Today at the MAK
10.15 AM–12.30 PMMINI MAK Sommerferienspiel: Wir malen die Möbel bunt! (in German)
Exhibitions
LA TURBO AVEDONPardon Our DustFocus on Collecting 8Manuel KnappSHOWROOM WIENER WERKSTÄTTE A Dialogue with Michael AnastassiadesSCHINDLER HOUSE LOS ANGELESSpace as a Medium of ArtTIN GLAZING AND IMAGE CULTUREThe MAK’s Majolica Collection in Historical Context MISSING LINKStrategies of a Viennese Architecture Group (1970–1980)
Permanent
VIENNA 1900CARPETSASIAMAKLITE RELOADEDMAK DESIGN LABRENAISSANCE BAROQUE ROCOCOHISTORICISM ART NOUVEAUEMPIRE STYLE BIEDERMEIER BAROQUE ROCOCO CLASSICISM HELMUT LANG ARCHIVE
InformationBuy ticketsCalendarclosed

Tue 10 am–9 pm
Wed to Sun 10 am–6 pm
Mon closed
burger-menu
close-menu
  • Visit
    Opening Hours & Admission
    Barrier-free Visits
    Online Tickets
    Library & Reading Room
    MAK Design Shop
    Restaurant
    Annual Ticket
  • Exhibitions
    What's On
    Preview
    Permanent
  • Program
    Events
    Guided Tours
    Calendar
    Adults
    Kids & Families
    Schools
    Groups
  • The MAK
    Collection
    MAK Community
    Sites
    Research
    Provenance
    History
    Schindler Scholarship
    Art Expertise
  • Digital
    MAK Guide
    Collection Online
    Blog
    Tours Online
    Videos
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Youtube
    • Twitter
    • Pinterest
    • Tiktok
    • Terms & Conditions
    • Green Museum
    • Data Protection Statement
    • Legal notice
    • Accessibility Statement
  • Today at the MAK 
  • About
  • Press
  • Contact
  • &ausstellung_id=1535539672385
    De / En
  • FRITESSKCZHURUCNJP
M
A
K

MAK Exhibition View, 2019
CHINESE WHISPERS: Recent Art from the Sigg Collection
MAK Exhibition Hall
© MAK/Georg Mayer

Ai Weiwei, Descending Light with A Missing Circle, 2017
© Ai Weiwei

MAK Exhibition View, 2019
CHINESE WHISPERS: Recent Art from the Sigg Collection
MAK Exhibition Hall
© MAK/Georg Mayer

Wang Xingwei, My Beautiful Life, 1993–1995
Öl auf Leinwand
Courtesy Sigg Collection
© Wang Xingwei

MAK Exhibition View, 2019
CHINESE WHISPERS: Recent Art from the Sigg Collection
MAK Exhibition Hall
© MAK/Georg Mayer

He Xiangyu, The Death of Marat, 2011
Fiberglass, silica gel
Courtesy Sigg Collection
© He Xiangyu

Until 26 May 2019

中国私语 CHINESE WHISPERS

Recent Art from the Sigg Collection

Wed, 30.1.2019—Sun, 26.5.2019

MAK – Museum of Applied Arts

Exhibition

中国私语 CHINESE WHISPERS

Recent Art from the Sigg Collection

Wed, 30.1.2019—Sun, 26.5.2019

MAK – Museum of Applied Arts

An exhibition by the MAK, Vienna in dialogue with the collector Uli Sigg and in cooperation with the Kunstmuseum Bern and the Zentrum Paul Klee

With CHINESE WHISPERS: Recent Art from the Sigg Collection a comprehensive exhibition on Chinese contemporary art is coming to Vienna. Uli Sigg has been following the development of contemporary art in China since the late 1970s. In the mid-1990s, he started putting together the world’s most significant and representative collection of Chinese art. A business journalist, entrepreneur, and Swiss ambassador to China, North Korea, and Mongolia (1995–1998), he had the chance to take a look behind the scenes of the social and economic developments dedicated to both tradition and the future, as China’s vision of a new Silk Road shows. Cultural and sociopolitical values form the frame of reference of the MAK exhibition. The museum creates a discursive platform by contrasting works from the Sigg Collection with objects from the MAK Collection. This interplay highlights China’s contemporary art production as well as its aesthetic or iconographic references. The historical object becomes a vision machine for the contemporary.

