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Belvedere Museum @belvederemuseum.bsky.social · 13h

📸 For teenagers: Snapshot. Camera Upcycling
Thursday, 23 October 2025, 4:30–7:30 pm.
This time, we'll delve into the inner workings of old Polaroid cameras and transform them into fun, upcycled sculptures! 🔧 ✨

#Snapshot

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Belvedere Museum @belvederemuseum.bsky.social · 1d

Who gets to write art history?
The exhibition Radical! Women* Artists and Modernism 1910 – 1950 challenges the canon and spotlights artists long overlooked. Women, queer people, and people of color.
On view only until October 12 at the Lower Belvedere.

Eine Frau betrachtet ein Gemälde an der Wand

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Belvedere Museum @belvederemuseum.bsky.social · 2d

🍵 Tea Talk: Sharing the Space
On Wednesday, 15 October 2025, we once again invite you to Tea Talk at Belvedere 21. This event brings cultures together, creating space for encounters and exchange.
🗓 3:30–5:30 pm

#TeaTalk

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Belvedere Museum @belvederemuseum.bsky.social · 2d

#CuratorsChoice by Georg Lechner:
Franz Xaver Wagenschön’s The Stoning of Saint Stephen shows the first Christian martyr in his final prayer as stones are raised around him. Inspired by Baroque masters, Wagenschön transforms drama into calm reflection.

Read here: http://bit.ly/4o6RRIp

Ein Gemälde eines Mannes umgeben von Menschen.

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Belvedere Museum @belvederemuseum.bsky.social · 4d

Urbanize! 📅 Friday, 17 October 2025 📍Belvedere 21
As part of the Urbanize! festival, Belvedere 21 is hosting two events that invite visitors to reflect on time, justice, and urban rhythms.

CAN WE WASTE TIME? 🗣 5:00–6:30 pm Foyer
SPACE, TIME, JUSTICE 💬 7:00pm – 9:00pm Blickle Cinema

#urbanize2025

Ein grünes und schwarzes Poster mit Bildern von Menschen darauf.

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Belvedere Museum @belvederemuseum.bsky.social · 8d

🖤 Civa Festival 2025 is now open at Belvedere 21

Exploring quantum perspectives with screenings, talks, workshops and performances.

📅 Until October 4 – free
📅 Exhibition until Feb 1, 2026

#Civa2025 #Belvedere21

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Belvedere Museum @belvederemuseum.bsky.social · 10d

🎉 The Fantastic Palastics Party
📅 Thursday, 9 October 2025 | 🕒 3–6 p.m.
At the Upper Belvedere we celebrate with a game experience, creative stations and a kids disco in the Marble Hall. Free entry with ticket.

#FantasticPalastics #BelvedereMuseum

eine Cartoon-Eule mit Daumen hoch vor einem großen weißen Gebäude

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Belvedere Museum @belvederemuseum.bsky.social · 11d

🎬 Screening & discussion: Female to What The Fuck
📅 Friday, 10 October 2025 | 🕕 6:00 – 8:30 p.m.
The film FtWTF deals with images and stories about trans masculinity. Ten years later, we talk to the directors and protagonists about alternative, feminine and butch masculinities.

#Screening

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Belvedere Museum @belvederemuseum.bsky.social · 11d

🎶 Das Pop-Quartett – Reden über Musik
📅 30. September 2025 | 🕡 18:30–21:00 Uhr
📍 Blickle Kino, Belvedere 21
Heide Rampetzreiter, Wolfgang Kos, Walter Gröbchen und Thomas Mießgang sprechen gemeinsam mit der Singer-Songwriterin Sodl über aktuelle Releases und persönliche Favoriten.

#PopQuartett

Ein Plattenspieler mit einer Schallplatte darauf

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Belvedere Museum @belvederemuseum.bsky.social · 12d

Art Leap wins DigAMus Award 🎉
Our Roblox game Art Leap has already been played over 2 million times and has now been awarded the #DigAMus Prize for outstanding digital museum projects. We are proud to show how museums can use new technologies to make art accessible.

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Belvedere Museum @belvederemuseum.bsky.social · 15d

Cézanne, Monet, Renoir is now open at Lower Belvedere.
The exhibition presents masterpieces from the Langmatt Collection, assembled by Jenny and Sidney Brown from 1908 onward, featuring works by Monet, Pissarro, Gauguin, and more.
On view until 8 February 2026.

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Belvedere Museum @belvederemuseum.bsky.social · 21d

🌀 Ashley Hans Scheirl: In & Out of Painting*
📅 19 September 2025 – 1 February 2026
That was the opening! ✨ With over 120 works spanning five decades, Scheirl's first major solo exhibition in Vienna promises to be a unique experience.

