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, previews, openings, art und architectural tours. For an annual membership fee of € 180, you ...

The restaurant Salonplafond im MAK offers a modern interpretation ...

of the MAK Schindler Scholarships 2026/2027 (f. l. t. r.): Aric Chen (Director, Zaha Hadid Foundation... and Nicolas Février, Corinne L. Rusch 4.10.2003–31.3.2004 Catrin Bolt and Marlene Haring, Robert Gfader... and Ming Fung, Greg Lynn, Thom Mayne, Eric Owen Moss, COOP HIMMELB(L)AU (Wolf D. Prix and Helmut Swiczinsky ...

Werkstätten (allen voran J. & L. Lobmeyr), Persönlichkeiten und Professoren der Kunstgewerbeschule...(L)AU. Beyond the Blue , ist die bis dahin größte und umfangreichste museale Präsentation des ...

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Wien Modern Podiumsgespräch: Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky 2 _2024-11-12 17:00 ...

Book Presentation Mid-Century Modern: Visionary Furniture Design from Vienna_2022-06-14 18:30 ...

Firmenbesuch: J. & L. Lobmeyr (in German) _2022-05-13 14:00 ...

Wien Modern: Führung Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky_2024-11-12 18:00 ...

FOMO guided tour Vienna 1900: In search of a modern style_2025-05-25 14:30 ...

FOMO guided tour Vienna 1900: In search of a modern style_2025-05-24 11:00 ...

MAKtour: Dagobert Peche in modern Vienna around 1900_2025-05-11 11:00 ...

, however, he engaged the Viennese imperative to reconcile interior and exterior environments... of the modern man. He posited that architectural styles naturally evolve as technologies and lifestyles advance, and his modern point of view was reflected in notable works such as the Villa Wagner ...

interior design decorated with more than 3,000 porcelain pieces—documents of the earliest Viennese... more privacy and comfort. A new type of furniture is also the desk the way we still use it today ...

-based designer Robert Stadler plays on the easy transformability of the Biedermeier interior by means... to a type of in-between phenomenon—as if the space had just reconfigured itself. Subtle...—who was recently awarded the French Prix Liliane Bettencourt Pour l’Intelligence de la Main ...

on modern architecture and urban planning. The development of the metropolis in and around 1900 also made new building types necessary: In Vienna this included the modern residential and commercial... a widely spread architectural type still today. Earlier than others Wagner recognized ...

classics of modern interior décor design from the 1920s that use animal fur as upholstery to ironic... hunted animals are seen today as a highly scurrilous aberration of rustic conviviality. But in modern ...

, an example of bizarre perfection calculated to eliminate any type of friction. Especially because the AVL... on the situation of modern humans in a highly technological society that only gives the appearance ...

also works in many other sectors (glassware for J. & L. Lobmeyr and furniture for Gebrüder Thonet Vienna). In addition, he is active in exhibition and interior design. For the SHOWROOM WIENER ...

), the architect also developed their overall interior design. His studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Art... flanking this installation contain glass and ceramics made between 1864 and 1874, in part by J. & L...; Klinkosch. The old established Viennese enterprise of J. & L. Lobmeyr was the most regular ...

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 ...

of painting, graphic art, arts and crafts, and interior design as well as fashion and scenography. ... artist and demonstrates just how instrumental Moser was in influencing the search for a new, modern ...

; Söhne and J. & L. Lobmeyr, as well as with art reform movements such as the “Union of Austrian... in Vienna from new glass to modern glass into seven chapters, covering topics such as glass in the Wiener... of the time and hence bear witness to the exceptional effect on the public of these radically modern objects ...

of an upswing in the Austrian film industry and developments leading to a modern consumer society, posters... 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 ...

through to “modern architecture” was accompanied by a new design for an apartment of his own... ( Die moderne Wohnung und ihre Ausstattung , 1905). No interior photographs are known of the Vienna... expressed his positions on interior design in such writings as the early essay “Einfache Möbel” [Simple ...

HOFFMANN –FRIEDRICH KIESLER: Contemporary Art Applied presents the furniture and interior designs.... Following on from his great success in the Internationale Ausstellung neuer Theatertechnik... conceived the Raumbühne (Space Stage) and the Leger- und Trägersystem (L+T System, a flexible ...

of individuality and self-realization among modern consumers. Josef Hoffmann followed a revolutionary path.... These two contrary mindsets represent fundamental interpretations of the tasks of modern architects and designers as well as different images of modern lifestyles of the emancipated citizen.   ...

