Staying in Vienna for the week-end? Want to enjoy your free time during the conference? CTM'10 has partnered with the most prestigious museums in Vienna so that you can have free access to collections, exhibitions and events from 30 June to 4 July just showing up with your conference badge.
ABOUT THE MUSEUMS | VISIT IN JULY | |
LIECHTENSTEIN MUSEUM One of the largest and most important private collections in the world, displays masterpieces from the early Renaissance to the Baroque, including paintings by Rubens, Rembrandt and van Dyck.
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| >> THE PRINCE AS COLLECTOR 12 February - 24 August 2010 >> SUMMA CUM LAUDE, 4 July 2010 The Summa Cum Laude International Youth Music Festival gathers Young musicians from all over the world Fürstengasse 1, 1090 Vienna, |
KUNSTHALLE WIEN The Kunsthalle Wien is the exhibition institution of the City of Vienna for international contemporary art. With two locations in the centre of the city (Karlsplatz and Museumsquartier), it has established itself as one of Vienna's most vital art institutions.
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| >> KEITH HARING 1978-1982 Opening: Thursday, 27 May, 2010 This exhibition explores the early vibrant and experimental years that shape Haring's language and philosophy. >> STREET AND STUDIO: BASQUIAT TO SERIPOP Opening Thursday, 24 June 2010 The major summer exhibition highlights the dynamic production of a contemporary generation of artists characterized by urbanity and mobility, for which the metropolis is both source of inspiration and medium of expression. |
THE ALBERTINA What used to be the city's largest residential palace during the Habsburg monarchy is now an art museum of international renown whose name is also associated with one of the world's most important graphic art collections and which attracts cultural travelers and city tourists from around the globe.
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| >> ALEX KATZ: PRINTS May 28 - August 29, 2010 Alex Katz, born in Brooklyn in New York in 1927, today numbers among the most important exponents of contemporary American art. >> HEINRICH KÜHN: PERFECT PHOTOGRAPHY |
| Kunsthistorisches Museum Emperor Franz Joseph built the Kunsthistorisches Museum to house the Habsburg collections that had been growing for centuries. With its breath-taking art treasures it ranks among the most important museums in the world. Seven millennia of art treasures make a visit to the Kunsthistorisches Museum an unforgettable experience. |
| >> Talking Heads. Portrait(s) of the Kunsthistorisches Museum |
| MUMOK – Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna The MUMOK is the largest museum for modern and contemporary art in Central Europe with an extensive collection of international art from the 20th century and the present. Situated in the heart of historic Vienna, with its permanent collection and changing contemporary exhibitions presented over 4500m², MUMOK is the ideal location for experiencing the art of our times. |
| >> Brigitte Kowanz >>The Moderns |
| Leopold Museum On Show will be: The Permanent Collection: The Leopold Museum houses the world’s largest Egon Schiele collection and thus offers a unique overview of the work of this great painter and most significant graphic artist of Austrian Expressionism. The vanguard of modernist painting in Austria is also represented by an extensive selection of works by Gustav Klimt, the most extraordinary artistic personality of the Secession. |
| >> OTTO MUEHL >>ART NOUVEAU AND SECESSION |
| Belvedere Palace Belvedere Palace has harboured treasures of art ever since its beginnings, at first the collections of Prince Eugene and, from 1781, extensive parts of the imperial collection, which were also open to the public. The Belvedere’s two magnificent palaces, the Upper and Lower Belvedere, were built in the 18th century as the summer residence for the important general Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663-1736). |
| >> BERT NEUMANN. SETTING OF A DRAMA >> INTERVENTION: KAREN KILIMNIK >> MASTERPIECES IN FOCUS >> ENDANGERED - CONSERVED - PRESENTED |