at the diversity of Biedermeier decorative art.   The Geymüllerschlössel and its park form an ensemble... park, and autumn 2004 saw the permanent addition of the Skyspace The Other Horizon (1998/2004 ...

. The MAK offers much more than a magnificent museum as a backdrop for your events; the setting ...

. An apartment in the Mackey Apartments will be available for each Artist or Architect-in-Residence..., Jeehee Park, Ovidiu Anton 30.9.2019–13.3.2020 Jakob Sellaoui, Veronika Eberhart, Ting-Jung Chen ...

adjacent to the MAK and beckons refreshingly to museum visitors. The park has played host to Donald ...

digital park - fasten your seat belts_2002-10-29 20:00 ...

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Opening BEFORE DARK: Viennese Interior Design in the Interwar Period_2026-12-15 19:00 ...

Guided tour Luxury yesterday—today—tomorrow_2021-10-26 15:30 ...

MAK DAY 2020 under the Motto LUXURY YESTERDAY—TODAY—TOMORROW MAK DAY 2020 under the Motto LUXURY YESTERDAY—TODAY—TOMORROW ...

The private Josef Hoffmann Apartment Tours Unlike his teacher Otto Wagner (1841–1918... through to “modern architecture” was accompanied by a new design for an apartment of his own... published photographs—are: his bachelor apartment at Magdalenenstraße 12 ( Das Interieur , 1900 ...

a TV stage staircase. In the fantasy played out in the few seconds between his fall and his death... interior built for viewing Cold Rehearsal has its exterior walls covered with a panoramic painting... the dedication of Ruhm and Lang's Henry Miller Park Reincarnation Site , with a speech by Dr. Juli ...

EASTERN PROMISES Contemporary Architecture and Spatial Practices in East Asia The promise of a pioneering architecture, which is especially associated with East Asian countries, is the focus.... This development heralds the emergence of a social aesthetic of architecture in the East Asian ...

Canto, an autonomous community center, 3706 N. Figueroa Avenue in the Highland Park section, Los Angeles.... Dualism was invoked by a semi-buried chamber for meditation in the interior and a showcase to screen..., office buildings, or large apartment buildings, rather than houses. Furthermore, lobbies are designed ...

Final Projects Group I - Art Protects You A virtual "apartment" consisting of six separate... of the interior spaces and the borders between private / public and inside /outside were dissolved... to conceptually occupy them. Ads ( "L.A., CA City Apartment, 500 sq. mile + terrace. US $20,000 ...

Knotted Carpets from China and East Turkistan     ...

FOCUS ON FURNITURE: Exiled Furniture Ernst Schwadron's furniture for the apartment of Paul and Johanna Dózsa, Vienna 1933     ...

simplicity associated with luxury. The investigation of Asian art history places simplicity in relation... Functionalism and purism, modesty and moderation, poverty and luxury: surveying plain furniture design from...: The East-Asian Way In the countries of Eastern Asia, the turn toward simplicity can be first ...

Studio Formafantasma The Stranger Within Once again, the Geymüllerschlössel provides the backdrop for a contemporary design intervention and simultaneously opens itself to juxtapositions..., and interior tell of that era’s bourgeois and somewhat faddish predilection for oriental cultures ...

both armies,  North South East West (2007), a viewer is pulled into considering how history... the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and the Jantar Mantar observatory in Jaipur, India. The large-scale ...

on an order from Portuguese traders. Increasing demand for exported luxury products and East-Asian... provided themselves with goods and wares from East Asia; Chinese porcelain became the utility tableware.... The concluding objects of the Permanent Collection Asia testify European interest in East Asian Art ...

in 1921, when fresh memories of time in Yosemite National Park led the architect to produce what he..., apartment-house neighborhood. It was built to be in the desert."*    Installed in collaboration ...

by the abandoned master plan for Richard Neutra and Robert Alexander's Elysian Park Heights housing project... years of detailed preparation, the visionary plan for Elysian Park Heights was scrapped in 1953... to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Elysian Park, and Dodger Stadium, as well as to Neutra's own ...

. In the bedroom from Josef Hoffmann’s Salzer Apartment (1902) objects are organized into a strict system of square ornamentation, while the bedroom in Loos’s own apartment (1903) evokes intimacy through... Schütte-Lihotzky’s Working Single Woman’s Apartment (1929), by contrast, illustrate contrary ...

UNDER FOREIGN INFLUENCE Textiles from Europe and Asia Since ancient times, Europe has been prone to the influence of textile materials, techniques and motifs from the Near and Far East. Many..." and the impact of East Asian and Oriental models. Curator Angela Völker ...

Robert Stadler Back in 5 min Before the backdrop of this venue’s changeful history leading all the way up to its present-day use as a museum branch, the MAK DESIGN SALON sets the stage...-based designer Robert Stadler plays on the easy transformability of the Biedermeier interior by means ...

