Exhibitions

The FOTOGALERIE WIEN currently exhibits seven shows a year including: one Werkschau, one Solo, three exhibitions dedicated to an annual theme of focus, and two other exhibitions curated independent of the theme of focus and Werkschau

Theme of Focus: exhibitions dedicated to a specific topic in photography, takes place throughout the year, includes one catalogue compiling the artists’ contributions and summarizing the exhibitions at the end of the year

Solo: This series of exhibitions is to serve as a platform and springboard to artists who are at the beginning of their career, once a year

Werkschau: a retrospective for a well-known Austrian photography artist,once a year, accompanied by a catalogue

Exchange exhibition (dedicated to the annual with galleries abroad)

Current exhibition:

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  NARRATIVE I

  2. December 2025 — 17. January 2026

  For 2025/26, the curatorial team of FOTOGALERIE WIEN has chosen to focus on NARRATIVES, exploring narrative strategies and structures in contemporary photography and video art. The three exhibitions developed for this theme are organised chronologically: The first part, Topographies of Memory, looks back at the past through an examination of archival material, historiography, and collective and individual memory.[…]

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  Display Cabinet No. 4: HANS SCHABUS

  21. September 2025 — 14. February 2026

  In this exhibition, you can see parts of a sign with the word “Maintenant.” That is French and means “Now.” The sign was part of an art project last year — for an exhibition in France. The project was about activism (that means protest) and art. Both activism and art want to make something visible. […]