Design Lab, which was newly set up in 2019, and can be accessed on all smartphones at lab.mak.at ...

the Frankfurt Kitchen and the Helmut Lang Archive, will be closed from 2 Nov 2026, for redesign. Reopening.... The team makes guests’ well-being its highest priority. The kitchen pays particular attention ...

served as a provisional location. As nobody today will deny, the model for the museum was the great.... The MAK has set itself the goal of being climate-neutral by 2040.   We have taken a significant step... Judd’s sculpture Stage Set since 1996; this public artwork, as well, was created specifically ...

Werkstätte’s leading artists —Koloman Moser, Dagobert Peche, and Mathilde Flögl—to create a set of elegant ...

Solo exhibitions Solo exhibitions Work experience (architects only ...

Happy Kitchen or Amplitudes of the Obligatory Space _2007-04-10 20:00 ...

TABLEAU – Objects for Kitchen and Culture hosted by Popchop × MAK_2025-10-05 10:00 ...

MAK4Family: A colorful stage set and moving pictures_2024-06-08 14:00 ...

Dialogue Tour: From My Ullmann to Maria Ullmann: Her Work as Costume and Stage Set Designer, 1928 to 1940_2024-06-28 16:30 ...

What remains behind – The MAK Center presents the first solo exhibition by Helmut Lang in Los Angeles What remains behind – The MAK Center presents the first solo exhibition by Helmut Lang in Los Angeles ...

What remains behind – The MAK Center presents the first solo exhibition by Helmut Lang in Los Angeles What remains behind – The MAK Center presents the first solo exhibition by Helmut Lang in Los Angeles ...

The Frankfurt Kitchen by Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky     ...

The kitchen in the castle (Schlossmuseum Riegersburg) Exhibition at the Schlossmuseum Riegersburg ...

FOCUS ON FURNITURE: Re: Kitchen     ...

Collection, which is set to reopen in 2014. Two further solo exhibitions, by Kerstin von Gabain... copied from the design classic Superleggera by Gio Ponti ( Model 699 ), which she came upon ...

Rosemarie Castoro Land of Lashes Land of Lashes , the first solo exhibition of New York artist Rosemarie Castoro (1939–2015) in a German-speaking country, extends the interplay between sculpture... and are “kinesthetic”—linked to the sensation of movement. They are designed to be set in motion. The artist ...

, and a model. Created in collaboration with Christoph a. Kumpusch, the "Light Pavilion... rectilinear lines surrounding it. The angular columns supporting stairs and viewing platforms set ...

-model function are represented in individual works by students at these technical schools. The idea...; narrative of formal-aesthetic identity-building, and its assessment,  is set against an extended time... relationships between fine and applied arts, architecture, and design. In the context of her first solo ...

that made it possible to build houses the way General Motors built cars, setting up a business model where... that deconstructed the language of cinema both as physical material and as a set of production... with an equally rigorous self-reflexivity. Recent solo exhibitions were held at the Generali ...

EOOS With EOOS , the MAK mounts the first solo exhibition of the eponymous design studio’s... by EOOS about EOOS, the monograph appears on the occasion of the solo exhibition EOOS in the MAK... Bohmann, EOOS at 6 p.m.   Related Events Tue, 3 Feb 2015, 7:30 p.m. Cooking up a kitchen EOOS ...

EOOS The Cooked Kitchen START_UP – Designers News Projcets Four years ago, EOOS was invited to design a mobile kitchen by bulthaup. In its attempt to create an “ideal kitchen,” the team relied on a participatory approach and defined the kitchen universe as a workshop ...

to the discourse aimed specifically at the re-conception of the MAK Study Collection, which is set to reopen in 2014. For 2012 and 2013, solo exhibitions by Kathi Hofer, Kerstin von Gabain and Verena Dengler ...

Thomas Bayrle If It’s Too Long—Make It Longer In his solo exhibition that reflects the MAK Collection, Thomas Bayrle (born in Berlin in 1937) combines traditional craft techniques... and industrial icons like Jesus Christ, Mao, the highway, or the smartphone. He composed the oversize stage set ...