Subject Studies Reorientations Subject Studies’ inaugural 2022 theme, Reorientations, developed by Jia Yi Gu and Rosario Talevi, directs perspectives and questions towards MAK Center’s own institutional habits, routines and practices. With the backdrop of the roof restoration of Schindler ...

In Between Art and Architecture - Part 1 In Between: Art and Architecture - An exhibition in three parts An installation of video works from international artists, that were projected on the walls of the Mackey Apartment Building. The exhibition was curated by Eugenio Valdés Figueroa ...

BEFORE DARK Viennese Interior Design in the Interwar Period Topics around “housing” and interior design played a decisive role in the redefinition of Vienna’s and Austria’s cultural identity after... project, the MAK makes it possible to experience the sociocultural interior design challenge posed ...

the first half of the 19th century, the Geymüllerschlössel joins its park, in which contemporary artistic... in the Geymüllerschlössel’s park, and autumn 2004 saw the permanent addition of the skyspace work The other ...

are a form of cultural memory and commemoration. Against the backdrop of the digital world, artists ...

product and interior designs and gives insight into its multi-faceted design practice. The MAK... is on the poetic-analytical creative process of studio founders Martin Bergmann (b. 1963, Lienz/East... reduced design language covers a broad bandwidth of projects ranging from interior design to home ...

in monochromes: green, yellow, white, and red. Curator Johannes Wieninger, MAK Curator East Asia and Islam... the redefinition of the MAK East Asian Collection. Since the reopening of the MAK in 1993, the East ...

SWETLANA HEGER & PLAMEN DEJANOV Quite Normal Luxury (Test the World) The relationship between art, business and trademark, as well as the redefinition of aesthetic strategies...;Quite Normal Luxury’ is the result of a collaboration between the artists and a car ...

three modules of SoftSoftSoft: a digital film entitled SoftSoftSoft - screened in the TV lounge ...

is determined by the consistent desire to unite opposites: hardness and fragility, economy and luxury, light ...

techniques of European, Islamic, and East Asian origins, documenting the spread of the art ...

not merely as a backdrop but rather aim at visualizing existent structures and systems of order. In his ...

Copa Solar (2021) installation, a solar park goes on vacation, Johanna Pichlbauer invites..., Vossen.    While the solar park dreams of a timeout, Johanna Pichlbauer orbits the MAK ...

CHINESE IMAGES EMBROIDERIES Textile Interior Decoration from Schloß Hof im Marchfeld The show features a number of textile interior decoration ensembles from Schloßhof im Marchfeld, the former country estate of Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663-1736), among them a 19-part set of bed and room ...

CREATING SPACES IN THE MAK The Soul remains the Same The MAK interior design—mostly Florentine Renaissance in style—was carried out by students and professors at the Vienna School... Laufberger’s fresco and stencil paintings, the building sculptures and interior design ...

for the Los Angeles apartment of Russian émigré Beata Inaya—an enthusiastic advocate of modern... damage to the furniture, caused when Inaya’s apartment was flooded in 1988.   After her death... first offered the furniture from Inaya’s apartment to the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London ...

Apartment House supplemented by their recent works. L.A. Projects: The House (Gilbert Bretterbauer ...

CARPETS FROM LINZ Machine Made Biedermeier Objects At the beginning of the 19th century floor carpets became a standard feature of bourgeois interior decoration. This growing trend was catered for especially by the "Imperial and Royal Linzer Wollenzeugmanufactur" (founded in 1672 and taken ...

the Southeastern and East Asian region has been enriching the museum’s exhibitions ever since.  His... does not follow the mainstream of the art trade, but focuses especially on those East ...

not only by a variety with regard to taste but also by a subtle gradation from expensive luxury goods ...

CRITICAL CONSUMPTION Micro trends, fashion giants releasing dozens of new collections every year, precarious conditions for textile workers, luxury brands shredding unworn garments, and ecosystems being destroyed by mountains of textile waste: fashion—and the fashion industry ...

rings to design classics by the Wiener Werkstätte to contemporary luxury handbags.   Also ...

Johannes Wieninger, MAK Curator East Asia and Islam In the coming years, the Collection East Asia... "ON THE BACK. Hidden Signs of the Object" ,  MAK Permanent Collection East Asia and Islam. September ...

for portraits of important people from pop culture and TV series whose attitude towards climate change ...

important days of a new beginning in art after World War II. Resembling a backdrop, performance ...

’ specially developed project interprets the ensemble of the Geymüllerschlössel as the backdrop ...

it possible to live affordably in metropolises against a backdrop of climatic and social political ...

of interior decoration, whether as wall objects or rugs in front of fire places or beds. In palaces and mansions they are part of the standard interior decoration denoting social prestige as wall ...

