25.03.2012 - 08.07.2012
The BEYOND SEEING art works are specifically designed for visually impaired and blind people, but also for sighted people who would like to experience art with multiple senses.
More about the Exhibition15.03.2012 - 17.06.2012
This exchibition in the premises of the Lower Belvedere is devoted to gold as a precious metal and its use in contemporary art.
More about the Exhibition06.03.2012 - 18.03.2012
The globally unique combination of African and Spanish dance traditions, along with superior Russian dance techniques makes "Ballet Revolución" an innovative mixture of style and genre.
More about Ballet Revolución03.02.2012 - 29.05.2012
Anselm Kiefer, one of the most significant artists of the present day, forms the big opening of the exhibition year in the Essl Museum. A new solo exhibition personally furnished by the collector Karlheinz Essl is on show
More26.01.2012 - 15.04.2012
The Kunstforum is presenting the first major retrospective devoted to Herbert Brandl. It includes around 60 of his works produced since the early1980s and also new paintings created especially for the exhibition.
More about the Exhibition20.01.2012 - 20.05.2012
The exhibition presents a contemporary perspective of the historical idea of the total work of art. With appropriate scepticism, artists have undertaken to review this legendary figure of thought, thereby casting a critical eye on the history of Modernism.
More about the Exhibition27.11.2011 - 09.04.2012
The Neue Galerie Graz is exhibiting works of world-famous Hans Hollein, who is, as a fine artist, designer and architect a truely universal artist.
More about the Exhibition09.11.2011 - 26.02.2012
René Magritte is one of the most popular and renowned artists of the 20th century. To retrace Magritte's artistic career, the Albertina displays more than 150 works that cover every creative phase of the artist.
More about the Exhibition21.10.2011 - 01.04.2012
The exhibition “Vanitiy” devotes itself to the subject of photography and fashion. Groundbreaking and unknown pictures since the late 1920s testify to the suggestive power of fashion photography between innovation and tradition, consumerism and art.
More about the Exhibition15.10.2011 - 16.04.2012
The exhibition LUSTSPIEL, with new works by Georg Baselitz (born 1938) and Arnulf Rainer (born 1929), in the Arnulf Rainer Museums premises of the former, neo-classical women’s bath in Baden near Vienna is undoubtedly a very special event.
More about the Exhibition01.08.2011 - 15.04.2012
Antony Gormley and the Kunsthaus Bregenz have realised a unique project in the mountains of Vorarlberg. Horizon Field, consisting of 100 life-size, solid cast iron figures of the human body, is the first art project of its kind and the largest landscape intervention in Austria.
More about Horizon Field19.07.2012 - 26.08.2012
Choose between a wide range of concerts, readings and recitals, and discover a new cultural delight every day throughout this fantastic festival.
More about the Salzkammergut Festival18.07.2012 - 18.08.2012
Bregenz is different. An opera festival with two stages: a traditional opera house, home to less-known operas, and an open-air lakeside stage, where productions are held in the most spectacular fashion.
More about the Bregenzer Festspiele12.07.2012 - 12.08.2012
Thousands of professional dancers, choreographers, teachers and students from around the world transform Vienna into the global dance capital for five weeks every year.
More about the ImPuls Tanz Festival05.07.2012 - 29.07.2012
Since 1998, a festival with international standards, mainly with visitors from German-speaking areas, but also from other parts of Europe or even the USA and Japan. The Tyrolean Festival Erl is not just any music festival.
More about the Tyrolean Festival Erl29.06.2012 - 04.08.2012
A top-ranking theatre festival among the Austrian summer cultural events. Only 70 miles south of Vienna, situated in a scenic mountainous setting, Reichenau has been a traditional summer resort for the Viennese high society since the late 19th century.
More about the Reichenau Festival16.06.2012 - 03.09.2012
Varied programme in front of the magnificent backdrop of Finkenstein Castle in Carinthia.
