
Pipilotti Rist, Abdominal cavity flies over a dam, 2024, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2024/2025, large-scale picture

Anselm Kiefer, Solaris (for Stanislaw Lem), 2023, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2023/2024, large-scale picture

Cao Fei, The New Angel, 2022, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2022/2023, large-scale picture

Beatriz Milhazes, Pink Sunshine, 2021, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2021/2022, large-scale picture

Carrie Mae Weems, Queen B (Mary J. Blige), 2020, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2020/2021, large-scale picture

Martha Jungwirth, The Trojan Horse, 2019, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2019/2020, large scale picture

Pierre Alechinsky, Loin d'ici, 2018, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2018/2019, large-scale picture

John Baldessari, Graduation, 2017, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2017/2018, large-scale picture

Tauba Auerbach, A Flexible Fabric of Inflexible Parts III, 2016, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2016/2017, large scale picture

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Helen & Gordon, 2015, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2015/2016, large scale picture

Joan Jonas, 2014, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2014/2015, large-scale picture

Oswald Oberhuber, 2013, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2013/2014, large-scale picture

David Hockney, 2012, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2012/2013, large-scale picture

Cerith Wyn Evans, 2011, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2011/2012, large-scale picture

Cy Twombly, Bacchus, 2010, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2010/2011, large-scale picture

Franz West, Drei – Vom Vorgang ins Temperament, 2009, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2009/2010, large-scale picture

Rosemarie Trockel, 2008, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2008/2009, large-scale picture

Jeff Koons, Geisha, 2007, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2007/2008, large-scale picture

Rirkrit Tiravanija, Fear Eats the Soul, 2006, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2006/2007, large-scale picture

Maria Lassnig, Breakfast with Ear, 2005, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2005/2006, large-scale picture

Tacita Dean, Play as Cast, 2004, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2004/2005, large scale picture

Thomas Bayrle, 2003, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2003/2004, large scale picture

Giulio Paolini, 2002, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2002/2003, large-scale picture

Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, Looking Back, 2002, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Komische Oper Berlin, 2002/2003, large scale picture

Richard Hamilton, Retard en Fer – Delay in Iron, 2001, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2001/2002, large-scale picture

Matthew Barney, 2000, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 2000/2001, large-scale picture

Christine and Irene Hohenbüchler, 1999, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 1999/2000, large-scale picture

Kara Walker, 1998, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, 1998/1999, large scale picture

Curtain – Vorhang, 2017, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2017, publication

Curtain – Vorhang, 2017, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Vienna State Opera, Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2017, publication

Cao Fei, The New Angel, 2022, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, C-print, Acrylic glass, Alucubond, edition

Beatriz Milhazes, Pink Sunshine, 2021, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, lithography, edition

Carrie Mae Weems, MJB – Reflection, 2017/2020, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, Fuiflex on Alucubond, edition

Tauba Auerbach, Helix Latch, 2016, Safety Curtain, museum in progress, 3D print, hanging sculpture, edition




































"Safety Curtain" is an exhibition series conceived by museum in progress in cooperation with the Vienna State Opera, which transforms the safety curtain into a temporary exhibition space for contemporary art. For the 27th Safety Curtain, the jury (Daniel Birnbaum, Bice Curiger and Hans-Ulrich Obrist) selected the artist Pipilotti Rist.
The exhibition series “Safety Curtain” is a project of museum in progress in cooperation with the Vienna State Opera and the Bundestheater-Holding. Jury: Daniel Birnbaum, Bice Curiger and Hans-Ulrich Obrist. 2024/25 made possible with the generous support of iSi Group and Sikkens Prize. Further support from ART for ART, Bildrecht, Embassy of Switzerland in Austria, Hotel Altstadt, Johann Kattus and SO/ Vienna. Media partners: Die Furche and Die Presse.
Editions of some works from the exhibition series "Safety Curtain" have been published at museum in progress, see: mip.at/en/shop.
In 2002/03 museum in progress presented a "Safety Curtain" by the artist duo Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset at the Komische Oper Berlin. Curator: Ina Blom. In 2019 the Safety Curtain "Helen & Gordon" by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (from 2015/16) was newly presented at the Opéra Théâtre de Metz in cooperation with the Centre Pompidou-Metz.
The large-format pictures (Vienna: 176 square metres, Berlin: 90 square metres) are produced and installed using an innovative process: The images are printed on plastic-nets and they are fixed with magnets on the safety curtain.
Production: Trevision; Digital Imaging: Albert Winkler