibition.

Three outstanding original documents – a printing of Luther’s theses (1517), the Augsburg Confession (1530), and the Peace of Augsburg (1555) – bring the exhibition beyond the horizons of Vienna.

1040 Vienna, Karlsplatz 8 Opening hours: Tuesday–Sunday 10 am–6 pm www.wienmuseum.at

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Wiener ZOOM Kindermuseum Kriminalmuseum Children’s Museum Viennese Museum of Criminology ZOOM Children’s Museum is a place of playful inquiry, learning, and discovery for children. It gives In one of the oldest buildings in the 2nd district, built probably in the early 1600s, you will find this gem young museum goers the chance to zoom in on new of a museum. In 20 rooms the history of justice and situations and use all their senses to grasp the world police, as well as that of criminality is presented, around them. At ZOOM Children’s Museum, children from the Middle Ages right to the present. Visitors are free to explore, discover, and learn in a playful will learn about medieval punishments and the final way that involves all their senses. All exhibitions and executions in Vienna, about the attempt on Emperor workshops are designed to encourage active and self- Franz Joseph’s life and the terror of anarchists. The determined experience. Accompanying programmes ‘dark Vienna’ of 300 years comes alive in these origi- foster creativity – artists encourage kids to paint, nal exhibits. dance, make music, and explore the world – and they don’t just supervise, they join in. ZOOM’s hands-on exhibitions provide children with a meaningful intro- 1020 Vienna, Große Sperlgasse 24 duction to the world of museums. Opening hours: Thursday–Sunday 10 am–5 pm www.kriminalmuseum.at 1070 Vienna, Museumsplatz 1 Opening hours: Tuesday–Friday 8:30 am–4 pm Saturday, Sunday 10 am–4 pm www.kindermuseum.at

Special programmes require reservation

Exhibition Hear, hear! Look, look!

67 Kristiane Kaiser in Don Giovanni by W.A. Mozart Theater an der Wien Volksoper Wiener Staatsoper Raimundtheater Ronacher

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Opera & Musical Theatre

Theater an der Wien Founded in 1801 by the famous librettist Emanuel Schikaneder, the Theater an der Wien is one of Vienna’s oldest and most beautiful theatres. Numer- ous world premières and legendary performances by famous artists determine its history. Today it is one of the most exquisite and elegant stages for opera in Europe.

February 27 + March 1, 19:00 Peer Gynt by Werner Egk Conducted by Leo Hussain, directed by Peter Konwitschny With Bo Skovhus, Maria Bengtsson, Natascha Petrinsky, Nazanin Ezazi, Cornelia Horak, Andrew Owens, Rainer Trost ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Arnold Schoenberg Chor

1060 Vienna, Linke Wienzeile 6 www.theater-wien.at

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Robert Meyer and Caroline Melzer in Die lustige Witwe by Franz Lehár Volksoper The Vienna Volksoper, founded in 1898, is Europe’s leading house for operettas. Nevertheless it offers a great variety of musical theatre: Operas of the 18th, 19th, and 20th century, operettas, classical musicals, contemporary dance, and concerts. About 300 perfor- mances present 35 different productions each season.

February 27, 19:00 Il barbiere di Siviglia Opera by Gioachino Rossini

February 28, 19:00 Wie man Karriere macht, ohne sich anzustrengen Musical by Frank Loesser

March 1, 19:30 Heute im Foyer … String quartet playing music by W.A. Mozart a.o.

March 2, 19:30 Heute im Foyer … Music for two violins

March 3, 19:00 Don Giovanni Opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

March 4, 18:30 Die lustige Witwe Operetta by Franz Lehár

March 5, 16:30 Wie man Karriere macht, ohne sich anzustrengen Musical by Frank Loesser