Mandla Reuter Wasser A solo exhibition of work by Mandla Reuter at the Schindler House A group exhibition curated by Mandla Reuter at the Fitzpatrick-Leland House In recent years while Mandla... source material. The site serves as a virtual set and studio, of endless dimension unlimited ...

in Copenhagen, the model set for him by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and a sojourn of several years ...

space. Such pieces manifest attitudes towards life in a model fashion. Wurm overturns this world... in dedicated solo presentations. A crucial aspect here is the carrying out of necessary acquisitions ...

the interface of concept and artifact, model and architecture, material and form, role and film, sign...;untitled” (2008), which refers to an architectural set piece or prop. One entrance... collection of applied arts. The ensemble shows three replicas of a cabinet based on a model by Koloman ...

as clouds” and thus set out to lift the word of building out of its hinges. Their play... articulation in the work of COOP HIMMELB(L)AU. An oversized model table features 306 architectural models ...

Frederick Kiesler Life Visions The current interest in the multifaceted oeuvre of the Austrian- American architect, artist, designer, set designer, and theoretician Frederick Kiesler applies most...] of 1925 and the model of the Endless House of 1959, which stand for his architectonic visions ...

ornaments. Furniture and interior design no longer followed a shared dominant style, but instead a set...” way of living and designing, oriented to the model of Adolf Loos, who had already claimed in 1898 ...

BASIC INSTRUMENTS in kitchen and cellar Kitchen utensils and storage containers have never conformed to fashion, as they serve a utilitarian purpose, after all. Mostly made of copper, bronze, or lead, or finished in some form of ceramic material, decorated with secular and religious motifs ...

, and much more. This solo exhibition conceived of by guest curator Wilfried Kuehn and MAK curator Marlies..., the Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, has been implemented as the model for the architecture ...

Alfredo Barsuglia Cabinet For his solo exhibition at the MAK, the artist Alfredo Barsuglia (born in 1980 in Graz) has developed a complex architectural installation featuring numerous thematic... by the artist himself—exemplifies a homesteading attitude that conforms to his own ideology, as a walk-in model ...

WONG PING edging Titled “edging,” Hong Kong-based artist Wong Ping is presenting his first solo exhibition in Austria at the MAK. The exhibition features four animated films in a spatial setting created especially for the occasion. Wong’s animations stage absurd and often salacious ...

Currently closed: Helmut Lang Archive Please note: The MAK Design Lab, including the Frankfurt Kitchen and the Helmut Lang Archive, will be closed from 2 Nov 2026, for redesign. Reopening is scheduled for 8 June 2027. The MAK is showing a temporary intervention by Helmut Lang in the HELMUT ...

Klien // Wa Wa Project // Xin Gu // Michele Tabet Film program curated by Andréa Picard Oliver ...

to the most important monuments, second place winning a color TV set.   In his video presented... work has been widely exhibited internationally and in the United States. He has had solo museum ...

FRITZ KLEIBEL URBAN UTOPIAN / Pictures from the City-Focused Series TELEVIZOR INTEGRAL 212 An exhibition presented by DESIGN SHOWCASES 2003 "Urban Utopian / Autocracy of the Megamachine" simulates a multi-dimensional megascopic model of an architectural, urban, spatial future structure ...

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  ...

interventions in public space. This exhibition, VALIE EXPORT’s first solo presentation in Los Angeles since ...

a fantastic virtual world in which you can set out on an interactive cinematographic journey ...

the restaurant owned by the family figures as living room, kitchen, meeting place, and cultural ...

Currently closed: MAK Design Lab Please note: The MAK Design Lab, including the Frankfurt Kitchen and the Helmut Lang Archive, will be closed from 2 Nov 2026, for redesign. Reopening is scheduled... pieces of design history like the Frankfurt kitchen by Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, as part ...

Human By Design Probing Social and Methodological Innovation in Design An exhibition of the Slovak Design Center Satelit, SDC Gallery Hurbanove kasárne, Kollárovo nám. 10, Bratislava, Slovakia The exhibition Human by Design presents concepts, methods, model situations, case studies ...

Isaac Julien True North The MAK Center is delighted to produce Isaac Julien's first solo exhibition in Los Angeles and to debut the artist's new body of photographs entitled True North in the United States. Isaac Julien is an award-winning filmmaker and photographer whose work has been ...

