Kerstin von Gabain presents her reaction to the scholarly paradigm of museums’ collecting practice, using her sculptural and photographic works to conjure up an atmosphere that is deliberately reminiscent of a sanatorium. Both her medical-seeming treatment of furniture and her 19th century-style photographic portraits of objects from the MAK’s collection of seating furniture humorously suggest these pieces’ supposed anthropomorphization. Von Gabain considers photography, as a tool of classification and of phenomenological study, to be a particularly interesting way of dealing with the archival paradigms evident in the museum’s Study Collection.
Curator Janina Falkner, MAK Contemporary Art Collection
Exhibition series New Look
In this exhibition series, four Vienna-based artists of the younger generation deal specifically with the MAK Study Collection. NEW LOOK reflects on the MAK as a site of present-day artistic production while also providing an opportunity to contemplate applied art and the transfer of applied art-related knowledge from new and different perspectives.
On the exhibtion
Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Director, MAK
Janina Falkner, Curator, MAK
The artist will be present
with the artist and the curator
Registration and information:
Gabriele Fabiankowitsch, Head of MAK Educational Program and Guided Tours, T +43 1 711 36-298,
Curator Janina Falkner, MAK Contemporary Art Collection
Exhibition series New Look
In this exhibition series, four Vienna-based artists of the younger generation deal specifically with the MAK Study Collection. NEW LOOK reflects on the MAK as a site of present-day artistic production while also providing an opportunity to contemplate applied art and the transfer of applied art-related knowledge from new and different perspectives.
Opening
Tue, 19.3.2013, 7 p.m.On the exhibtion
Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Director, MAK
Janina Falkner, Curator, MAK
The artist will be present
Exhibition talk
Tue, 9.4.2013, 6 p.m.with the artist and the curator
Photo workshop
Upon request and for this exhibition’s entire run, the museum will be offering photography workshops on the theme creative learning at the museum for children and school students aged 8 to 16, to be led by the artist and the curator.Registration and information:
Gabriele Fabiankowitsch, Head of MAK Educational Program and Guided Tours, T +43 1 711 36-298,
Video project
For the exhibition NEW LOOKS # 4. Kerstin von Gabain city of broken furniture Kerstin von Gabain and Johann Neumeister collaborated for a video project.
