MAk columned hall with entrance to the exhibition

Exhibition room with books in a showcase

Picture Book Art

The Book as Artistic Medium

Picture books—whether for children or adults—can impressively express the different artistic tendencies through the medium of the book. During this process, the artists’ deeply impressive creativity becomes visible, which knows how to bring not only the beauty, wealth, and hope, but also the threats of our world into pictures.

12.10.2022—5.3.2023

MAK Direktion

A selection of picture books from the 1960s to the present, for example by Sonia Delaunay, Bruno Munari, Olaf Nicolai, and Lawrence Weiner, gives an impression of this diversity. This exhibition is a continuation of the children’s book exhibitions shown at the MAK in the past. In addition to loans from the Friedrich C. Heller Collection, objects from the MAK Collection’s significant holdings will be presented.

Non Stop, 2019, Pictures and Text: Tomi Ungerer, Diogenes Verlag, Zurich, Neue Sammlung Friedrich C. Heller

basic space, 2015, Design: Fanny Millard, EXTRA – éditeur d’espaces, Bordeaux, Foldable red cardboard leporello, explanatory booklet, folder

ARTISTS

Otmar Alt, Xavier Armange, Etienne Bastermaghi, Marion Bataille, Barbara & Gerd Baumann, Anne Bertier, Alighiero Boetti, Eugenio Carmi, Chiara Carrer, David A. Carter, Young-kyoung Cha, Menena Cottin, Miloš Cvach, Rébecca Dautremer, Elena del Vento, Sonia Delaunay, Lia Drei, Pablo Echaurren, elffriede, Colleen Ellis, Wolf Erlbruch, Alexandra Exter, Rosana Faría, Amrei Fechner, Mary Fernety, Jérémie Fischer, Erich Fuchs, Alain Gauthier, Mario Grasso, Riccardo Guasco, Anne Herbauts, Christoph Herndler, Friederike Holländer, Marta Ignerska, Roberto Innocenti, Susanne Janssen, Oliver Jeffers, Stephen T. Johnson, Yann Kebbi, Ronald King, Ilona Kiss, Katsumi Komagata, Maria Lai, Warja Lavater, Benjamin Legan, André Letria, Vincent Mahé, Fanny Millard, Mikhail Molochnikov, Jörg Müller, Bruno Munari, Jon J Muth, Norio Nakamura, Olaf Nicolai, Sébastien G. Orsini, Gabriel Pacheco, Květa Pacovská, Emiliano Ponzi, Rathna Ramanathan, Dieter Roth, Antonio Rovaldi, Meg Rutherford, Alessandro Sanna, Johanna Schaible, Noémi Schipfer, Stuart Sharpe, Cindy Sherman, Sydney Smith, Katrin Stangl, Anton Stankowski, Chisato Tamabayashi, Shaun Tan, Jens Thiele, Susanne Tischewski, UG (= Philippe Huger), Desislava Unger, Tomi Ungerer, Claire Van Vliet, Fernando Vilela, Serena Viola, Sven Völker, Henning Wagenbreth, Issa Watanabe, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, Sam Winston, Linda Wolfsgruber, Shomei Yoh, Ed Young, Roberto Zamarin, Lisbeth Zwerger

CURATORS

Guest Curator: Friedrich C. Heller in collaboration with Ursula Brandstätter

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

Media

<BODY><div>Barbe-Bleue, 2007</div><div>Design and Text: Chiara Carrer</div><div>La Joie de Lire S.A., Geneva</div><div>17.6 × 30 cm</div><div>Neue Sammlung Friedrich C. Heller</div><div> </div></BODY>

Barbe-Bleue, 2007, Gestaltung und Text: Chiara Carrer, La Joie de Lire S.A., Genève (CH), Neue Sammlung Friedrich C. Heller © false

<BODY><div>Non Stop, 2019</div><div>Pictures and Text: Tomi Ungerer</div><div>Diogenes Verlag, Zurich</div><div>21.5 × 30.5 cm</div><div>Neue Sammlung Friedrich C. Heller</div><div>© 2019 Diogenes Verlag AG Zürich</div><div> </div></BODY>

<BODY><div>Mazookas Panorama, 2018</div><div>Pictures: Henning Wagenbreth</div><div>Buschfunk, Berlin</div><div>30 × 30 cm</div><div>Neue Sammlung Friedrich C. Heller</div><div> </div></BODY>

Mazookas Panorama, 2018, Pictures: Henning Wagenbreth, Buschfunk, Berlin, Neue Sammlung Friedrich C. Heller © false

<BODY><div>Mouse and Kat and the Evil One, 2004</div><div>Design: Stuart Sharpe</div><div>Ginko Press, Berkeley (USA)</div><div>22.8 × 17.8 cm </div><div>MAK BI 124998</div><div>© Stuart Sharpe</div></BODY>

Mouse and Kat and the Evil One, 2004, Design: Stuart Sharpe, Ginko Press, Berkeley (USA), MAK BI 124998 © Stuart Sharpe

<BODY><div>I Prelibri, 1980 (reissue 2002) </div><div>Design: Bruno Munari</div><div>Danese Edizioni, Milano/Corraini Edizioni, Mantua </div><div>Various materials (paper, cardboard, wood, plastic)</div><div>12 small books, each 10 × 10 cm</div><div>MAK, BI 77704</div><div>© 1980 Bruno Munari. All rights reserved to Maurizio Corraini s.r.l.</div><div> </div></BODY>

<BODY><div>SOMETHING TO PUT SOMETHING ON, 2008/2017</div><div>Design: Lawrence Weiner</div><div>Little Steidl, Göttingen</div><div>21.7 × 25.4 cm</div><div>MAK, BI 90394</div><div> </div></BODY>

SOMETHING TO PUT SOMETHING ON, 2008/2017, Design: Lawrence Weiner, Little Steidl, Göttingen, MAK, BI 90394 © false

Basic Space, Fanny Millard, 2015 © EXTRA 2022

<BODY>Prelibri © 1980 Bruno Munari. All rights reserved to Maurizio Corraini s.r.l</BODY>

<BODY><div>basic space, 2015</div><div>Design: Fanny Millard</div><div>EXTRA – éditeur d’espaces, Bordeaux </div><div>Foldable red cardboard leporello, explanatory booklet, folder</div><div>12 × 12 cm</div><div>© EXTRA 2022</div><div>Neue Sammlung Friedrich C. Heller</div><div> </div></BODY>

basic space, 2015, Design: Fanny Millard, EXTRA – éditeur d’espaces, Bordeaux, Foldable red cardboard leporello, explanatory booklet, folder © EXTRA 2022, Neue Sammlung Friedrich C. Heller

<BODY><div>La doble historia de un vaso de leche, 2007</div><div>Design and Text: Menena Cottin</div><div>Ediciones Tecolote, Mexico</div><div>Drawings and text in white and yellow on black background</div><div>14 × 28 cm</div><div>Neue Sammlung Friedrich C. Heller</div><div> </div></BODY>

La doble historia de un vaso de leche, 2007, Design and Text: Menena Cottin, Ediciones Tecolote, Mexico, Drawings and text in white and yellow on black background, Neue Sammlung Friedrich C. Heller © false

<BODY>Exhibition View, Picture Book Art, 2022 © MAK/Georg Mayer</BODY>

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