A collaboration of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich / New Genres class, and the University of Applied Arts Vienna / Poster Session Is Back! A New A. B. C. seminar

Frederick Wiseman, Zoo, 1993

Frederick Wiseman, National Gallery, 2014

Thirty years ago, the Vienna artist and architect Heinz Frank published a book entitled Children’s Book for Architects (Architekturzentrum Wien, 1993), a selection of his drawings from the 1970s, in which animals and ghostly creatures “haunt” buildings of various kinds. Now mumok, together with Büro Heinz Frank, is publishing...

This program with a selection of recent works by Antoinette Zwirchmayr focuses on the relationship between the body and nature in the artist’s analogue films.

Unnamed locations, such as the river landscape in Oceano Mare, the volcano in The Seismic Form, and the meticulously constructed mise-en-scène of ...

mumok presents a new work by Ghislaine Leung specially conceived for the cinema. Much like Leung’s score-based works for exhibition, PRESENTS takes the structure of the screening to task, amplifying and doubling up the conditions of presentation. Leung will be joined in conversation by writer and curator Mike Sperlinger.

This program presents a selection of historical and contemporary films that address the politics of bodies in motion. The focus is on various kinds of choreographed, staged, unconscious, or random gestures—above all in dance—and their potential for finding forms of fleeting community. The starting point is Joyce Wieland’s film ...

Shape-shifters (this young monster) focuses on the trope of vampires and its use in contemporary culture to investigate societal fears of otherness as well as colonial legacies and imperial complicity. How does the figure of the vampire irradiate our thinking about queerness, disability, and race? The screening questions how...

The Solidarity Screenings video program is a collection of thought-provoking works exploring the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war, its effects and its perception. Each video has been created by a visual artist based in Ukraine, and all of the works were made after the start of the full-scale Russian military invasion on February 24, 2022...

The program Soft spot for hard things is a meditation on the tension between beauty and violence, desire and control. Desire here is not only of a sexual nature, though that is also present, for example in Sex, Lies and Religion (1993) by Annette Kennerley which explores a daytime lesbian cruising in a London...