A.rtificial I.ntrospection O. — HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark

The exhibition A.rtificial I.ntrospection O. (A.I.O.) explores questions of thought, perception, and subjectivity at the intersection of introspection, cybernetics, and artificial intelligence. Its point of departure is the work of the Austrian writer, cognitive psychologist, and cybernetician Oswald Wiener (1935 – 2021), whose genuine thinking since the 1950s critically navigated between these fields while systematically resisting institutional appropriation.

Curators: Sandro Droschl with Franca Zitta
Curatorial consultation, Estate of Oswald Wiener: Thomas Eder, Thomas Raab
Cooperation: Franz Nabl Institute for Literary Research / Literaturhaus Graz: Klaus Kastberger, Daniela Bartens

Slide show

Online guide

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*A.rtificial I.ntrospection O.*, 2026
Exhibition view HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz
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Walter Pichler, *TV-Helmet (Portabel Living Room)*, 1967/2022
Silver gelatin print
116 x 112 cm, ramed
Courtesy Galerie Krinzinger and Estate of Walter Pichler, Vienna
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Morag Keil, *Mr. Magic*, 2024
Mannequin, microwave, table, armchair, cameras, screens, phone and apple
Variable dimensions
Courtesy Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin

Agnes Scherer, *An unnamed file contains an incorrect path*, 2021
Wooden sculpture, painting on canvas, mural
Screen: 214 x 330 cm; keyboard: 214 x 330 cm
Courtesy the artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin; Sans Titre, Paris
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Tishan Hsu, *Breath 2*, 2021
UV print, silicone on wood
121,9 x 57,5 x 7,6 cm
Courtesy Private Collection, Paris
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Tiffany Sia, *Antipodes II*, 2024
Rewired rear-view mirror with recorded live-stream video of the port Okinawa for a duration of 24 hours
26 × 7,5 × 9 cm
Courtesy the artist and Maxwell Graham, New York
Photo: kunst-dokumentation.com

Text

At the center of Wiener’s investigations lies human thought and consciousness, which he approached throughout his life — outside the scientific establishment — with an unorthodox and inspiring methodology. His works formulate early key questions of artificial intelligence and of the problems inherent in its theoretical and conceptual foundations. For Wiener, consciousness is not organized by language and therefore cannot be simulated with the current state of technology.

Central to the exhibition is Wiener’s concept of introspection as a practice of cognitive psychology, which he repeatedly adapted and reoriented over the course of his life, first emphasizing it in literary form and later in scientific terms. His book die verbesserung von mitteleuropa, roman (the improvement of Central Europe, a novel) (1969) and subsequent texts form a theoretical and experimental point of reference for the exhibition. Engaging with Alan Turing’s theory of automata, Ludwig Wittgenstein’s critique of language, and cybernetic concepts, Wiener develops a radical critique of the humanistic conception of the subject. In the appendix of the work — the partly ironic bio-adapter—the human being appears not as an autonomous conscious entity, but as an automaton that dissolves into its environment in the form of a technical suit of gratification.

From cybernetics comes the Turing Test, formulated in 1950 by the British mathematician Alan Turing, which examines the distinguishability of machine and human through the evaluation of verbal expression. If an interrogator cannot determine which interlocutor is human and which is a machine, the two must be understood as equivalent. What is evaluated in this process is human-like behavior in terms of linguistic ability and plausible responses, not intelligence itself. According to Wiener, the problem of the Turing Test lies in its behaviorist approach, which is based on the observation of events and the statistics derived from them, while ignoring subjective consciousness. What Turing failed to take into account were the unobservable qualities of human thought, such as imagination, emotion, perception, and an understanding of the world.

Wiener confronted these fundamental questions of humanity and worked toward a theory of thinking by complementing automata theory — grounded in formalization — with introspection, in order to arrive at robust definitions through which human thought and consciousness might become explicable.

