Arnulf Rainer
About the Event
The Albertina is dedicating a comprehensive retrospective to the work of Arnulf Rainer.
Arnulf Rainer numbers among post-1945 Austrian and international art’s most significant and uncompromising personalities. This artist, who was born in Baden (near Vienna) in 1929 and passed away in Upper Austria in late 2025, left an indelible mark on international art history as an innovator who spent over seven decades probing the outer limits of painting.
From the very beginning of his artistic career, fired on by his resolute resistance against all of National Socialism’s brutal restrictions, Rainer consistently strove for independence and autonomy. It was with his radical “overpaintings” of the 1950s that he became known internationally and rose to occupy an important place in the post-1945 artistic pantheon. These works testify impressively to his personal stance as an artist, which defied all conventions.
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It was a group of photographic (self-)portraits, his late-1960s “soliloquies in front of the camera,” that gave rise to the fascinating series Face Farces—impressive examples of which clearly show just how broad a range of approaches to images’ manipulation and reworking he employed, not to mention the intensity and dynamism of the attendant dialog with the ground. Between these and his final works in 2017, the artist would return to this dialogic approach again and again.
Rainer’s oeuvre extends across painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, and performative works. The Albertina is home to one of the largest public collections of his art, totaling approximately 600 works representing all phases of his career. These holdings form the basis for the selection to be shown in the present retrospective, a tribute fully in keeping with the esteem and close ties that he and his family shared with the Albertina over many decades.
Dates
- Fri 11/13/2026 10:00 AM – 09:00 PM
- Sat 11/14/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Sun 11/15/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Mon 11/16/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Tue 11/17/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Wed 11/18/2026 10:00 AM – 09:00 PM
- Thu 11/19/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Fri 11/20/2026 10:00 AM – 09:00 PM
- Sat 11/21/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Sun 11/22/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Mon 11/23/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Tue 11/24/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
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- Thu 11/26/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Fri 11/27/2026 10:00 AM – 09:00 PM
- Sat 11/28/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
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- Mon 11/30/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Tue 12/01/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Wed 12/02/2026 10:00 AM – 09:00 PM
- Thu 12/03/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Fri 12/04/2026 10:00 AM – 09:00 PM
- Sat 12/05/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Sun 12/06/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Mon 12/07/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Tue 12/08/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Wed 12/09/2026 10:00 AM – 09:00 PM
- Thu 12/10/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Fri 12/11/2026 10:00 AM – 09:00 PM
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- Tue 12/15/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Wed 12/16/2026 10:00 AM – 09:00 PM
- Thu 12/17/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Fri 12/18/2026 10:00 AM – 09:00 PM
- Sat 12/19/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Sun 12/20/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Mon 12/21/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Tue 12/22/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
- Wed 12/23/2026 10:00 AM – 09:00 PM
- Thu 12/24/2026 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
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- Mon 04/12/2027 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
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- Wed 04/14/2027 10:00 AM – 09:00 PM
- Thu 04/15/2027 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM
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