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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 ...

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

death, the MAK is honoring Koloman Moser (1868–1918) with one of the most comprehensive solo shows... artist and demonstrates just how instrumental Moser was in influencing the search for a new, modern ...

identity” of Secession art around 1900 to the requirements and aspirations of modern graphic design... will include an unknown poster by Egon Schiele from 1913 documenting the artist’s first solo ...

. With the publication of the magazine Alte und moderne Kunst [Old and Modern Art] between 1956 and 1985... staging of the present day (solo exhibitions by Chris Burden, James Turrell, Jenny Holzer, and Anish ...

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 ...

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 ...

, and much more. This solo exhibition conceived of by guest curator Wilfried Kuehn and MAK curator Marlies..., such as the Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach (1982), the Museum of Modern Art (MMK) in Frankfurt/Main (1991 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

 work has been widely exhibited internationally and in the United States. He has had solo museum... in many public collections including The Art Gallery of Western Australia in Perth, Tate Modern ...

attempts in the U.S. to make modern, industrialized houses available to all. A color consultant... with an equally rigorous self-reflexivity. Recent solo exhibitions were held at the Generali ...

Austria: studio OrtnerSchinko (Linz) and Benjamin Buchegger from studio Beton – Gruppe für Gestaltung ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

interpretations. The second winning Austrian project originated in the studio for visual design “Beton ...

” 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

in 2014. For 2012 and 2013, solo exhibitions by Kathi Hofer, Kerstin von Gabain and Verena Dengler ...

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 ...

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 with the computer-generated art of the Information Age. Using the metaphors of dyeing, weaving, and programming ...

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 ...

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.   ...

, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Reuter’s work has travelled the globe, its point of origin was a plot of land on a paper street near ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

to power in 1938.   The first room focuses on the search for a modern, democratic style. Furniture ...

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 ...

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... by EOOS about EOOS, the monograph appears on the occasion of the solo exhibition EOOS in the MAK ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 levels that overlap in many respects. In a way that is quite characteristic of his work, Barsuglia ...

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

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

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 ...

through to “modern architecture” was accompanied by a new design for an apartment of his own ...

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 ...