Vienna art & culture calendar 2012

Preview of selected art and culture events for 2012 including exhibitions as well as film and music festivals (subject to change without notice).

• January
• February
• March
• April
• May
• June
• July
• August
• September
• October
• November
• December

January

• until 26.1.
  MUSA: Exhibition "Christian Wachter - ABpopa/Aurora"
• until 29.1.
  Kunsthalle Wien: Exhibition "No fashion, please! Photography between Gender and Lifestyle"
• until 29.1.
  Kunsthalle Wien, project space: Exhibition "Mit sofortiger Wirkung - künstlerische Eingriffe in den Alltag" (With immediate effect – artistic interventions in everyday life.)
• until 29.1.
  Wien Museum Karlsplatz: Exhibition "Angelo Soliman - An African in Vienna"
• until 13.2.
  Architekturzentrum Wien: Exhibition "Glenn Murcutt. Architecture for Place"
• until 19.2.
  ZOOM Kindermuseum: Exhibition "Caution! Construction Area!"
• until 26.2.
  Kunst Haus Wien: Exhibition "Henri Cartier-Bresson. The Compass in the Eye: America-India-Soviet Union"
• until 29.2.
  Wienbibliothek: Exhibition "Lesespuren – Spurenlesen oder: Wie kommt die Handschrift ins Buch?" (Literary traces – How handwriting found its way into books.)
• until 29.2.
  Wienbibliothek: Exhibition "Marcell Horace Frydmann Prawy. Neues aus dem Nachlass" (News from the estate.)
• until 4.3.
  Museum Judenplatz: Exhibition "Zenita Komad. Spirituality is not Shopping"
• until 18.3.
  Wien Museum Karlsplatz: Exhibition "Absolutely Vienna - Acquisitions and Donations since 2000.”
• until 30.3.
  Municipal and Provincial Archives of Vienna: Exhibition "Künstlerleben - Kunstleben. 150 Jahre Künstlerhaus Archiv" (Lives of artists – art lives. 150 years of the Künstlerhaus archive.)
• until 1.4.
  Kunsthalle Wien: Exhibition "Vanity – Fashion / Photography from the F.C. Gundlach Collection"
• until 1.5.
  Jewish Museum Vienna: Exhibition "Bigger than Life. 100 Years of Hollywood: A Jewish Experience."
• 20.1. until 20.5.
  21er Haus: Exhibition "Utopia Gesamtkunstwerk"
• 26.1. until 1.3.
  MUSA Startgallery: Exhibition "Sarah Pichlkostner. Quite. Dissolving the Unformed"
• 26.1. until 6.5.
  Mozarthaus Vienna: Exhibition "Between Fear and Hope - Mozart’s rise and fall in the Viennese society"

February

• 2.2. until 20.5.
  Wien Museum Karlsplatz: Exhibition "More than just fashion - The Katarina Noever Collection"
• 3.2. until 23.3.
  Kunsthalle Wien, project space: Exhibition "Sergey Shestakov. Journey into the future – Stop #1: Chernobyl"
• 4.2. until 28.5.
  mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien: Claes Oldenburg: the 60s
• 10.2. until 13.5.
  Albertina: Exhibition "Impressionism: pastels, watercolours, drawings"
• 14.2. until 6.5.
  Kunsthistorisches Museum: Exhibition "Gustav Klimt in the Kunsthistorisches Museum"
• 17.2. until 26.5.
  MUSA: Exhibition "Beauty Contest" - Cooperation with the Austrian Cultural Forum New York
• 17.2. until 28.5.
  Kunsthalle Wien: Exhibition "Urs Fischer – Skinny Sunrise"
• 23.2. until 3.3
  15th dance festival Szene Bunte Wähne at Dschungel Wien, brut at the Künstlerhaus and Tanzquartier Wien
• 24.2. until 27.8.
  Leopold Museum: Gustav Klimt: up close and personal - images, letters, insights
• 25.2. until 25.3.
  13th International Accordion Festival