1090 Vienna, Währingerstraße 78 www.volksoper.at

71 Natascha Mair and Davide Dato in La fille mal gardée

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Wiener Staatsoper March 2, 19:00 Don Giovanni The Vienna State Opera is one of the world’s leading by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and most famous opera houses. Approximately 50 conducted by Adam Fischer operas and 20 ballets are offered in the repertoire With Adam Plachetka, Albina Shagimuratova, every season. It is not, however, the number which Saimir Pirgu, Olga Bezsmertna, Jongmin Park is important (although it is not equalled by any other opera house in the world) rather the variety offered at March 3, 19:30 the highest levels of artistry. An artistic corner stone Turandot of the house is the permanently engaged ensemble of by Giacomo Puccini, singers, always complemented by international guest conducted by Paolo Carignani singers, and of course supported by the best and most With Elena Pankratova, Heinz Zednik, Ryan celebrated directors and conductors. Speedo Green, Stefano La Colla, Anita Hartig

February 27, 19:30 March 4, 19:30 La fille mal gardée Onegin Ballet by Frederick Ashton, Ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, conducted by Simon Hewett choreography by John Cranko

February 28, 19:30 March 5, 18:30 Turandot Don Giovanni by Giacomo Puccini, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, conducted by Paolo Carignani conducted by Adam Fischer With Elena Pankratova, Heinz Zednik, Ryan With Adam Plachetka, Albina Shagimuratova, Speedo Green, Stefano La Colla, Anita Hartig Saimir Pirgu, Olga Bezsmertna, Jongmin Park

March 1, 19:30 Onegin Ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, choreography by John Cranko

1010 Vienna, Opernring 2 www.wiener-staatsoper.at

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Raimundtheater The Raimund Theater was founded in 1893 as coun- terpart to the bourgeois theatres at the centre of Vienna. At the beginning of the 20th century it devel- oped into one of Vienna’s great places for operettas. Since the 1980s it has been one of this city’s most famous show grounds for musical extravaganza.

February 28 + March 1, 18:30 Schikaneder Musical by Stephen Schwartz & Christian Struppeck

March 2–4, 19:30 Schikaneder Musical by Stephen Schwartz & Christian Struppeck

March 5, 16:30 Schikaneder Musical by Stephen Schwartz & Christian Struppeck

1060 Vienna, Wallgasse 18–20 www.musicalvienna.at

74 Katie Hall and Mark Seibert in Schikaneder

75 Ensemble in Don Camillo & Peppone

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Ronacher Originally built as Wiener Stadttheater in 1872, the Etablissement Ronacher was opened in 1888 as variety theatre. Its history after World War II was extremely varied until it fell to the Vereinigte Bühnen Wien in the 1990s. Since then it has established itself as a renowned centre for musicals, for in-house produc- tions as well as guest performances.

February 28 + March 1, 18:30 Don Camillo & Peppone Musical by Michael Kunze & Dario Farina

March 2–4, 19:30 Don Camillo & Peppone Musical by Michael Kunze & Dario Farina

March 5, 16:30 Don Camillo & Peppone Musical by Michael Kunze & Dario Farina

1010 Vienna, Seilerstätte 9 www.musicalvienna.at

77 Ensemble in Hexenjagd by Arthur Miller Akademietheater Burgtheater Kammerspiele der Josefstadt Rabenhof Schauspielhaus TAG – Theater an der Gumpendorfer Straße Theater in der Josefstadt Volkstheater

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Please note that all theatre performances are in German. Theatre & Dance

Akademietheater February 27, 20:00 Bella Figura The Akademietheater was built from 1911 to 1913, by Yasmina Reza and has been the Burgtheater’s second major stage since 1922. After long years of intervention by the February 28, 20:00 theatre’s most prominent actors and actresses, who Claus Peymann kauft sich eine longed for a smaller, more intimate room, the Thea- Hose und geht mit mir essen tre of the Academy of Music and Performing Arts by Thomas Bernhard was affiliated with the Burgtheater. It was ceremoni- ously opened in 1922 with Goethe’s ‘Iphigenie auf March 1, 20:00 Tauris’. After World War II it was re-opened with an acclaimed production of ‘Hedda Gabler’ by Henrik Ludwig II Ibsen. It is still one of the foremost stages in the based on Luchino Visconti’s movie German-speaking world, with celebrated and often awarded performances. March 2, 20:00 Das Konzert by Hermann Bahr

March 3, 19:30 Die Welt im Rücken based on the novel by Thomas Melle

March 4, 19:30 Diese Geschichte von Ihnen by John Hopkins

March 5, 19:00 Die Wiedervereinigung der beiden Koreas by Joël Pommerat

Details to be found on the Burgtheater website.

