MAK Annual Program 2025
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MAK Annual Press Conference, January 9, 2025
Lilli Hollein, General Director and Artistic Director, MAK
© eSeL.at/MAK
Lilli Hollein, General Director and Artistic Director, MAK
© eSeL.at/MAK
PECHE POP: Tracing Dagobert Peche in the 21st Century
MAK Exhibition View, 2024
MAK Exhibition Hall (ground floor)
© MAK/Christian Mendez
MAK Exhibition View, 2024
MAK Exhibition Hall (ground floor)
© MAK/Christian Mendez
PECHE POP: Tracing Dagobert Peche in the 21st Century
Dagobert Peche, mirror frame, 1922 Execution: Max Welz
Limewood, carved, gilt; plate glass MAK, H 1686
© MAK
Dagobert Peche, mirror frame, 1922 Execution: Max Welz
Limewood, carved, gilt; plate glass MAK, H 1686
© MAK
FOCUS ON COLLECTING 12: Renate Fuhry
Renate Fuhry, wall vase, 1980 Ceramic, glazed, painted
© MAK/Kristina Wissik
Renate Fuhry, wall vase, 1980 Ceramic, glazed, painted
© MAK/Kristina Wissik
POWERFUL PATTERNS: Meisen Kimonos from the MAK Collection—A Friis Donation
Meisen kimono made of silk with double ikat pattern, late Taishō (1912−1926)/Shōwa era (1926−1989) Donation Henriette Friis, collection of Meisen silk kimonos
© MAK/Christian Mendez
Meisen kimono made of silk with double ikat pattern, late Taishō (1912−1926)/Shōwa era (1926−1989) Donation Henriette Friis, collection of Meisen silk kimonos
© MAK/Christian Mendez
TYPOMANIA. Curator’s Choice by Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel You are not an Island.
Design: Anna Haas
Photographer: Marianne Wex
Printing: Serigraphie Uldry AG, Hinterkappelen, 2020 Commissioned by: Association Palace St.Gallen Digital printing
PI 22042-177
© Anna Haas
Design: Anna Haas
Photographer: Marianne Wex
Printing: Serigraphie Uldry AG, Hinterkappelen, 2020 Commissioned by: Association Palace St.Gallen Digital printing
PI 22042-177
© Anna Haas
GIRL MEETS MANGA: A Manga Biography from Tokyo (1985–1992)
Poster GIRL MEETS MANGA, 2024
© KIM+HEEP
Poster GIRL MEETS MANGA, 2024
© KIM+HEEP
WATER PRESSURE. Designing for the Future
Superflux, The Seas Are No Longer Dying, 2022
Produced by Superflux in collaboration with Safe Seaweed Coalition as well as Cream Projects and David Vélez
Film still
© Superflux
Superflux, The Seas Are No Longer Dying, 2022
Produced by Superflux in collaboration with Safe Seaweed Coalition as well as Cream Projects and David Vélez
Film still
© Superflux
WATER PRESSURE. Designing for the Future
Color woodcut Ukiyo-e 浮世絵
36 views of Mount Fuji: Under the Wave at Kanagawa
Design: Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北齋
School: Katsushika 葛飾派
Execution: anonymous, Japan, ca. 1830 MAK, KI 10988
© MAK/Georg Mayer
Color woodcut Ukiyo-e 浮世絵
36 views of Mount Fuji: Under the Wave at Kanagawa
Design: Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北齋
School: Katsushika 葛飾派
Execution: anonymous, Japan, ca. 1830 MAK, KI 10988
© MAK/Georg Mayer
ELIGIUS AWARD 2025: Jewelry Art in Austria
MAK exhibition view, 2016
ELIGIUS AWARD 2016: Jewelry in Austria
MAK Forum
© MAK/Georg Mayer
MAK exhibition view, 2016
ELIGIUS AWARD 2016: Jewelry in Austria
MAK Forum
© MAK/Georg Mayer
JOHANN STRAUSS: FRANTIC ECSTACY
Der Tanz. Gotik bis Gegenwart. Internationale graph. Ausstellung Hagenbund [Dance. From Gothic to the Present. International Graph. Exhibition Hagenbund]
Graphic design: Lois Pregartbauer Commissioned by: Hagenbund, 1933 Printing: E. Danzinger
Lithograph
© Lois Pregartbauer
Der Tanz. Gotik bis Gegenwart. Internationale graph. Ausstellung Hagenbund [Dance. From Gothic to the Present. International Graph. Exhibition Hagenbund]
Graphic design: Lois Pregartbauer Commissioned by: Hagenbund, 1933 Printing: E. Danzinger
Lithograph
© Lois Pregartbauer
HITO STEYERL. Der Menschheit ist die Kugel bei einem Ohr hinein und beim anderen herausgeflogen [Humanity Had the Bullet Go In Through One Ear and Out Through the Other] Hito Steyerl, Hell Yeah We Fuck Die, 2016
Video installation
Courtesy of Hito Steyerl, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, and Esther Schipper, Berlin/Paris/Seoul
© Hito Steyerl/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024 Film stills © Hito Steyerl
Video installation
Courtesy of Hito Steyerl, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, and Esther Schipper, Berlin/Paris/Seoul
© Hito Steyerl/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024 Film stills © Hito Steyerl
MAK Film Forum: VALENTINA TRIET
Valentina Triet, Provider in Spring/Summer 1996, 2024 Film still
© Valentina Triet
Valentina Triet, Provider in Spring/Summer 1996, 2024 Film still
© Valentina Triet
MAK Film Forum: JOSEF DABERNIG
Josef Dabernig, excursus on fitness, 2010
FilmstillJosef Dabernig, excursus on fitness, 2010
© Josef Dabernig
DRESSED UP: Sparkling Tree Decoration
Lobster, large spindle-shaped form beads with inner silvering, various beads made of colorless glass and “Klautschen” with inner silvering, small yellow hollow beads, 2nd quarter 20th c.
