Six Must-See Summer Exhibitions in Vienna

Vienna's summer 2019 art scene features six notable exhibitions across major institutions. At Kunsthalle Wien, Gelitin and Liam Gillick present 'Stinking Dawn,' a collaborative experimental film set exploring human tolerance limits under oppression and political crisis, curated by Lucas Gehrmann and Luca Lo Pinto, running until October 6. Monica Bonvicini debuts at Belvedere 21 with 'I Cannot Hide My Anger,' a large cube installation of 112 aluminum panels (1,600 cubic meters) critiquing institutional rhetoric, curated by Axel Köhne, through October 27. Sean Scully's 'Eleuthera' at Albertina Museum showcases 23 large oil paintings, pastels, drawings, and photos from 2015–2017 depicting his eight-year-old son, curated by Elisabeth Dutz, until September 6. The third Vienna Biennale for Change at MAK and other venues includes projects like 'Uncanny Values: Artificial Intelligence' and 'Hysterical Mining,' addressing societal change and urbanism, through October 6. Mumok's 'Vertigo. Op Art and a History of Vertigo from 1520 to 1970' traces optical art's cognitive and historical roots, curated by Eva Badura-Triska and Markus Wörgötter, until October 26. Helmut Wimmer's 'The Last Day' at Kunsthistorisches Museum presents surreal photographic tableaux of natural catastrophe overtaking human order, in the Sala Bassano, until September 1.