1030 Vienna, Lisztstraße 1 Phone: +43 1 51444 4145 www.burgtheater.at

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Burgtheater February 27, 20:00 Die Affäre Rue de Lourcine The Burgtheater (the former imperial court theatre), by Eugène Labiche one of the most important theatres in Europe, is the second-oldest theatre still in existence after the Comé- February 28, 19:00 die Française. Already in 1741 empress Maria Theresia Hexenjagd donated a building at this place to the performing by Arthur Miller arts. Its first flowering period was in the early 1800s. The present house was erected in 1888. Since then the March 1, 19:00 world-famous and magnificent ensemble has been the most important constant factor of the Burgtheater. Hexenjagd The all-German programme includes all the variety by Arthur Miller of spoken theatre: classics and contemporary pieces, as well as experimental theatre and readings. March 2, 20:00 Die Affäre Rue de Lourcine by Eugène Labiche

March 3, 20:00 Kunst by Yasmina Reza

March 4, 20:00 Kunst by Yasmina Reza

March 5, 19:00 Antigone by Sophokles

Details to be found on the Burgtheater website.

1010 Vienna, Universitätsring 2 Phone: +43 1 51444 4145 www.burgtheater.at

82 Michael Maertens in Die Affäre Rue de Lourcine by Eugène Labiche

83 Erni Mangold and Neo Wulf in Harold und Maude by Colin Higgins

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Kammerspiele der Josefstadt This is the second stage of the traditional Theater in der Josefstadt. Recently beautifully renovated, it offers intelligent urban comedies by mostly contemporary authors, dealing with socio-politically relevant topics in a light-hearted, ironic and humorous way.

February 27, 19:30 March 2, 19:30 Monsieur Claude und seine Töchter Harold und Maude by Philippe de Chauveron und Guy Laurent by Colin Higgins

February 28, 19:30 March 3, 19:30 Monsieur Claude und seine Töchter Harold und Maude by Philippe de Chauveron und Guy Laurent by Colin Higgins

March 1, 19:30 March 4, 19:30 Monsieur Claude und seine Töchter Die Kehrseite der Medaille by Philippe de Chauveron und Guy Laurent by Florian Zeller

March 5, 15:00 and 19:30 Die Kehrseite der Medaille by Florian Zeller

Details to be found on the Josefstadt website.

1010 Vienna, Rotenturmstraße 20 Phone: +43 1 42 700 300 www.josefstadt.org

85 Christian Dolezal and Mathias Habjan in Kottan ermittelt

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Rabenhof The Rabenhof theatre is located within residential premises built in the 1920s for the workers of this district. In 1989 the Theater in der Josefstadt took over this former workers’ festival hall, which had also been a movie theatre in its colourful past. Since 2001, the Rabenhof has been an independent theatre featuring a distinct programme that with its diversity and its original choice of productions is unique in Vienna’s theatrical scene. For this concept, artistic director Thomas Gratzer and his team have been rightly rewarded with the ‘Nestroy’, Vienna’s most important theatre award.

February 27+28, 20:00 / March 3, 20:00 Grünmandl Famous Austrian actor and comedian Andreas Vitásek revives the life and career of a well-known predecessor

March 4, 20:00 Kottan ermittelt Austrian cult TV show from the 1970s brought to life on stage

Details to be found on the Rabenhof website.