ORNAMENT IS NO CRIME Ornamental patterns once played a very important part in European arts and crafts, interior decoration and architecture. The patterns aided the fast spreading of ornamental innovations, made national ornaments an element of international decoration and were ...

The History of the Geymüllerschlössel The interior decoration and gardens of the Geymüllerschlössel in Pötzleinsdorf make it one of the few places in Austria today that offer an authentic glimpse into the variety of Biedermeier decorative art.  Commissioned by the Viennese banker ...

themselves in Moscow and other cities and towns between the slab apartment buildings, the slums ...

, and large apartment buildings, rather than houses." They see lobbies as spaces that are "clinically ...

apartment at Sonnenfelsgasse 11 was soon a meeting place for creative people such as Wolfgang Hollegha ...

Groundswell Guerilla Architecture In Response To The Great East Japan Earthquake The enormous destruction caused by the Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami has been in urgent need of attention from creative and critical thinkers since the catastrophe struck in 2011. Under the auspices ...

New Presentation: MAK PERMANENT COLLECTION TEXTILES AND CARPETS The MAK Textiles and Carpets Collection is one of the most valuable and extensive of its kind worldwide. It brings together objects from late antiquity to the present, from European to East Asian textiles. The exquisite carpet ...

to fulfill only basic requirements: one refrigerator, eight chairs, one shelf, one tv ...

Gallery, she addresses the aestheticization of poverty, using the example of a slum theme park ...

presentation of this piece of interior decoration to date. It also confronts the “Fulfilment” ...

and mirror, to sway definitions of the materials as interior/exterior liaisons towards a view of them ...

for the interior design of the residential and business building of the Stern family ...

, photography, film, and public life. An urban backdrop occupying the exhibition hall serves ...

. The scouts had discovered 25 new apartment buildings and villas in Vienna and Baden, which Lisa Rastl... in the same way can be found in the former parlor of an apartment in Vienna’s 7th district. The diversity ...

and disregards the formal aspect which plays a crucial part in the calligraphy of the Far East and has been ...

LAURA KIKAUKA M.A.N.I.A.C. at MAK - MarvellousAbundant Neglected Items Arranged Creatively Laura Kikauka, who lives and works at the Funny Farm in Meaford, Ontario, and the Funny Farm East in Berlin, mainly relies on found objects to transform her life and surroundings into thematic ...

into MAK collection. Curator Johannes Wieninger, MAK Curator East Asia and Islam ...

as the accompanying religious literature. Curator Johannes Wieninger, MAK Curator Far East ...

in Essen. The East Asian view of ceramics as an art form with many interfaces between series production ...

the exhibition presents a private collection which is specialized in East and South East Asia. Each ...

that, and its material properties maintain this expansion into a different world."  Both were luxury ...

torso with arms outstretched, flanked by a repeated image of a mid-century modern interior...;is ostensibly the modern domestic interior longed for in Greene’s work. The interplay between opacity and transparency, interior and exterior that infuses Greene’s paintings is echoed in R.M ...

ich weiß nicht Growing Relations between Things In a world increasingly shaped by digital technologies and interfaces, interaction between humans and things has become a focal point of interest. Against the backdrop of new digital and social settings, the group exhibition  ich weiß nicht [I ...

classics of modern interior décor design from the 1920s that use animal fur as upholstery to ironic ...

the spaces in motion, encouraging visitors to explore. These columns articulate the interior spaces ...

authentically preserved building in Europe. The construction, layout of the rooms, interior design ...

over 50 buildings, almost 50 exhibitions, some 170 interiors, 300 interior designs, and more than ...

interior design decorated with more than 3,000 porcelain pieces—documents of the earliest Viennese ...

life like architecture, interior design, fashion, as well as practical objects. Originally from ...

Vienna). In addition, he is active in exhibition and interior design. For the SHOWROOM WIENER ...

of abstraction pertaining to the Loos Bar’s interior, rendered almost infinitely expandable by its mirrored... body of sound in the otherwise deserted interior, cited only by a ceiling illuminated by fluorescent.... It corresponds exactly to the dimensions of the Loos Bar’s interior and was displayed as motif ...

thousands of his own photographs, generating an atlas of architectural and interior details created ...

), the architect also developed their overall interior design. His studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Art... commissioner of numerous works in glass; in fact, Hansen planned the overall interior design for the residence ...

that drives an entire machine park, generating raw material for the production of biogas that in turn ...

of the Mackey Apartments, with the construction of a work containing apartment amenities like cabinets ...

, Zen for LED-TV and 4 out of 5 (both 2014), also took shape as part of his examination of a society ...

and luxury articles from the imperial manufactories show how the tradition of superlative ...

