An Evening with Ariana Reines: Reading and Presentation of the Exhibition Catalogue Terminal Piece

Tuesday, October 27, 2026, 7 pm

An Evening with Ariana Reines
Reading and Presentation of the Exhibition Catalogue Terminal Piece

An Evening with Ariana Reines
Reading and Presentation of the Exhibition Catalogue Terminal Piece
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
7 pm

Acclaimed New York poet and artist Ariana Reines joins us at mumok for a reading from her literary essay The Waiting Room. The event will be followed by a presentation of the new exhibition catalogue accompanying Terminal Piece, the museum’s major opening exhibition curated by Fatima Hellberg and Lukas Flygare.

About the Book
Terminal Piece, edited by Fatima Hellberg and Lukas Flygare, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien. Featuring an introduction by the editors and essays by Gregg Bordowitz, Rachel Cusk, Kate Millett, Amanda Holmes, and Ariana Reines. Exhibition photography by Manuel Carreon Lopez. Book design by CTMS, Cologne.
Paperback, 320 pages, richly illustrated in colour
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Cologne
ISBN: 978-3-7533-1123-4

About the Artist
Adriana Reines is an award-winning poet, playwright, and translator. Her newest books are The Rose (2025) and Wave of Blood (2024). A Sand Book won the Kingsley Tufts Prize in 2020 and was longlisted for the National Book Award. A new production of her Obie-winning play TELEPHONE was presented by Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble in 2026. In 2020, as a divinity student at Harvard, she founded Invisible College, a study hall for poetry, sacred texts, and the arts.

More Information on the exhibition Terminal Piece

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