1030 Vienna, Rabengasse 3 Phone: +43 1 712 82 82 www.rabenhoftheater.com

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Schauspielhaus February 28, 20:00 / March 1+2, 20:00 Diese Mauer fasst sich selbst zusammen The story of the Schauspielhaus began in 1978, und der Stern hat gesprochen, when the Viennese theatre director Hans Gratzer der Stern hat auch was gesagt converted an old cinema into a functional theatre by Miroslava Svolikova space. It opened in May 1978 with Jean Genet’s ‘The Balcony’. Hans Gratzer was both general and artistic Details to be found on the Schauspielhaus website. director of the theatre, apart from a short interrup- tion, for 20 years until 2001. From 1987 to 1990 George Tabori was artistic director and established his concept of theatre as ‘der Kreis’ (The Circle). After Airan Berg & Barrie Kosky (2001–2007) and Andreas 1090 Vienna, Porzellangasse 19 Beck (2007–2015), Tomas Schweigen was established Phone: +43 1 317 01 01 as new artistic director in July 2015. His programme www.schauspielhaus.at focuses on contemporary authors and political issues.

Ensemble in Diese Mauer fasst sich selbst zusammen … by Miroslava Svolikova

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TAG – Theater an der February 28, 20:00 / March 3+4, 20:00 (Ein) Käthchen.Traum Gumpendorfer Straße by Gernot Plass, based on ‘Das Käthchen The TAG is one of Vienna’s smaller, but meanwhile von Heilbronn’ by Heinrich von Kleist highly decorated theatres. It focuses on classic plays sublimely ‘overwritten’ and transported into the pre- Details to be found on the TAG website. sent, interpreted by an excellent ensemble.

1060 Vienna, Gumpendorfer Straße 67 Phone: + 43 1 5865222 www.dastag.at

Nancy Mensah-Offei and Raphael Nicholas in (Ein) Käthchen.Traum by Gernot Plass

89 Pauline Knof and Michael Dangl in Der Schwierige by Hugo von Hofmannsthal

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Theater in February 27, 19:30 Der Schwierige der Josefstadt by Hugo von Hofmannsthal As early as 1788, the first theatre was built at this site. The building that is today the Theater in der Josefstadt February 28, 19:30 was constructed in 1822 and opened with an overture Der Schwierige by Ludwig van Beethoven who conducted it himself. by Hugo von Hofmannsthal In 1834 a ballroom was attached where Johann Strauss oversaw weekly dances featuring his own music as well March 1, 19:30 th as Josef Lanner’s. At the beginning of the 20 century, Sieben Sekunden Ewigkeit the theatre changed from being mainly a house for by Peter Turrini operas and operettas into one of Vienna’s foremost stages for spoken theatre. Artistic director Herbert March 2, 19:30 Föttinger aims for contemporary views on modern classics with a focus on Austrian playwrights. Sieben Sekunden Ewigkeit by Peter Turrini

March 3, 19:30 Das Mädl aus der Vorstadt by Johann N. Nestroy

March 4, 19:30 Das Mädl aus der Vorstadt by Johann N. Nestroy

March 5, 15:00 Das Mädl aus der Vorstadt by Johann N. Nestroy

March 5, 19:30 Das Mädl aus der Vorstadt by Johann N. Nestroy

Details to be found on the Josefstadt website.

1080 Vienna, Josefstädter Straße 26 Phone: +43 1 42 700 300 www.josefstadt.org

91 Gábor Biedermann, Evi Kehrstephan, Stefanie Reinsperger, Günter Franzmeier in Medea by Franz Grillparzer

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Volkstheater February 27, 19:30 Medea The Volkstheater was founded in 1889 by prominent by Franz Grillparzer Viennese citizens as civil counterpart to the imperial Burgtheater. Being the first theatrical building com- February 28, 19:30 plying with all the new security regulations following Alles Walzer, alles brennt the disastrous theatre fires in Vienna and Nice, the by Christine Eder Volkstheater became part of architectural history. In 1980/81 it was restored to its old grandeur from before March 1, 19:30 the war. Until today the theatre clings to its traditional programme of exciting interpretations of the classics, Medea regular new productions of Nestroy’s and Raimund’s by Franz Grillparzer plays, and numerous premières of contemporary dra- mas with a focus on Austrian plays. March 2, 19:30 Klein Zaches – Operation Zinnober based on a story by E.T.A. Hoffmann

March 3, 19:30 Alles Walzer, alles brennt by Christine Eder

March 4, 19:30 Klein Zaches – Operation Zinnober based on a story by E.T.A. Hoffmann

March 5, 15:00 Klein Zaches – Operation Zinnober based on a story by E.T.A. Hoffmann

Details to be found on the Volkstheater website.

