that had lost and exiled thousands of people. This was the starting point for the idea of an initiative.... An apartment in the Mackey Apartments will be available for each Artist or Architect-in-Residence ...

of the building's outer wall into the urban space, leaving behind a new point of access to the museum... for the exhibition Turning Point (1996). The Stadtpark, one of the city’s green oases, lies just ...

).  Boarding and alighting point directly at the MAK (entrance Weiskirchnerstraße ...

Sergej Bugaev Afrika: Krimania 1996 / Für die Ausstellung Philip Johnson: Turning Point ...

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The ERSTE Foundation Tipping Point Talks 2019_2019-09-19 18:00 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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     ...

GERTIE FRÖHLICH (In)Visible Pioneer The artist Gertie Fröhlich (1930–2020) was in the background and yet still the focal point of the activities of the Viennese avantgarde. While studying... apartment at Sonnenfelsgasse 11 was soon a meeting place for creative people such as Wolfgang Hollegha ...

PHILIP JOHNSON Turning Point ...

. 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 ...

of abstraction pertaining to the Loos Bar’s interior, rendered almost infinitely expandable by its mirrored walls.  RELAX takes the Loos Bar’s façade as point of departure: three beverage vending machines... body of sound in the otherwise deserted interior, cited only by a ceiling illuminated by fluorescent ...

- from architecture and interior decoration to fabrics, fashion, tableware, and picture postcards... Zobernig providing a vantage point. The exhibition was accompanied by a methodical series of lectures ...

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 ...

to activate the development of a non-European centered point of view. By characterizing the unique features... (Europe). Ornament and narrative (Orient). Symbol and landscape (East Asia). Curators Johannes ...

the starting point and the occasion for the exhibition “MEJI. Japan around 1900” shown at the MAK... the “Imperial and Royal East Asian Expedition” to China, Siam, and Japan to set up diplomatic ...

Reuter’s work has travelled the globe, its point of origin was a plot of land on a paper street near... by geography, while sitting vacant in East L.A. with an occupiable area of around 4,000 square feet ...

. 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 ...

, and interior tell of that era’s bourgeois and somewhat faddish predilection for oriental cultures. The panoramic tapestry showing temples in the so-called Blue Salon provided a starting point from ...

travelers and urban nomads. A coffeehouse’s interior and guests are indicative of local fashions... be complemented. It will also function as a starting point for further explorations of the MAK and the urban... as a tool of applied research. The coffeehouse, an important point of cultural and social confluence ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fire Point BIEDERMEIER Oven drafts by Franz Erndt sen. and jun. (1800-1860)     ...

, pictorial broadsheets, and wall decorations. New graphic techniques and interior decorating concepts... and elaborately folded paper objects. The point is to direct attention toward Franz von Zülow’s ...

, however, he engaged the Viennese imperative to reconcile interior and exterior environments... advance, and his modern point of view was reflected in notable works such as the Villa Wagner ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

. 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 ...

” systems, as well as the “Little Large Block Builder” produced in East Germany (GDR), await all ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alex Katz Sunrise The starting point of the ALEX KATZ exhibition is intimate studies of the artist, including photos of his model, which he cut up  and processed into so-called “splits.”  The haunting, large-scale portraits, inspired by Manet’s images of women wearing hats  ...

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

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

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 ...

, at the same time broadened by the context of fashion/history/discontinuity. At the focal point ...

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 ...

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

, apartment-house neighborhood. It was built to be in the desert."*    Installed in collaboration ...

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

(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 ...

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

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

both armies,  North South East West (2007), a viewer is pulled into considering how history ...

and Alejandro Zaera-Polo. The show's point of departure is a systematic classification of built ...

MARINA FAUST Six days The starting point for Marina Faust's films has always been the writing of texts that attempt to paraphrase emotions such as desire, love and sexuality. Her early cinematographic works involved the filming of her own person while speaking these texts, a parallel ...

MARIA THERESIA LITSCHAUER NY Trespassing The starting point for Maria Theresia Litschauer's photo series of 22 cross-processed C prints are urban borderline situations: non-sites characterized by depopulation and architectural elements that have lost their function. The Austrian artist takes ...

that today is synonymous with "nowhere" as his point of departure. The city that, with its vast ...

ARTS AND CRAFTS AT A TURNING POINT Winter Exhibition 1899/1900 Centenary The winter exhibition 1899/1900 represents one of the crucial turning-points regarding the development towards modern art within the "k.k. Öst. Museum für Kunst und Industrie", the Austrian Imperial and Royal Museum ...

