Digital art up close: Egon Schiele VR-Experience in St. Pölten!

Digital art up close: Egon Schiele VR-Experience in St. Pölten!

On June 5, 2025, an event with the title "Talk to Egon Schiele. instead of. Over 60 participants, including prominent guests such as Gerda Leopold, Sebastian Endler from Amilux Film, Christian Huemer (Head of Belvedere Research Center) and Stefan Kutzenberger (writer and curator), came together to experience and discuss the latest VR Experience "Egon Schiele-a personal encounter". This interactive experience enables users to immerse yourself in a virtual world that addresses the artist's last hours.

As part of the VR Experience, visitors have the opportunity to interact directly with a AI-controlled portrait of Egon Schiele. You can choose different topics and thus influence the course of the experience yourself. This new presentation is a central part of the museum, which has invited its visitors to his visitors under the lead motif "Egon Schiele Privat" since 2018 to deal more intensively with the biography and the topics of his work.

Details on VR-Experience

The VR Experience "Egon Schiele-A personal encounter" addresses Schiele's life during the Spanish flu in Austria. Flashbacks to Vienna around 1900 and key moments of his life are impressively conveyed. In a period of about 35 minutes, participants can enjoy the interactive experience available in German and English. The booking is made via the manufacturer and participation is free of charge as part of the museum entry.

The experience is offered from Tuesday to Sunday for several time windows: 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. Reservation of the time slots in advance is necessary. In addition, audiovisual stations with original voices from Schiele's environment are also available that make the visit even more tangible.

other activities in the Egon-Schiele Museum

The Egon Schiele Museum has already planned future exhibitions that will run by November 2, 2025. These include "Egon Schiele. I!", "Anton Peschka. Friend, brother -in -law, artist and collector" and unpublished interviews with Elisabeth Leopold. These developments support the aim of the museum to convey and discuss the artistic heritage of Schiel in the most modern aspects.

For more information and bookings, interested parties can contact the museum by phone at 02272/64570 or by email at info@schielemuseum.at. The museum's website can be reached at www.schielemuseum.at . In addition, the interactive VR Experience, which also took place in the Leopold Museum in Vienna between April 3 and 28, 2025, remains a fascinating example of contemporary digital museum offers that combine art and technology. Here visitors were also able to experience the last hours of Egon Schiele and step into the exchange.

Overall, this initiative shows how digital experiences in museums can change the way in which visitors come into contact with historical art and their creators. They not only promote understanding of the works of art, but also create unique, personal encounters with the artists themselves.