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

. 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 ...

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

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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 ...

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

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

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 ...

BEFORE DARK Viennese Interior Design in the Interwar Period Topics around “housing” and interior... project, the MAK makes it possible to experience the sociocultural interior design challenge posed... to the past and recall the unfinished into the present, renowned set designer Anna Viebrock was commissioned ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

to the liturgical textiles set created in Göss Monastery around 1260. His main goal was to capture the “aura” of the place of creation from a modern perspective. The paraments from the Göss Benedictine ...

and are “kinesthetic”—linked to the sensation of movement. They are designed to be set in motion. The artist..., and Agnes Martin. She was inspired by modern dance and collaborated with choreographer Yvonne Rainer. ...

rectilinear lines surrounding it. The angular columns supporting stairs and viewing platforms set 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, and technical equipment all set new standards at the time.   Project Coordination (MAK): Rainald ...

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 ...

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 ...

), the architect also developed their overall interior design. His studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen, the model set for him by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and a sojourn of several years... commissioner of numerous works in glass; in fact, Hansen planned the overall interior design for the residence ...

legacy in order to set up aesthetic and thematic links to the present and open up new perspectives..., and interior tell of that era’s bourgeois and somewhat faddish predilection for oriental cultures... which the design duo set out to analyze this paradox phenomenon in which a yearning for distant places ...

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 ...

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 ...

, 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 ...

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.   ...

, finding within it a set of new questions about art and psychology. The New York-based artist, well... 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 ...

and softness: such oppositions make lead one of modern art’s favored materials. In addition, a cube made of lead will be set up, serving as a shell for the pornographic varnish works (1995 to 2006 ...

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

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

to the most important monuments, second place winning a color TV set.   In his video presented... in many public collections including The Art Gallery of Western Australia in Perth, Tate Modern ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

- 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 ...

, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

to the discourse aimed specifically at the re-conception of the MAK Study Collection, which is set to reopen ...

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 ...

and industrial icons like Jesus Christ, Mao, the highway, or the smartphone. He composed the oversize stage set ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

of holdings, with each group originally having been compiled according to an independent set of criteria ...

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

source material. The site serves as a virtual set and studio, of endless dimension unlimited ...

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 ...

on the situation of modern humans in a highly technological society that only gives the appearance ...

;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 ...

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 ...

of the art of modern glassmaking in Austria from the last decades of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy... that these radically modern objects had on the general public. The exhibition also includes the MAK-realized ...

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

as clouds” and thus set out to lift the word of building out of its hinges. Their play ...

Collection, which is set to reopen in 2014. Two further solo exhibitions, by Kerstin von Gabain ...

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

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 all to his holistic philosophy—the negation of the traditional boundaries drawn between ...

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 ...

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 ...

. 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 ...

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

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 ...

invited to create a modern exemplary collection and to discuss it with a “muse” of their own choosing ...

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 ...

;untitled” (2008), which refers to an architectural set piece or prop. One entrance ...

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