More about Finkenstein Castle Arena15.06.2012 - 10.07.2012
International dance performances from classical ballet to various modern dance forms, jazz and modern expressive dance.
More about the Innsbruck Summer of Dance19.05.2012
The Life Ball is an exuberant charity event with extraordinary performances that celebrates life year after year and makes a loud and sounding statement in the fight against HIV and AIDS – resounding far across the boundaries of Vienna and Austria.
More about the Life Ball16.05.2012 - 20.05.2012
Throughout springfestival Graz's most unique spots are transformed into venues for electronic music and art, bringing together acclaimed live acts, DJ supremos, hip bands and emerging artists.
More about the springfestival11.05.2012 - 17.06.2012
This festival is a firmly-established high-point of the cultural calender in Vienna, offering exciting theatre productions as well as a great number of orchestra concerts, recitals and chamber music performances.
More about the Wiener FestwochenToday, it is one of Austria’s most photographed structures and a leading centre for contemporary art. But when it opened in 1898, the Vienna Secession touched off a scandal.
Find out more about the Secession Vienna16.05.2012 - 16.09.2012
The Historical Museum of the City of Vienna will present numerous Klimt objects, including his Portrait of Emilie Flöge (1902), posters, publications, painting smock, death mask and Egon Schiele’s drawing of the dead Gustav Klimt. Centrepiece will be the 400 Klimt drawings, the largest collection in the world, shown here for the first time in its entirety.
More about the exhibition "Klimt & Hoffmann"He was the speaker and organizer of the Jugendstil art movement. He was a promoter of young, up-and-coming talent. He created some of the most famous Art nouveau paintings worldwide. There is a tremendous lot of reasons for celebrating the 150th birthday of Gustav Klimt in 2012.
Find out more about Gustav Klimt, the Jugendstil and current eventsGustav Klimt would have celebrated his 150th birthday in 2012. Vienna honours the painter with several exhibitions on Klimt and the Jugendstil movement.
Find out about special exhibitions 2012Equally controversial and successful in his day, Gustav Klimt was one of the central figures of fin-de-siècle Vienna, the epoch that marked the beginning of Modernism. Today Vienna’s museums accommodate the majority of popular paintings as well as huge numbers of little-known drawings by Gustav Klimt.
Find out where to see Klimt's works in ViennaA fresh, sensual art can be discovered in virtually every part of the town: Like no other city Vienna is shaped by the last great, unified stylistic movement in the history of art: the Jugendstil (Art Nouveau).
Find out more about Jugendstil"Either I am too old, or too nervous, or too stupid - there must be something wrong", Klimt once wrote in a letter. Though facing continuous difficulties in his work, in the years 1907 and 1908 the painter created a centrepiece of the Jugendstil movement: The Kiss.
Find out more about "The Kiss"The name says it all. The “Art Mile of Krems” extends from the historic town centre to the medieval village centre of Stein, and from museums and concert venues to gourmet restaurants, ensuring an abundance of stimulating cultural experiences.
Kunstmeile Krems“Indulge the urbane life of Mozart’s city”, is the motto of the art hotel in the middle of Salzburg’s historic downtown. And this attitude has earned the Art Hotel Blaue Gans the appreciation and affection of artists and guests alike.
Art Hotel Blaue Gans“White gold” has been produced in Vienna for nearly 300 years. This fine porcelain is still made entirely by hand, and one can observe the production from up close on a tour of the Porcelain Manufactory Augarten.
Viennese Porcelain Manufactury AugartenThe Rogner Bad in Blumau is much more than just a spa: this facility, designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, unites therapeutic springs, sauna worlds, a hotel, and a park to create a harmonious total work of art.
Life in harmony with nature at Rogner Hotel and Thermal SpaSalzburg, the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, is dominated by churches, castles and palaces. Its picturesque old town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Find out more about SalzburgThe Styrian capital Graz, whose roots date back to the Roman age, lies on both sides of the River Mur, and is well-known for its medieval city center and modern architectural highlights.