, architecture and perception. Grinnan has had solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art ...

as enigmatic hybrid creatures. With this first solo exhibition in Austria, Troika focuses ...

Helmut Lang: What remains behind MAK Center for Art and Architecture presents What remains behind by Helmut Lang in the artist's first solo institutional exhibition in Los Angeles at the Schindler House. The historic house designed by fellow Austrian Rudolph Schindler provides the spare ...

URSI FÜRTLER Textile—Abstract For the first time, the MAK dedicates a solo exhibition to award-winning Austrian textile artist Ursi Fürtler (* 1939).  Her work is characterized by a fondness for pleated fabrics and geometric patterns, which attest to her intensive disquisition ...

and set up a group of One Minute Sculptures in the Schindler House, conceived thusly: Wurm spent... props from all around Los Angeles ranging from banal to blatantly comedic, and then produced a set ...

, Marcelyn Gow, Roger Sherman, and Paulette Singley will each choose a set of videotapes for public viewing ...

for a session in a photo studio. The "model photos" are then distributed in the hope of a good match ...

documents this significant event, highlighting the model character of the MAK for art and industry ...

as a particular type of model, mock-ups are executed at one-to-one scale with “actual” ...

model of energy production as well as energy distribution. Project coordination: Janina Falkner ...

, environmental and economic aspects, enables the AI model to design new symbols based on their meaning.   ...

Waerndorfer after the model of the English Arts and Crafts Movement, the Wiener Werkstätte had the goal... ornamentation. Moreover, the show features original model books that explore floral motifs as well ...

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 ...

accentuate each other through formal contrast; the perfection of apparently mass-produced items is set off ...

the architectural environment of the Schindler House and set it up as a membrane projection surface between ...

Frederick J. Kiesler Endless Space It was with a restless insistence that architect, artist, designer, set-designer and theoretician Frederick J. Kiesler (1890–1965) pursued his vision of a radically new concept of private space – a multidimensional living space, a continuum ...

CHAPEAU! Dieter Roth: Sculptural Fingerwear Working with goldsmith Hans Langenbacher for many years, Dieter Roth designed an unusual series of rings on which various heads can be set or screwed, preferably different kinds of "hats". Besides the original pieces, the exhibition shows plans ...

TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE GÖSS PARAMENTS Bernhard Münzenmayer For five years draughtsman and painter Bernhard Münzenmayer devoted himself to the robes and antependium that belong to the liturgical textiles set created in Göss Monastery around 1260. His main goal was to capture the “aura ...

Der Vater weist dem Kind den Weg [The Father Shows the Way to His Child] (1996) was set up ...

Postal Savings Bank and produced by Thonet. Furthermore, a writing set by Josef Hoffmann, formerly ...

and mapped by casually arranged, sculptural set pieces. The interplay between ...

to the past and recall the unfinished into the present, renowned set designer Anna Viebrock was commissioned ...

for solo laptop computer. NELS CLINE and GREGG BENDIAN "Interstellar Space Revisited ...

ARTISTS IN FOCUS shows the essential work groups of key contemporary artists in dedicated solo ...

ARTISTS IN FOCUS shows the essential work groups of key contemporary artists in dedicated solo ...

solo presentations. A crucial aspect here is the carrying out of necessary acquisitions through ...

soma architecture Immanent Elasticity The walk-in installation conceived by soma architecture for its solo exhibition at the MAK deals with elasticity, the ability of specific materials to remain flexible, to be shaped and changed in a variety of ways. Elasticity also means an open approach ...

Patrycja Domanska Stimuli With her solo exhibition  STIMULI , the designer Patrycja Domanska provides personal insight into her work methods. In addition to a selection of realized projects, new products will also be seen for the first time.  The objects encounter one another ...

Johanna Pichlbauer There will be! People! On the Sun! Soon! In her solo exhibition  There will be! People! On the Sun! Soon! , the designer Johanna Pichlbauer devotes a diverse, complete installation entirely to the sun. We human beings have perfected our interaction with the sun ...

to host her first solo show outside Japan: with some 200 objects the exhibition STARS, FEATHERS ...

