Don’t miss this week’s highlight in Vienna: “Open Days / New Shows” is the motto of the cultural program taking place this Friday and Saturday, where numerous galleries all over Austria jointly open their doors to present new exhibitions and host exciting events. Get ready to explore the gallery scene in your hometown this weekend! 

Vienna Weekly highlights the best exhibitions, talks and art events taking place in Vienna. Discover the contemporary side of the city. Check out our list below.

TUESDAY, June 2

• Reopening: xE – Ausstellungsraum, Group show, Katharina Scheucher | der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien | 7:00 pm

WEDNESDAY, June 3

• Stream: Dialogues for Tomorrow – Manfred Nowak at Universität für angewandte Kunst  | 3:30 pm | Live stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au_C5aofP_E&feature=emb_title

• Stream: Vienna Art Talk – The Opportunities of the Crisis – Art World after Corona | Vienna Art Week |6:00 pm| Live stream: https://zoom.us/j/2737419612

THURSDAY, June 4

• Reopening: Pants on Fire. Art and other fictions at Krinzinger Projekte | 5:00 pm| Schottenfeldgasse 45, 1070

• Opening Performance: Alfred Rottensteiner: Heroes at Bildraum 07 | 4:00 pm| Burggasse 7, 1070

• Exhibition PREVIEW: Female Gaze at Galerie Lehner | 2:00 pm | Getreidemarkt 1,1060

FRIDAY, June 5

Open Days / New Shows | 12:00 pm – 9:00 pm |

• Exhibition Opening: Pierre Klossowski + Rade Petrasevic, Eros + Beelzebub at Christine König Galerie | Schleifmühlgasse 1A, 1040

• Exhibition Opening: Entertainment Through Absence Group Show at Gabriele Senn Galerie | Schleifmühlgasse 1A, 1040
  
• Exhibition Opening: Sofia Goscinski, Believer at Unttld Contemporary | Schleifmühlgasse 5

• Exhibition Opening: PRINZpod, “Ganz Ohne TiTel” at gallery rauminhalt | Schleifmühlgasse 13, 1040

• Exhibition Opening: Olivia Coeln – Funferal at Georg Kargl Box | Schleifmühlgasse 5, 1040

• Exhibition Opening: Radenko Milak, Sideratio at KOENIG2 by_robbygreif | Margaretenstraße 5, 1040 

• Exhibition Opening: Nazim Ünal Yilmaz, Theological Time, Mean Landscape, Circumcision Throne, Burping Bird, Auto-censure, Nose as a Walking Stick, Tare, Nite Smoking, W15, Measuring the Corner, Dolphin with the Woman and The Big Fish, Small Fish at Exile Galerie | Elisabethstraße 24, 1010

• Exhibition Opening: Melanie Ebenhoch at Galerie Martin Janda | Eschenbachgasse 11, 1010

• Exhibition Opening: G.T. Pellizzi, No Signal at Galerie Kandlhofer | Brucknerstraße 4, 1040

• Exhibtion Opening: Pirmin Blum Shiiit I love it, Andreas Fogarasi, Julia Haugeneder, Julie Hayward, Leopold Kessler, Angelika Loderer, Peter Sandbichler at Projektraum Viktor Bucher | Praterstrasse 12, 1020

• Project: Pants on Fire. Art and other fictions by by Klaus Speidel at KRINZINGER PROJEKTE | Schottenfeldgasse 45, 1070 

• Exhibition Opening: DOT von Uta Weber at Smolka Contemporary | Lobkowitzplatz 3 / Spiegelgasse 25, 1010
  
• Exhibition Opening: Restless Relays, Dejan Dukic at Zeller Van Almsick Galerie | Franz-Josefs-Kai 3, 1010

• Exhibition Opening: Rules of Abstraction, Esther Stocker. Jacob Dahlgren at Collectors Agenda | Franz-Josefs-Kai 3, 1010

SATURDAY, June 6

Open Days / New Shows | 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm | 

• Exhibition Opening: Liesl Raff, About Palms, Snakes and Tongues at Sophie Tappeiner Galerie | An der Hülben 3, 1010 

• Walk through the show: NO PITY! ‘An artist’s duty is to reflect the times.’ (Nina Simone) with Evelyn Loschy, Veronika Merklein, Denise Schellmann and Michaela Stock / Jelena Grabovac at Galerie Michaela Stock |12:00 -6:00 pm | Schleifmühlgasse 18, 1040

• Guided Tour: STATION… sich sehen sehen by KÖR | 11:00 am | Schwarzenbergplatz, 1040