1070 Vienna, Neustiftgasse 1 Phone: +43 1 52111 400 www.volkstheater.at

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Photo Credits

Cover: Andreas Mitschke and Kristiane Kaiser in Don Giovanni p. 45 Franz West – Tamuna Sirbiladze, Moonlight, 2001, by W.A. Mozart © Barbara Pálffy / Volksoper Wien Permanent loan from Ernst Ploil, Belvedere, Vienna, Photo © Belvedere, Vienna © Archiv Franz West Insight Front Cover p. 46 Arnold Schönberg in Focus. Exhibition view © Hertha Hurnaus Joachim Meyerhoff in Antigone by Sophokles p. 47 Beethoven Pasqualatihaus © Hertha Hurnaus / Wien Museum © Georg Soulek / Burgtheater p. 47 Bestattungsmuseum © Wiener Stadtwerke p. 1 Stefan Vladar © www.lukasbeck.com p. 48 Esperanto Museum © Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Bettina Ehrlich-Bauer, Self-portrait, 1928 p. 49 Globe Museum © Österreichische Nationalbibliothek © Belvedere Archives, Vienna p. 50 Haydnhaus © Hertha Hurnaus / Wien Museum Kristiane Kaiser in Don Giovanni by W.A. Mozart p. 51 Johann Strauss Apartment © Hertha Hurnaus © Barbara Pálffy / Volksoper Wien p. 53 Gertrud Fischel, Abundance, c. 1921 Ensemble in Hexenjagd by Arthur Miller © Private collection, Vienna © Reinhard Werner / Burgtheater p. 53 Sofie Korner, The Bed © Privately owned p. 2/3 Burgtheater, around 1900, p. 54 Helmut Qualtinger as pilot © Michael Horowitz Photochrom print (colour photo lithograph) p. 55 Literature Museum © Österreichische Nationalbibliothek p. 4/5 Stefan Vladar © www.lukasbeck.com p. 56 Le Nozze di Figaro 1786 © ÖNB, Theatersammlung p. 6 Isabelle van Keulen © Marco Borggreve p. 57 The beginning of everything, CERN detail p. 9 Tugan Sokhiev © Patrice Nin © CERN, Michael Hoch p. 10 La Bandada Mancini © noticiasvaldeorras.com p. 58 The beginning of everything, exhibition view p. 11 John Mayall © Jeff Fasano © NHM Wien, Kurt Kracher p. 12/13 Cymbals Eat Guitars © Eric White p. 59 His freedom, our freedom. Exhibition view p. 14 Kalkbrenner Fritz © Torben Conrad © Theatermuseum / Alexander Rosoli, Wien p. 15 Helmet © pictureofthewind.wordpress.com p. 60 Narrenturm exterior view © NHM Wien p. 16 Arnold Schönberg, Erwin Stein, Anton Webern, p. 61 Celtic drinking vessel, 1st century BCE © Wien Museum Zandvoort, March 1914 © Arnold Schönberg Center p. 62 Sigmund Freud on the patio of his apartment p. 17 Franz Schubert’s glasses © Inge Prader, Haus der Musik at Berggasse 19 (1912) © Sigmund Freud Foundation p. 18 Bettina Ehrlich-Bauer, Self-portrait, 1928 p. 64 Urban future, exhibition view © Hertha Hurnaus, TMW © Belvedere Archives, Vienna, Photo: Bruno Reiffenstein p. 66 Sermon in the Augustinian Church, Vienna, 1561, p. 20 Gerhard Richter, Abstract Painting, 2001, Jakob Seisenegger © Family collection of Count Harrach, Albertina, Vienna – permanent loan © Bildrecht, Vienna, 2016 Rohrau castle, Lower Austria p. 21 Alex Katz, Black Hat 2, 2010, Albertina, Vienna – p. 67 Exhibition Hear, hear! Look, look! Batliner Collection © Bildrecht, Vienna, 2016 © ZOOM Kindermuseum / J.J. Kucek p. 22 Edgar Degas, Spanish dancer and leg studies, ca. 1882, p. 68/69 Kristiane Kaiser in Don Giovanni by W.A. Mozart Musée