Exhibition
May 28, 2025 – November 14, 2025
Opening
May 27, 2025, 6:00 pm
Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation
Mariahilfer Straße 1b/Top 1, 1060 Wien
Exhibition of the Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation
In the last years of his life, the artist-architect Frederick Kiesler worked on a collection of diary-like notes, anecdotes and travelogues, complemented by poems and reflections on architecture and art. Due to Kiesler’s death in December 1965, the book project remained unfinished and was under the title Inside the Endless House. Art, People and Architecture. A Journal was published posthumously by his widow Lillian Kiesler.
Kiesler himself chose the working title The Endless Search. The exhibition follows this thought and takes visitors on an “endless search” or rather an endless journey through Kiesler’s architecture and art as well as to the collaborators who shaped his artistic network in New York. Individual projects are presented using exemplary objects – from the most famous ones such as his Endless House, to the stage designs for the Juilliard School of Music, to the Galaxy sculptures and portrait drawings by his friends. The exhibition also shows the great diversity of the archive of the Frederick Kiesler Foundation and includes the most varied types of media – such as glass plate slides, diaries, small models, drawings and life documents that have rarely or never been on display before.
Finissage and Closing Event
in the course of Vienna Art Week
Friday, November 14, 2025 at 6 p.m.
Start of the program at 7:30 p.m.
Event language: German and English
Free admission!
With texts by Frederick Kiesler,
read by Miriam Stoney,
music by Stefan Grimus.
The evening is hosted by Director Gerd Zillner.
Cultural Nomads
We are nomads – cultural nomads. Or better: Nomads of civilization. Moving from one apartment to another, from one town to another, or across borders into different lands. Seeking opportunities and quitting them of they fulfill their promise fast. We live an emergency life, a deadline life.
– Entry for Friday, January 22, 1960, p. 249
Frederick Kiesler, Inside the Endless House
(New York : Simon and Schuster, 1966)