March

• 2.3. until 13.5.
  Wiener Konzerthaus: "21st Vienna Spring Festival"
• 8.3. until 5.4.
  MUSA Startgallery: Exhibition "Max Schaffer"
• 8.3. until 3.6.
  Kunst Haus Wien: Exhibition "Head 2 Head. Politics and the Public Image"
• 13.3. until 2.9.
  Museum Judenplatz: Exhibition "Jewish Geniuses" - Warhol’s Jews
• 14.3. until 18.3.
  Film festival "Tricky Women 2012"
• 14.3. until 10.6.
  Albertina: Exhibition Gustav Klimt: the drawings
• 15.3. until 17.6.
  Belvedere, Lower Belvedere / Palace Stables / Orangery: Exhibition "Gold"
• 15.3. until 25.6.
  Architekturzentrum Wien: Exhibition "Hands-On Urbanism. The Right to Green."
• 15.3. until 2.9.
  ZOOM Kindermuseum: Exhibition "Schmatz Mampf Schlürf"
• 17.3. until 9.4.
  Künstlerhaus: Exhibition "Fondazione Jodice"
• 21.3. until 28.9.
  Wienbibliothek: Exhibition "Die drei Wien des Hermann Leopoldi" (The three Viennas of Hermann Leopoldi)
• 21.3. until 15.7.
  MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts | Contemporary Art: Exhibition "Gustav Klimt: expectation and fulfilment - designs for the Palais Stoclet mosaic frieze"
• 22.3. until 23.3.
  IFK-Congress "Das Leiden an der Kultur / Suffering from culture"
• 28.3. until 6.5.
  Wien Museum Karlsplatz: Exhibition "Wien am Screen - Filmische Spuren durch die Stadt" (Vienna on screen – traces of films in the city)
• 30.3. until 6.5.
  Kunsthalle Wien, project space: Exhibition "Mysterium Leib - Berlinde De Bruyckere, PP Pasolini, L. Kranach"
• 30.3. until 4.11.
  Wien Museum Hermesvilla: Exhibition "Burg Stars - 200 Jahre Theaterkult" (Stars from the Burgtheater – 200 years of theatre cult)
• 31.3. until 8.4.
  16th Music Festival "Osterklang"

April

• 5.4. until 26.8.
  Municipal and Provincial Archives of Vienna: Exhibition "Autos verändern die Stadt - Die Motorisierungswelle der 1950er-Jahre und ihre Folgen" (Cars have changed the city - the boom in car ownership in the 1950s and its effects)
• 12.4. until 16.5.
  MUSA Startgallery: Exhibition "Iris Nemecek"
• 12.4. until 12.8.
  Wien Museum Karlsplatz: Exhibition "Besetzt! Kampf um Freiräume seit den 70ern" (Occupied! The fight for free space since the 1970s.)
• 12.4. until 29.4.
  MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts | Contemporary Art: sound:frame 2012 Substructions
• 19.4. until 23.5.
  Festival of Viennese song and Viennese music "Wean hean – Vienna Sound"
• 20.4. until 6.5.
  Künstlerhaus: Exhibition "Otto Riedel"

May

• 4.5. until 2.9.
  Kunsthalle Wien: Exhibition "The Circus as a Parallel Universe"
• 10.5. until 16.5.
  VHS Wiener Urania: "Nordic film week"
• 10.5. until 3.6.
  Künstlerhaus: Exhibition "Alice Goldin"
• 11.5. until 17.6.
  Wiener Festwochen
• 12.5. until 25.6.
  Kunsthalle Wien, project space: Exhibition "Lighting out for the Territories"
• 16.5. until 16.9.
  Wien Museum Karlsplatz: Exhibition "Klimt. The Wien Museum Collection"
• 22.5. until 7.10.
  Jewish Museum Vienna Dorotheergasse: Exhibition "Foreigners Everywhere"
• 24.5. until 21.6.
  MUSA Startgallery: Exhibition "Corina Vetsch"
• 25.5. until 14.10.
  Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art: Exhibition "The Emilie Flöge textile collection"
• 25.5. until 26.8.
  Albertina: Exhibition "Bosch, Brueghel, Rubens and Rembrandt"

June

• 1.6. until 23.6.
  Wir sind Wien. Festival der Bezirke - Festival of the Vienna Districts (German)
• 6.6. until 10.6.
  Film festival "Vienna International Shorts"
• 13.6. until 30.9.
  MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts | Contemporary Art: "Things: pure and simple"
• 14.6. until 30.9.
  Kunst Haus Wien: Exhibition "Elliott Erwitt – Dogs Are Human, Too"
• 15.6. until 7.10.
  Künstlerhaus: Exhibition "Megacool 4.0 - Jugend und Kunst" (Mega cool 4.0 – youth and art)
• 15.6. until 14.10.
  Kunsthalle Wien: Exhibition "Cut-ups, Cut-ins, Cut-outs – The Art of William S. Burroughs"
• 15.6. until 6.1.2013
  Belvedere, Upper Belvedere: Exhibition "Masterpieces in focus: 150 years Gustav Klimt"
  
• 19.6. until 18.7.
  Künstlerhaus: Exhibition "Universität für angewandte Kunst: The Essence"
• 19.6. until 6.10.
  MUSA: "Space Affairs | Raumaffären | Affaires d`Espace"
• 22.6. until 24.6.
  29th Danube Island Festival
• 28.6. until 30.8.
  MUSA Startgallery: Exhibition "Eva Chytilek"
• 29.6. until 9.7.
  "Jazz Fest Wien – Jazz Festival Vienna"
• 29.6. until 14.10.
  Belvedere, Lower Belvedere / Palace Stables / Orangery: Exhibition "Orient and Occident: Austrian artists abroad"
• 30.6. until 2.9.
  Film Festival at the Wiener Rathausplatz (German)