The exhibition

A.rtificial I.ntrospection O. relates Wiener’s theoretical positions to contemporary artistic practices that engage with introspection and cybernetics. Art is not understood as a counter-model to technology, but rather as a field in which similar processes of translation are at work as in cybernetics: visual, linguistic, and affective information is encoded, decoded, and transferred into circulating systems. Against the backdrop of a present situation in which algorithmic systems increasingly support decision-making in administration, law, communication, and the military, and in which AI-based language models simulate human communication, Wiener’s skeptical thinking gains renewed urgency. The indistinguishability of human and machine language production, paradigmatically embedded in the Turing Test, shifts the question away from intelligence toward issues of observability, control, and self-description.

The figure of the dandy, which fascinated Wiener, combines a hoped-for distancing from the mechanical with an inwardly oriented self-conception. In this way, it forms a hinge between solipsistic self-reflection and the subject’s social embeddedness. Today, this appears considerably more difficult. A.I.O. understands the introspection of human thinking not only as artistic research, but as a political and epistemic practice: as a way of critically reflecting on the increasingly intimate relationship between body, language, and automated systems. The exhibition opens the historical horizon of Wiener’s thinking toward artists close to him and a younger generation that does not continue his questions directly, but reconfigures them under contemporary conditions. Progress or innovation is not at the center; rather, the focus lies on the question of how subjectivity can remain representable under cybernetic conditions — and whether introspection and self-optimization, as Wiener proposed, constitute a final form of agency.

What effects cybernetic intelligence will have on our everyday lives, our bodies, and our language remains partially open and can so far only be anticipated; they are and will certainly be considerable. The experimental exhibition A.I.O. seeks to make Oswald Wiener’s ideas artistically productive and to go beyond them. It engages with the relationship between cybernetics and introspection — and in doing so, interrogates the interaction between human and machine.

The exhibition is accompanied by an extensive public program, which begins at Literaturhaus Graz on May 28 with a staged reading of the collective Planetenparty Prinzip and a panel discussion with prominent participants. In the performed text Purim, language is radicalized as a system of disturbance through inversions, masquerades, and the dissolution of boundaries, thereby facilitating productive introspection.

Artists

Participating artists

Solo shows (selection): Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin (2023), FOTOHOF, Salzburg (2023), Galerie Buchholz, Cologne (2022), Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA), Barcelona (2014), Villa Arson, Nice (2014), CFA, Berlin (2011), Galerie Charim, Vienna (2004), Mack, Graz (1996), Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna (1988, 1981), Galerie Maerz, Linz (1971).

Group shows (selection): HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz (2026), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2024), MUMOK, Vienna (2024), Lentos Art Museum, Linz (2023), Kunsthaus Graz (2021), Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2020), Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (2019), Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (mumok), Vienna (2017), 55th Venice Biennale, Venice (2013), ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe (2010), Generali Foundation, Vienna (2004), 47th Venice Biennale, Venice (1997), documenta 6, Kassel (1977), “Art and Revolution,” University of Vienna (1968).

Solo shows (selection): Ulrik, New York (2025, 2022), Kunstzentrum Amant, New York (2024), Haus am Waldsee, Berlin (2024), Schiefe Zähne, Berlin (2022), Stadtgalerie Bern (2021), Kunstverein München, Munich (2021), FELIX GAUDLITZ, Vienna (2020), Outpost, Norwich (2017), Cell Project Space, London (2017).

Group shows (selection): HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz (2026), ICA London, London (2026), GEMS, New York (2024), Podium, Oslo (2023), 112 Hudson Street, New York (2023), Universitätsgalerie im Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna (2022), Francesca Pia, Zurich (2021), Fanta-MLN, Milan (2020), Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2019), Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York (2019), Raven Row, London (2017), tranzitdisplay, Prague (2018), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2017).