#AshleyHansScheirl

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Belvedere Museum @belvederemuseum.bsky.social · 23d

🎮 GAME JAM: TRUTH, LIES & DEMOCRACY @ Belvedere 21
Innerhalb von 48 Stunden entwickeln internationale Teams interaktive Games, die das Bewusstsein für Desinformation schärfen sollen.

👉 Für Präsentation und Preisverleihung am 28.9 gibt es noch Plätze vor Ort.
Anmeldungen hier: bit.ly/4mqoAau

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Belvedere Museum @belvederemuseum.bsky.social · 23d

#CuratorsChoice by Sabine Grabner:
Michelangelo Grigoletti’s I due Foscari (c. 1843), painted for Emperor Ferdinand I, shows Doge Francesco Foscari sending his son Jacopo into exile. A scene of conflict between paternal love and political duty.

Read here: http://bit.ly/4prmWIo

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Belvedere Museum @belvederemuseum.bsky.social · 28d

Louise Nevelson: "Why Doesn't She Paint Flowers?"
📅 23 September 2025, 4:30–5:30 pm.

Explore the works of American artist Louise Nevelson, starting with her piece, "Black Wall." This sculpture is a highlight of the "Wotruba" exhibition at Belvedere 21. #WotrubaInternational

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Belvedere Museum @belvederemuseum.bsky.social · Sep 11

#CuratorsChoice by Franz Smola:
Marie Bashkirtseff painted In the Fog in 1882, just two years before her early death. Rare among her works, this urban view goes beyond realism, with impressionist light and atmosphere emerging in her sketch-like brushstrokes.

Read here: http://bit.ly/487rbCA

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Belvedere Museum @belvederemuseum.bsky.social · Sep 9

Cézanne, Monet, Renoir ✨
The Belvedere is presenting selected works from the Museum Langmatt collection, one of the earliest and most extensive private collections of French Impressionism in Switzerland.
📍Lower Belvedere
📅 Open from September 25, 2025

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Belvedere Museum @belvederemuseum.bsky.social · Sep 7

Curt Stenvert is an important artist of Vienna’s post-war avant-garde.
His work Lesbia contra Motor, created shortly after World War II, marks the beginning of a new, modern life. This is linked to a stylistic breakthrough: fragmented bodies recall Cubism, while the motor motif refers to Futurism.

una pintura de mujeres en una habitación

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Belvedere Museum @belvederemuseum.bsky.social · Sep 6

🎙️Talk about sculpture with Angelika Loderer
📅 Tuesday, 16 September 2025, 4:30–5:30 pm.
In conversation with curator Verena Gamper, the artist will discuss her approaches to form, material, and process in sculpture.
#WotrubaInternational

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Belvedere Museum @belvederemuseum.bsky.social · Sep 4

#CuratorsChoice by Miroslav Hal’ák:
A monumental body ideal and a staged myth show how classical models, modern aesthetics and politics can converge. Pathos, power, and the problem of later instrumentalization.

Read here: http://bit.ly/3HPvkR7

a painting of a man with a bow and arrow

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Belvedere Museum @belvederemuseum.bsky.social · Sep 1

📸 Walkshop with a Polaroid Camera at Belvedere 21

Explore the museum’s architecture and the Quartier Belvedere, capture impressions with a Polaroid and edit them in the studio.

📅 6 September 2025, 2–5.30 pm
🎟 Tickets required

#Belvedere21 #Polaroid #Walkshop

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Belvedere Museum @belvederemuseum.bsky.social · Aug 28

#CuratorsChoice by Andrea Kopranovic:
In the 1990s, Sarah Lucas turned smoking into a feminist gesture. Portable Smoking Area challenges gender stereotypes, social norms, and the meaning of everyday objects.

Read here: bit.ly/47SdZS3

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Belvedere Museum @belvederemuseum.bsky.social · Aug 25

📢 Reminder: Belvedere Summer School 2025
Keynote by Chantal Eschenfeldner (Head of Art Mediation, Städel Museum)
Topic: Digital strategies in art education and cultural participation
🗓 September 2 | 7–10 PM
📍 Blickle Kino
👉 Register here: bit.ly/45tsd9k

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Belvedere Museum @belvederemuseum.bsky.social · Aug 23

🌿 From 27 February to 14 June 2026 the Belvedere will present Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller. True to Nature. The exhibition explores his landscapes in dialogue with European contemporaries.

Read more: https://bit.ly/3UE2rKz

a dirt road with trees and a building in the background

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Belvedere Museum @belvederemuseum.bsky.social · Aug 22

The exhibition Gustav Klimt. Pigment & Pixel reveals Klimt in a new light. As well as the original works, you can see X-ray insights and AI reconstructions of his lost Faculty Paintings, which are being shown in color and in their original for the very first time. On view only until September 7.

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