© MAK
Lobster, large spindle-shaped form beads with inner silvering, various beads made of colorless glass and “Klautschen” with inner silvering, small yellow hollow beads, 2nd quarter 20th c.
© MAK
TURNING PAGES: Artists’ Books of the Present
Heinz Frank, Kinderbuch für Architekten [Children’s Book for Architects], 1993
© MAK
Heinz Frank, Kinderbuch für Architekten [Children’s Book for Architects], 1993
© MAK
100 BEST POSTERS 24: Germany Austria Switzerland
Eine Kooperation des MAK und des Vereins 100 Beste Plakate e. V.
A cooperation between the MAK and the association 100 Beste Plakate e. V. Tristesse, visual for the competition 100 BEST POSTERS 24: Germany Austria Switzerland
© Tristesse, CH-Basel Eine Kooperation des MAK und des Vereins 100 Beste Plakate e. V.
A cooperation between the MAK and the association 100 Beste Plakate e. V. Tristesse, visual for the competition 100 BEST POSTERS 24: Germany Austria Switzerland
HELMUT LANG
Helmut Lang, New York City Taxi Top, 2002
HELMUT LANG ARCHIV, MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst MAK Inv. Nr. LNI 649
© MAK/Christian Mendez
Helmut Lang, New York City Taxi Top, 2002
HELMUT LANG ARCHIV, MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst MAK Inv. Nr. LNI 649
© MAK/Christian Mendez
HELMUT LANG
Helmut Lang, Videostill Séance de Travail, Special Cut, 2020 Défilé Hommes Femmes # Hiver 93–# Été 05, Paris/New York
© HL-ART
Helmut Lang, Videostill Séance de Travail, Special Cut, 2020 Défilé Hommes Femmes # Hiver 93–# Été 05, Paris/New York
© HL-ART
Josef Hoffmann Museum, Brtnice
Wiener Werkstätte Salesroom 1904 – A Virtual Experience
VR reconstruction of the first salesroom of the Wiener Werkstätte, 1904
© Filmbäckerei Fasolt-Baker KG
Wiener Werkstätte Salesroom 1904 – A Virtual Experience
VR reconstruction of the first salesroom of the Wiener Werkstätte, 1904
© Filmbäckerei Fasolt-Baker KG
MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles Mackey Apartments (R. M. Schindler, 1939), exterior view
© Tag Christof
© Tag Christof
MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles
Rudolph M. Schindler House (R. M. Schindler, 1921/22), exterior view
© Tag Christof
Rudolph M. Schindler House (R. M. Schindler, 1921/22), exterior view
© Tag Christof
HELMUT LANG: What remains behind
Helmut Lang, fist no.1 and fist no.4, 2015–2017
© Courtesy of the artist
Helmut Lang, fist no.1 and fist no.4, 2015–2017
© Courtesy of the artist
Final Projects: Group LVI
Ursula Mayer, Lotus Eyed Tongue, installation view from the exhibition What Will Survive of Us, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, 2020
© Courtesy of Ursula Mayer
Ursula Mayer, Lotus Eyed Tongue, installation view from the exhibition What Will Survive of Us, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, 2020
© Courtesy of Ursula Mayer
Reading Room
R. M. Schindler papers, Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara
R. M. Schindler papers, Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara
GARAGE EXCHANGE: Anna Jermolaewa und Sophie Friedmann-Pappas
Anna Jermolaewa, Clockwork, 2021, installation view from the exhibition Georg Herold – Anna Jermolaewa – Heimo Zobernig, Galerie Johann Widauer,
Innsbruck, Austria, 2022
© Nikolaus Schletterer
Anna Jermolaewa, Clockwork, 2021, installation view from the exhibition Georg Herold – Anna Jermolaewa – Heimo Zobernig, Galerie Johann Widauer,
Innsbruck, Austria, 2022
© Nikolaus Schletterer
Final Projects: Group LVII
Paulina Nolte, Fairy Grotto, 2024
© Constanza Meléndez. Courtesy of Paulina Nolte
Paulina Nolte, Fairy Grotto, 2024
© Constanza Meléndez. Courtesy of Paulina Nolte
GARAGE EXCHANGE: Christoph Meier und N. N.
Christoph Meier, untitled, 2022
© Ute Müller. Courtesy of Christoph Meier
Christoph Meier, untitled, 2022
© Ute Müller. Courtesy of Christoph Meier
Social Housing Vienna – Los Angeles
Karl-Marx-Hof, 2009
© Dreizung licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
Karl-Marx-Hof, 2009
© Dreizung licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
Official Austrian Contribution 24th International Exhibition Triennale di Milano: Inequalities
Felix Lenz, Brute Force, 2022−2025 30-minute essay film
Film still
© Felix Lenz
Felix Lenz, Brute Force, 2022−2025 30-minute essay film
Film still
© Felix Lenz
BIG IN JAPAN: MAK BRINGS FELICE RIX-UENO TO THE EXPO 2025
Felice Rix-Ueno, Wiener Werkstätte wallpaper pattern Soede-Wicke [Sweet Pea], 1928
© MAK
Felice Rix-Ueno, Wiener Werkstätte wallpaper pattern Soede-Wicke [Sweet Pea], 1928
© MAK