Final Projects Group L The MAK Center for Art and Architecture is pleased to present Final Projects: Group L, featuring works by Emilija Škarnulytė, Julia Obleitner, Helvijs Savickis, and Manuel Gorkiewicz. This exhibition marks the culmination of the fiftieth iteration of the Artists & ...

Cooperation with WIEN MODERN In 2026 the MAK will continue its cooperation with the Wien Modern festival. Following the presentation of the internationally acclaimed trenchant short film... in 2025; the MAK and Wien Modern in 2026 once again engage in a singular interdisciplinary dialogue ...

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 ...

of the art of modern glassmaking in Austria from the last decades of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy... with established Viennese glass manufacturers—including E. Bakalowits & Söhne and J. & L... that these radically modern objects had on the general public. The exhibition also includes the MAK-realized ...

COOP HIMMELB(L)AU 3 Projects for 2 Days ARCHITECTURE Presentation - BMW Welt, Munich - Musée des Confluences, Lyon - Akron Art Museum, Ohio COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, 3 Projects for 2 Days, presents the latest projects of this internationally acclaimed duo of architects who, based in Vienna, Los ...

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

AGITATION FOR THE MODERN ERA Posters and advertising art of the "Collaboration of Austrian visual artists - Secession" On the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the Secession the MAK... of Austria's first modern artists' association. ...

showing color combinations from the booklet Exterior and Interior Color Beauty , a publication... attempts in the U.S. to make modern, industrialized houses available to all. A color consultant was employed to choose the colors found in Exterior and Interior Color Beauty, in order to create ...

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 ...

invited to create a modern exemplary collection and to discuss it with a “muse” of their own choosing...@trendunion.com (please register in advance; registration is possible at the door) attendance fee € 290 ...

Gerald Zugman Blue Universe, Architectural Manifestos by COOP HIMMELB(L)AU The exhibition... experimental stages as well as the architectural vita of COOP HIMMELB(L)AU. The models rather constitute..., built architecture. Self-described "post-industrial expressionists," COOP HIMMELB(L)AU often base ...

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

Francis Alÿs: Children’s Games WIEN MODERN in the MAK “There comes a time when you want to hand... opening hours with a MAK ticket (-20% with the Wien Modern Festival Pass, € 13,20 instead of € 16,50). A collaboration between the MAK – Museum of Applied Arts and Wien Modern ...

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 ...

COOP HIMMELB(L)AU Beyond the Blue The exhibition “COOP HIMMELB(L)AU. Beyond the Blue... Angeles, California. COOP HIMMELB(L)AU counts among the internationally most significant and most innovative architectural firms. Founded 1968 in Vienna, COOP HIMMELB(L)AU realizes projects in the fields ...

GERALD ZUGMANN BLUE UNIVERSE. Architectural manifestos by COOP HIMMELB(L)AU The exhibition... experimental stages as well as the architectural vita of COOP HIMMELB(L)AU. The models rather..., built architecture. Self-described "post-industrial expressionists," COOP HIMMELB(L)AU often base ...

Glitz and Glamour 200 Years of Lobmeyr Since 1823, the Viennese glass manufacturer J. & L...-standing connection with the glassmaking dynasty, is honoring J. & L. Lobmeyr with an exhibition... that is often perceived only intuitively will be formative: J. & L. Lobmeyr’s deep understanding ...

The Havana Project Architecture Again "The Havana Project" is a programmatic intervention for Old Havana by the internationally renowned architects Coop Himmelb(l)au, C.P.P.N., Thom Mayne... it is the improvement of the water supply for the old city by Coop Himmelb(l)au, the redesign ...

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 ...

environments.   Organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the exhibition was traveling under the auspices of The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art and was made possible...; Catalogue "The Un-Private House", edited by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, English, 152 ...

, simple stone pylon, a reduction of a victory column with a block of type at eye level. It was erected ...

Pae White O R L L E G R O O R L L E G R O is an aggregation of fabrications, interpretations, simulations of history, narratives, and objects, some of which were sampled from works...’s book is also found in the exhibition. Acting as an unstructured index for both O R L L E G ...

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 ...

REASSEMBLED: GLASS 1860–1960 One Hundred Years of Design The MAK has a remarkable collection of precious glass objects dating from between 1860 and 1960. A large part of these valuable holdings – Lötz, J. & L. Lobmeyr, Bohemian glass from 1905 to 1925, Italian glass from 1950 ...

as an experiment towards a new type of public space that could co-exist with a private residential ...

in such works of art and craftsmanship, developing historicist-type variations. At the same time, newly ...

-ready final product. Rampelotto speaks of a type of “sketching,” on the basis of which a product can ...

