Where is the only written proof of the Upper Belvedere’s completion hidden? In the Palace Chapel more precisely, above the altar. In the Palace Chapel, above the altar. Discover it in a guided tour with curator Georg Lechner. 🗓 Dec 11, 2025 🕟 4:30 – 5:30 pm

Sprechstunde at Belvedere 21: The Subject in Capitalism – Do We Still Own Ourselves? 📅 Thursday, 11 December 2025 ⏰ 5:00–6:30 p.m. In our monthly consultation hour, we reflect together on the relationship between art and society. #Sprechstunde

Conversation about Sculpture with Christoph Weber 📅 Wednesday, 10 December 2025, 🕓 4:30–5:30 p.m. Taking the works by Wotruba and other artists on display in the exhibition as a starting point, Christoph Weber discusses the concept of the work with Verena Gamper. #WotrubaInternational

🎬 Screening: Nina Porter 📅 Thursday, 4 December 2025 | 6:30–8:30 pm. For this screening, Nina Porter will juxtapose her own works with films by other artists. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Nina Porter, Philipp Fleischmann, and Stefanie Reisinger. #BlickleKino

Helene Funke captures women in quiet concentration, absorbed in thought, their reform dresses hint at changing roles and early emancipation. On this International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, we reflect on creating spaces that foster autonomy and safety.

Curator’s Tour: Transitive Spaces 📅 Thursday, 4 December 2025 ⏰ 5:00–6:00 p.m. Join us on a guided tour of the exhibition Ashley Hans Scheirl with assistant curator Andrea Kopranovic to explore these diverse possibilities.

✨ Public Programme: Feminist Art Production 📅 Tuesday, 2 December 2025 🕢 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Rose English, ORLAN and Martha Rosler will comment on each other's artworks and share their thoughts about feminist art making 40 years ago, today and in the future. #FeministFuturesForever

🎬 Screening: ERDRAUM 📅 Thursday, 27 November 2025, 6:30–8:00 pm. In their first collaboration, Roman Ehrlich, Michael Disqué, and Claudia Lomoschitz explore the stories buried in the earth. The film works will be accompanied by culinary and musical moments at Blickle Kino. #Screening

Sprechstunde: How political is the private sphere? 🗓 Thursday, 27 November 2025 ⏰ 5:00–6:30 p.m. This time, we will focus on the significance of personal records, inspired by the diaries that Scheirl has been keeping almost obsessively since the 1970s. #Sprechstunde

🎬 Screening: Ashley Hans Scheirl. Dandy Dust 🗓 Thursday, 20 November 2025 🕕 6:00–9:00 p.m. Ashley Hans Scheirl's groundbreaking feature film Dandy Dust (AT/GB, 1998) is a queer underground classic. #AshleyHansScheirl

🎶 The Pop Quartet – Talking about music 📅 25 November 2025 | 🕡 6:30–9:00 pm Four music insiders Heide Rampetzreiter, Wolfgang Kos, Walter Gröbchen and Thomas Mießgang, join musician Anna Buchegger to talk about iconic albums, current releases and personal favourites. #Popquartett

Tea Talk: Sharing the Space 🫖 Wednesday, 12 November 2025, 3:30–5:30 pm, Belvedere 21 Together, we will explore works of art and discuss what inspires us: freedom, peace, empowerment and emotions. #TeaTalk

🎥 Screening & Live-Performance: Lisa Kortschak – BACKYARD MOUNTAIN 📅 Donnerstag, 13. November 2025 🕡 18:30–19:30 Uhr #LisaKortschak

FranzXaverMesserschmidt. More than Character Heads is now open. At the Lower Belvedere, the sculptor’s work is seen in a new light. Beyond the famous Character Heads, the exhibition explores individuality, expression and Enlightenment thought in eighteenth-century art. 📍 On view until April 6, 2026

🎥 Screening: Oh Bondage, Up Yours! * 🗓 Thursday, 6 November 2025, 6:00–8:30 p.m. Two films, two generations of feminist practice: Nightcleaners (1975) and The Invisible Women of Erste Campus (2016). #BlickleKino

#CuratorsChoice by Arnika Groenewald-Schmidt: Gustaf Fjæstad’s Newly Fallen Snow (1909) captures the stillness of a frozen landscape in subtle shades of mauve and white. A pioneer of Swedish modernism, Fjæstad became celebrated in Vienna as the “painter of snow.” Read here: http://bit.ly/4hxoo8t

🎨 Tour in sign language: Invitation to participate 🗓 Friday, 31 October 2025 | 3:00–4:00 p.m. This inclusive tour invites participants to think and play along, and is accompanied by a sign language interpreter. #AshleyHansScheirl

