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Vienna Secession

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.

24/06/2026

New podcast episode out now!
British-Nigerian artist, filmmaker, and researcher Onyeka Igwe talks with curator Jeanette Pacher about her project No Archive Can Restore this Chorus of (Diasporic) Shame (2024/26) that lends its title also to her solo show; her interest in sound, especially protest songs, and her love for sacred harp singing, filming in the abandoned Nigerian Film Unit in Lagos, and her iterative practice. Their conversation was recorded on 11 June 2026 at the Secession.

Photo: Kwame Dapa

Available on our website, Spotify, Apple Podcast and Google Podcast.
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22/06/2026

Friendly Reminder!

Mire Lee
26.6. – 30.8.2026

Opening: Thursday, 25.6.2026, 7.00 pm
Exhibition opening followed by a summer party in the Secession garden

Photo: Haris Giannouras

20/06/2026

Spend the summer with us!

Tuesday@Secession 2026
30 June – 25 August

Tuesday, 30.6.2026, 8.00 p.m.

Every Tuesday from 8 pm to 10 pm in the garden of the Secession.
The bar opens at 6 pm. In case of rain, the events will take place indoors. Each evening is introduced with an artist talk.

Casual moments and subtle perceptions often get lost in everyday life amid conversations. Distraction has become the norm, a condition that art can interrupt. Over the course of nine evenings, Tuesday@Secession will present one new member of the Secession along with guest artists each night. Through their works, they become part of the backdrop of conversations and passing traffic in the Secession garden. Featuring performances, temporary installations, and actions, each evening focuses attention –amid distraction – on something that may previously have gone unnoticed or remained unknown.

Curated by
Organised by Maria Huber

Photo: İpek Hamzaoğlu, 2 Become 1, 2026, digital photograph

18/06/2026

Now exhibiting!
Onyeka Igwe
No Archive Can Restore this Chorus of (Diasporic) Shame
12.6. – 30.8.2026

Onyeka Igwe’s practice excavates the unstable ground of the colonial archive, approaching it not as a fixed repository of knowledge but as a site of friction, opacity, and unresolved violence. Her films and installations confront the archive by attending to what is missing, suppressed, or rendered inaudible. Igwe reactivates materials often treated as inert – celluloid reels, visual records of past bureaucracies, abandoned and forgotten spaces. What emerges is not a reconstruction of history but an attunement to its dissonances: a historiography felt through the body, where colonial violence, far from being in the past, persists as a condition of the present.

Programmed by the board of the Secession
Curated by Jeanette Pacher

Photos: Sophie Pölzl

17/06/2026

Now exhibiting!
Katherine Hubbard
The Great Room
12.6. – 30.8.2026

The Great Room marks a significant shift in Hubbard’s practice, as her identities as artist and daughter become fundamentally entangled. Having largely avoided photographing people in her work, she turns here towards the most personal of subjects. Yet her longstanding critical engagement with representation and the power structures embedded in photography remains dispositive. In many of the images, Hubbard includes herself – often with tripod and camera – insisting on the presence of the apparatus and her own positionality. This gesture resists the fiction of an invisible observer. It renders transparent the act of image-making, but also reads as an ethical act: a refusal to leave her mother alone within the frame.

Programmed by the board of the Secession
Curated by Bettina Spörr

This exhibition was made possible in part by the generous support of School of Art, New York.

The exhibition has been developed in partnership with , London where a further chapter will be presented from 7 October 2026 to 10 January 2027. Through this collaboration, the partners have co-commissioned new works by the artist.

Photo : Iris Ranzinger

15/06/2026

A wonderful conversation between Katherine Hubbard and Ulrike Müller, filled with insightful, witty, and nuanced thoughts on Katherine`s exhibition.
The exhibition talk was organized by the Secession Friends.
Thank you all for coming!

Katherine Hubbards's exhibition "The Great Room " will be on view until 30 August 2026.

Photos: Natascha Unkart

12/06/2026

About last night...
Thank you to everyone who joined us to celebrate the opening of Katherine Hubbard and Onyeka Igwe.

Photos: Natasha Unkart

11/06/2026

The Secession is expanding its educational and mediation programme with a tactile model of the iconic exhibition building. The bronze cast model at a scale of 1:50 is located in public space between the Marc Anton Monument and the lift to the underground station at Friedrichstraße 12, 1010 Vienna, and is freely accessible at all times.

With the tactile model, the Secession takes another important step towards making access to art and architecture more inclusive. Designed by Joseph Maria Olbrich, the Secession building is regarded as a key work of Viennese Art Nouveau and one of the most recognisable landmarks in Vienna’s cityscape. Characteristic features such as the clear geometry of the building, its ornamental decoration, and the striking dome can now, for the first time, be experienced through touch.

We would like to thank Stadt Wien and Bezirkskultur für den 1. Bezirk for supporting this project.

10/06/2026

Friendly Reminder!

Onyeka Igwe
No Archive Can Restore this Chorus of (Diasporic) Shame
12.6. – 30.8.2026

Opening: Thursday, 11.6.2026, 7 pm

Photo: Onyeka Igwe. Penkelemes (video still). 2025. Courtesy the artist.

09/06/2026

Friendly Reminder!

Katherine Hubbard
The Great Room
12.6. – 30.8.2026

Opening: Thursday, 11.6.2026, 7 pm

Photo: Katherine Hubbard

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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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