MY ULLMANN Living Kineticism: Pictures, Performance, Art in Architecture The MAK is dedicating the first solo exhibition in Austria to My Ullmann (1905–1995), one of the co-founders of kineticism. After training at the Vienna School of Applied Arts under the reformer of child art Franz Čižek ...

discussions. In her first solo exhibition in Vienna titled Der Menschheit ist die Kugel bei einem Ohr ...

the artist’s first solo show in Austria, the very country he ushered to the center of his social ...

-room and kitchen tables, but also desks and working tables plus chairs and stools from the early 19th... until today. Cellar and kitchen utensils that were developed for functionality with clear shapes ...

.   Presenting an architectural model (on a scale of 1:50; concrete, acrylic, light), design ...

EVI Evi Untitled Breaches of taboo characterize the life of Evi Quaid, photo artist and filmmaker. After being expelled from four schools for improper conduct, the American with a Greek and Russian background, landed in the model business and made a name for herself as one of Helmut ...

letters “LAND” from the original Hollywood-Land sign, the architects inverted a one-to-one model ...

production. In this way, turnOn is at the same time a theoretical model, which—analogous ...

infiltration of the Model Railroaders Club, a group of “train people” who met every Tuesday night ...

Human by Design Probing Social and Methodological Innovation in Design HUMAN BY DESIGN presents concepts, methods, model situations, case studies, and innovative solutions that give voice to an urgent need for change and sustainability.  It focuses on the critical voices of a young ...

, enables the AI model to design new symbols based on their meaning. The new "Tokens for Climate Care ...

model nor plan,” built with the material at hand: in this case discarded bottles and other throwaway ...

conditions that have shaped Los Angeles. Rather than proposing Vienna as a model to be directly ...

of the different product sectors they belong to: industrial design, kitchen- and tableware ...

from a single construction. With "Desert Cloud: Transformer 3," he presented a model... on the Schindler House roof, the model existed simultaneously as a rendering of its construction technique ...

in favor of those hoping to create a new viewership and stimulate a set of associations and memories... a series of edits, a chess set was born, but one that disrupts the traditional hierarchy of the game by equalizing the pieces. Images of this set were then launched into the world, specifically to a group ...

, and technical equipment all set new standards at the time.   Project Coordination (MAK): Rainald ...

for several trenchant and staged tableaux—expressly lit and set to music as well as the spoken word ...

ambivalent pictures of the present using set pieces from various historical contexts and socio-political hot ...

in recent decades. Until recently free artistic expression with clay was set against thousands of years... and arts and crafts, between design and sculpture set the agenda for the present discussion ...

legacy in order to set up aesthetic and thematic links to the present and open up new perspectives... which the design duo set out to analyze this paradox phenomenon in which a yearning for distant places ...

inside out. The solo presentation in the MAK comprises Gsöllpointner's sculptural work only. The artist ...

contemporary artists in dedicated solo presentations. A crucial aspect here is the carrying out ...

IN FOCUS shows the essential work categories of key contemporary artists in dedicated solo ...

MICHAEL WALLRAFF looking up.vertical public space Michael Wallraff has been invited to present his conceptual mode of working in a solo exhibition. In the context of present-day technological developments such as those currently transforming the fields of communication, mobility and ecology ...

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 ...

death, the MAK is honoring Koloman Moser (1868–1918) with one of the most comprehensive solo shows ...

Sheila Hicks Thread, Trees, River Sheila Hicks (* 1934) is one of the most important international artists active today, and the MAK is the first institution in Austria to dedicate a solo exhibition to her work. Especially for the exhibition, she has developed extensive sculptures and new works ...

Bas Jan Ader or designs furniture sculptures, or reconstructs her own kitchen at the MAK - she ...

." The exhibition included an inverted model of Kiesler’s Film Guild Cinema (1929), the first theater... the installation of a portion of the façade of the model house he created for merchandise display ...

. Centering around an  architectural model (1:50 scale; concrete, acrylic, light), design ...

most famous film ‘Powers of Ten’ does for mathematical rules. An architectural model ...

pictures, a representative selection of posters, and a model of the ”Chuch’e Tower,” ...

to rid itself of the traces of its Communist past; and "Failed Model for an Enclosed System" (2006 ...

on the nude female body. “The Painter and his Model” is the typical image of European erotic art ...

installation LeveL , mischer’traxler studio make use of the metaphor of a mobile as a model ...

but were also accessible to a wide range of buyers due to their affordable price. With model no. 14 ...

of the Graz Year of Culture: a prototype model for cooling the city. This forest pavilion ...

