With Voice off (1999), mumok presented a video installation by American artist Judith Barry, donated to the museum in 2011 by the Austrian collectors Dieter and Gertraud Bogner.

The exhibition - which ran in parallel to the presentation of Dan Flavin’s œuvre and will put it in a wider contemporary context— showed the central subjects of this neo-avantgarde art movement from the 1960s and 1970s using a representative selection of Minimal, Conceptual and Land Art from the collection holdings

Alejandro Cesarco’s work continues in the tradition of conceptual art. His works contain thematic references to popular culture, art history and literature. The Baloise Art Prize from Art Basel 2011 was awarded to his installation The Streets Were Dark With Something More Than Night or The Closer I Get To The End The More I Rewrite The Beginning, which combined wall texts, a slide-show, photographs and an artist’s book

In the early 1960s, US artist Dan Flavin began using commercially available fluorescent tubes in standard sizes and colours to create an unmistakable oeuvre

The presentation of our collection drewon the Ludwig and Hahn Collections, focusing on the art movements of the 1960s and 1970s that addressed social (and other) realities. We also looked at trends in installation art, and approaches to the new media of photography, film, and video from the 1990s to the present

Verena Dengler is master of the pointed allusion. She melds pictures, sculptures, fabrics and found materials into a poetic cosmos: historical and political details link up with reflections on the economic conditions of the artist’s existence, art historical genealogy with quotations from popular culture. In her first institutional solo show Verena Dengler, a native of Vienna, reflected on the specifically Austrian conditions and support systems in the visual arts which have usually been influenced by social democratic principles

Franz West, born in 1947 in Vienna, is regarded as one of Austria’s most important representatives in the international art world. In 2011 he was honored with the award of a Golden Lion for his Lifetime Achievements at the Biennale di Venezia. Back in 1996 the mumok organized Franz West’s first comprehensive retrospective. Once again it hosted an exhibition dedicated to the work of the artist who died in 2012 after initiating and co-developing it with great enthusiasm

Albert Oehlen is not only one of the most influential, but also one of the most controversial of contemporary painters. His project of bringing painting up to date consists not least in positioning this good old medium against its critics and supporters alike. He aims to bring painting into conflict on several fronts at the same time...

The legal issues around Kim Dotcom’s file-sharing site Megaupload, once one of the most popular platforms for data exchange on the Internet, has had unprecedented consequences for international data exchange, international law, and the local media landscape in New Zealand. Following investigations by the FBI and a suit by a US court,...

In 2012 the Henkel Art.Award. went to Estonia for the first time. Film and photo artist Marge Monko was awarded the prize of 7,000 Euros and two exhibitions. From October 25, 2013 she gave insight into her work at mumok

and Materials and Money and Crisis was a group exhibition that served as an experimental proposition towards addressing the matter of capital as it exists in the artwork. The exhibition, curated by New York-based curator Richard Birkett in dialogue with artist Sam Lewitt, brought together the work of eleven artists, including new commissions and existing artworks reconstituted for mumok