Featured Events in Vienna in December, 2024 (May Updated)

To mark the 200th anniversary of Johann Strauss's birth, the Theatermuseum in Vienna is opening its doors to a unique exhibition about the Waltz King. This show offers you the perfect opportunity to experience the splendor of the Strauss era in the city that made his music a world sensation.

After the great success of CATS, the Vereinigte Bühnen Wien are presenting another musical world hit by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. Experience Cameron Mackintosh's spectacular new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, which has never before been seen in German-speaking countries, at the Raimund Theater. This new production has already enjoyed sensational sell out success in Great Britain, the USA, and Australia at the iconic Sydney Opera House. The legendary chandelier, gripping passion and world-famous melodies International critics have raved, that Cameron Mackintosh’s new production is "bigger and better than ever". The production includes many spectacular special effects - including the legendary chandelier - the popular story and the breathtakingly romantic music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with all the world-famous songs including "The Music of the Night", "Think of Me", "The Phantom of the Opera", " All I Ask of You" and "Masquerade" - performed by a large cast and the VBW Orchestra. This lavishly staged romantic musical presented by VBW at the Raimund Theater is a production that should not be missed! In German with english surtitles | Age rating: from 10 years

Wiener Staatsoper is one of the oldest opera houses in the world, where you can enjoy a wide variety of operas. Nearly 60 operas and 20 ballets are staged at the Vienna State Opera 300 days a year. The State Opera was one of the first luxury buildings on the Ringstrasse, completed between 1863 and 1869, and was originally intended by architects Sicard and Nur as a court opera house.

With his poetic and conceptual works, the Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone (* 1964) creates meditative imagery into which visitors are immediately drawn. His minimalist sculpture arched landscape, an earth-covered archway, is simultaneously an object, architectural form and reference to art history and makes diverse references to the historical ceiling fresco in the Carlone Hall, in which false architecture plays a central role.

Artist and artisan, art theorist and proto-installation artist, master of high-publicity performances and rival of Auguste Rodin, Medardo Rosso (b. 1858 in Turin, d. 1928 in Milan) was one of the great pioneers of modernism. mumok is dedicating a comprehensive retrospective to the Italian-French artist’s still little-known oeuvre, which will feature about fifty sculptures and a large selection of photographs, photocollages, and drawings. The exhibition delves into a thorough analysis of Rosso's processual and repetitive and radical anti-heroic approach, with which the artist defied all conventions of traditional sculpture. A selection of works by artists directly or indirectly influenced by Rosso — such as Francis Bacon, Nairy Baghramian, Phyllida Barlow, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Constantin Brâncuși, Edgar Degas, Alberto Giacometti, David Hammons, Eva Hesse, Marisa Merz, Robert Morris and Andy Warhol — further unpack and create a dialogue with Rosso’s equally groundbreaking and hermetic work. The “expanded” retrospective thus adheres to Rosso’s own artistic practice of not exhibiting alone but in “conversation” with others. The exhibition, which is being organized in close collaboration with the Medardo Rosso Estate, will subsequently travel to Kunstmuseum Basel, where it will be on view from March to August 2025.

Galerie Kandlhofer presents Bellaboteurs, the third solo exhibition of Alicia Viebrock (b. 1986, Munich) at the gallery.

Yaya Yajie Liang's work explores the metamorphosis of the body and the potential of 'becoming animal'. From the legendary banished beast to the interpenetration of biological space, Liang interrogates how men's analogic mapping to and from animals (within imagined, lived, or taxonomic intimacies) helps us to reconsider the prescribed definition of 'humanity'. Taking inspiration from Agential Realism, Liang views painting as a movement that is constantly repeating the 'becoming'. Shifting restlessly between abstract and figurative modes, she uses improvisation to kick-start new paintings, allowing unplanned initial strokes to help dictate the works' subsequent direction.

The Musikverein was inaugurated by Emperor Franz Joseph in 1870. Since then the Golden Hall in the Musikverein is known by friends of music all over the world, not only because of the annual worldwide broadcast of New Year’s Concert by the Vienna Philharmonics, but also for being permanent seat of the Vienna Philharmonics and main stage of the Vienna Mozart Orchestra. The Golden Hall fascinates the concert guests being a unique architectonic and acoustic master piece.

