Superflux: The Craftocene — Weltmuseum Wien, until Aug 16
- The file
- The practical details Claire checked before this went into the index.
- When
- 3 March 2026 – 16 August 2026
- Where
- Weltmuseum Wien, Heldenplatz, 1010 Wien — the 1st
- Price
- Standard Weltmuseum admission
- Indoor
- Ongoing
- Speculative design
- Ecological
- 1st district
Superflux is the London-based design studio of Anab Jain and Jon Ardern. Over the past decade, they've built a practice around speculative design — work that takes climate futures, ecological imagination, and non-Western knowledge systems seriously. This is their first major solo museum exhibition, and it's being shown at the Weltmuseum Wien, which is the right institution for it.
Three Works, Developed for Vienna
The show brings three pieces together for the first time: Refuge for Resurgence (2021), Nobody Told Me Rivers Dream (2025), and Relics of Abundance (2026). The last two were developed specifically for Vienna. The work is immersive and material — not lecture-based, not documentary. Superflux designs futures through objects, spaces, and lived experience.
Why the Weltmuseum Matters
The Weltmuseum has been rethinking its colonial collections for years. It's not a museum that performs neutrality. The pairing of speculative design with an ethnographic collection that takes its own history seriously is genuinely unusual. Most design exhibitions sit apart from that kind of institutional self-examination. This one doesn't.
The combination earns its weight. Superflux's work on ecological futures and non-Western knowledge systems meets a museum that is actively decolonizing its own practice. It's the kind of exhibition that feels like it could only happen in Vienna — not because Vienna is special, but because the Weltmuseum and Superflux are aligned in a way that matters.
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