Foto Wien

For an entire month, Austria’s largest biennial photography festival transforms Vienna into a lively stage for the medium of photography. Museums, galleries, academies, and project spaces invite visitors to explore the wide range of photographic images on display.

During OPENING DAYS from 4 to 5 October, 2025, the festival headquarters at FOTO ARSENAL WIEN will offer an exciting program of talks, panel discussions, workshops, and the photobook fair BOOK DAYS. Under the motto “dynamic futures,” FOTO WIEN 2025 highlights the role of photography as a window into the future. 

The main theme of FOTO WIEN 2025 is dynamic futures, an exploration of speculative future scenarios that address the impact of scientific and technological progress on society as seen through the lens of photography.What visions of the future are revealed in historical and contemporary images of science and art? How do photography and post-digital technologies influence the way we imagine our future? What ethical and sociopolitical questions do digital and algorithmic images pose? As a transdisciplinary testing ground between art, science, and technology, FOTO WIEN 2025 examines photography as a window to the future and offers a rich program of exhibitions, panels, artist talks, workshops and many more from 3 October to 2 November, 2025.

Find out more here: Foto Wien