Sue Williams. WHAT NOW: Exploring Power, Gender, and Body Politics at Belvedere 21 Vienna

This comprehensive exhibition at Belvedere 21 showcases the work of American painter Sue Williams, exploring her engagement with power, oppression, gender relations, and body politics since the late 1980s. The exhibition features works in painting, drawing, and collage from across her career, highlighting her critical feminist perspective and diverse painterly strategies.

In Spring 2026, Belvedere 21 will present a comprehensive exhibition of the American painter Sue Williams (* 1954, Chicago Heights, Illinois). Since the late 1980s, Williams has consistently addressed issues of power and oppression, gender relations, and body politics in her paintings and drawings. She consistently pursues a critical-feminist agenda within a field long considered a patriarchal domain, which she masterfully engages with through a variety of painterly strategies. The exhibition delves into her artistic evolution, from early works marked by a comic-like style and raw anger against sexual violence and misogyny, to her development of gestural-abstract visual language in the 1990s, and further to her recent complex compositions that oscillate between figuration and abstraction. The exhibition encompasses works in painting, drawing, and collage from all phases of the artist's career, from the late 1980s to the immediate present, demonstrating the unique power of her images that combine personal and political, humorous caricature, and stark explicitness.

Tickets can be booked online to secure your time slot. Information on admission prices and booking is available via the provided link. The exhibition is located at Belvedere 21, Arsenalstraße 1, 1030 Vienna.