On Thursday, March 3, 2016, 19:00, we invite you to the opening of Boy, Psyche, and Taboo. Vienna Actionism and Early Vienna Modernism & HAWSER / HOFER
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.
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...
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...
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...