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THE OFFICIAL SITE OF THE ASSOCIATION OF VISUAL ARTISTS VIENNA SECESSION In keeping with the motto that adorns its facade—“To each era its art.
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To art its freedom.”—the Secession hosts an international program that explores current forms of artistic expression in solo and themed exhibitions. It is a sounding board for the aesthetic and critical discourses on art, culture, and society that define our era and keenly aware of their political significance. The Secession is an important forum for young experimental art, but its mission also en

compasses prominent established positions. Essays, catalogues, symposia, and lectures supplement, document, and communicate the program of exhibitions and events.

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Im Sinne ihres an der Fassade angebrachten Mottos „Der Zeit ihre Kunst. Der Kunst ihre Freiheit“ realisiert die Secession ein international ausgerichtetes Ausstellungsprogramm, das in Einzel- und Themenausstellungen relevante künstlerische Ausdrucksformen der Gegenwart präsentiert. Es ist ein Sensorium für die ästhetischen, kunst-, kultur- und gesellschaftskritischen Diskurse, die unsere Zeit prägen, und die politische Bedeutung, die ihnen zukommt. Die Secession ist ein wichtiges Forum für junge Kunst mit einer Bereitschaft zum Experiment. Ihr Konzept umfasst aber auch markante, bereits etablierte Positionen. Texte, Kataloge, Symposien und Vorträge erweitern, dokumentieren und vermitteln die Aktivitäten des Hauses.

02/06/2026

We cordially invite you to our next opening.
Thursday, 11.6.2026, 7.00 pm

Katherine Hubbard
Onyeka Igwe
12.6. – 30.8.2026

Programme:
6 pm Katherine Hubbard in conversation with Ulrike Müller
7 pm Opening of the exhibitions by Katherine Hubbard and Onyeka Igwe
7:15 pm Greetings
9 to 11 pm Secession party at SASS Club (Karlsplatz 1, 1010 Vienna) with DJ Functionist von FM4
From 11 pm € 5 entrance fee

29/05/2026

Sofie Thorsen, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen and Vanessa Joan Müller in conversation.

On the occasion of the exhibition Vienna–Copenhagen. Den Frie Udstilling 2026 at the artists’ association Den Frie in Copenhagen, the co-organisers Sofie Thorsen and Henrik Plenge Jakobsen talk with the art historian and curator Vanessa Joan Müller about, among other things, the model of the artists’ association, its historical roots, and the collaborative work and lively exchange leading up to the current exhibition.

For the exhibition, the artists’ association Den Frie Udstilling invited their colleagues from the sister institution, Vienna Secession, to participate as guest exhibitors. 45 artists from Den Frie Udstilling present their work in dialogue with 125 Austrian artist colleagues from Vienna Secession. Like Den Frie, the Secession was founded in the 1890s, and the two institutions remain among the few exhibition venues in Europe still owned and run by artists. As is the case of Den Frie Udstilling, Vienna Secession also counts some of the country’s most prominent artists among its members.

Available on our website, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts.
Dorotheum is the exclusive sponsor of the Secession Podcasts.

Photo Sofie Thorsen: Hannes Böck
Photo Henrik Plenge Jakobsen: Anders Sune Berg

28/05/2026

Nearly missed it?
This Sunday, 31 May 2026, at 4 pm, our art educators will offer guided tours of the contemporary exhibitions.

Ndidi D**e
Rare Earth Rare Justice
6.3. – 31.5.2026

Marianna Simnett
Circus
6.3. – 31.5.2026

Reba Maybury
I Come in Peace
6.3. – 31.5.2026

Photo installation view Ndidi D**e: Iris Ranzinger
Photo installation view Marianna Simnett: Sophie Pölzl
Photo installation view Reba Maybury: Lisa Rastl

27/05/2026

Onyeka Igwe at Vienna Shorts

is screening Movements In Time, films by Onyeka Igwe

Friday, 29.5.2026
8:30 pm
Austrian Film Museum

The artist will have a solo show at Secession from
12.6. – 30.8.2026 .

This program moves through time, backwards and forwards at once, much like Onyeka Igwe’s films themselves. Beginning with her latest work, Penkelemes, which explores the history of the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, the program traces Igwe’s engagement with archives, memory, and colonial histories across multiple voices and perspectives.

Physical and social movements run throughout the films, resisting the limits of the image and questioning visual and colonial narratives. Finally, in A Radical Duet, past and present merge in a radical act of imagination.

Curated by Max Bergmann
In cooperation with the &

Photos: courtesy of Onyeka Igwe

21/05/2026

`s exhibition Circus. On view through 31.May.
Discover the exhibition now.

video: Max Reinhold

21/05/2026

`s exhibition Circus is on view through 31.May.
Discover the exhibition now.

video: Max Reinhold

20/05/2026

`s exhibition I Come in Peace is on view through 31.May.
Discover the exhibition now.

video: Max Reinhold

19/05/2026

.dike`s exhibition Rare Earth Rare Justice is on view through 31.May.
Discover the exhibition now.

video: Max Reinhold

18/05/2026

Listen to Peter Sandbichler in conversation with Angela Stief in our latest podcast episode!

Peter Sandbichler is a conceptual sculptor who combines sociopolitical themes with fundamental questions of sculptural aesthetics, exploring surface, space, and time as well as material, form, and process. Working across various media, he creates expansive objects, installations, and architectural interventions in public space. His artistic practice operates at the intersection of deformation and perfection. He works with structures, ornaments, and grids, dismantling them and generating new systems of order.

Angela Stief, born in 1974 in Augsburg (Germany), is an art historian, curator, and cultural journalist. She studied art history and philosophy. From 2002 to 2013, she worked as a curator at Kunsthalle Wien. In 2020, she assumed a guest professorship for curatorial practice at the University of Linz.
Since 2020, she has been working at the Albertina and was appointed Director of Albertina Modern and Chief Curator for Contemporary Art at the Albertina in 2021. She has authored numerous texts on contemporary art for monographs, exhibition catalogues, and magazines.

Available on our website, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts.
Dorotheum is the exclusive sponsor of the Secession Podcasts.

Photo Peter Steinbichler: courtesy of Peter Setinbichler

05/05/2026

A new podcast episode with Reba Maybury and Haris Giannouras is out!

For her solo exhibition at Secession Maybury worked on a new body of work that engages directly with the misogynistic histories of the institution, confronting Klimt as a figure entrenched in privilege and power, a classical prototype of male artistic genius. In her practice the artist interrogates the intersections of feminism, s*xuality, and power. Their discussion touches on the new works produced for the exhibition while addressing issues of punk, s*x, labour, and the gendered side of power.

Available on our website, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts.
is the exclusive sponsor of the Secession Podcast.

Photo: Natascha Unkart

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Öffnungszeiten

Dienstag	10:00 - 18:00
Mittwoch	10:00 - 18:00
Donnerstag	10:00 - 18:00
Freitag	10:00 - 18:00
Samstag	10:00 - 18:00
Sonntag	10:00 - 18:00

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