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 ...

. The hanging model of the Beechtown barrio by artist Stephan Mörsch also shows the Hambach Forest ...

will include an unknown poster by Egon Schiele from 1913 documenting the artist’s first solo ...

PATRICK RAMPELOTTO Adventures in Foam As a new cooperation of the MAK and the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, an exhibition series will be launched that presents works by graduates from the university in a museum setting. Under the motto of APPLIED ART. TODAY three solo exhibitions ...

staging of the present day (solo exhibitions by Chris Burden, James Turrell, Jenny Holzer, and Anish ...

Gustav Peichl 15 Buildings for His 90th With the solo exhibition  GUSTAV PEICHL: 15 Buildings for His 90th , the MAK is celebrating the renowned Austrian architect’s 90th birthday. In 2013, Gustav Peichl donated all of his architectural sketches, designs, and plans for his Austrian building ...

Plan Your Visit Plan your visit is an exhibition exploring the complex interactions of tourism, tourist destinations and travelers. Set at a locale that is itself an international destination for Modernism aficionados, the historic Schindler House, the exhibition invites a group ...

to an abrupt end in 1938. The Goldscheider brothers were able to set up new businesses after emigrating ...

Porcelain Manufactory set new aesthetic standards over the following decades.  Some 1 000 objects ...

10 Years of Kolleg Kunst SchmuckDesign at the KunstModeDesign Herbststrasse The Kolleg Kunst SchmuckDesign was founded on the initiative of Susanne Hammer, teacher and internationally renowned jewellery artist, in 2009 in order to set impulses and promote young, talented future jewellery ...

Modernist building. The goal of the architects was to develop a new model for outdoor private/public ...

of Friedrich Kiesler, who put art and architecture as a model on the table for discussion. For the MAK ...

Verena Dengler In her sculptural scenarios Verena Dengler relates art objects from the “model collection” of the MAK to cross-references to the applied arts and popular culture. She links these further to her private fashion and textile collection as well as to her own collages ...

. Following on from his great success in the Internationale Ausstellung neuer Theatertechnik... materialize as model spaces of Modernism, and created remarkable objects on the borderline between utility ...

of contemporary consumer culture. For his solo exhibition at the MAK, the artist, whose work ...

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

, a cube made of lead will be set up, serving as a shell for the pornographic varnish works (1995 to 2006 ...

Kingdom with its capital of Angkor, the Thai people set up their own state beginning in the second ...

according to an independent set of criteria. The first carpet was purchased for the museum quite early ...

. This section is complemented by a research lab set up by the Vienna University of Economics and Business ...

and workshops, a kitchen, an auditorium, event spaces as well as a restaurant, a café and a rooftop ...

of the Mackey Apartments. Austrian artist Anna Meyer considered Los Angeles as a 1:1 model, a city ...

surface to a charged “skin," the model of an architectural façade and itself a space, both physical ...

designer Megumi Ito; the latest model of the Glock 17 pistol; as well as weekly changing floral ...

agreed to participate in an experiment to investigate the significance of a model exemplary ...

by Wienerberger. There is evidence to prove that a model of this fountain was crafted in the Brüder ...

and belongings. The sumptuous clothing it depicted would go on to provide a model for the fashion designs ...

. Between "Wandering Dr" and "Highlight Pl," the street turns into a catwalk, the city into a set ...

(GER) to co-found and set up the Mathildenhöhe Artists’ Colony. Here he worked on putting ...

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

photographs commissioned and set up by Hoffmann or taken by him informally for aide-memoire purposes ...

Josiah McElheny The Ornament Museum The Ornament Museum , Josiah McElheny’s installation—developed especially for the MAK—reinterprets the historical design language of Viennese Modernism, finding within it a set of new questions about art and psychology. The New York-based artist, well ...

, the easel painting, painting in general in ever-new constellations. The model of the “Bilderstreit ...