Online Tours and Artist Talks

May 23, 2025 to May 17, 2026

The video accompanying the exhibition The World of Tomorrow Will Have Been Another Present invites to discover artistic positions and visions of a future that are already part of our present. It highlights social, political and media developments since classical modernism. Curator Franz Thalmair guides viewers through the exhibition in seven minutes, connecting the past and the future and offering a glimpse of the present through contemporary positions.

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November 15, 2024 to May 4, 2025

This video tour provides an insight into Liliane Lijn’s artistic work, featuring contributions by the artist and curator Manuela Ammer. It shows Lijn’s interest in movement, the dissolution of forms, and her openness to new technologies and materials.

October 26, 2023 to January 7, 2024
 

Benoît Piéron’s artistic practice is informed by a lifelong history of illness, with his childhood having been mostly spent in hospital. He deals in his work with how sick bodies are treated by the medical profession and by society as well as his own experiences of waiting and uncertainty, of care and intimacy.

In this video portrait, Benoît Piéron talks about his exhibition at mumok.

May 5, 2023 to January 7, 2024

The turbulent biography of Elisabeth Wild reads like a recap of the twentieth century. Marked by flight and displacement, national identification and disidentification, her life seemed constantly to hit the reset button. This is not least evident in her oeuvre, which is highly diverse in terms of the media she used—including painting, sculpture, and textile design as well as collages and subsequent installations. mumok presents her first retrospective exhibition, turning the spotlight on her late works as well as her previously unknown early works.

Curator Marianne Dobner and art educator Mikki Muhr give a video tour of the artist's first comprehensive retrospective, which focuses on her late work as well as her unknown early work. Video in German. 

October 8, 2022 to April 16, 2023

Artist Emília Rigová deals with the history as well as the contemporary experiences of the Rom*nja. In her exhibition Nane Oda Lavutaris / Who Will Play for Me?, which can be seen at mumok until April 16, 2023, living plants play a central role alongside self-playing pianos and notes carved in stone. They refer to the origins and migration routes of the Rom*nja, while the fragmentary melodies recall their musical tradition and also historical suffering.
 

In our new video Emília Rigová talks about her artistic work and her exhibition at mumok.

November 27, 2021 to August 28, 2022

Wolfgang Tillmans talks to curator Matthias Michalka about some of the works in his current exhibition Sound is Liquid and tells us how his images were created. Tillmans explains the meaning of the titles of his photographs and what they have to do with spices. In conversation, he talks about sensual experiences while eating and about his enthusiasm for astronomy and outer space. Wolfgang Tillmans also talks about his current album Moon in Earthlight and the importance of music and sounds for his work as a photographer.