OPEN HOUSE at Belvedere 21 ✨ Sunday, 9 November 2025 | 11 a.m.–6 p.m. | Free admission Guided tours with the curators and the art education team provide exciting insights into the works on display. #OpenHouse

🎬 Film Und_ 7: Sculpture 📅 Thursday, 30 October 2025, 6:30–8:30 pm. The programme explores these overlaps, from moving objects and production conditions to transience and (non-)haptic material discourses. #Screening

📸 For teenagers: Snapshot. Camera Upcycling Thursday, 23 October 2025, 4:30–7:30 pm. This time, we'll delve into the inner workings of old Polaroid cameras and transform them into fun, upcycled sculptures! 🔧 ✨ #Snapshot

Who gets to write art history? The exhibition Radical! Women* Artists and Modernism 1910 – 1950 challenges the canon and spotlights artists long overlooked. Women, queer people, and people of color. On view only until October 12 at the Lower Belvedere.

🍵 Tea Talk: Sharing the Space On Wednesday, 15 October 2025, we once again invite you to Tea Talk at Belvedere 21. This event brings cultures together, creating space for encounters and exchange. 🗓 3:30–5:30 pm #TeaTalk

#CuratorsChoice by Georg Lechner: Franz Xaver Wagenschön’s The Stoning of Saint Stephen shows the first Christian martyr in his final prayer as stones are raised around him. Inspired by Baroque masters, Wagenschön transforms drama into calm reflection. Read here: http://bit.ly/4o6RRIp

Urbanize! 📅 Friday, 17 October 2025 📍Belvedere 21 As part of the Urbanize! festival, Belvedere 21 is hosting two events that invite visitors to reflect on time, justice, and urban rhythms. CAN WE WASTE TIME? 🗣 5:00–6:30 pm Foyer SPACE, TIME, JUSTICE 💬 7:00pm – 9:00pm Blickle Cinema #urbanize2025

🖤 Civa Festival 2025 is now open at Belvedere 21 Exploring quantum perspectives with screenings, talks, workshops and performances. 📅 Until October 4 – free 📅 Exhibition until Feb 1, 2026 #Civa2025 #Belvedere21

🎉 The Fantastic Palastics Party 📅 Thursday, 9 October 2025 | 🕒 3–6 p.m. At the Upper Belvedere we celebrate with a game experience, creative stations and a kids disco in the Marble Hall. Free entry with ticket. #FantasticPalastics #BelvedereMuseum

🎬 Screening & discussion: Female to What The Fuck 📅 Friday, 10 October 2025 | 🕕 6:00 – 8:30 p.m. The film FtWTF deals with images and stories about trans masculinity. Ten years later, we talk to the directors and protagonists about alternative, feminine and butch masculinities. #Screening

🎶 Das Pop-Quartett – Reden über Musik 📅 30. September 2025 | 🕡 18:30–21:00 Uhr 📍 Blickle Kino, Belvedere 21 Heide Rampetzreiter, Wolfgang Kos, Walter Gröbchen und Thomas Mießgang sprechen gemeinsam mit der Singer-Songwriterin Sodl über aktuelle Releases und persönliche Favoriten. #PopQuartett

Art Leap wins DigAMus Award 🎉 Our Roblox game Art Leap has already been played over 2 million times and has now been awarded the #DigAMus Prize for outstanding digital museum projects. We are proud to show how museums can use new technologies to make art accessible.

Cézanne, Monet, Renoir is now open at Lower Belvedere. The exhibition presents masterpieces from the Langmatt Collection, assembled by Jenny and Sidney Brown from 1908 onward, featuring works by Monet, Pissarro, Gauguin, and more. On view until 8 February 2026.

🌀 Ashley Hans Scheirl: In & Out of Painting* 📅 19 September 2025 – 1 February 2026 That was the opening! ✨ With over 120 works spanning five decades, Scheirl's first major solo exhibition in Vienna promises to be a unique experience. #AshleyHansScheirl

🎮 GAME JAM: TRUTH, LIES & DEMOCRACY @ Belvedere 21 Innerhalb von 48 Stunden entwickeln internationale Teams interaktive Games, die das Bewusstsein für Desinformation schärfen sollen. 👉 Für Präsentation und Preisverleihung am 28.9 gibt es noch Plätze vor Ort. Anmeldungen hier: bit.ly/4mqoAau

#CuratorsChoice by Sabine Grabner: Michelangelo Grigoletti’s I due Foscari (c. 1843), painted for Emperor Ferdinand I, shows Doge Francesco Foscari sending his son Jacopo into exile. A scene of conflict between paternal love and political duty. Read here: http://bit.ly/4prmWIo

