Grand Opening on March 21, 2025
FOTO ARSENAL WIEN—Vienna’s new center for photographic images and lens-based media—will inaugurate its new home at the Arsenal on March 21, 2025.
In an exhibition space measuring around one thousand square meters, FOTO ARSENAL WIEN will showcase the full spectrum of the medium with up to ten exhibitions each year—a combination of young talents, up-and-coming photographers, and international stars.
Start:
7 p.m. Doors open
7.30 p.m. Opening speeches
Speakers:
Michael Ludwig
Mayor and Governor of the City of Vienna
Veronica Kaup-Hasler
City Councilor for Culture and Science of the City of Vienna
Mavie Hörbiger
Actress, Ensemble Member Burgtheater
Felix Hoffmann
Artistic Director, FOTO ARSENAL WIEN, FOTO WIEN
Wolfgang Kuzmits
Managing Director Stadt Wien Kunst GmbH
Followed by
Music, DJ Sets presented by FM4
Dancing and Drinks
Line-Up
8.30 p.m.
Musikarbeiterinnenkapelle
9 p.m–10.30 p.m.
Dalia Ahmed (FM4 Dalia‘s Late Night Lemonade)
10.30 p.m.–12 p.m.
Functionist (FM4 Unlimited)
12 p.m.–2 a.m.
PAU
Free admission
We recommend travelling by public transport if possible.
Location:
FOTO ARSENAL WIEN
Arsenal Objekt 19A
1030 Vienna
Opening Weekend on March 22 and March 23, 2025
With guided tours and actvities
Free admission
Program details are available here
Opening exhibitions
Magnum
A World of Photography
22.3. — 1.6.2025
James Dean strolls across Times Square in the rain in a perfect blend of melancholy and coolness. With a cigarette in his mouth and a pensive gaze, the actor symbolizes youth and transience. The image also impressively demonstrates how photography transforms fleeting moments into timeless icons.
These photographic processes are the focus of the inaugural exhibition Magnum. A World of Photography at FOTO ARSENAL WIEN, which provides insights into the undiscovered and secret working structures of the famous agency Magnum Photos. For the first time, items from the Magnum archives are contextualized using contemporary perspectives.
The exhibition includes over three hundred photographs and objects from seven decades of agency history.
Simon Lehner
Clean Thoughts. Clean Images
22.3. — 1.6.2025
Is there such a thing as “clean” and “pure” thoughts? What role do memories, family contexts, and everyday images play in this?
Using image archives that he has created himself with elements from his childhood, youth, and the world of media, Simon Lehner (b. 1996) examines the complexity of human emotions, identity, and ideals of masculinity as well as their impact on society. In several processing loops, he presents relief images, videos, and sculptures that combine photographs and digital processes. For Clean Thoughts. Clean Images, his first institutional solo exhibition, Lehner generates motifs that blur the boundaries between pop culture, art history, and autobiography, putting the dynamics of memories and the construction of identity into a new perspective.
