Carte blanche for students in the Master in Critical Studies at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. From September 10, 2015, mumok will be devoting two levels to its collection of work since 1945. Five themes will together form a visual puzzle of overlapping exhibitions that will provocatively highlight and disperse the themes inherent within the mumok collection.

In her artistic work, Ulrike Müller (born 1971 in Brixlegg, Tirol, lives in New York) explores the relationships between abstraction and bodies and a concept of painting that is not restricted to brush and canvas. The geometrical figures and color surfaces in her compositions are never “purely” abstract. They carry erotic and sexual...

Parallel to and in conjunction with Müller’s solo show, the artist and curator Manuela Ammer present a new selection of works of classical modernism from the mumok collection, which proves to be more diverse than past presentations have suggested. Alongside frequently shown positions such as André Derain, Oskar Kokoschka, and...

From March 4, 2016, mumok is presenting two young artists who both reflect critically on contemporary concepts of nostalgia, re-evaluating these with new works made especially for this mumok show. Kathi Hofer (born 1981 in Hallein) draws on her own family history and an Austrian fashion icon—the artist comes from the Salzburg Hofer...

In 2016 mumok is taking a fresh look at one of the mainstays of our own collection—Vienna Actionism—by relating this to equally radical positions taken by some of its Austrian predecessors. Many Austrian museums and collections are supporting this project with generous loans of works, thus making it possible to create an encounter...