House of Challenging Orders

A condemned office building turns into the exhibition venue for the Vienna Art Week and becomes a unique creative experimental space. On three floors and a total of 1,000 square meters, around 40 national and international artists and performers question existing orders, canons and systems and invite us to challenge our own preconceived opinions and concepts.

Artists: Arbit City Group, Cana Bilir-Meier, Ting-Jung Chen, Decolonizing in Vienna, Rah Eleh, Köken Ergun, Shepard Fairy, Coco Fusco, Regina José Galindo, Guerrilla Girls, Enrique Ježik, Christa Joo Hyun D’Angelo, Dejan Kaludjerović, Nadine Lemke, Anna Lerchbaumer, Ernst Lima, Roberta Lima, Monica C. LoCascio, Manu Luksch, Jenny Marketou, Ryts Monet, Yoshinori Niwa, Mirabella Paidamwoyo Dziruni, Mai-Thu Perret, Christiane Peschek, Lisl Ponger, Arnold Reinthaler, Stefan Reiterer, Oliver Ressler, Pipilotti Rist, Maria Schneider, Mithu Sen, Gerald Straub, The Yes Men, Tom Waibel, Christina Werner, Daniel Zaman. Curated by Robert Punkenhofer and Julia Hartmann.

November 19–25, 2022, 1–7pm, House of Challenging Orders, Wiedner Haupstraße 140, 1050 Vienna (Austria).

The exhibition is part of the festival Vienna Art Week, which showcases Vienna´s vibrant art scene each year in November. Together with around 70 program partners, the festival offers a week of inspiring art from the Baroque to the present with free admission. The wide range of events during the week—from guided tours to expert talks, performances, workshops, exhibition openings and visits to artists’ studios—shows the city’s high-profile art scene. Vienna Art Week sees itself as a joint platform of the Viennese art community and is based on a cooperation of Viennese art institutions, art universities, galleries, and independent art spaces that is unique worldwide. It was founded in 2005 and has turned into one of the most important art events in the Danube region. Check out this year´s program on the program web app.