Find out more about GrazAustria’s capital offers a unique blend of imperial traditions and stunning modern architecture. It is famous for its cultural events, imperial sights, coffee houses, cozy wine taverns, and the very special Viennese charm.
Find out more about ViennaNo other Austrian city has changed as dramatically as Linz has in recent decades. What's emerged is a modern urban centre with a flourishing economy, a city where the quality of life is exceptional.
Find out more about LinzThe SommerSzene Salzburg aims at moving people and opening up fields of the future by presenting the most important trends in international stage art every year in July.
SommerSzene - International Stage Art Festival SalzburgThe cultural centre at the former psychiatric hospital in Gugging offers an impressive and unconventional introduction to “Art Brut”. And part of the Gugging experience is sometimes encountering the very artists who created these works.
The Art Brut Center in GuggingAt two very different venues – the nearly 900-year-old Klosterneuburg Monastery and the contemporary Kunstmuseum Essl – visitors can join the monthly Art Breakfast.
The Art Breakfast at KlosterneuburgFor five weeks each year, thousands of professional dancers, choreographers, and students from around the globe turn Vienna into the dance capital of the world.
ImPuls International Dance Festival in ViennaEach year a huge celebration in front of City Hall kicks off this festival, which combines cultural experiences of the highest order with socially relevant themes and objectives.
Festival "Wiener Festwochen" in ViennaDas Kunsthaus Bregenz realisiert mit dem britischen Künstler Antony Gormley ein einzigartiges Projekt in den Bergen Vorarlbergs: Horizon Field ist die bislang größte Landschaftsinstallation in Österreich.
Antony Gormley: Horizon Field in VorarlbergAustria's diverse cultural offerings include over 200 festivals, stretching from world scale events to small regional gatherings. Many of them make use of Austria's beautiful surroundings and most of them offer an outstanding culinary menu to accompany the cultural experience.
Find out more about Austrian festivalsArnulf Rainer’s hometown of Baden pays tribute to this versatile and busy painter with a museum devoted to his work – and housed in a former bath that is a gem of 19th-century architecture.
Arnulf Rainer Museum in Baden bei WienA sign emblazoned with the name “Styria” greets travellers in twenty-five languages. This is a sign of a cosmopolitan spirit that is also found at the steirischer herbst festival.
steirischer herbst festival in GrazThe new edition of the popular holiday journal is hot of the press! Place your order today and your personal copy will automatically be sent to you!
Find out more about the "Destination Austria 2011/12" holiday journalAustria today offers some of the world's most important and stunning collections of modern and contemporary art.
Find out more about Museums in AustriaThe Leopold Museum in the Viennese MuseumsQuartier presents Austrian paintings of the 19th and 20th century, including the world’s biggest Schiele collection in its spacious, light-flooded rooms.
Find out more about the Leopold MuseumThanks to the acquisitions by and the patronage of the House of Habsburg, the gallery has an unrivaled collection of old masters. Check out room X, which contains a vast collection of works by Peter Breughel the Elder...
Find out more about the Museum of Fine ArtsHaus der Musik is a modern interactive experimental museum in the historic city center of Vienna as well as the location where the Vienna Philharmonic was founded. Six floors are dedicated to the presentation of the fascinating world of music and sound. Send your ears on a discovery trip!
Find out more about the House of SoundVienna’s MuseumsQuartier numbers among the ten largest cultural parks in the world.
Find out more about the MuseumsQuartierThis Baroque masterpiece houses one of Europe's most important museums. In the Upper Belvedere the world's largest collection of paintings by Gustav Klimt, alongside works by Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka are on display.
Learn more about the Belvedere GalleryAustria's 'great' sons and daughters have left their mark all across the centuries in politics, art, science and sport: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gustav Mahler, Gustav Klimt, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Christoph Waltz to name just a few...
Find out more about famous AustriansAntony Gormley's Horizon Field will consist of 100 life-size, solid cast iron figures of the human body installed into the landscape of Vorarlberg in Austria until April 2012. The work will form a horizontal line at 2,039m above sea level.
