Kunsthalle Wien presents a major retrospective of Richard Hawkins (born 1961, Mexia, Texas). The exhibition comprises over 100 works, including paintings, collages, sculptures, and videos that form nine different series from the past twenty years. It is the first institutional exhibition of Hawkins' works in over a decade and the first in Austria.

Over the past three decades, Hawkins has developed a unique practice based on the pleasure of looking and the dynamics of desire. He uses collages as a means of structuring and developing his compositions and describes his work as "promiscuously referential": In his works, which deal with themes from the history of artistic representation in sculpture, painting, literature, and performing arts, he freely quotes from popular culture. The retrospective focuses on works created between 2011 and 2025, many of which are being shown for the first time in an institutional context.