For the 21st time, VIENNA ART WEEK shines a spotlight on Vienna’s vibrant art scene: together with around 70 program partners, the festival offers a full week of inspiring art – from contemporary to Baroque – with free admission.

Each autumn, 24 Vienna-based galleries invite international curators to respond to a yearly changing theme in the form of an exhibition reflecting on the urgent issues of our time. Founded in 2009 as a platform for artistic exchange, funded by the city of Vienna and led by its galleries, curated by is a unique initiative celebrating artists while fostering international critical discourse. Rooted in collaboration among galleries and taking the form of a city-wide Festival, curated by provides exceptional exhibitions and an encompassing experience of Vienna and its galleries, welcoming numerous visitors from around the world to the city.

Born in Linz in 1971, Tobias Pils is among the most exciting painters working today. Employing a heavily reduced color palette, he creates paintings and drawings that weave abstract and representational elements into associative pictorial worlds. What in terms of subject matter can be interpreted as an investigation of both elementary and personal themes like birth and death or becoming and passing, also negotiates central questions in painting at large. For in Pils’ visual cosmos, one painterly mark leads to the next, one image to another, as if painting were constantly staging its own death and rebirth.

METABOLICA leads us into the factory of life and tells a molecular story of metabolic cycles across five chapters – from the Industrial Revolution to the present and future, from whaling and the petromodern age to current and emerging scenarios of the bioeconomy. Algae and bacteria become artistic collaborators, forming a new visual and aesthetic practice through microbiological processes.

The international art trade will gather in Cologne from 6 to 9 November 2025 for the 58th edition of ART COLOGNE. Around 165 galleries and dealers from 25 countries will then present a diverse and high quality programme. As the most important meeting point for galleries, collectors and art institutions in Germany, the world's first art fair provides not only a broad offering of modern and contemporary art, but also a place for exchange, inspiration and social reflection. Art here is the starting point for conversations about the environment, identity, politics and values – and ART COLOGNE thus a provider of impulses for the future.