. Globally operating luxury labels explicitly foreground handicraft as a mark of quality and distinction ...

expressing his spiritual connection to East Asian formalisms. Beyond being simple items of use ...

(Samuel Rosenstock), Arthur Segal (Aron Sigalu), and Marcel Janco (Marcel Iancu) (see Dada East ...

Shunga Erotic Art from Japan “Shun-ga,” spring pictures, have long been widespread in East Asia. They testify to a different attitude to sexuality and eroticism from our conditioning to such elements in Europe and are classified among the “ukiyo-e” pictures, pictures of the “floating world ...

Kay Walkowiak Forms in Time In his Forms in Time solo exhibition developed for the MAK, the artist Kay Walkowiak approaches the question of the timelessness and narrative conceivability of form on the basis of the differing culturehistorical mentalities of East and West ...

color photomontage panels set against the backdrop of Monument Valley, John Ford's favorite filming ...

. The structural adaptations of the 1942 –1943 flak tower in Arenberg Park in Vienna, a monument... here in Vienna and there in the world. The flak tower in Arenberg Park demonstrates the double quality ...

advertising, title pages for sheet music and even entire interior designs with a high level of recognition... machen Leute (1921), designing not only the intertitles but also all the interior sets. In the 1930s ...

; which allowed him to focus exclusively on the broad field of interior decorating from 1814 onward... campaign featuring a series of interiors. These complete interior designs were reproduced as steel ...

at the chance observer. The artist's texts appear on posters, T-shirts, park benches, electronic billboards ...

use in her apartment following the exhibition, Hofer focuses on the phenomenon of getting oneself ...

oeuvre includes a very wide range of projects: over 50 buildings (villas, apartment houses ...

- from architecture and interior decoration to fabrics, fashion, tableware, and picture postcards ...

(project title: Architecture and Interior Design in Central Europe in the early twentieth century ...

Koloman Moser Universal Artist between Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann Koloman Moser’s oeuvre continues to exert a lasting fascination. As a universal artist Moser masters the disciplines of painting, graphic art, arts and crafts, and interior design as well as fashion and scenography.  ...

that Koloman Moser’s interior designs manifested “every effort to create purity of form, the desire ...

life. During their stay in Los Angeles, however, the constant feeling of "luxury, anxiety, and sexual ...

. sammlungen.mak.at Curator Johannes Wieninger, MAK East Asian and Islamic Art Collection Scientific ...

(Europe). Ornament and narrative (Orient). Symbol and landscape (East Asia). Curators Johannes ...

the “Imperial and Royal East Asian Expedition” to China, Siam, and Japan to set up diplomatic ...

and both the Middle East and south-western Asia from the period between the 15th and 18th centuries ...

by geography, while sitting vacant in East L.A. with an occupiable area of around 4,000 square feet ...

by the realities of site and building requirements, as illustrated in the design of a Car Park ...

of the lens, but rather the interior experience of the photographer. Lambri’s images were ...

Josef Hoffmann – Friedrich Kiesler Contemporary Art Applied The exhibition JOSEF HOFFMANN –FRIEDRICH KIESLER: Contemporary Art Applied presents the furniture and interior designs.... Following on from his great success in the Internationale Ausstellung neuer Theatertechnik ...

Collection. Interspersed are scans of paper scraps found on the streets of East Los Angeles, as well ...

Art; the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art; The Power Plant, Toronto; the Broad Museum, East ...

own (consumption) behavior leads us to question the claims of “luxury goods” and the omnipresent ...

to the most important monuments, second place winning a color TV set.   In his video presented ...

of the stranger's language in relation to an environment of displacement. With an interior ...

of Contemporary Art, infiltrates and undermines classic interior furnishings with various narrative strands ...

travelers and urban nomads. A coffeehouse’s interior and guests are indicative of local fashions ...

STIEFEL & COMPANY ARCHITECTS Faux Terrains When viewing or entering any work of architecture, any (interior) space, building or public square, some form of interaction takes place between this architecture and the person viewing or entering it. Viewing and entering change how we perceive ...

, pictorial broadsheets, and wall decorations. New graphic techniques and interior decorating concepts ...

individually on an approach which envisaged the overall design of buildings and interior spaces ...

, however, he engaged the Viennese imperative to reconcile interior and exterior environments ...

ornaments. Furniture and interior design no longer followed a shared dominant style, but instead a set ...

on trade-routes from farther in the East, representing Istanbul’s influence as a mediator ...

by the architecture of the Schindler house, Andrea Lenardin-Madden's looking west facing east   ...

the ancient world to the present day. With topics such as luxury arts in the pre-Columbian Americas, 20th ...

apartment. Christian Witt-Dörring The Viennese Style Loos’ cultural modernism was blatantly ...