Foto Wien 2025
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In recent years, it has been evident that enthusiasm for photographic art has been continuously growing in Vienna, especially among younger visitors. And this fall, there’s no getting away from photography in Vienna. This is because, as part of the Foto Wien festival, over 100 participating institutions will be inviting visitors to sample their extensive program. The festival is being organized for the second time by Foto Arsenal Wien. It is Vienna’s new exhibition venue for photography, which opened only in March 2025 and also serves as the festival’s headquarters.
Foto Wien, Austria’s largest photography festival, takes place every two years, this autumn from October 3 to November 2, with some events on the schedule starting earlier or ending later. The festival turns the entire city into a vibrant platform for photographic images. Museums, galleries, universities, and other institutions offer a diverse program to celebrate photography in all its facets. The collective motto is “dynamic futures”. It’s about the radical transformation in the way images are created and the impact this is having on our society. After all, photographs have always given rise to speculation. From the first images of the lunar surface to X-rays, microphotography, and today’s images generated by artificial intelligence.
Foto Wien is part of the European community project called “European Month of Photography”.
The festival kicks off with the Opening Days (October 4/5). Alongside a wide variety of events at each institution, it is above all the numerous photo exhibitions that will attract plenty of visitors. Here are some of the highlights:
- Science/Fiction – A Non-History of Plants at Foto Arsenal Wien (Oct 3 – Jan 18): Over 40 international artists invite visitors to explore the boundaries between science, art, and speculative imagination
- World Press Photo 2025 at WestLicht (Sep 12 – Nov 9): the most important showcase of international press photography, taking place for the 24th time at WestLicht
- Lisette Model. Retrospective at the Albertina (Oct 30 – Feb 22) about one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century, Vienna-born and US émigré Lisette Model
- Where Have All the Flowers Gone... 80 Years After the War – Photographs by Roger Cremers at Museum Judenplatz (Aug 5 – Jan 18): a special exhibition by the Dutch photographer on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the end of the war in 1945
- Two Views on Plants at the Natural History Museum Vienna (Sep 24 – Mar 1): fascinating 3D photographs by cinematographer, director, and photographer Sebastian Cramer
- Arsenalplatz, Objekt 19, 1030 Wien
- info@fotoarsenalwien.at
- https://www.fotoarsenalwien.at/
Vienna City Card
Savings: 2€
Prices
- Free admission for young people under 19 years of age
Opening times
- Tu - Su, 11:00 - 19:00
- Westbahnstraße 40, 1070 Wien
- info@westlicht.com
- https://www.westlicht.com/westlicht/en/home
Vienna City Card
Standard ticket price: 12€ /
Savings: 3€
Opening times
- Tu - Fr, 14:00 - 19:00
- Th, 14:00 - 21:00
- Sa - Su, 11:00 - 19:00
- on holidays, 11:00 - 19:00
Accessibility
15 Steps (Swinging doors 90 cm wide)
via private elevator, please make prior arrangements
Seeing eye dogs allowed
Side entrance and exhibition rooms reachable with the elevator, door width: 140 - 180 cm.
- Albertinaplatz 1, 1010 Wien
- info@albertina.at
- https://www.albertina.at
Vienna City Card
Standard ticket price: 19,90€ / Savings: 2€ off the daily valid sales price at the museum cash desk (special offers excluded) Booking link: https://shop.albertina.at/en/ticket-cooperations/vienna-city-card/
Buy now with discount:
Opening times
- Mo, 10:00 - 18:00
- Tu, 10:00 - 18:00
- We, 10:00 - 21:00
- Th, 10:00 - 18:00
- Fr, 10:00 - 21:00
- Sa, 10:00 - 18:00
- Su, 10:00 - 18:00
- on holidays, 10:00 - 18:00
Accessibility
no steps (Double swinging doors 190 cm wide)
Seeing eye dogs allowed
Wheelchair accessible restroom available.
Wheelchair rental (prior arrangement necessary: Tel. +43 1 534 83–540). Guided tours in sign language available (prior arrangement necessary: Tel. +43 1 534 83–540). Guided tours for blind people available as well as for people with slight to moderate dementia and their escorts (prior arrangement necessary: Tel. +43 1 534 83–540). Please inform Art Mediation department about wheelchair uses in advance. Reduced admission for persons with special needs
Access to all exhibition rooms, to the restaurant / café and to the Shop: no steps. All rooms are wheelchair-accessible.
Wheelchair-accessible restrooms on levels 1 and -1, restroom on level 1: door width: 90 cm, room dimensions: 180 x 110 cm.
Further information on accessible visits can be found at:
https://www.albertina.at/en/visit/reaching-us/
- Judenplatz 8, 1010 Wien
- info@jmw.at
- https://www.jmw.at
Vienna City Card
Standard ticket price: 15€
Prices
- Tickets offer admission to the Judenplatz Museum and Jewish Museum
Opening times
- Mo, 10:00 - 18:00
- Tu, 10:00 - 18:00
- We, 10:00 - 18:00
- Th, 10:00 - 18:00
- Fr, 10:00 - 14:00
- Su, 10:00 - 18:00
During summertime Fr, 10:00 - 17:00
Accessibility
no steps
Wheelchair accessible restroom available.
Exhibition rooms: no steps, synagogue excavation not wheelchair-accessible.
- Maria-Theresien-Platz, 1010 Wien
- info@nhm.at
- https://nhm.at
Vienna City Card
Standard ticket price: 18€ / Reduced ticket price: 14€
Buy now with discount:
Prices
- Free admission for young people under 19 years of age
Opening times
- Th - Mo, 09:00 - 18:00
- We, 09:00 - 20:00
Guided tours
Guided rooftop tours (English):
Friday, Saturday, Sunday 3pm
Accessibility
(Swinging doors)
stairs
Entrance for wheelchairs Burgring 7
Wheelchair accessible restroom available.
Assistance and guide dogs allowed; Guided tours for the blind possible, path for blind and visually impaired people (only in German): 15 free-standing, tangible exhibits from the fields of mineralogy, geology and anthropology. A map and descriptions of the objects are also available in Braille at the information stand.
All facilities suitable for wheelchair users (except the roof tour).
Access to restaurant/café: no steps. Seeing-eye dogs permitted in exhibition area.