July

• 3.7. until 26.8.
  Kunsthalle Wien, project space: Exhibition "Lucy Skaer"
• 6.7. until 8.7.
  "Promenadenfest" Riverside festival at the Donaupromenade (German)
• 6.7. until 2.9.
  Künstlerhaus: Exhibition "Gustav Klimt and the Künstlerhaus"
• 9.7. until 21.7.
  KinderUni Summer university programme for children (German)
• 12.7. until 12.8.
  ImPulsTanz Festival – International Dance Festival
• 19.7. until 8.10.
  Architekturzentrum Wien: Exhibition "Europe's Best Buildings. The European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture. Mies van der Rohe Award 2011"
• 26.7. until 29.7.
  "Popfest Wien 2012": Vienna pop music festival 2012 on Kunstplatz Karlsplatz

August

• 31.8. until 21.9.
  Kunsthalle Wien, project space: Exhibition "YOVA"

September

• 6.9. until 4.10.
  MUSA Startgallery: Exhibition "Alja Piry"
• 6.9. until 13.1.2013
  Wien Museum Karlsplatz: Exhibition "Werkbundsiedlung Wien 1932 - Ein Manifest des neuen Wohnens" (A manifestation of new living)
• 11.9. until 23.9.
  20th anniversary of Kunsthalle Wien "Kunsthalle Wien celebrates with artists"
• 12.9. until January 2013
  Museum Judenplatz: "Vienna Today 2012. Photographs of Contemporary Jewish Life by Josef Polleross"
• September 2012 until February 2013
  ZOOM Kindermuseum: Exhibition "Achtung Familie" (Caution! Family.)

October

• 11.10. until 8.11.
  MUSA Startgallery: Exhibition "Desislava Unger"
• 11.10. until 13.1.2013
  Kunst Haus Wien: Exhibition "Photo Booth Art. The Aesthetics behind the Curtain, from the Surrealists to Rainer and Warhol"
• 12.10. until 28.10.
  Kunsthalle Wien, project space: Exhibition "TU"
• 12.10. until 11.11.
  Künstlerhaus: Exhibition "Warlamis-Retrospective"
• 12.10. until 24.2.2013
  Kunsthalle Wien: Exhibition "Marina Abramovic - Balkan Stories"
• 17.10. until March 2013
  Jewish Museum Vienna Dorotheergasse: Exhibition "Shooting Girls - Jewish female photographers from Vienna"
• 18.10. until 22.2.2013
  Wienbibliothek: Exhibition "Photo collection Hermine Kunz-Hutterstrasser"
• 22.10. until end of November
  Music festival "Wien Modern"
• 24.10. until 17.2.2013 Belvedere, Lower Belvedere / Palace Stables / Orangery: Exhibition "Night in twilight: art from Romanticism to the present"
• 25.10. until 7.11.
  Film festival "Viennale"
• 25.10. until 16.3.2013
  Wien Museum Karlsplatz: Exhibition "Spiele der Stadt - Glück, Gewinn und Zeitvertreib" (Games in the city – gambling, raffles, pastimes)
• 30.10. until 5.1.2013
  MUSA: Exhibition "distURBANces" on occasion of Eyes On – European month of photography

November

• 1.11. until 3.2. 2013
  Kunsthalle Wien: Exhibition "Mike Parr - Edelweiß"
• 3.11. until 18.11.
  9th KlezMore Festival (German)
• 5.11. until 7.11.
  Museen der Stadt Wien - Stadtarchäologie: "17th International Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies: Urban Archaeology and Excavation" at the City Hall Vienna
• 6.11. until 25.11.
  Kunsthalle Wien, project space: Exhibition "Roger Ballen"
• 8.11. until 25.2.2013
  Architekturzentrum Wien: Exhibition "Soviet Modernism Unknown Masterpieces 1961-1991"
• 9.11. until 9.12.
  Voicemania a capella Festival
• 15.11. until 13.12.
  MUSA Startgallery: Exhibition "Catharina Freuis"
• 19.11. until 25.11.
  Vienna Art Week 2012
• 30.11. until 12.12.
  Kunsthalle Wien, project space: Exhibition "Propaganda - Angewandte"

December

• 19.12. until 13.1.2013
  Kunsthalle Wien, project space: Exhibition "2012 Awards of Kunsthalle"
• 20.12. until 17.1.2013
  MUSA Startgallery: Exhibition "Georg Petermichl"