Find out more about Antony Gormley's Horizon FieldLooking for great authentic travel experiences? Just move the "slider" to your travel preference and we'll show where we think you should go. You most likely will encounter unexpected like the "Poppy village ".
Find out more about Austria "off the beaten path"Daniel Spoerri, artist of “nouveau realisme” stemming from Rumania, made an impact with Eat-Art Events and Object Art Works.
Find out more about EAT.ART & AB.ARTOn the riverbanks of the Danube in the historic city center of Krems and the medieval old town of Stein, the Art Mile Krems trains its focus on a variety of highlights.
Find out more about the Art MileAt the epicenter of the stupendous mountain world of the Grossglockner,modern architecture interfaces with enjoyment and culture.
Find out more about the AdlerloungeThe Swarovski Crystal Worlds, created by Andre Heller, is a pure invitation to dream. Only a 20 minutes drive away from Innsbruck this sparkling fantasy world is definitely worth a visit.
Find out more about the Swarovski Crystal WorldsTour throughout Austria and download a listing on Austrian and European packages offered by Australian and New Zealand tour operators.
Download your essential listingExperience the magical atmosphere of Austria's culture and music performances and download a listing on classical music and cultural tours offered by Australian and New Zealand tour operators.
Download your essential listingYou know Vienna for it's music and culture, for the coffee houses (yes, we did have coffee houses 300 years before Starbucks, or at least that’s what tradition tells us), for the Opera and for the Imperial history that the city still showcases everywhere.
Find out more about Vienna for gay travellersPeople from all over the world come to Wattens near Innsbruck throughout the year to admire crystal in all its diversity and variety. Away from everyday life, the Swarovski Crystal Worlds provide a magical experience.
A trip to Austria would not be the same without a visit to the opera or a concert. Get tickets ahead of time to ensure entry to the concert or festival of your dreams
Find out more how to get your ticketsAustria’s cities fascinate with their monumental buildings spanning all major epochs from Gothic to Renaissance, from Baroque to Jugendstil, and Post Modernism. Historic settings for modern events, leisurely shopping tours and wonderful culinary experiences. Let yourself be charmed!
Find out more on Austria's top citiesAustrian artists, architects and designers have long moved beyond the traditional boundaries of their genres. They are and always have been world travelers, connoisseurs - and at times, provocateurs.
Find out more about Art, Architecture & Design in AustriaA new work is added every year, forming its own dialogue with the baroque heritage of the Mozart city and the juxtaposition always creates lively debate.
Find out more about Modern Art in SalzburgInnsbruck’s futuristic new landmark is the Bergisel ski jump, known particularly as one of the venues for the international Vierschanzentournee ski jump competition.
Find out more about Bergisel Ski JumpDesign with a sense of humor is the trademark of product design duo Marie Rahm and Monica Singer, who created the Polka Product Pleasure label.
MoreAt first is sounds improbable: Vorarlberg - a small, mostly rural state in the middle of the Alps - has become one of Europe's leading regions for modern art and architecture.
Find out more about Modern Architecture in the AlpsThe amorphous, glowing glass structure is one of the stations on the Nordkettenbahn, designed by architect Zaha Hadid. The 100-year-old mountain railway, which now has four uniquely designed stops...
Find our more about Modern Architecture in TirolAccommodates one of the largest and most precious graphic art collections in the world. Today, it comprises nearly 50,000 drawings and one million prints dating from all major epochs: from Late Gothic to contemporary art.
Find out more about the AlbertinaThe building, designed by Peter Cook and Colin Fournier, has an organic shape with a skin made of iridescent blue acrylic panels. One of the most unusual museums you'll ever visit...
Find out more about the Kunsthaus GrazModern art and architecture fuse at Kunsthaus Bregenz. Designed by the Pritzker-prize winning architect Peter Zumthor, the building’s primary object is to be a place where people can indulge their passion for art.
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