Bentwood and Beyond Thonet and Modern Furniture Design To commemorate Thonet’s 200th anniversary, the MAK is presenting a major exhibition on modern furniture, in which the signature bentwood... importance of the Thonet company for modern furniture design and, in addition to the company’s history ...

is somewhat legendary in the history of modern design. In the mid-19th century, the German carpenter... in the fact that he provided a modern industrial product as an alternative to the chairs that had... of furniture—today, it is considered one of the undisputed classics of modern industrial design ...

Cod.Act: πTon & πTon/2 in cooperation with Wien Modern In cooperation with Wien Modern, the MAK extends an invitation to the Vienna premiere of Cod.Act. The works of brothers André and Michel... of the project and as part of the official opening of the Vienna Modern Festival 2024, Cod.Act ...

Richard Prince 4 x 4 The MAK Center, L. A., presents the second part of the new Richard Prince series of photographs which completes the exhibition "4 x 4" shown in Vienna. "Upstate" offers an apparently random selection of everyday pictures that reveal the stifling awkwardness of our ...

and architects - Vito Acconci, Coop Himmelb(l)au (Wolf D. Prix, Helmut Swiczinsky), Neil Denari, Craig ...

Richard Prince Up-State The MAK Center, L. A., presented the second part of the new Richard Prince series of photographs which completed the exhibition "4 x 4" shown in Vienna. "Upstate" offered an apparently random selection of everyday pictures that reveal the stifling awkwardness of our ...

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 ...

be slanted. These pieces deal with the juncture of the interior space and the space outside by bringing ...

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

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 ...

and Architecture, L. A., since 1994, and the Lovell Beach House in California. The exhibition is the most.... The exhibition has been organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), L. A. Catalogue ...

” of the place of creation from a modern perspective. The paraments from the Göss Benedictine ...

RAINER GANAHL Dadalenin As a conceptual artist, Ganahl combines academic, pedagogic, and artistic methods and is concerned with current themes of modern history, living environments, and cultural coding as well as language and media. His intensive occupation with language is shown ...

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 ...

; the Kunsthalle Bern; the Bienal de São Paulo; Tate Modern; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; the Museum of Modern Art, Vienna; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Belkin Art Gallery, University ...

and the development of script mirrors the stages of modern society, its revolutions, and ruptures ...

, architecture, and design in the context of modern forms of coexistence. The exhibition quotes Schindler ...

, and Agnes Martin. She was inspired by modern dance and collaborated with choreographer Yvonne Rainer. ...

INDUSTRIAL FURNITURE Prototypes of the Modern Era To this day, some of the furniture used in factories and other industrial facilities was made by the workers and mechanics themselves... of the Modern Era," MAK Vienna (ed.), with contributions by Sebastian Hackenschmidt, Martina Kandeler ...

; 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 ...

on the company under the name "J. & L. Lobmeyr". Most items were given to the museum immediately after ...

, L. A., with a foreword by Peter Noever, MAK, and Kathleen Harleman, Bellevue Art Museum, and text ...

Kindly supported by J. & L. Lobmeyr and Naber Kaffee. The cooperation agreed upon for 2009 ...

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

of the interior spaces and the borders between private / public and inside /outside were dissolved ...

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

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

the public and private realms. The term “cabinet” denotes a type of small room that came about during ...

, to an international center for contemporary art where projects committed to genuinely modern issues can ...

of modern society; the group's subtle mise-en-scènes and manipulations provoke defensive reactions ...

for whom, even in a state of rest, the constant, slight tension of modern life, the feeling ...

insight into this period of “Chinese Modern Times”. Curator Johannes Wieninger, MAK ...

of finally overcoming the urbanism of the modern era. It reacts to an environment which has changed due ...

to the Nazi’s rise to power in 1938.   The first room focuses on the search for a modern, democratic ...

Sophie Gogl Storno A cooperation between the MAK and the University of Applied Arts Vienna With the onset of modern travel culture, the demand for large steamer trunks declined. Trains, cars, and finally airplanes required smaller items of luggage. Today, luggage in carry-on size ...

teachers on his work. Doubtless induced by Rudolf Eitelberger, modern artists such as Anselm Feuerbach ...

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

, and interior tell of that era’s bourgeois and somewhat faddish predilection for oriental cultures ...

by - COOP HIMMELB(L)AU - Christophe Cornubert/PUSH - Odile Decq and Benoît Cornette* - Günther Domenig ...

by selected manufactories, as, e.g., J. & L. Lobmeyr, Vienna. In their materiality, chandeliers ...

