Sweeter the Collection never Sounds

With the financial support of the Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport (BMWKMS), the MAK is realizing a whole series of interdepartmental ventures.

Koloman Moser, Tunkpapier, WWBP 210-18

AbeX

Anthologies of Cooperation: Encounters in/through Artists' Books and Experimental Poetry

Call for Participants
Unfold – Experimental Poetries Then and Now
Summer School of Experimental Poetry, Bucharest 6 – 10 July 2026

Call for Papers
After the Fold
Abex International Symposium, Bucharest 28 – 29 September 2026

CultHeRit

Identifying solutions for labor market imbalances in the cultural heritage sector in the Danube region by improving its accessibility to young professionals

Collection policy influenced by colonialist aspects? (Part 1)

Oriental Museum, Trade Museum, Museum of Art and Industry and their collection strategies (working title)

Project Manager: Rainald Franz (Curator, MAK Glass and Ceramics Collections, Cross-Collection Coordination and EU Projects, Provenance Research and Restitution)

Lara Steinhäußer (Curator, MAK Textiles and Carpets Collection)

Mio Wakita-Elis (Curator, MAK Asia Collection)

Scientific Assistance: Alexandra Nachescu

Collection policy influenced by colonialist aspects? (Part 2)

Oriental Museum, Trade Museum, Museum of Art and Industry and their collection strategies (working title)

Project Manager: Rainald Franz (Curator, MAK Glass and Ceramics Collections, Cross-Collection Coordination and EU Projects, Provenance Research and Restitution)

Lara Steinhäußer (Curator, MAK Textiles and Carpets Collection)

Mio Wakita-Elis (Curator, MAK Asia Collection)

Scientific Assistance: Robert Kotasek

Conservation of the Khevenhüller Chronicle

A cooperation between the MAK Vienna and Castle Hochosterwitz.

Project team: Beate Murr, Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel

ATCZ264 – JH Neu digital / JH Nově digitální / JH New digital

Josef Hoffmann mediated anew. The Josef Hoffmann Museum as an interface of international collaboration, and the work of Josef Hoffmann as a testing ground for innovative museum work, in particular for the use of digital technology

The MAK—History of an Institution

Project Manager: Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head, MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection/Archive

Project Editor: Hannah Gasperl

Planet Love

Climate Care in the Digital Age

Project Manager: Marlies Wirth, Curator, Digital Culture and MAK Design Collection, in cooperation with Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, General Director, MAK

Curatorial assistant: Antje Prisker; with the participation of Ivana Andrejic-Djukic

Creative Climate Care

Project Manager: Marlies Wirth, Curator, Digital Culture and MAK Design Collection

With the participation of Lara Steinhäußer

Helmut Lang Archive

Project Manager: Lara Steinhäußer, Curator, MAK Textiles and Carpets Collection

Project Editor: Helena Grünsteidl, Nicole Miltner

Online Thonet Archive

Project Manager: Sebastian Hackenschmidt, Curator, MAK Furniture and Woodwork Collection, and Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head, MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection/Archive in cooperation with Wolfgang Thillmann

The Commercial Graphic Design of the Wiener Werkstätte

Project Manager: Anne-Katrin Rossberg, Curator, MAK Metal Collection and Wiener Werkstätte Archive

Women Artists of the Wiener Werkstätte

Project Manager: Anne-Katrin Rossberg, Curator, MAK Metal Collection and Wiener Werkstätte Archive
With the participation of Michael Hölters, Maria-Luise Jesch

Textiles in the Visual Arts

Project Editor: Bärbel Vischer, Curator, MAK Contemporary Art Collection

ART NOUVEAU 2

Art Nouveau Heritage in the Danube Region

Project Management MAK: Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection/Archive

Project Assistant: Helena Grünsteidl

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Archive Research Projects

MAK 3D – Digitization, Data, Display

Project head: Christian Michlits, Head Digital MAK
Project duration: May 2023 until August 2024

Ornamental Prints Collection

Project Manager: Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head, MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection/Archive

Project Editor: Peter Fuhring, Freelance Scientist

A Prototype Building for the Applied Arts

150 Years of the Museum on the Stubenring

Project Manager: Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head, MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection/Archive

With the participation of Peter Klinger, Stephanie Rosenkranz

The History of the Geymüllerschlössel

Project Manager: Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head, MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection/Archive

With the participation of Peter Klinger, Aline Müller, Stephanie Rosenkranz

Design & Innovation

Cross-Border Cooperation between Design Institutions Traditioning to the Digital Age

Project Manager: Marlies Wirth, Curator, Digital Culture and MAK Design Collection; Assistants: Viktoria Heinrich, MAK Design Collection; Eva Adam-Maxa, Project Assistent EU Interreg SK-AT

Artificial Intelligence

Research Team: Marlies Wirth, Curator, Digital Culture and MAK Design Collection; Paul Feigelfeld, Media Theorist

CityFactory

Project Management of Content:
IDRV – Institute of Design Research Vienna: Harald Gruendl, Viktoria Heinrich
MAK: Marlies Wirth, Curator, Digital Culture and MAK Design Collection, Janina Falkner, New Concepts for Learning
Vienna Business Agency: Elisabeth Noever-Ginthör, Head of the creative center departure, Alice Jacubasch, Project Management

Bilateral Design Networks:
Design Innovation from Early 20th Century Modernity to Digital Modernity

Project Manager MAK: Rainald Franz, Curator, MAK Glass and Ceramics Collection
Project Assistant: Klára Prešnajderová

New Work. New Design

Project Management: Marlies Wirth, Curator, Digital Culture and MAK Design Collection; Project Assistant: Viktoria Heinrich

Design between Human and Machine

Research Team: Amelie Klein, Vitra Design Museum; Thomas Geisler; Marlies Wirth, Curator Digital Culture and MAK Design Collection; Fredo de Smet, Design Museum Gent
Curatorial Assistance: Erika Pinner, Vitra Design Museum

Human Enhancement—The Human Being as Design Challenge

Editor: Marlies Wirth, Curator, Digital Culture and MAK Design Collection

Notions of Design in the Context of Digitalization

Research Team: Marlies Wirth, K Curator, Digital Culture and MAK Design Collection; Janina Falkner, MAK New Concepts of Learning; mischer'traxler studio
Assistant: Viktoria Heinrich

Baroque Library

Project management: Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head, MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection/Archive; Processing: Judith Huber-Stocker

Art Nouveau Danube

Art Nouveau Architecture in the Danube Region

Project management, MAK: Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head, MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection/Archive; Project assistant: Aline Müller

Exemplary Sample Collection

Project Manager: Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head of MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection/Archive; Appraisal: Alexandra Hois

Wiener Porzellanmanufaktur’s Design Drawings

Project Manager: Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head of MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection/Archive; Appraisal: Ulrike Scholda