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Long Night of Museums 2026

When: 3 October 2026

Vienna's annual museum marathon opens over 130 venues across the city for a single night, 6 PM to midnight on October 3. One €19 ticket covers most institutions — children under 12 enter free. The Kunsthistorisches Museum, National Library, and Leopold Museum offer English-language guided tours. Most museums add special programs: restoration demonstrations, workshops, performances, even VR experiences. Expect crowds (typically 150,000 people) but also an unusual atmosphere — the city's cultural weight becomes tangible when all these spaces stay open late and thousands move between them on foot. The ticket also works as a public transport pass from 5:30 PM to 12:30 AM the next morning.

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8th · Josefstadt

Waves Vienna 2026 — Gürtel, October 1–3

When: 1 October 2026 – 3 October 2026
Where: 8th · Josefstadt

Waves Vienna runs October 1–3 across 11 stages along the Gürtel — the annual festival and conference for emerging international music. This year the UK is the Guest of Honour, bringing a concentrated showcase of British emerging acts alongside 100+ artists from across Europe and beyond. The format is the point: not a mainstream festival but a discovery machine. The bands playing Waves in October are the bands you'll be following in two years. The Gürtel venues (Chelsea, B72, and others in the U-Bahn arches) are exactly the right rooms for this. The conference runs alongside, covering everything from sync and AI to new voices from Central and Eastern Europe. Tickets and full programme via wavesvienna.com.

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3rd · Landstraße

Miao Ying: Come, Sit, Stay — Belvedere 21, July 10–Oct 4

When: 10 July 2026 – 4 October 2026
Where: 3rd · Landstraße

Miao Ying is a Chinese artist working at the intersection of internet culture, artificial intelligence, and artistic authorship. Her exhibition Come, Sit, Stay opens at Belvedere 21 on July 10 and runs until October 4. The show doesn't argue against AI — it investigates what survives when the tool becomes indistinguishable from the maker. What does it mean to make art when machines can generate images, texts, and sounds on demand, and the gesture is no longer legible as human intent? The title — the commands you give a dog — carries the weight. Belvedere 21, in the 3rd, has become one of Vienna's most consistently interesting venues for international contemporary art since its reopening. This is Miao Ying's first major Austrian solo.

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1st · Innere Stadt

Albertina 250 Jahre — "Sammeln für die Zukunft", June 19–Oct 11

When: 19 June 2026 – 11 October 2026
Where: 1st · Innere Stadt

The Albertina marks 250 years in 2026 with an anniversary exhibition that reframes the collection's founding story. Archduchess Marie Christine, co-founder alongside Duke Albert of Saxony-Teschen, endowed the collection with both wealth and artistic direction — a role that history has largely credited to her husband alone. The exhibition *Sammeln für die Zukunft* (Collecting for the Future) runs June 19–October 11 and spans the museum's 1.2 million objects: from Dürer's Hare to Schiele's expressive drawings, tracing how a private collection became one of the world's most important graphic art institutions. The angle is not "visit the Albertina" but "the Albertina's anniversary show is an argument about who gets credit for founding one of the world's great drawing collections." Marie Christine's role as both patron and artist — she was active as a painter herself — shaped the collection's scope in ways that deserve to be named. The museum is in the 1st district, Albertinapl. 1. Standard admission applies. The **Open Door event** on July 4–5 (the founding anniversary weekend) offers free access — a good entry point if you've been meaning to look.

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1st · Innere Stadt

Njola Impressions: Kiteezi — Theseustempel

When: 28 May 2026 – 11 October 2026
Where: 1st · Innere Stadt

Ugandan artist Nabukenya Allen (Njola) is transforming waste from the Kiteezi landfill — which collapsed in a devastating landslide in August 2024 — into objects and installations about renewal, over-consumption, and the Boda-Boda drivers of Kampala. The work is on view outdoors in the Volksgarten's Theseustempel, the 1st district. The opening vernissage on May 28 at 19:00 is free. The exhibition runs through October 11. Allen is in residence in Vienna through PART International Art Residency Austria. This is the kind of work that sits at the intersection of Ugandan urban politics and Viennese institutional space — rare enough to be worth making time for.