Solo shows (selection): BRUSEUM, Neuen Galerie Graz (2026), Kunsthaus Bregenz (2024), Bruseum, Graz (2024), Albertina Modern, Vienna (2023), Belvedere 21, Vienna (2018), Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (2016), Musee d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg (2010), Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz (2008), Slought Foundation, Philadelphia (2006), MACBA, Barcelona (2005), Albertina, Vienna (2003), Centre Pompidou, Paris (2001,1993), Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (1986), Galerie Heike Curtze, Vienna (1970).

Group exhibitions (selection): HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz (2026), mumok, Vienna (2024, 2016), Tate Modern, London (2012), 47th Biennale of Venice (1997), documenta 7 (1982), 39th Biennale of Venice (1980), documenta 6, Kassel (1977), documenta 5, Kassel (1972), Universität Wien, Vienna (1968).

Solo shows (selection): Thaddaeus Ropac, Milan (2025), Museumsquartier, Vienna (2024), C/O Berlin (2024), Albertina, Vienna (2023,2024), Winterthur Fotomuseum (2023), Rencontres d‘Árles, Arles (2022), Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz (2020, 2017, 2010), Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (2018), Thaddaeus Ropac, London/Paris (2018), Belvedere 21, Vienna (2010), Centre Pompidou, Paris (2007), Camden Arts Centre, London (2004), Santa Monica Museum of Art (2001).

Group shows (selection): Modern Art Oxford, Oxford (2025), Dundee Contemporary Arts, UK (2024), La morsure de termites, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2023), Thaddeaus Ropac, Paris (2020), Museum of Modern Art, New York (2010), 58. Biennale von Venice (2019), mumok, Vienna (2015), 12. Istanbul Biennale (2011), documenta 12, Kassel (2007), MoMA PS1, New York (1999), 39. Biennale, Venice (1980), documenta 6, Kassel (1977).

Solo shows (selection): Lisson Gallery, New York (2026,2025), Secession, Vienna (2024), Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, Toronto (2024), MAMCO, Geneva (2024), the High Line, New York (2024), Galerie Max Mayer, Düsseldorf (2023), Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York (2021), Empty Gallery, Hong Kong (2021, 2019), SculptureCenter, New York (2020), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2020), TheAnnex, New York (2002), Pat Hearn Gallery, New York (1987, 1989), Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (1987).

Group shows (selection): Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago (2025), Museum Marta Herford & Kunsthalle Bielefeld (2024), Future of Today Biennale, Beijing (2023), 59th Biennale of Venice (2022), Museion, Bolzano (2021), 58th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2022), Centre Pompidou, Paris (2021), 13th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (2021), Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt am Main (2021), K11 Musea, Hong Kong (2021), White Columns, New York (2019).

Solo shows (selection): Arcadia Missa, London (2026), Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin (2024), Jenny´s, Los Angeles (2023, 2018, 2014), Project Native Informant, London (2022, 2018, 2013), Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London (2019), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2014), Real Fine Arts, New York (2013, 2011), Cubitt, London (2013), Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea (2013).

Group shows (selection): HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz (2026), Fluentum, Berlin (2025), Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg (2025), Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2024), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2022), Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2020), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2019), Fondazione Prada, Venice (2015), Swiss Institute, New York (2014), Vilma Gold, London (2011).

Solo shows (selection): Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (2024), Lisson Gallery, New York (2024), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2023), Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo (2020), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2016), Modern Art Oxford, Oxford (2015), Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (2015), 47 Canal, New York (2013, 2011).

Group shows (selection): Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2026), CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (2025), Rubell Museum, Washington D.C. (2024), Whitney Biennial (2019), Museum of Modern Art, New York (2019), Hirschhorn Museum, Washington D.C. (2018), 9th Berlin Biennale (2015), 13th Lyon Biennale (2015), Whitney Biennial, New York (2014), MoMA PS1, New York (2012).

Solo shows (selection): Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne (2025, 2023, 2017, 2015), Greene Naftali, New York (2024, 2021, 2018), Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare, Bolzano (2021), Museum Brandhorst, Munich (2019), Kunsthalle Bern (2017), Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto (2016), Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2015), CAPC Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux (2012), Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2008), Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (2008), Secession, Vienna (2005).

