Selva de Carvalho / Bianca Kennedy / Martin Sommer — Galerie Krinzinger, until Aug 29
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- The practical details Claire checked before this went into the index.
- When
- 3 July 2026 – 29 August 2026
- Where
- Galerie Krinzinger, Seilerstätte 16, 1010 Wien — the 1st
- Price
- Free
- Indoor
- Contemporary art
- Group show
- 1st district
- Until August 29
Galerie Krinzinger is the kind of gallery that doesn't need to perform its importance. It opened in the 1970s and has spent five decades showing artists from across Europe, the Americas, and beyond — not as a statement of ambition, but as a matter of practice. The gallery was the first to show Marina Abramovic in Vienna. Also Valie Export. Also Chris Burden. That track record matters because it tells you something about how the space thinks: it looks for work that has weight, and it doesn't wait for consensus to show it.
This Summer's Show
The group exhibition running through August 29 brings together three artists — Selva de Carvalho, Bianca Kennedy, and Martin Sommer. The opening was July 2, and the artists were present. If you didn't catch it then, the show is still up for another two months, which is the kind of runway that lets work actually settle into a space and reveal itself over repeated visits.
The gallery's summer programming has a particular character: it's not a blockbuster season or a crowd-pleasing interlude. It's just what Krinzinger does — serious work, shown seriously, in a room where the architecture of the space itself is part of the conversation.
The Location
Seilerstätte 16 is in the 1st district, which means the walk there is part of the experience. The neighbourhood around the Stadtpark has a particular texture — old Vienna, but not performed. The gallery is a short walk from the park itself, which is worth knowing if you want to make an afternoon of it: gallery, then the chestnuts and the light, then a coffee somewhere quiet.
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