In the Museum of Desires the new director Karola Kraus combined the innovative presentation of the mumok collection with a dynamic strategic campaign aimed at the acquisition of new works

Claire Hooper was the winner of the 2010 Baloise Art Prize. At mumok she is presenting her prize-winning video Video Nyx (2010), as part of a trilogy which also includes two works from 2011, Aoide and Eris. In her films, the British artist interweaves narratives from the present with characters and concepts from Greek mythology

Numerous works by Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Tom Wesselmann, Robert Indiana and Jim Dine constitute an important emphasis of the mumok permanent collection.Together with the protagonists of American Pop Art, the works of their British colleagues, Peter Blake, Richard Hamilton and David Hockney along with the European realisms of the 1960s gave a good idea of the extent to which the fascination with everyday culture had become a broad, international phenomenon