About Vienna Art Week
Vienna Art Week 2022 showcases Vienna’s vibrant art scene from November 18–25, 2022. Together with around 70 program partners, it offers a week of inspiring art from the Baroque to the present with free admission. For the 18th consecutive year, Vienna Art Week will turn all spotlights on Vienna as a city of art.
This year’s theme, Challenging Orders, invites artists to question existing norms and orders in their artistic practice in various ways, for example, by challenging and replacing existing canons, criticizing institutions, or rethinking the social and political status quo.
With its 23 Art Cluster members, around 70 program partners, 35,000 visitors annually, and 140 events open to the public free of charge, Vienna’s art world is visible nationally and internationally every year in the third week of November. The wide range of events during the week – from guided tours to expert talks, performances, workshops, exhibition openings, and visits to artists’ studios – showcases the city’s high-profile art scene and is unique in its form.
Program Highlights of 2022
Exhibition in the House of CHALLENGING ORDERS (19–25 NOV, 1–7 pm) > Wiedner Haupstraße 140, 1050 Vienna.
A condemned office building of 1,000m2 turns into the exhibition venue for the Vienna Art Week.
Around 40 national and international artists and performers invite us to challenge our preconceived opinions and concepts.
It will include works by the Guerrilla Girls, Christa Joo Hyun D’Angelo, Coco Fusco, Regina José Galindo, Pipilotti Rist, Roberta Lima, Manu Luksch, The Yes Men, Oliver Ressler, Jenny Marketou and Lisl Ponger, among others. Robert Punkenhofer and Julia Hartmann curate them. Read more >
Open Studio Days (19+20 Nov, 1–6 pm)
Expert juries curate open studios. Thus, this year, Robert Punkenhofer, Artistic Director of Vienna Art Week, and many other experts have selected 50 artists out of 160 submissions that will open their studios throughout Vienna to visitors on two afternoons. Six guided tours take visitors to many of the studios. Read more >
Challenging Orders Exhibition Parcours (19+20 NOV, different time slots)
The Parcours leads to seven selected studios that feature works related to the theme of Vienna Art Week. Curator talks will provide insights into the artist’s works.
A shuttle bus will take visitors from one talk to the next.
Artists & curators: Eva Beresin & Angela Stief • Rah Eleh & Klaus Speidel • Soli Kiani & Julia Hartmann • Lars* Kollros & Julia Hartmann • Guido Kucsko & Angela Stief • Barbis Ruder & Aline Lara Retzende • Borjana Ventzislavova & Klaus Speidel
CHALLENGING ORDERS Line-up (25 NOV, 4–8 pm) > Wiedner Haupstraße 140, 1050 Vienna
The annually changing theme is a stimulus for the program partners. In the Line-up, discursive formats, film screenings, and performances line up for an intensive afternoon at a rapid, varied pace.
Go here to view the Full Program >