Brigitte Kowanz (born in 1957 in Vienna) is one of the most successful established Austrian artists.
Clip on occasion of the MUMOK exhibition Changing Channels. Directed by Thomas Draschan, Wolf Mask by Katharina Oder, Wolf: Hans Jürgen Hauptmann, Gisa Fellerer as herself. Shot in on location: Newsroom ORF
Gender Check is the first comprehensive exhibition featuring art from Eastern Europe since the 1960s based on the theme of gender roles.
Cast: Cy Twombly, Franz West, Michael Mautner, Fred Jelinek, Alexander Josef Mayr, Manfred Epuiluz, Günther Haumer, Susanna Gartmayer, DDKern, Philipp Quehenberger, Meyer Kainer, E. Köb, Achim Hochdörfer, Andreas Donhauser, Matthias Leutzendorff, Stefan Christandl, Paul Sturminger, Leo Ess, et al.
Over the course of her long career, Lassnig has been an important example for many artists, influencing an entire generation of painters.
'An evening is planned that will try to get on the right side of 'Bad Painting' that is, needless to say, from the 'bad' side. Different songs from the most contradictory oeuvre will be performed that likely will not provoke a collective sing-along.'
On the outside facade of the MUMOK Wang Jianwei’s larger-than-life figures indicate a new conception of humankind that oscillates between anonymity and individuality.
Yves Klein’s legendary conceptual piece Symphony Monoton-Silence, which, in its rigorous reduction to a single sound translates the monochrome technique into music.
Michael Fried counts among the most preeminent art historians and art critics of the second half of the 20th century. His reputation was established by his 1967 essay 'Art and Objecthood', in which he sought to defend the autonomous panel of modernist art against the 'theatrical' attacks of minimal art.
Lecture I:
Jeff Wall, Wittgenstein, and the Everyday
Lecture II:
Thomas Struth's Museum Photographs
Lecture III:
To Complete the World of Things': Bernd and Hilla Becher's Typologies
In a spectacular event marking the opening of the exhibition Erwin Wurm. Keep A Cool Head, on October 18, 2006 House Attac — a single-family house — was heaved onto the roof of MUMOK. A symbol for conservative, small-minded longings, the single-family house collides into the museum as an temple to the muses, and the museum itself now also becomes part of the sculpture.