Exhibition |
May 23, 2025 to April 6, 2026
The World of Tomorrow Will Have Been Another Present
The World of Tomorrow Will Have Been Another Present
Curated by Franz Thalmair in collaboration with Nikita Kadan, Barbara Kapusta, Frida Orupabo, Lisl Ponger, and Anita Witek.
The exhibition The World of Tomorrow Will Have Been Another Present draws connections between works of classical modernism and contemporary art, between the 1920s and the 2020s. The exhibition features five large-scale installations, five exhibitions in one exhibition, linked together by the participating artists’ shared interest in the topic of time.
Nikita Kadan, Barbara Kapusta, Frida Orupabo, Lisl Ponger, and Anita Witek were invited to select works of classical modernism from the mumok collection and enter into a dialogue with them. In an exchange and in debate, confronting issues against the backdrop of disparate temporal conditions, through formal analogies and aesthetic contradictions, the five artists tackle both historical and contemporary subject matters: be it image politics between propaganda and critique, from careless to sensitive practices of appropriation, body images between identity politics and universalism, or the constitution of society between the desire for clear-cut categories and the complexity of a thoroughly networked world.
Artists: Alexander Archipenko, Hans Arp, Giacomo Balla, Willi Baumeister, Rudolf Belling, Hans Bellmer, Herbert Bayer, Karl Blossfeldt, Louise Bourgeois, Constantin Brâncuşi, Victor Brauner, André Derain, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, Marcel Duchamp, Raymond Duchamp Villon, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Julio González, Juan Gris, George Grosz, Albert Paris Gütersloh, Raoul Hausmann, Florence Henri, Johannes Itten, Nikita Kadan, Barbara Kapusta, Friedrich Kiesler, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Henri Laurens, Fernand Léger, René Magritte, Kazimir Malevich, André Masson, Vladimir W. Mayakovsky, László Moholy-Nagy, František Muzika, Frida Orupabo, Alicia Penalba, Antoine Pevsner, Franz Pomassl, Lisl Ponger, Man Ray, Germaine Richier, Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko, August Sander, Oskar Schlemmer, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Victor Servranckx, Edward J. Steichen, Alexander Stern, Nikola Vučo, Anita Witek, Fritz Wotruba, Ossip Zadkine
Opening: May 22, 2025, 7 pm
1/11
Willi Baumeister
Mauerbild Schwarz-Rosa, 1923–1929
mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, accquired in 1967
© Bildrecht, Wien 2025
2/11
Herbert Bayer
hands act, 1932
mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, donation by Oswald Oberhuber 1979
© Bildrecht, Wien 2024
3/11
Barbara Kapusta
Hand (Upright), 2018
mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, erworben mit Unterstützung des BKA, Sektion Kunst / acquired with support of BKA, Sektion Kunst 2018
© Bildrecht, Wien 2025
![[Translate to English:] Hans Bellmer La Bouche, 1935](/fileadmin/_processed_/c/8/csm_02_Hans_Bellmer_a93bf2b29c.jpg)
4/11
Hans Bellmer
The Mouth, 1935
mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, acquired in 1978
© Bildrecht, Wien 2024
5/11
Nikita Kadan
Victory (Small White Shelf) / Sieg (kleines weißes Regal), Rekonstruktion des Modells für das Denkmal „Die drei russischen Revolutionen: 1825, 1905 und 1917“ von Wassili Jermilow, 1922– 925 / Reconstruction of the model for the monument “The Three Russian Revolutions: 1825, 1905 and 1917“, by Vasyl Yermylov, 1922–1925, 2017
mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, erworben mit Unterstützung der Gesellschaft der Freunde der bildenden Künste / acquired with support of the Society of the Friends of Fine Arts 2020
© Nikita Kadan
6/11
Juan Gris
Carafe, verre et journal / Carafe, Glass and Newspaper, 1919
mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, donation by Emanuel and Sofie Fohn 1994
© public domain
7/11
Anita Witek
Reflex Of Freedom / Reflexe der Freiheit, 2022
mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, erworben mit Unterstützung des BKA, Sektion Kunst / acquired with support of BKA, Sektion Kunst 2022
© Bildrecht, Wien 2025
8/11
René Magritte
Dieu, le huitième jour, 1937 (1976)
mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, acquired in 1995
© Bildrecht, Wien 2024
9/11
Lisl Ponger
Wild Places, 2000
mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, erworben mit Unterstützung des BKA, Sektion Kunst / acquired with support of BKA, Sektion Kunst 2006
© Bildrecht, Wien 2025
10/11
Oskar Schlemmer
Abstract Figure, 1921 (1962)
mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, acquired in 1962
© public domain
11/11
Frida Orupabo
Untitled / Ohne Titel, 2020
mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Leihgabe der Österreichischen Ludwig-Stiftung / On loan from the Austrian Ludwig Foundation, seit / since 2021
© Frida Orupabo
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