Curator: Bärbel Vischer, Curator, MAK Contemporary Art Collection

Artists: 徐文恺 aaajiao (Xu Wenkai), 艾未未 Ai Weiwei, 曹斐 Cao Fei, 曹雨 Cao Yu, 陳樂珩 Chan Stacey Lok Heng, 陳苑翹 Chan Yuen Kiu, 池磊 Chi Lei, 储云 Chu Yun, 丁乙 Ding Yi, 段建宇 Duan Jianyu, 冯梦波 Feng Mengbo, 高伟刚 Gao Weigang, 顾小平 Gu Xiaoping, 何翔宇 He Xiangyu, 洪浩 Hong Hao,  嘉 Jia, 杨俊 Jun Yang, 李傑 Lee Kit, 廖斐 Liao Fei, 刘勃麟 Liu Bolin, 刘窗 Liu Chuang, 刘鼎 Liu Ding, 刘韡 Liu Wei, 马轲 Ma Ke, 毛同强 Mao Tongqiang, 苗颖 Miao Ying, 黃漢明 Ming Wong, 倪有鱼 Ni Youyu, 白双全 Pak Sheung Chuen, 裴丽 Pei Li, 楊嘉輝 Samson Young, 邵帆 Shao Fan, 沈少民 Shen Shaomin, 沈学哲 Shen Xuezhe, 史国威 Shi Guowei, 史金淞 Shi Jinsong, 宋冬 Song Dong, 王光乐 Wang Guangle, 王晋 Wang Jin, 王雷 Wang Lei, 王卫 Wang Wei, 王兴伟 Wang Xingwei, Christian Hidaka, 谢墨凛 Xie Molin, 谢南星 Xie Nanxing, 徐冰 Xu Bing, 许成 Xu Cheng, 徐震 Xu Zhen, 薛峰 Xue Feng, 叶鲜艳 Ye Xianyan, 张培力 Zhang Peili, 张晓刚 Zhang Xiaogang, 张玥 Zhang Yue, 赵半狄 Zhao Bandi, 郑国谷 Zheng Guogu and 朱久洋 Zhu Jiuyang.

Panel Discussion & Exhibition Opening

Tue, 29 Jan 2019
 
6 p.m.
Panel Discussion
Multiple Revolutions (in English)
with Uli Sigg, Jun Yang, Miao Ying, and Ai Weiwei
Moderator: Carol Yinghua Lu
MAK Lecture Hall
Video >>

7 p.m.
Exhibition Opening
MAK Lecture Hall

Film Screening

The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg  
Documentary film by filmmaker Michael Schindhelm, 2016, 93 min.
Tue, 16 Apr 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Tue, 21 May 2019, 7:30 p.m.
MAK Lecture Hall

Guided Tours

Admission plus attendance fee of € 3.50

Regular Exhibition Tours
Every Sunday, 2 p.m.


Media

<BODY>MAK Exhibition View, 2019<br /><em>CHINESE WHISPERS: Recent Art from the Sigg Collection</em><br />MAK Exhibition Hall<br />© MAK/Georg Mayer</BODY>
MAK Exhibition View, 2019
CHINESE WHISPERS: Recent Art from the Sigg Collection
MAK Exhibition Hall
© MAK/Georg Mayer
<BODY>Ai Weiwei, <em>Descending Light with A Missing Circle</em>, 2017<br />© Ai Weiwei</BODY>
Ai Weiwei, Descending Light with A Missing Circle, 2017
© Ai Weiwei
<BODY>MAK Exhibition View, 2019<br /><em>CHINESE WHISPERS: Recent Art from the Sigg Collection</em><br />MAK Exhibition Hall<br />© MAK/Georg Mayer</BODY>
MAK Exhibition View, 2019
CHINESE WHISPERS: Recent Art from the Sigg Collection
MAK Exhibition Hall
© MAK/Georg Mayer
<BODY>Wang Xingwei, <em>My Beautiful Life</em>, 1993–1995<br />Öl auf Leinwand<br />Courtesy Sigg Collection<br />© Wang Xingwei</BODY>
Wang Xingwei, My Beautiful Life, 1993–1995
Öl auf Leinwand
Courtesy Sigg Collection
© Wang Xingwei
<BODY>MAK Exhibition View, 2019<br /><em>CHINESE WHISPERS: Recent Art from the Sigg Collection</em><br />MAK Exhibition Hall<br />© MAK/Georg Mayer</BODY>
MAK Exhibition View, 2019
CHINESE WHISPERS: Recent Art from the Sigg Collection
MAK Exhibition Hall
© MAK/Georg Mayer
<BODY>He Xiangyu, <em>The Death of Marat</em>, 2011<br />Fiberglass, silica gel<br />Courtesy Sigg Collection<br />© He Xiangyu</BODY>
He Xiangyu, The Death of Marat, 2011
Fiberglass, silica gel
Courtesy Sigg Collection
© He Xiangyu

Registration

Additional information
Ticket amount has to be entered.
Ticket amount has to be entered.
* mandatory field
Registration successfull
You will receive an email with your registration data
Registration failed
Available tickets adults:
Available tickets children:
Museum für ­
angewandte­ 
Kunst
Museum of
Applied Arts
Stubenring 5
1010 Vienna, AT

office@MAK.at
closed

Tue 10 am–9 pm
Wed to Sun 10 am–6 pm
Mon closed
PressFriends / SupportVenues at the MAKTourismShop
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Youtube
  • Twitter
  • Pinterest
  • Tiktok
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Green Museum
  • Data Protection Statement
  • Legal notice
  • Accessibility Statement