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

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. 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 ...

for the Palais Stoclet in Brussels as a Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art), the cartoon existing of nine parts ...

– Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, is going to award a total of six scholarships for residency...: The scholarship amounts to six monthly rates of 1,500 US dollars in total and includes the holder’s travel... of architecture and four from the field of fine arts as well as a total of three replacement projects ...

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EOOS wins the Silver Black Bee Award for Austria at the XXII Triennale di Milano EOOS wins the Silver Black Bee Award for Austria at the XXII Triennale di Milano ...

), 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... of the Gesamtkunstwerk in historicism—the synaesthetic, total work of art. Hansen’s language of forms ...

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 ...

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 ...

(GER) to co-found and set up the Mathildenhöhe Artists’ Colony. Here he worked on putting the ideas of the Gesamtkunstwerk [total work of art] into practice and moved on from the initial... individually on an approach which envisaged the overall design of buildings and interior spaces ...

ELEMENTS Adam Štěch’s Perspective on Architectural Details The exhibition ELEMENTS celebrates architecture, design and the Gesamtkunstwerk—the total work of art—revealing hitherto unexplored... thousands of his own photographs, generating an atlas of architectural and interior details created ...

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 ...

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.  To an impressive extent Moser embodies the Gesamtkunstwerk or total work of art as advocated ...

ATISTS IN FOCUS #5 HEIMO ZOBERNIG Total Design Heimo Zobernig has been a key player... of sculpture, space, architecture, and design will be shown under the title “TOTAL DESIGN”...;untitled” (2008), which refers to an architectural set piece or prop. One entrance ...

is home to the entire body of graphic work from the Danhauser Furniture Factory, and with a total...; 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 ...

( 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... expressed his positions on interior design in such writings as the early essay “Einfache Möbel” [Simple ...

materials. In a “Live Workshop,” the fourth exhibition section, a total of 20 craftspeople demonstrate.... This section is complemented by a research lab set up by the Vienna University of Economics and Business ...

travelers and urban nomads. A coffeehouse’s interior and guests are indicative of local fashions... as a total work of art or as an open system: all of its components, from waiters to guests to water ...

, however, he engaged the Viennese imperative to reconcile interior and exterior environments... Schindler. An advocate of the  Gesamtkunstwerk , or total work of art,  Josef Hoffmann   ...

, finding within it a set of new questions about art and psychology. The New York-based artist, well... of the Gesamtkunstwerk [total work of art] a concept in strong opposition to the purely functional ...

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

showing color combinations from the booklet Exterior and Interior Color Beauty , a publication... was employed to choose the colors found in Exterior and Interior Color Beauty, in order to create... that deconstructed the language of cinema both as physical material and as a set of production ...

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 ...

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 ...

VIENNA 1900—Everyday. A Total Work of Art Reinstallation of the MAK Permanent Collection With the reorganization of its permanent collection on Vienna around 1900, the MAK resolutely continues.... Following the principle of the “total work of art,” the intense exchange of ideas between architecture ...

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 ...

Andreas Duscha Sky Glow Titled SKY GLOW , Duscha addresses the phenomenon of light pollution and the disappearance of the night sky in a series of new photographic works.   The absence of total darkness is not only a problematic development in terms of preserving “climate beauty ...

’ alternative road to Modernism, opposing the Secession’s idea of a Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art...-aesthetic identity-building, and its assessment,  is set against an extended time frame from 1890.... In the course of this project a total of 4,600 objects from the MAK’s collections, including objects ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fogarasi, German/English, 3 volumes, approx. 240 total pages, MAK Vienna 2008, SCHLEBRÜGGE.EDITOR ...

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 ...

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 ...

and are “kinesthetic”—linked to the sensation of movement. They are designed to be set in motion. The artist ...

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 ...

JOSEF HOFFMANN - OSWALD OBERHUBER Total Design and Drafts In this year’s exhibition, the drawings of Josef Hoffmann are to be juxtaposed with those of Oswald Oberhuber, the father of informal painting and sculpture in Austria. As an artist, gallerist, professor and rector ...