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7th · Neubau

Lebt und arbeitet in Wien — Kunsthalle Wien, May 1–October 26

When: 1 May 2026 – 26 October 2026
Where: 7th · Neubau

Contemporary art from Vienna, May–October. The Kunsthalle Wien runs "Lebt und arbeitet in Wien" across both its locations — Museumsquartier (the 7th) and Karlsplatz (the 4th) — a major survey of 56 artists who live and work in the city right now. Curated by Daniel Baumann, Michelle Cotton, and Monika Georgieva, the show spans painting, sculpture, installation, photography, performance, film, and video. Over 130 works. The title is the argument: not "Austrian art" but art made by people who chose Vienna. Thirty-eight artists created new work for this exhibition. It runs until October 26.

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3rd · Landstraße

Sleaford Mods — Arena Wien, November 3

When: 3 November 2026
Where: 3rd · Landstraße

Sleaford Mods — the Nottingham duo of Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn — play Arena Wien on November 3 at 20:00. Fifteen years of two-minute electronic blasts and working-class fury, delivered with the deadpan precision of someone who has run out of patience. The music is politically direct, formally uncompromising, and cuts through noise. The Arena Wien is the right room: mid-size, standing, the crowd that doesn't need the music explained to them. Sleaford Mods shows sell out. Tickets via Live Nation.

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7th · Neubau

Herbert Boeckl – Hans Josephsohn: Figural Archetypes — Leopold Museum, July 24

When: 24 July 2026 – 10 January 2027
Where: 7th · Neubau

Two artists, one precise pairing. Herbert Boeckl (1894–1966) was an Austrian expressionist painter whose raw, physical figuration became one of the most important contributions to 20th-century Austrian art. Hans Josephsohn (1920–2012), born in Königsberg, worked as a sculptor — his half-figures and heads carry the same quality of compressed physical presence. The connection isn't obvious at first, but it is exact: both artists worked in figuration when abstraction was dominant, and both made work that is difficult to look away from. The Leopold Museum is the right place for this show. Its collection is built around exactly this tradition — figuration as a serious commitment, not a retreat. The exhibition runs from July 24 through January 10, 2027, in the 7th district. Standard Leopold Museum admission.

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7th · Neubau

Terminal Piece — mumok, opens June 20

When: 20 June 2026 – 7 February 2027
Where: 7th · Neubau

Fatima Hellberg's inaugural exhibition as mumok's new director opens June 20, anchored by Kate Millett's Terminal Piece (1972) — a work that defines the museum's new direction under her leadership. Millett was a feminist activist, sculptor, and writer; the choice signals what mumok intends to become. The show unfolds as an exploration of embodied attention: the idea that encountering an artwork is not passive consumption but active participation. Works from the collection sit alongside new productions and loans across multiple levels of the museum. Free entry opening night (2–8pm). Runs until February 2027.

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3rd · Landstraße

Seeds. Reclaiming Roots, Sowing Futures — KunstHausWien

When: 9 April 2026 – 14 February 2027
Where: 3rd · Landstraße

The Klima Biennale Wien's Seeds exhibition at KunstHausWien explores seeds as a mirror of our relationship to the earth and to each other. The show frames food sovereignty, colonial seed histories, and the politics of what grows where — not as abstract concepts, but as lived realities embedded in the objects on display. It's the kind of exhibition that starts with a single seed and unfolds into questions about power, land, and belonging. The venue matters. KunstHausWien — Friedensreich Hundertwasser's building on Untere Weißgerberlände in the 3rd — has never looked like a normal museum. Its walls curve, its windows are irregular, the floors slope. The neighbourhood around it has changed faster than anywhere in Vienna, which makes the building's refusal to conform feel even more pointed. The exhibition runs until February 2027, so there's time to walk through it slowly. Admission is €7–16 depending on your status. Check kunsthauswien.com for current hours.

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7th · Neubau

Foto Arsenal Wien — Zanele Muholi: We Are Here

Where: 7th · Neubau

South African visual activist Zanele Muholi documents Black LGBTQIA+ lives and intimate relationships across six photo series spanning two decades. Over 120 photographs, videos, and archival materials explore identity, visibility, and community through work created in deep exchange with the people portrayed. This is Muholi's first solo exhibition in Austria, following presentations at Tate Modern London, Gropius Bau Berlin, and SFMOMA. The exhibition runs until January 10, 2027 at Foto Arsenal Wien in the 3rd district. Entry is €8.

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