Latest Events in Vienna(May Updated)

Linkin Park Vienna promises an unforgettable evening of music and energy at the iconic Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna, Austria. Scheduled for June 9, 2026, at 18:00, this highly anticipated event offers fans a chance to experience the legendary band in a city renowned for its rich cultural heritage. With tickets priced at 185 USD, attendees will witness a performance that blends the band's signature sound with the vibrant atmosphere of Vienna. The Ernst Happel Stadium, known for hosting major international events, provides the perfect backdrop for Linkin Park's dynamic stage presence. As the band takes the stage, the audience can expect a setlist that spans their illustrious career, delivering both classic hits and new favorites. This event not only celebrates the enduring legacy of Linkin Park but also highlights Vienna as a premier destination for world-class entertainment.

The political situation was turbulent, a wicked group abused its power, the economy was in crisis, and the social situation was increasingly complex and chaotic. The description of the situation after the French Revolution in the 19th century bears a striking resemblance to our own time, and the great works of Honoré Daumier also possess timeless relevance. Daumier is like a mirror, reflecting his era, using sharp strokes and unyielding humor to expose the abuse of power and social injustice. His relentless radicalism often angered censorship, even leading to his imprisonment for advocating artistic freedom. As a keen observer, Daumier also depicted daily life in modern Paris. This year, the Albertina Museum will host its first major exhibition of Daumier's work in 90 years, and his art remains as significant today as it was at the time of its creation. Ninety years later, with the support of the Steidl Museum Association's collection, the French artist's work will be presented to the world in a completely new light. In addition to numerous lithographs and drawings, Daumier's famous paintings and sculptures will occupy a prominent position—and a short animated film featuring Daumier's works, with music composed by giants such as Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney, will also be screened concurrently.

Photographer Gregor Sailer opens the exhibition with "Cockaigne"—an ancient word meaning "land flowing with milk and honey"—to showcase humanity's long-held dream: abundance of food. The invention of agriculture has brought the first steps towards prosperity and also revolutionized human nutrition. However, this exhibition does not look back but looks to the future, focusing on the transformation of future food production. It presents two systems: on one hand, highly diverse agricultural ecosystems requiring significant human input; on the other hand, automated agriculture controlled by artificial intelligence, employing standardized organisms and processes, and promising to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. How do we hope to shape future food production? After all, agriculture has never been wilderness; it has always been about transforming nature and natural processes, and altering ecosystems to meet human needs.

Everything is in *The Magic Flute*! This exhibition showcases the latest collection from Munich-based veteran collector Dr. Günter Grish and his wife Rosemary. They have meticulously amassed a large collection of Mozart's works, with a particular focus on *The Magic Flute* and "Freemasonry in the Mozart Era." Among these is an extremely rare libretto from the 1791 premiere, featuring Immanuel Schikaned as Papageno.

*Skin to Skin* is Sandra Mujinga's first solo museum exhibition in Austria. The Norwegian artist transformed the central gallery of Belvedere 21 with large-scale sculptures, sound, and reflective installations. Repetition became her artistic strategy for exploring visibility (or invisibility), community, and transformation.

Richard Prince (born 1949) exposes the image of consumer society with satire, humor, and keen insight. The New York artist has dedicated himself since the 1970s to studying the visual symbols and fictional narratives of American popular culture, exploring authorship, originality, and the mechanisms of media presentation. He is best known for his legendary "Cowboy" series, which re-photographs Marlboro cigarette advertisements and reinterprets them from different perspectives, offering a critical reflection on mythology, masculinity, and media. The Albertina Museum is hosting a major exhibition focusing on Richard Prince's primary medium—photography—showcasing his work from the 1970s to the present. The exhibition not only showcases iconic series such as *Vogue*, *Gangster*, and *Cowboy*, but also many little-known and previously unseen works, ranging from his groundbreaking re-photography of advertising graphic art to autobiographical images set against the backdrop of rural upstate New York, and complex collages created with found materials. Prince tirelessly explores the issue of appropriation from entirely new perspectives, and the connections and relationships between these perspectives are the focus of this exhibition: a fusion of photography, painting, and sculpture, featuring approximately 150 works that demonstrate the photographic thinking that runs throughout Prince's work. His works, sometimes with minimal editing, present a dual effect: both analytical and alluring.

Artist Helga Philipp (1939–2002) is hailed as a prominent representative of Austrian Concrete Art and Op Art. As early as the 1960s, she developed a precise and conceptually rigorous visual language, placing perception and movement at the heart of her artistic creation. Her work oscillates between visual experience, geometric abstraction, and dynamic formal language, skillfully experimenting with mathematical principles, sequential structures, and interactivity. This exhibition will showcase approximately 50 of the artist's most important works from over several decades, demonstrating her rich diversity across various art forms, including painting, drawing, printmaking, and object art.

The Vienna Short Film Festival is an international short film festival. Held annually in late May/early June at multiple venues since 2004, it has also been held online since 2020. The festival has attracted over 10,000 audience members and approximately 500 accredited professionals. The festival screens 250 to 350 short films from around the world each year, divided into four competition sections and thematic sections. It is a accredited festival of the Austrian Film Awards, the British Academy Film Awards, the European Film Awards, and the Academy Awards.

This large-scale exhibition presents the works of two of the 20th century's most important figurative painters—Pablo Picasso and Francis Bacon—through a striking juxtaposition. Deeply influenced by Picasso, Bacon aspired to be a painter. He spent his life struggling against this great mentor, ultimately striving to surpass him. In the latter half of the 20th century, Bacon aspired to play the role Picasso had played in the first half: a chronicler of all the broken faces of humanity. Both artists placed human existence at the center of their visual world. They both had a deep fascination with the human body—torn apart, reassembled, and reshaped with radical force. In their distorted depictions, they revealed pain, desire, and vulnerability, mercilessly reflecting the modern human soul. Themes such as the cross, screams, bullfights, nudity, and "Eros's Tears" revealed the dramatic nature of life for them. Although Picasso himself was not influenced by Bacon, he closely followed Bacon's artistic career. Over 100 works from international museums and private collections are presented in a striking juxtaposition, showcasing the commonalities in the works of these two masters and Picasso's significant influence on later artists.