Terminal Piece is an inaugural exhibition and a vision for the future, marking the start of a new chapter for the mumok. It also proposes a new way of considering the museum, its collection and, the experience of both in their entirety and complexity. Conceived as an exhibition in several acts, Terminal Piece takes a straightforward yet decisive curatorial approach, bringing together works from the collection alongside new productions and external loans. One specific artwork is taken as a starting point to consider the museum as a whole: the first acquisition made under the directorship of Fatima Hellberg. The choice of work entails an engagement with notions of viewership, prompting reflection on which side of the work we occupy and demanding our participation.

Terminal Piece will be accompanied by an extensive event program and a publication co-edited with Camilla Wills of Divided Publishing, which will include an existing text by Kate Millett and new writing by Ariana Reines, and other authors.

Artists include, among others: Lutz Bacher, Bruce Conner, Sara Deraedt, Jean Fautrier, Christine Gironcoli, Louis Goodman, Raymond Haines, Ull Hohn, Marc Kokopeli, Kurt Kren, Zoe Leonard, Kate Millett, Yukio Nakagawa, Bruce Nauman, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel, Megan Plunkett, Cora Pongracz, Nina Porter, Robert Rauschenberg, Dieter Roth, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, George Segal, Emmanuel Sougez, Elisabeth Subrin, Paul Thek, Octavian Trauttmansdorff, Cy Twombly, Anna Viebrock, Wolf Vostell.

Curated by Fatima Hellberg and Lukas Flygare 

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