Art Galleries in Vienna
A visit to one of Vienna's art galleries will surely add to your experience of visiting the capital city of Austria. They present work by foreign and Austrian artists alike, spanning centuries of art history and ranging from contemporary painting and Jugendstil arts and crafts to Baroque and Biedermeier furniture. Tourists with traditional tastes should not miss world-renowned art galleries including the famed Albertina Gallery, Modern Art Gallery and Austrian Gallery, whereas lovers of contemporary art will find their paradise in Schleifmühlgasse, the city’s newest modern art hotspot, where galleries such as Kargl, Engholm Engelhorn and Senn have opened their shops. Vienna’s Old Town also boasts a high concentration of contemporary art galleries.
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Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art
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Address: Weihburggasse 26
Phone: +43 1 904 20 04
e-mail: office@galerie-mam.com
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Website: http://www.galerie-mam.com
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Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art gallery shows works of contemporary artists from all around the world. It often travels with its exhibitions to international art fairs such as the famous Art Cologne or Palma de Mallorca. Catalogues from all exhibitions are available on site.
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Albertina Collection
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Address: Augustinerstrasse 1
Phone: +43 1 53 48 30
e-mail: info@albertina.at
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Price: 0 - 9 EUR
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Website: http://www.albertina.at/
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Established in 1786 by duke Albert of Saxen-Teschen and his wife, Marie-Christine (Maria Theresia's daughter), Albertina is one of the most famous and comprehensive print collections in the world. It possesses about 65,000 drawings, over one million old master prints and a collection of modern graphics. Apart from that, in Albertina you will also find a number of architectural designs and sketches, works of distinguished photographers and two private collections of 20th-century art pieces donated to the museum by Rita and Herbert Batliner and Eva and Mathias Forberg.
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Kunsthaus Wien
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Address: Untere Weissgerberstrasse 13
Phone: +43 1 712 04 91
e-mail: information@kunsthauswien.com
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Price: 0 - 20 EUR
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Website: http://www.kunsthauswien.com
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Originally designed as a permanent exhibition of Friedensreich Hundertwasser paintings, today Kunsthaus Wien is a big art gallery with a shop, a restaurant and approximately 4,000 square metres of exhibition space. Although the building is a former furniture factory, today it is fully transformed and adapted to fit the needs of an art gallery. Inside you will also find the famous uneven floor with its little hills and valleys. Hundertwasser designed it this way because he believed that flat floors were an artificial invention of architects and had catastrophic consequences for people's well-being and inner equilibrium.
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Künstlerhaus
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Address: Karlsplatz 5
Phone: +43 1 587 9663
e-mail: office@k-haus.at
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Website: http://www.k-haus.at
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Künstlerhaus is a large gallery with a cinema, a total of 2000 sqaure metres of the two-level exhibition area for major exhibitions focusing on architecture, interdisciplinary themed exhibitions and international co-operations. It occupies a historical building from the beginning of the 19th Century and was meant to be the seat of the oldest artist association in Austria. Apart from exhibitions Künstlerhaus also features other cultural events such as lectures and discussions devoted to the works that are currently on display, film festivals and the famous annual summer party.
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Siemens_artLAB
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Address: Dorotheergasse 12
Phone: +43 1 512 53 15
e-mail: artlab.at@siemens.com
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Website: http://www.artlab.at
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Known mostly for it's on-line internet exhibitions, Siemens ArtLab presents contemporary art exhibitions of various kind on a frequent basis. They are an artistic company that combines visionary thought and real actions. Living in a world where the ever-developing technologies seem to outrun the ideas for possible applications, Siemens ArtLab employs art as a medium of designing future. Their motto is “Siemens. Imagineering Tomorrow.”
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Artmark Galerie Wien Thomas Mark
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Address: Singerstrasse 17
Phone: +43 1 512 98 80
e-mail: wien@artmark.at
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Website: http://www.artmark.at/
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Art Mark is a private art gallery managed by Thomas and Maria Mark presenting above all contemporary art, since 1950s until present-day, with particular emphasis on paintings, drawings, large sculptures (mainly metal), artistic jewellery and lithographs. The intention of its founders was to bring the artists and art fans together, as well as to advise collectors, designers, architects and anyone who finds themselves in need of a consultation with an art expert.
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Galerie Chobot
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Address: Domgasse 6
Phone: +43 1 512 53 32
e-mail: chobot@utanet.at
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Website: http://www.kunstnet.at/chobot/
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Chobot contemporary art gallery was established as a private collection in 1971 and moved to its present location in 1983. Its main objective is to promote promising artists, to popularise collecting art and to contact artists with potential clients. The gallery features an average of nine exhibitions per year and takes part in numerous international art fairs. It presents mainly sculptures and various works made from paper and is proud to be one of the very few galleries interested in this kind of art.
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