Group shows (selection): Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (2026), Museum Brandhorst, Munich (2025), Museion Bolzano, Bolzano (2025), University of Applied Arts Vienna, Die Angewandte, Vienna (2024), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2022), Fondazione Prada, Venice (2021), Kunsthalle Basel (2021), Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt am Main (2019), Reina Sofía, Madrid (2018), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2017), Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna (2017), Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2015), Bienale de São Paulo (2012), MoMA PS1, New York (2011), Portikus, Frankfurt am Main (2007).

Solo shows (selection): DesMoinesArt Center, Des Moines, Iowa (2026), LUMA Arles, Arles (2025), Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong (2025), Petzel Gallery, New York (2024), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2019), Albertina, Vienna (2019, 2017), Museum Folkwang, Essen (2017), Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (2016), MoMA PS1, New York (2014), Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (2013), Museum of modern Art Ludwig Foundation, Vienna (2009), Serpentine Gallery, London (2008), Hauser & Wirth, London (2004), Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna (1999), Centre Pompidou, Paris (1995), Kunstmuseum Luzern (1987).

Group shows (selection): New Museum, New York (2026), Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (2026), Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz (2025), Literature Museum of the Austrian National Library, Vienna (2024), Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (2020), 55th Biennale of Venice (2013), documenta 10 (1997), 8th Gwangju Biennale (2010), 50th Biennale, Venice (2003), documenta 7, Kassel (1982), 39th Biennale of Venice (1980).

Solo shows (selection): Reena Spaulings, New York (2025), Museum of Modern Afrt, New York (2021), University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Art Gallery, Honolulu (2021), Pilar Corrias, London (2019), Sobreteixims I escultures, Barcelona (2016, 1978, 1972, 1968), Fundació Gaspar, Barcelona (2016), Screen Presence, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2014), Pilar Corrias, London (2014), MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2013), Hessel Museum of Art, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies (2013), Take Ninagawa, Tokyo (2012).

Group shows (selection): Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago (2025), 303 Gallery, New York (2025), Museum of Modern Art, New York (2024−25), Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf (2024), apexart, New York (2023), Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2017), The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2015), New Museum Triennial, New York (2015), Whitney Biennale 2014, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2014), Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (2013), Artists Space, New York (2013), Kunsthaus Bregenz (2013), White Columns, New York (2011).

Solo shows (selection): Haus der Kunst, Munich (2023), Museum der Moderne Salzburg (2022), Belvedere 21, Vienna (2016, 2013), Städel Museum, Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna (2011), Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna (2001), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1998), Israel Museum, Jerusalem (1978), Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover (1977), MoMA PS1, New York (1975), Museum of Modern Art, New York (1967).

Group shows (selection): Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna (2024), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2018), Kunsthaus Graz (2023), 57th Venice Biennale (2017), Museum der Moderne Salzburg (2016÷17), Centre Pompidou, Paris (2016), Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013), 13th Istanbul Biennale (2013), documenta 7, Kassel (1982), documenta 6, Kassel (1977), documenta 5, Kassel (1972), 34th Venice Biennale (1968).

Solo shows (selection): Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna (2026), Almine Rech, Shanghai (2021), Gagosian, New York (2020), Almine Rech Brussels, Brussels (2019), Secession, Vienna (2018), Galerie Charim, Vienna (2017), Zeit Kunst, Krems (2015), Museo Madre, Neapel (2015), Galerie Konzett, Wien (2012, 2009, 1990), Ancient & Modern, London (2010).

Group shows (selection): HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz (2026), Hai Art Museum, Shanghai (2025), Albertina Modern, Vienna (2020), Centre Pompidou, Paris (2019), Rubell Museum, Miami (2019), Kunsthalle Wien (2019, 2011), Lentos Art Museum, Linz (2018), 57th Venice Biennale (2017), 21er Haus, Vienna (2016), Belvedere 21er Haus, Vienna (2016, 2014), Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (mumok), Vienna (2010), Neue Galerie Graz (2007), Venice Biennale (2007), Künstlerhaus Vienna (2002).