Louise Nevelson: "Why Doesn't She Paint Flowers?" 📅 23 September 2025, 4:30–5:30 pm. Explore the works of American artist Louise Nevelson, starting with her piece, "Black Wall." This sculpture is a highlight of the "Wotruba" exhibition at Belvedere 21. #WotrubaInternational

#CuratorsChoice by Franz Smola: Marie Bashkirtseff painted In the Fog in 1882, just two years before her early death. Rare among her works, this urban view goes beyond realism, with impressionist light and atmosphere emerging in her sketch-like brushstrokes. Read here: http://bit.ly/487rbCA

Cézanne, Monet, Renoir ✨ The Belvedere is presenting selected works from the Museum Langmatt collection, one of the earliest and most extensive private collections of French Impressionism in Switzerland. 📍Lower Belvedere 📅 Open from September 25, 2025

Curt Stenvert is an important artist of Vienna’s post-war avant-garde. His work Lesbia contra Motor, created shortly after World War II, marks the beginning of a new, modern life. This is linked to a stylistic breakthrough: fragmented bodies recall Cubism, while the motor motif refers to Futurism.

🎙️Talk about sculpture with Angelika Loderer 📅 Tuesday, 16 September 2025, 4:30–5:30 pm. In conversation with curator Verena Gamper, the artist will discuss her approaches to form, material, and process in sculpture. #WotrubaInternational

#CuratorsChoice by Miroslav Hal’ák: A monumental body ideal and a staged myth show how classical models, modern aesthetics and politics can converge. Pathos, power, and the problem of later instrumentalization. Read here: http://bit.ly/3HPvkR7

📸 Walkshop with a Polaroid Camera at Belvedere 21 Explore the museum’s architecture and the Quartier Belvedere, capture impressions with a Polaroid and edit them in the studio. 📅 6 September 2025, 2–5.30 pm 🎟 Tickets required #Belvedere21 #Polaroid #Walkshop

#CuratorsChoice by Andrea Kopranovic: In the 1990s, Sarah Lucas turned smoking into a feminist gesture. Portable Smoking Area challenges gender stereotypes, social norms, and the meaning of everyday objects. Read here: bit.ly/47SdZS3

📢 Reminder: Belvedere Summer School 2025 Keynote by Chantal Eschenfeldner (Head of Art Mediation, Städel Museum) Topic: Digital strategies in art education and cultural participation 🗓 September 2 | 7–10 PM 📍 Blickle Kino 👉 Register here: bit.ly/45tsd9k

🌿 From 27 February to 14 June 2026 the Belvedere will present Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller. True to Nature. The exhibition explores his landscapes in dialogue with European contemporaries. Read more: https://bit.ly/3UE2rKz

The exhibition Gustav Klimt. Pigment & Pixel reveals Klimt in a new light. As well as the original works, you can see X-ray insights and AI reconstructions of his lost Faculty Paintings, which are being shown in color and in their original for the very first time. On view only until September 7.

#CuratorsChoice by Markus Fellinger: After his 1873 stay in England, Anton Romako painted Merry Company in a Gondola. Influenced by Rococo, Turner, and the Pre-Raphaelites, the work marks a shift in his career. Read here: bit.ly/4fMYAEE

📖 On the 50th anniversary of Fritz Wotruba's death 📅 Thursday, 28 August 2025, 6:00–7:00 p.m. Actress Theresa Martini will read directly in front of selected works by Fritz Wotruba from texts about him, including by Robert Musil, Elias and Veza Canetti, and Theodor W. Adorno. #FritzWotruba

📖 Catalogue Presentation: Wotruba - International Join us on Thursday, 28 August 2025, from 7:15-8:30 pm at Blickle Cinema for an exclusive event marking the 50th anniversary of Fritz Wotruba's death. #FritzWotruba

#CuratorsChoice by Björn Blauensteiner: A Renaissance puzzle solved: the long-lost Saint Catherine altar from the Jauerling. 500 years after its creation, the work’s original form comes to light again. Read here: bit.ly/47vaBwd

📢 Belvedere Summer School 2025: Keynote lecture by Chantal Eschenfeldner The head of art mediation at the Städel Museum will talk about digital strategies in the context of art education and cultural participation. September 2 | 7–10 PM | Blickle Kino Register here 👉 bit.ly/45tsd9k

🎤 Performance: Ursula Langmayr x Maria Hahnenkamp 📅 Sunday, August 24, 2025 🕒 3 p.m. Inspired by John Cage lecture, Maria Hahnenkamp reimagines its graphic structure, adding pauses and removing passages. Ursula Langmayr breathes life into this with a multi-layered vocal soundscape. #MariaHahnenkamp