Kazuko Miyamoto (* 1942 Tokyo) is an important protagonist of the art scene in New York's Lower East Side, who combines her Japanese origins with Western art practices and thereby expands the boundaries of minimal art. Since moving to the USA in 1964, as an early member of the A.I.R. Gallery and with her Gallery Onetwentyeight, founded in 1986, she has been promoting the presentation of feminist and (post-)migrant art. As a producer of works by the American artist Sol LeWitt, Miyamoto first came to Linz in 1980 and established a lifelong artistic and friendly network here.

Erwin Wurm (* 1954 Bruck/Mur) is one of today’s most successful and best-known international contemporary artists. On the occasion of his 70th birthday, ALBERTINA MODERN presents the first comprehensive retrospective of his multifaceted work which invites us in sculptures, drawings and instructions, videos and photographs to contemplate the paradoxes and absurdities of our world.

Erwin Wurm is one of the most successful and well-known international contemporary artists today. For the first time, a comprehensive retrospective of his diverse oeuvre in all artistic media will be on display at the Albertina modern on the occasion of his 70th birthday.

New social challenges and innovative forms of work organization have had just as much of an impact on the design of things as updated production techniques, marketing opportunities and distribution channels. 100 selected objects - furniture, household appliances, tools and lighting, entertainment electronics and toys, as well as design for personal care, health, sustainable mobility and collaboration with robots - in the MAK exhibition represent the diversity and innovative power of Austrian product design from 2000 to the present. They are role models for design quality with regard to functionality, technological innovation, resource conservation and ergonomics, but also for wit, charisma and the emotional content of products. In 25 thematic categories - from A for "Alpine" to Z for "Circular" - there are surprising and exciting things to discover in familiar objects.

Galerie Eva Presenhuber presents Whereabouts, the gallery’s third exhibition with the Swiss artist Louisa Gagliardi. It is her first solo exhibition in Austria.

The ALBERTINA Museum is presenting the highlights of its large collection of works by Jim Dine - a representative selection of the artist's generous donation that represents his oeuvre in a multifaceted way.

The company Joh. Backhausen & Söhne, founded in 1849, is one of the most traditional furniture and decorative fabric producers in Viennese history. From 1903 onwards, the company devoted itself intensively to collaborating with contemporary artists, including outstanding protagonists of Viennese modernism such as Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, Otto Wagner, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Jutta Sika, Dagobert Peche, My Ullmann and Otto Prutscher. Backhausen specialised in the implementation of their designs and established itself as the main supplier of the Wiener Werkstätte initiated by Hoffmann, Moser and Fritz Waerndorfer. The fruitful symbiosis culminated in the furnishings of the Sanatorium Purkersdorf in 1904/05, the Villa Skywa-Primavesi in 1913–1915 and the Palais Stoclet in Brussels in 1905–1911.

Artists: Ei Arakawa-Nash - Will Benedict - Joseph Beuys - Rafał Bujnowski - Renée Green - Rachel Harrison - Jenny Holzer - Kris Lemsalu - Marcin Maciejowski - Gerhard Richter - Wilhelm Sasnal - Anne Speier - Lucie Stahl - Wolfgang Tillmans - Franz West - Sue Williams - Amelie von Wulffen - Heimo Zobernig

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Dagobert Peche (1887–1923) had the formal language of the Wiener Werkstätte explode. He responded to the geometry of the Wiener Werkstätte founder Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser with opulent decors, which were obtained from nature; everyday objects he deliberately gave a complexity that logic and utility value deliberately underwent logic and utility. In theory, Peche underpined his approach with the writing The Burning Bush, in which he called for the "overcoming of the utility" in order to arrive at a new artistic expression. The architect graduated from 1911 turned to arts and crafts and experimented with various materials – silver, glass, ceramics, leather and paper. He designed jewellery, furniture and exhibition displays as well as sensational fabric and wallpaper patterns.