MODERN ALBERTINA

Opening in 2020, this extension to the Albertina Museum is a ten-minute walk from the magnificent premises of the Künstlerhaus, the former Artists' House built in 1865. The building, which dates back to 1865, underwent a major refurbishment in order to accommodate Vienna's new cultural center. The modern Albertina is dedicated to the artistic creation of the modern and post-modern periods. The new museum presents an impressive collection of 60,000 works by 5,000 artists, including Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, Gottfried Helnwein, Gerhard Richter, Jonathan Meese, Hubert Scheibl, Roy Lichtenstein, Pierre Soulages and Jörg Immendorf. Its first exhibition was devoted to the early years of modern art in Vienna, from 1945 to 1980. The new site focuses on Austrian artists: Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Christian Ludwig Attersee and Gottfried Helnwein. While pop art is given pride of place, the collections around the artists Essl and Jablonka form another aspect of the modern Albertina.

The Essl collection, entrusted to the Albertina on permanent loan from 2017, is one of the jewels in the new museum's crown. From Fantastic Realism and Viennese Actionism to post-modernism and contemporary art, the Essl collection brings together the different currents in the history of Austrian art at the time. The modern Albertina thus offers a strong new cultural identity.

The Jablonka collection introduces the international dimension of the Albertina moderne with works by major German artists such as Georg Baselitz, Markus Lüpertz and Jörg Immendorff, to name but a few. There is also an area devoted to American pop art, with works by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. The Kunstlerhaus, the artists' house built between 1865 and 1868 as a venue for painting, sculpture, architecture and the applied arts for the Vienna International Exhibition of Graphic Arts in 1883, is now a richly open museum.

Every year , the building hosts major new exhibitions of contemporary art.

In 2023, there was a retrospective dedicated to the Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara. 2024 is the setting for exhibitions: after Oskar Kokoschka come Roy Lichtenstein, La Beauté de la Diversité, Eva Beresin, Franz Grabmayer, Herwin Wurm, Grégory Crewdson, Robert Longo... A real abundance and an exceptional panorama of contemporary creation.