Solo shows (selection): Galerie Konzett, Vienna (2025), MCA Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago (2024), Museum Ostwall, Dortmund (2024), Kunsthaus Zug (2023), Hauser & Wirth, St. Moritz (2022), Galerie Buchholz, Cologne (2022), National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík (2022), Hauser & Wirth, Zurich (2019, 2018), Galerie Papillon, Paris (2013), Museum Ostwall, Dortmund (2016), Camden Art Centre, London (2013), Museum der Moderne Mönchsburg, Salzburg (2012), Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart (2009), Gladstone Gallery, New York (2008), Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna (2006), Museum of Modern Art, New York (2004), Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2003), Schaulager, Basel (2003), Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (2000), Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2001). Galerie Littmann, Basel (1989), European Gallery, San Francisco (1973).

Group shows (selection): Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim (2026), Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Solothurn (2026), Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart (2025), MAKK Museum of Applied Arts Cologne, Cologne (2024), mumok, Vienna (2024), Archives of Ontario, Toronto (2024), Dresden Royal Palace, Dresden (2023), Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn (2022), Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern (2011), documenta 11, Kassel (2002), 48th Venice Biennale (1999), documenta 6, Kassel (1977), documenta 4, Kassel (1968).

Solo shows (selection): Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (2026), Sans titre, Paris (2025), Sadie Coles, London (2024), ChertLüdde Berlin (2024), Kunsthalle Wien (2023), PAGE, New York (2022), Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (2021), Sans titre, Paris (2025, 2022, 2020), ChertLüdde, Berlin (2021, 2024), Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich (2020), 1646, The Hague (2020), Kinderhook & Caracas, Berlin (2019), TRAMPS, New York (2018).

Group shows (selection): Moderna Museet, Stockholm, (2026), HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz (2026), 12th SITE SANTA FE International, Santa Fe (2025), Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2024), Sans titre, Paris (2024), Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2023), CAL, Charleroi (2022), Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (2019), Sans titre, Paris (2018, 2017).

Solo shows (selection): Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2026), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2026), Stanford University, Stanford (2025), Mudam Luxembourg, Kirchberg (2025), Maxwell Graham Gallery, New York (2024), ajh.pm, Bielefeld (2023), Felix Gaudlitz, Vienna (2022), Artists Space, New York (2021), Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2021).

Group shows (selection): HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz (2026), Asia Culture Center, Seoul (2026), Museum Brandhorst, Munich (2026), MoMA PS1, New York (2026), Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, New York (2025), Felix Gaudlitz, Wien (2025), Maxwell Graham Gallery, New York (2024), Museum of Modern Art, New York (2023), Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul (2022), Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2022), Art at a Time Like This, New York (2020), Chinatown Soup, New York (2019).

Solo shows (selection): David Zwirner, Paris (2023), Galerie Thoman, Vienna (2022), CAC Málaga, Málaga (2021), Gagosian, New York (2021), Tate Modern, London (2019), Centre Pompidou, Paris (2018), Gagosian, Geneva (2017), The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield (2014), mumok – Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna (2013), Gagosian, Rome (2010), Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore (2008), Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz (2003), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2001), The Museum of Modern Art, New York (1997), Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna (1996), Secession, Vienna (1987).

Group shows (selection): mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna (2024), Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich (2022), 54th Venice Biennale, Venice (2011), documenta 12, Kassel (2007), 50th Venice Biennale, Venice (2003), documenta 10, Kassel (1997), documenta 9, Kassel (1992), 44th Venice Biennale, Venice (1990), documenta 7, Kassel (1982).

Solo shows (selection): Barbara Wien, Berlin (2026), Marta Herford, Herford (2025), Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven (2023), Museum Hartberg, Hartberg (2020), Barbara Wien, Berlin (2019, 2015, 2011, 2006, 2001), Lisa Cooley Gallery, New York (2016), Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris (2014), Power Station of Art, Shanghai (2014), Neue Galerie Graz at the Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz (2006).

