Since his participation in Peter Greenaway’s legendary Vienna exhibition “100 Objects to represent the world” in 1992, Virgil Widrich has been involved in the creation of exhibitions and entire museums in various roles as project manager, conceptual designer, exhibition designer or artistic director.
On 11 June 2026, the Museum of Military History opened “Violence – Society. Austria in the Age of the World Wars, 1918–1955”, the first major exhibition project of its programmatic realignment. checkpointmedia, led by Marc Schuran and Virgil Widrich, developed the exhibition design.
For the exhibition IN-SIGHT: Gustav Klimt – The Bride at the Upper Belvedere, checkpointmedia (Marc Schuran, Virgil Widrich) was responsible for the exhibition design.
Graphic production for the exhibition in the State Hall of the Austrian National Library. Following „Image.Power.Politics“ and “The Danube – A Journey into the Past,” checkpointmedia, in collaboration with Nicole Stadler (Pop.Cut), is once again responsible for the graphic production of an exhibition in the State Hall of the Austrian National Library: “A Century in Pictures. Austria 1925–2025.”
The exhibition “Gustav Klimt. Pigment & Pixel” at the Belvedere Vienna combines art and technology, offering new insights into Klimt’s painting techniques. checkpointmedia developed the exhibition design, where originals, technological analyses, and digital reconstructions are presented in three sections.
Graphic design of the exhibition in the State Hall of the Austrian National Library.
Graphic design of the spectacular 44-meter reproduction of the famous Pasetti map.
The princely court of Salzburg – a centre of European musical culture 1587 – 1807 19.7.2020 to 2.1.2022, DomQuartier Salzburg Artistic direction: Virgil Widrich, exhibition design: Hans Kudlich
Artistic director of the exhibition.
Data Loam
On two corresponding screens the video installation “Teleplasmatic Views of Vienna” deconstructs and reinterprets Vienna’s Stephansplatz.
Exhibition on the research project on contexts of meaning through categorization and indexation.
Video installation in an endless loop in the former Sophienspital for the Vienna Design Week 2018.
Exhibition in Salzburg about central stages in the life of the Trapp family, known from “The Sound of Music”.
The exhibition “Aesthetics of change: 150 Years of the University of Applied Arts Vienna” in two parts casts a glance back onto 150 years of the University’s history, while at the same time daring to look into the future.
The installation “Memory Palace” reflects the house from the film “Night of a 1000 Hours” which has been built using rear projections, backdrops, props, costumes and light and brought to life around the actors for the film.
Media installation as part of the exhibition “ANALOG_DIGITAL. Media (Ex)changes” at METRO Kinokulturhaus.
On the occasion of the exhibition “Analog_Digital. Media (Ex)Changes” the Filmarchiv Austria is showing a fascinating cross section of national and international analogue/digital cinema in a retrospective curated by Virgil Widrich.
Film director and multimedia artist Virgil Widrich transforms the strongroom of a former bank into a surface for projections.
Annual exhibition of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Design and implementation of the anniversary event.
Exhibition of the classes Art & Science and Site-Specific Art in cooperation with CERN, art@CMS and HEPHY.
Annual exhibition of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Annual exhibition of Art & Science on the topic “Information through Sound”.
The large-scale media installation “Figaro Parallelo” allows a comparison of recent productions of “The Marriage of Figaro”.
Media installation for the exhibition “A Rush of Color – Masterpieces of German Expressionism” at the Leopold Museum Vienna.
Annual exhibition of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
The consortium of checkpointmedia Multimediaproduktionen AG / OMS Objektmanagement Service GmbH was commissioned in June 2013 as sole contractor for the design, construction and furnishing of the new museum.
Annual exhibition of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Exhibition and transdisciplinary pieces in 3 acts by Art & Science students at the University of Applied Arts at University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU).
Biosphere n+1
Liquid Things
An exhibition of the University of Applied Arts Vienna during Vienna Art Week 2013.
checkpointmedia develops and installs a new music workshop with three studios for experimenta Heilbronn.
Annual exhibition of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Micro-exhibitions at 6 locations by students of Art & Science at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
For the reopening of the world’s largest and oldest collection of meteorites in 2012, the vast collection of extraordinary exhibits is expanded by the skilful inclusion of media stations, interactive hands-on stations and animations.
Annual exhibition of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Visitor Centre “Erste Campus-Schauplatz” about the future headquarters of Erste Group on the site of the former Vienna South Railway Station.
Exhibition of the University of Applied Arts/Art & Science at the Museum of Natural History Vienna on the occasion of the Vienna Art Week 2011.
Annual exhibition of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Annual exhibition of the students of the Master course “Art & Science Visualization” at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
The history of the Salzburg Festival as a accessible spatial sculpture with different layers of mediation in the Salzburg Museum.
Annual exhibition of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
make/real
The history of Linz was worked out on the basis of different, partly very personal perspectives to a house with many rooms.
Annual exhibition of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Exhibition of the Department of Digital Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna at Freiraum/quartier21 Vienna.
Annual exhibition of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
The corporate museum designed by checkpointmedia presents 50 years of Krones’ history and technical developments.
In the course of the redesign of the Swarovski Crystal Worlds, further attractions attracting the public were conceived and implemented in 2007.
checkpointmedia GmbH – Multimedia Productions
Since 27 January 2006 (Mozart’s 250th birthday), this fully refurbished house containing Mozart’s former apartment, the only one of his Viennese residences still in existence today, has paid homage to the life and work of the musical genius.
Five media stations equipped with high-format 30-inch screens enable visitors to call up texts, pictures, graphics, animation films and short video clips.
The media stations in the visitor centre of the Austrian Parliament serve to impart knowledge and are integrated into the architecture.
Supplemented by an interactive module, the original Sattler-Panorama is now once again open to the public at the Salzburg Museum
The exhibition Hans Moser on the popular Austrian actor and the virtual national institution was one of the most successful exhibitions ever held in the Austrian Theatre Museum.
The Crystal Worlds, designed by André Heller in Wattens, Tyrol, was opened in 1995 for Swarovski’s 100th anniversary. Since then it has been continually expanded and further attractions have been added.
Extensive multimedia planning and implementation of Red Bull Hangar-7 at Salzburg Airport.
For the exhibition “Archbishop Paris Lodron (1619-1653), Statesman between War and Peace” at the Salzburg Dommuseum, checkpointmedia designed and installed a complex projection installation and an information display for the entrance hall of the Salzburg Dommuseum.
Copy Shop
Copy Shop
The multimedia station “Historical Panorama” portrays their history using video animations and audio commentaries in four languages; the interactive “Language Atlas”offers entertaining insights into the Ladin language.
checkpointmedia was responsible for developing the majority of the media stations and the hardware and software.
This automat, based on the theory of relativity, allows viewers for the first time to modify their perception of the familiar relation between space and time by experiencing time in a transverse flow to their spatial movements.
Large-screen projections and video loops, audio stations, interactive mini-cinemas, selectable videos, interactive terminals and Internet research stations enrich and supplement the permanent exhibition.
Exhibition by Peter Greenaway on the occasion of the 300 anniversary of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the Vienna Hofburg, the Semper Depot and in the Academy of Fine Arts.