Wild Apollo’s Arrows. Klopstock Cult & Ossian Fever
7.3.–25.5.2025 

Opening: Thursday, 6 March 2025, 19 h
Press tour: Thursday, 6 March 2025, 11 h
Accreditation via email to: kunstsammlungen_presse@akbild.ac.at

Location: Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Paintings Gallery and Exhibit Gallery, Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna
Opening hours: daily except Monday, 10–18 h

An exhibition by the Art Collections in cooperation with Exhibit Galerie

Decades before the French Revolution, the Age of Enlightenment saw a sudden outbreak of irrational sentiment, expressed in exuberant emotions, notions of spiritualistic gender switching, and a fragmented, heroic, and introspective view of art. This was the onset of an epochal shift with consequences for pictorial art: reliance on the actual appearance of things gave way to the mystical and diffuse, accompanied by a greater interest in the realm of acoustics. 

In parallel to the exhibition Wild Apollo’s Arrows. Klopstock Cult & Ossian Fever in three rooms at the Paintings Gallery and three at the Exhibit Gallery, we continue to present our collection in the Paintings Gallery with alternating thematic focuses under the motto Considering the Collection.


More information about the content of the exhibition in the > presserelease.pdf.