Klima Biennale Wien Opens with 'Seeds' Group Show at KunstHausWien

Vienna's Klima Biennale opened in April 2026 under the theme 'Unspeakable Worlds,' with its main attraction being the group show 'Seeds. Reclaiming Roots, Sowing Futures' at KunstHausWien, a building designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser. The exhibition features 14 international artists and runs from April 10, 2026 to February 14, 2027. Works include Jumana Manna's ceramic sculptures 'Family (Extended)' (2023), made with Moroccan artisans, referencing traditional Levantine grain storage containers. Tue Greenfort's 'Monoculture' displays Austria's five most common crops alongside the bronze 'Criewener No. 104' (2022) from an endangered grain type. Kapwani Kiwanga presents 'Vivarium: Apogamy' (2020), a PVC sculpture mimicking a 19th-century Wardian case used for colonial plant transport, and the tapestry 'Seedbank' (2020) with African rice replicas addressing slavery. Cecilia Vicuña's video 'Semiya (Seed Song)' (2015) features her collecting endangered Andean seeds while chanting. The exhibition also screens Jumana Manna's 2018 film 'Wild Relatives' about seed transactions between Svalbard and ICARDA. The show emphasizes poetic and unspeakable aspects of the climate crisis over didactic environmental activism.