THE FASCINATION OF PAPER
From Tizian to Kiefer
From 11 December 2025
Stay up-to-date
Sign up for our newsletter
ALBERTINA Tickets
Get your tickets online!
ALBERTINA MUSEUM, VIENNA
The ALBERTINA is home to one of the world’s largest collections of drawings, prints and artistic works on paper. Drawing on these rich holdings, this extraordinary exhibition indeed devotes itself to the diversity and fascination surrounding paper in all of its many aspects.
Covering multiple eras from the 15th century to the present, the presentation brings together works from the Graphic Art Collection, the Architectural Collection, and the Collection of Contemporary Art. Copperplate engravings for playing cards, multi-part three-dimensional objects of monumental proportions, and rarely shown works reveal the entire range of this one-of-a-kind collection and artistic genre. In the process, surprising juxtapositions vividly illustrate paper’s versatility as a medium.
The exhibition is on view from 11 December 2025 until 22 March 2026.
Annual Partner
Annual Partner
Partner
Sponsor
5.3 × 4.7 cm, Etching and drypoint (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
7.4 × 6.1 cm, woodcut, colored (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
14.7 × 11.2 cm, Etching (© Fondation Lucio Fontana, Milano / by SIAE / Bildrecht, Vienna 2025)
355 × 458 × 155 cm, Ink on paper (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – Acquisition from gallery funding of BMUKK 2012 © Birgit Knoechl / Bildrecht, Vienna 2025 / Photo: Thomas Gorisek)
268 × 398 cm, Woodcut, emulsion, acrylic, and shellac on paper, collage on canvas (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna Photo)
Photo: © Ulrich Ghezzi
121 × 220 cm (composed of twelve sheets), Woodcut from twelve plates (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
11.9 x 6.2 cm, Engraving (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
41.2 × 28 cm, Engraving (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
160 × 120 × 600 cm, Paper, torn, bracket made of metal and plastic (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna. Donation Sasa Hanten, Cologne/Vienna)
Photo: Max Brucker
58 × 49 × 50 cm, Cardboard, paper, plywood, glass (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
296 × 177.5 cm, C-print/Diasec (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – The ESSL Collection)
Photo: Courtesy the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery / Sprüth Magers / Esther Schipper, Berlin / Taka Ishii Gallery
single sheet: 83 × 41.3 cm, overall dimensions: 249 × 415 cm, Typescript on old notarial paper (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna | Courtesy Galerie Krinzinger and Johanna Calle.)
Photo: J.P. Gutierrez. Copyright Archivos Perez & Calle
69 × 50 cm, Embossed print (The ALBERTINA Museum)
45.9 × 19.2 cm, Woodcut (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
30.8 × 41.6 cm, Impregnated paper, cut (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
Single sheet: each 36 × 24.5 cm, unfolded: each 36 × 2572.5 cm, Color woodcuts in thirty-four triptychs, folded as a leporello (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)