(total work of art) and the height of Viennese Modernism with its central characteristic of a desire ...

presented in the MAK for the 17th time.    A total of 540 graphic artists, agencies ...

as a “Gesamtkunstwerk” [a total work of art]: artist, craftswoman, Eat-Art activist, graphic designer ...

classics of modern interior décor design from the 1920s that use animal fur as upholstery to ironic ...

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 ...

projects to the museum.  In a career spanning over 50 years, in which he created a total... are the sum total of form, function, material, color, and light.” The aim is to create a sensual ...

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 ...

Platform Austria Austrian Entry for the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2021 It involves the changes that the ascendancy of digital platforms is causing in all areas of our life – from living, working, and learning to health, freedom, and culture ...

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 ...

at the XXII. Triennale di Milano 2019 Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival , embedded... or at the VIENNA BIENNALE 2017. The contribution to the XXII. Triennale di Milano 2019 was commissioned ...

Triennale di Milano: Entangled Relations – Animated Bodies Official Austrian Contribution to the 23rd Triennale di Milano 2022 “UNKNOWN UNKNOWNS. An Introduction to Mysteries” A project by Sonja Bäumel, commissioned by the MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna The performed ...

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 ...

of guaranteeing endless possibilities and total freedom. Curator Bettina M. Busse With the generous ...

covered the entire human sphere of living in a kind of total artwork. The programmatic focus ...

on Tour” competition was met exceeded all expectations. In total, 925 projects from 35 European ...

-strip sequels in a total of 15 volumes from 2006 to 2009. Curator Johannes Wieninger, Curator,  ...

a total of 2 116 posters. The competition attracted submissions by 632 designers. Among the 100 top ...

posters won the jury’s vote. 600 graphic artists, agencies, and students, submitting a total of 1.973 ...

Focus on Collecting 9 woom bikes In the context of the series FOCUS ON COLLECTING, the MAK presents the donation of a total of seven children’s bicycles to the Design Collection: six bicycles from the woom ORIGINAL series as well as a woom NOW . They were designed and produced by the Austrian ...

of politically motivated entries.   663 entries comprising a total of 2 298 posters were submitted ...

- 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 ...

of design drawings - for the Museo di Castelvecchio in Verona (built 1956-1964), the Galleria Querini ...

nitrogen problem. The official Austrian contribution to the XXII. Triennale di Milano 2019 Broken ...

Sonja Bäumel Entangled Relations—Animated Bodies Official Austrian contribution to the 23rd Triennale di Milano International Exhibition 2022 The performed and multisensory installation by the artist Sonja Bäumel aims to stimulate the cultural imagination via the potential ...

of the Triennale di Milano under the theme of “Inequalities”. With the mixed-media installation Soft ...

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 a machine will have a total weight of about 20 tons by the end of the exhibition. The abstract-poetical ...

-e collectors in Vienna around 1900. In a total of eight sections, the exhibition KUNIYOSHI ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

, or Gustav Klimt. In the course of this project a total of 4,600 objects from the MAK’s ...

;Austria (from 64 sub missions). A total of 605 entrants, of these 125 agencies or graphic and design ...

of the stranger's language in relation to an environment of displacement. With an interior ...

of Contemporary Art, infiltrates and undermines classic interior furnishings with various narrative strands ...

STIEFEL & COMPANY ARCHITECTS Faux Terrains When viewing or entering any work of architecture, any (interior) space, building or public square, some form of interaction takes place between this architecture and the person viewing or entering it. Viewing and entering change how we perceive ...

, 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 ...

. 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 ...

Internazionale del Mobile di Milano (Milan Furniture Fair) and produced in series by Belgian label ...

. The building will comprise ten floors with a total of 12.900 m2 with up to 6 meters high rooms ...

presentation again provides a survey of the total range of the MAK’s fascinating Asian ...

. 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 ...

, as well as analyses of architectural works and sculptures, the film shows 27 structures and interior ...

to the most important monuments, second place winning a color TV set.   In his video presented ...