An exhibition of the MAK, Vienna and the Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
With their exhibition project SAGMEISTER & WALSH: Beauty, Stefan Sagmeister and Jessica Walsh make a visually impressive multimedia plea for us to take delight in beauty. Spreading across the entire MAK, their exhibition investigates why people feel attracted to beauty, how they can deal with it, and which positive effects beauty can have. With the aid of examples from the fields of graphic design, product design, architecture, and city planning, Sagmeister & Walsh demonstrate that beautiful objects, buildings, and strategies are not only more pleasing, but actually more effective, and that form does not merely follow function, but in many cases actually is the function.
Curator: Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head, MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection/Archive
Every Sun, 3 p.m.
With their exhibition project SAGMEISTER & WALSH: Beauty, Stefan Sagmeister and Jessica Walsh make a visually impressive multimedia plea for us to take delight in beauty. Spreading across the entire MAK, their exhibition investigates why people feel attracted to beauty, how they can deal with it, and which positive effects beauty can have. With the aid of examples from the fields of graphic design, product design, architecture, and city planning, Sagmeister & Walsh demonstrate that beautiful objects, buildings, and strategies are not only more pleasing, but actually more effective, and that form does not merely follow function, but in many cases actually is the function.
Curator: Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head, MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection/Archive
Guided Tours
Every Sat, 2 p.m.Every Sun, 3 p.m.
Media
MAK Exhibition View, 2018
SAGMEISTER & WALSH: Beauty
SAGMEISTER & WALSH: Beauty
Sagmeister & Walsh, Fog Screen, 2018
The installation was produced in cooperation with the ERSTE Stiftung
MAK Columned Main Hall
© MAK/Aslan Kudrnofsky
The installation was produced in cooperation with the ERSTE Stiftung
MAK Columned Main Hall
© MAK/Aslan Kudrnofsky
MAK Exhibition View, 2018
SAGMEISTER & WALSH: Beauty
SAGMEISTER & WALSH: Beauty
in the middle: Nils Völker, Two Hundert and Seventy, 2018
MAK Columned Main Hall
© MAK/Aslan Kudrnofsky
MAK Columned Main Hall
© MAK/Aslan Kudrnofsky
MAK Exhibition View, 2018
SAGMEISTER & WALSH: Beauty
SAGMEISTER & WALSH: Beauty
Sagmeister & Walsh, Color Room, 2018
In cooperation with Backhausen
MAK DESIGN LAB
© MAK/Aslan Kudrnofsky
In cooperation with Backhausen
MAK DESIGN LAB
© MAK/Aslan Kudrnofsky