{"id":55911,"date":"2023-01-19T05:48:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T04:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/?p=55911"},"modified":"2025-06-29T18:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T17:50:14","slug":"past-exhibitions-kunstforum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/past-exhibitions-kunstforum\/","title":{"rendered":"Kunstforum Wien: exhibition archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/kunstforumpastsmall.jpg\" alt=\"Golden ball outside the Kunstforum Wien\" class=\"wp-image-55913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/kunstforumpastsmall.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/kunstforumpastsmall-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien normally features two major exhibitions a year with a focus on significant global names in modern and contemporary art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>See also:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/kunstforum-wien\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"21890\">Current Kunstforum exhibitions<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/events\/exhibitions\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"37363\">art exhibitions<\/a> in Vienna<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The below covers the feature exhibitions of recent years with links to my reviews. (The Kunstforum also has small events accompanying the big ones, but I don&#8217;t report on those.)<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/kunstforumnight.jpg\" alt=\"The Kunstforum at night\" class=\"wp-image-43048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/kunstforumnight.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/kunstforumnight-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(The building on the Freyung square)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Anton Corbijn (2025)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Wonderful exhibition, also because Corbijn was such a modest lovely person at the preview. His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/anton-corbijn-exhibition\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"80261\">famous photo portraits<\/a> took centre stage with their uncanny ability to give popular figures more three-dimensionality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, I was the right age to recognise most of the musicians, artists, actors etc. pictured. Doesn&#8217;t happen much these days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Paul Gauguin (2024-2025)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Gauguin feels like a name with a clear idea of the art behind it. But rather than focus solely on his famous Pacific Islands paintings, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/gauguin-exhibition\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"75449\">Gauguin Unexpected<\/a> traced his full artistic evolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As such, we got to some 80 works featuring impressionist landscapes, woodcuts, sculpture, the transition to simplified representative approaches, and much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Roberto Matta (2024)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A full retrospective for the renowned artist and major influence on post-WWII US art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fantastical? Surrealist? The works in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/roberto-matta-exhibition\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"68754\">Matta exhibition<\/a> did not slot easily into simple categories. But the imagination and creativity on display left a remarkable impression. Not least because they felt eerily prescient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Robert Motherwell (2023-2024)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Abstract Expressionism spent some time in Vienna with this exhibition for the man who more or less coined the &#8220;New York School&#8221; moniker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A cooperation with the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/robert-motherwell-exhibition\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"64441\">Motherwell retrospective<\/a> focused on his paintings and the cycles and series for which he was perhaps notably famous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kiki Kogelnik (2023)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Not many modern and contemporary Austrian artists achieve global acclaim, but Kiki Kogelnik is one of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/kiki-kogelnik-exhibition\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"55671\">Kogelnik exhibition<\/a> covered much of her creative output with a notable focus on her early New York works (she moved there in the 1960s), which remain remarkably relevant in terms of the socioeconomic issues they address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Helmut Newton (2022-2023)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A name synonymous with black and white photography. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/helmut-newton-exhibition\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"49739\">Newton exhibition<\/a> formed a full retrospective that took us through several decades of his work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The displays inevitably focused on portraits, nudes and fashion. The selection provided ample opportunity to reflect on the quality, impact and sociopolitics of Newton&#8217;s contributions to photographic art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">David Hockney (2022)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>An extensive cooperation with the UK&#8217;s Tate allowed a detailed journey through Hockney&#8217;s creative journey and output right up to more recent digital art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/david-hockney-exhibition\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"39316\">Hockney exhibition<\/a> included such gems as <em>My Parents<\/em> and his gamechanging swimming pool paintings from Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rebecca Horn (2021-2022)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If an artist might be described as multi-talented, then surely it is Rebecca Horn. A creator across media, genres, and forms of cultural consumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/rebecca-horn-exhibition\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"34857\">Horn exhibition<\/a> reflected both the diversity of her work and its commonality in terms of, for example, themes or influences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Daniel Spoerri (2021)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Unusually, a comprehensive retrospective for an international star who also happens to be a long-time Vienna resident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His defining tableau pi\u00e8ges formed the core of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/daniel-spoerri-exhibition\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"30607\">Daniel Spoerri exhibition<\/a>, but his sculptures and other works also featured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gerhard Richter (2020-2021)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The artist himself helped organise the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/gerhard-richter-exhibition\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"27238\">Gerhard Richter exhibition<\/a>, which threw a comprehensive light on his landscapes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Treats on display reflected Richter&#8217;s wide use of different approaches, including realistic paintings, overpaintings, purely abstract works, and photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cindy Sherman (2020)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The common thread through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/cindy-sherman-exhibition\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"21887\">The Cindy Sherman Effect<\/a> was identity, a topic that still meets the Zeitgeist as the times and technology melt borders and blur the edges of existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sherman&#8217;s photos stood in dialogue with works by numerous contemporary artists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien normally features two major exhibitions a year with a focus on significant global names in modern and contemporary art. 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