, restorations, and a container ship before arriving back at their point of origin. Together with Siegel ...

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 ...

not been part of the accepted social conduct. The point was to find out in what various ways the new... icon. As a homage to this design classic, Ron Arad and Karim Rashid made the Sacco a starting point ...

: The East-Asian Way In the countries of Eastern Asia, the turn toward simplicity can be first ...

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 ...

from an international point of view. "out of actions" features works by over a hundred artists from ...

INA SEIDL Jewelry Inspired by bees and honeycombs, Ina Seidl forms unique surfaces and structures using wax, in order to use the material that has now processed to the point of no longer being recognizable for her unique items of cast jewelry. The metamorphosis that the pieces of jewelry ...

. The festival is supposed to be a meeting point to facilitate the international communication ...

series.   At the same time, CREATIVE CLIMATE CARE is the starting point for the MAK GALLERY ...

Climate Pandemics Dark Euphoria The exhibition CLIMATE PANDEMICS: Dark Euphoria takes science fiction literature, specifically climate fiction, as a starting point for artistic reflection. It plays with the genre's ability to link environmental themes to the experience of living in another world ...

went on a tour of this area and documented the animals living there to point out myths, legends ...

point for the  (Con)temporary Fashion Showcase  series.  With Anna-Sophie Berger ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

showing color combinations from the booklet Exterior and Interior Color Beauty , a publication... was employed to choose the colors found in Exterior and Interior Color Beauty, in order to create ...

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 "real imagination" and the saga got stuck in a "point of no return" in the fast-paced urban... scale paintings. Meyer's realistic paintings used photography as a reference point. The subject ...

INGEBORG LÜSCHER The Game is Over “The game is over”, George W. Bush proclaimed only weeks before the invasion of Iraq. Used by the artist Ingeborg Lüscher as the point of departure... the globe. The starting point that Lüscher uses for her video installation shown at the MAK ...

interior built for viewing Cold Rehearsal has its exterior walls covered with a panoramic painting ...

-based designer Robert Stadler plays on the easy transformability of the Biedermeier interior by means ...

to painting at the beginning of the seventies, although from a different point of view, and continue his ...

experiences that are equally impressive and surprising. The starting point of Gsöllpointner's ...

to point up the artistry that Zugmann contributes to the image-making process.   With his precise ...

be traced through images of models in different experimental stages, while the actual models serve to point ...

MINIMAL Art and Furniture from the MAK Collection The exhibition finds its starting point in American Minimal Art, which was one of the most influential artistic movements of the 20th century’s second half, and goes on to deal with Minimal Art precursors and more recent further ...

and temporal aura. The starting point for his works is the sketch, which together with the sculpture spins ...

point of a development that relates to the Geymüllerschlössel as a former concert salon as well ...

of incompletion as an end point. Each of his ceramic objects thus has its own irreproducible shape and unique ...

; itself.   Taking its title, “If this is the Answer, what is the Question?” as a point ...

luminosity, and nature play an essential role as the starting point and poetry of the textile. Her ...

; Which new rules are established to reach a common goal? Which actuality of life is my starting point ...

Exhibitions MAK Center Los Angeles 2023 ALEX KATZ Schindler House, 15.2.–12.3.2023 Curators: Jia Yi Gu and Gavin Brown The starting point of the ALEX KATZ exhibition is intimate studies of the artist, including photos of his model, which he cut up   and processed into so-called ...

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

EVA SCHLEGEL In Between A pivotal point in Eva Schlegel’s artistic oeuvre is the ephemeral; thematizing and working it out with different materials and in various contexts. The confrontation with the matter per se and its possibilities is fundamental to her work. The artist examines ...

within selected phrases. All of her work has rhyming as its starting point; connections are thereby ...

in Joachimsthal in the Waldviertel, Lower Austria. These “Steinglasses” point the way to the later ...

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 ...

of downtown L.A. The drive shifts seamlessly into a sequence from the 1967 film "Point Blank" about ...

of the opening scene of Antonioni’s “Zabriskie Point,” which features a discussion among ...

COOP HIMMELB(L)AU Beyond the Blue The exhibition “COOP HIMMELB(L)AU. Beyond the Blue” marks another high point in the museum’s series of focal presentations of architecture. The show with a concept developed especially for the MAK is the hitherto most comprehensive museum ...

: from that point onward, this group of works was to serve as both a motivator and a guideline ...

a new modernist vision. The overall aim of Hoffmann’s pavilion was to point towards his ideal ...