d’Orsay, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d´Orsay) © Barbara Pálffy / Volksoper Wien / Jean Shormans p. 70/71 Robert Meyer and Caroline Melzer in Die lustige Witwe p. 23 Markus Prachensky, Red on Black, Puglia, 1976 by Franz Lehár © Barbara Pálffy / Volksoper Wien © Atelier Markus Prachensky p. 72 Natascha Mair and Davide Dato in La fille mal gardée p. 24 Georgia O’Keeffe, Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1, 1932, © Wiener Staatsballett / Ashley Taylor Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, p. 74/75 Katie Hall and Mark Seibert in Schikaneder Arkansas © 2016 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum/Bildrecht, Wien © VBW / Deen van Meer 2016 p. 25 Georgia O’Keeffe, Black Cross with Stars and Blue, 1929, p. 76/77 Ensemble in Don Camillo & Peppone Private collection © 2016 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum/ © Theater St. Gallen / Andreas J. Etter Bildrecht, Wien p. 78/79 Ensemble in Hexenjagd by Arthur Miller p. 27 Jean Dubuffet, Passe furtif et décor, 1955, © Reinhard Werner / Burgtheater Collection Klewan, Jean Dubuffet © VGBild-Kunst, Bonn 2016 p. 80 Markus Meyer in Ludwig II based on Visconti’s movie p. 28/29 Marcel Odenbach, Durchblicke (Detail), 2007 © Reinhard Werner / Burgtheater © Marcel Odenbach & BILDRECHT GmbH, 2017, Courtesy p. 83 Michael Maertens in Die Affäre Rue de Lourcine Anton Kern Gallery, New York by Eugène Labiche © Reinhard Werner / Burgtheater p. 31 Peter Dressler, In unmittelbarer Nähe, 2003 p. 84 Erni Mangold and Neo Wulf in Harold und Maude © Fotohof Archiv by Colin Higgins © Erich Reismann p. 32 Drawer with bohemian gold coins p. 86/87 Christian Dolezal and Mathias Habjan in Kottan ermittelt © KHM-Museumsverband © Rita Newman / Rabenhof p. 33 Johann Zoffani, Francis I (1708–1765), 1776/77 p. 88 Ensemble in Diese Mauer fasst sich selbst zusammen … © KHM-Museumsverband by Miroslava Svolikova © Matthias Heschl / Schauspielhaus p. 35 Richard Gerstl, Portrait of Henryka Cohn, 1908 p. 89 Nancy Mensah-Offei and Raphael Nicholas in (Ein) © Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 650 Käthchen.Traum by Gernot Plass © Judith Stehlik / TAG p. 36 Josef Hoffmann, War Glasses, before 1916 © MAK p. 90 Pauline Knof and Michael Dangl in Der Schwierige p. 37 handiCRAFT. Traditional Skills in the Digital Age, 2016, by Hugo von Hofmannsthal © Erich Reismann MAK Exhibition Hall © MAK/Georg Mayer p. 92 Gábor Biedermann, Evi Kehrstephan, Stefanie Reinsperger, p. 39 Július Koller, One Man Anti Show, mumok Wien, Günter Franzmeier in Medea by Franz Grillparzer Exhibition view, Photo: mumok / Stephan Wyckoff © www.lupispuma.com / Volkstheater p. 40 OstLicht Interior © Photo Marco Pauer Inside Back Cover p. 40/41 Svenja Deininger, Echo of a Mirror Fragment, exhibition view, Markus Meyer and Regina Fritsch in Ludwig II based Secession 2017, Photo: Markus Wörgötter on Visconti’s movie © Reinhard Werner / Burgtheater p. 41 Angelika Loderer, exhibition view, Secession 2016, Photo: Matthias Bildstein p. 43 Alfons Schilling, Frame from the movie Jackie Curtis, 1970 © Nachlass Alfons Schilling

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