VIENNA, 20 May 2026 - The exhibition Shared Lives, Shared Future, organized by the UN Department of Global Communications together with the Permanent Missions of Italy, Slovenia and Switzerland in New York and led by the UN information centres, highlights how the United Nations shapes the world we live in: from supporting peace and security and overseeing regulatory frameworks, to providing humanitarian assistance and fostering development, facilitating international conventions on trade, and advancing human rights.
The United Nations Information Service (UNIS) Vienna joined forces with the Permanent Representation of Slovenia to the UN, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), and other International Organizations in Vienna, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), and the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) to bring 24 stories of the global exhibition to the Vienna International Centre.
The opening ceremony included remarks by the co-hosts of the event as well as speakers from other Vienna-based organizations featured in the exhibition, all highlighting the importance of multilateralism to tackle global challenges together for a better future for all. As UNIS Officer-in-Charge Sonja Wintersberger said: “Shared lives, Shared Future highlights the many ways in which the United Nations is the essential, one-of-a-kind meeting ground and impacts all our daily lives”.
The full exhibition can be seen here: Shared Lives, Shared Future | United Nations
The event also featured the video installation “UNO CITY – An Extraterritorial Landmark in an Interconnected World” by the Austrian artist Wolfgang Lehrner. “UNO CITY” is a three-channel video installation, part of the artist’s broader UN CITIES art project on architecture and multilateralism. It explores the architecture and visual identity of the Vienna International Centre - widely known as UNO-City – not as a monument, but as a working infrastructure embedded in a global network: a city within a city, home to the entire world.
More about the installation can be found here: UNO CITY — Wolfgang Lehrner