Group shows (selection): HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz (2026), Ausstellungshaus Spoerri, Haderdorf am Kamp, (2023), Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin (2018), Charim Galerie, Vienna (2017, 2015), Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris (2014), Kunsthaus Weiz, Weiz (2013), Kunsthalle Berlin, Berlin (2010), Galerie Charim, Vienna (1998 – 2007), exhibitions including MAC Marseille, Secession Vienna, Schaulager Basel, Museum Ludwig Cologne, MOMA New York (1974 – 97).

Reviews

"Ein Experiment als Annäherung", Christoph Hartner, Kronenzeitung Print, 25.5.2026, PNG (1 MB)
"Übers Denken nachdenken", Wenzel Mracek, Kleine Zeitung Print, 31.5.2026, PDF (577 KB)
"Vom Mensch zur Maschine", Christoph Hartner, Kronenzeitung Print, 4.6.2026, PDF (2 MB)
"Ausstellung über den Vordenker Oswald Wiener", Petra Erdmann, Ö1 / Diagonal ab Minute 49:08 Online, 6.6.2026
"Oswald Wiener und frühe Ideen zur Künstlichen Intelligenz", Kirsten Hauser, ORF / Steiermark heute ab Minute 4:53 Online, 7.6.2026
Exhibition preview Europe, Frieze No 259 Print, 30.5.2026, PDF (2 MB)
"A.rtificial I.ntrospection O.", Contemporary Art Library, Los Angeles Online, 12.7.2026
"A.rtificial I.ntrospection O.", Most Magazine, Ewa Borysiewicz, Poland Online, 12.8.2026

Program

Upcoming events

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20 Thu

20.8.2026 18:00 h

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Reading Performance

Tribute

27 Thu

27.8.2026 18:00 h

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Lecture

Oswald Wiener’s reflections on the tension between dandyism, paranoia, and AI, as an early foreshadowing of the current problems faced by large language models—namely, autophagy, hallucinations, and the Habsburg effect

3 Thu

3.9.2026 18:00 h

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Lecture

Thomas Raab

Education

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21 Fri

21.8.2026 18:00–20:00 h

Education

Workshop

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Press

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Press release A.rtificial I.ntrospection O. PDF (70 KB)
Press release: A.rtificial I.ntrospection O. PDF (75 KB)
Invitation card A.rtificial I.ntrospection O. - 1 PDF (396 KB)
Invitation card A.rtificial I.ntrospection O. - 2 PDF (370 KB)

Press images

A.rtificial I.ntrospection O.
Oswald Wiener, Jenna Bliss, Günter Brus, Valie Export, Tishan Hsu, Morag Keil, Josh Kline, Michael Krebber, Maria Lassnig, Ken Okiishi, Walter Pichler, Rudolf Polanszky, Dieter Roth, Agnes Scherer, Tiffany Sia, Franz West, Ingrid Wiener
20.5.–6.9.2026

Views

Text

The exhibition

Artists

Oswald Wiener

Jenna Bliss

Günter Brus

Valie Export

Tishan Hsu

Morag Keil

Josh Kline

Michael Krebber

Maria Lassnig

Ken Okiishi

Walter Pichler

Rudolf Polanszky

Dieter Roth

Agnes Scherer

Tiffany Sia

Franz West

Ingrid Wiener

Reviews

Program

Tribute: Oswald Wiener and Cybernetics
Bryony Jean Dawson

Oswald Wiener’s reflections on the tension between dandyism, paranoia, and AI, as an early foreshadowing of the current problems faced by large language models—namely, autophagy, hallucinations, and the Habsburg effect
Hans-Christian Dany

What Is Epistemology? A Simple Introduction to Oswald Wiener’s Thought
Thomas Raab

Education

Session
Introspection as practice

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