Schneekugeln, J. & L. Lobmeyr, Jenner & Zopf Instrumentenbau, Mühlbauer Hutmanufaktur, Neue ...

worldwide such as the Tate Modern, London, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Stedelijk Museum ...

to the development of modern psychology in Vienna by Sigmund Freud and others. The ornament... inhabiting these almost psychedelic rooms. The exhibition speaks about the underlying psychology of modern ...

modern issues can be realized. Jenny Holzer and James Turrell have developed interventions for the site ...

LUIS BARRAGÁN The Quiet Revolution The Mexican Luis Barragán (1902–1988) ranks among the most important twentieth century architects with his œuvre, which illustrates his country's cultural wealth. His works were inspired by the International Style and the exploration of modern ...

architecture and a prototypical modern living and working space, where industrially produced objects, arts ...

;Österreichischer Werkbund,” Hoffmann had a decisive influence on modern Viennese design ...

anticipated much of what has been made possible only today by modern information technology. 214 ...

of art and knowledge between the Occident and Orient at the turn of the Modern Age. ...

much that is still modern today; working within the economic and political context of “Red ...

(Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, Zurich University).   The evening continued ...

and museums organizing exhibitions and art magazines publishing articles on modern jewelry. Now ...

Everything Loose Will Land Everything Loose Will Land explores the cross-pollination that took place between architects and artists in Los Angeles from the late 1960s to 1980. The exhibition is part of the Getty-led initiative “Pacific Standard Time presents: Los Angeles Modern ...

goes for literature and film. The great-grandfather of modern sculpture is a Romanian ...

with the possibilities of architecture and living in the modern era, the title Against Design might ...

together and shaped the characteristic Auböck design, from collections of objects for modern living ...

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 ...

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

the “Salon de l’Art Nouveau” in Paris. With his “Salon de l’Art Nouveau” ...

is on September 19, 2013. In Search of a Modern Style The search for a modern Austrian style in the years 1890... here by the first piece of “modern” Viennese furniture, a cupboard he designed for his own home... of attitude and did not rely on the development of a modern style specified by artists. For him ...

EOOS With EOOS , the MAK mounts the first solo exhibition of the eponymous design studio’s product and interior designs and gives insight into its multi-faceted design practice. The MAK... reduced design language covers a broad bandwidth of projects ranging from interior design to home ...

and Florian Pumhösl devoted their time in Los Angeles to researching the modern aesthetic vocabulary ...

museums of the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museums in New York ...

100 BEST POSTERS 06 Germany Austria Switzerland Once again the MAK presents the results of the “100 Best Poster” competition, offering modern and exciting design concepts at the cutting edge of real-life visual culture. The overlap between art and commerce constantly generates new ...

, full of inventions and reciprocal discoveries. The exhibition uses a modern language, familiar ...

identity” of Secession art around 1900 to the requirements and aspirations of modern graphic design ...

and softness: such oppositions make lead one of modern art’s favored materials. In addition ...

for the rhiz – bar modern music and events bar. The graphic rendition of the featured experimental ...

. With the publication of the magazine Alte und moderne Kunst [Old and Modern Art] between 1956 and 1985 ...

for the Los Angeles apartment of Russian émigré Beata Inaya—an enthusiastic advocate of modern ...

a modern-day perspective that bibliophiles in the past could be so dissatisfied with publisher’s ...

on the grounds and interpreting Schindler design concepts. "The House" utilized the interlocking "L" structure ...

Furniture and Woodworks Assistant Karin Ferrari Thanks to J. & L. LOBMEYR and Glock ...

. Dualism was invoked by a semi-buried chamber for meditation in the interior and a showcase to screen ...

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

movement through actual and perceived time. Hadid is also influenced by modern infrastructure, taking ...

facilitated made this material appear innovative and ‘modern’. Today, our everyday life is hardly ...

in the development of the modern art poster. And in the 1920s, Hans Ankwicz-Kleehoven—who was the MAK library’s ...

presentations of modern arts and crafts that saw the participation of artists such as William ...

– bar modern. In these, live experimental music finds its graphic counterpart in strongly ...

as quoted in Anthony Denzer's Gregory Ain: The Modern Home as Social Commentary (Rizzoli, 2008 ...

Fashion Utopias Haute Couture in the Graphic Arts Haute couture is not a 20th-century invention; “high” fashion and valuable accessories have been en vogue since the early modern period. On the basis of graphic artworks from the late 15th century to the 1930s, the exhibition FASHION UTOPIAS ...

, such as the Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach (1982), the Museum of Modern Art (MMK) in Frankfurt/Main (1991 ...

in many public collections including The Art Gallery of Western Australia in Perth, Tate Modern ...