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Exhibition of Austrian Arts and Crafts

1911/12

Exhibition View, MAK Vienna, 2014

Exhibition by Vocational Schools for the War-Disabled

Exhibition: Jenny Holzer XX

2006

Exhibition View, MAK Vienna, 2014

Inaugural exhibition of the k. k. Österreichisches Museum für Kunst und Industrie

Exhibition view, JAMES TURRELL. The other Hoizon

1998

AFTER-IMAGES:

150 Years of the MAK: Exhibitions in Pictures

Wed, 11.6.2014–Sun, 5.10.2014

MAK – Museum of Applied Arts

Exhibition

AFTER-IMAGES:

150 Years of the MAK: Exhibitions in Pictures

Wed, 11.6.2014–Sun, 5.10.2014
MAK Works on Paper Room

MAK – Museum of Applied Arts

With reference to the exhibition EXEMPLARY: 150 Years of the MAK – From Arts and Crafts to Design, the MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection is showing some 200 historical and contemporary photographs of MAK exhibitions from its own holdings.

In keeping with the founding principle of the Imperial Royal Austrian Museum of Art and Industry (now the MAK), beginning in 1864 an exemplary collection was compiled that—alongside electrotyped reproductions, stylistic replications, and plaster casts—comprised a considerable number of photographs, a new medium at that time.

From the outset, the museum has recorded its publicly accessible areas—permanent exhibitions and special exhibitions—in photographic images. They served on the one hand as documentation, and on the other as a means to present the museum to the public beyond the physical walls of the museum itself. The oldest photograph on display shows the presentation of the collection in the ballroom building after 1864; it is one of the earliest examples of photography to be found in the whole of Austria.

Beginning with the publication of the illustrated museum magazine Kunst und Kunsthandwerk [Art and Arts and Crafts], which replaced the unillustrated Mittheilungen des k. k. Österreichischen Museum für Kunst und Industrie [Announcements from the Imperial Royal Austrian Museum of Art and Industry] (1865–1897), every exhibition at the museum was fastidiously recorded in photographic form. Consequently, the history of the exhibitions from 1898 to 1921, when the magazine was discontinued, can be told in pictures. With the publication of the magazine Alte und moderne Kunst [Old and Modern Art] between 1956 and 1985, this style of exhibition documentation was continued, and ultimately carried over into the new era of digital photography and archiving.

The exhibition ranges from historical forms of presentation—which were indebted to the memory of the Mouseion—to scenographic exhibition designs (winter exhibitions), elaborate room installations by Karl Witzmann and Dagobert Peche, and the spectacular staging of the present day (solo exhibitions by Chris Burden, James Turrell, Jenny Holzer, and Anish Kapoor).

Accordingly, the museum can be understood as a “producer of images” in two respects: one the one hand due to the “image” produced by the exhibition itself, on the other because of the depiction of the exhibition in photographic form. In the MAK’s case, the activities collecting and photographing for the mueseum coincide with its founding principle: to provide a comprehensive exemplary collection.

Curator Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head of Library and Works on Paper Collection/Archive
 

Curatorial Guided Tours

Thu, 12.6.2014, 5 p.m.
Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head of MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection

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Exhibition of Austrian Arts and Crafts
Exhibition of Austrian Arts and Crafts
1911/12
Central Hall/Section I: General Arts and Crafts, exhibition designed by Karl Witzmann, Photograph by Bruno Reiffenstein, 1912
Exhibition View, MAK Vienna, 2014
Exhibition View, MAK Vienna, 2014
Exhibition by Vocational Schools for the War-Disabled
Exhibition by Vocational Schools for the War-Disabled
1917, Fotograph of war-disabled persons at work
Exhibition: Jenny Holzer XX
Exhibition: Jenny Holzer XX
2006
Central Exhibition Room, Weiskirchnerstraße, For MAK, Projection of Elfriede Jelinek’s Text Women as Lovers
Exhibition View, MAK Vienna, 2014
Exhibition View, MAK Vienna, 2014
Inaugural exhibition of the k. k. Österreichisches Museum für Kunst und Industrie
Inaugural exhibition of the k. k. Österreichisches Museum für Kunst und Industrie
in the Ballhaus, 1864
Exhibition view, JAMES TURRELL. The other Hoizon
Exhibition view, JAMES TURRELL. The other Hoizon
1998

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