Exhibition AUT NOW: 100 × Austrian Design for the 21st Century and MAK Design Nite
This year, the focus of the MAK’s contribution to the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2024 is the exhibition AUT NOW: 100 × Austrian Design for the 21st Century. 100 objects, 100 designers—25 years, 25 categories: furniture, household appliances, tools, lighting, accessories, as well as design for health, work, entertainment, and mobility. In the MAK exhibition, these represent the diversity and innovative strength of Austrian product design in the years 2000 to 2025. From “Alpin (Alpine)” to “Zeitgeist,” the exhibition invites visitors to view the creative qualities of design for the 21st century in a functional, conceptional, and poetic way and to discover interesting and exiting aspects in familiar objects while doing so.

Exhibition Dates: 18.9.2024—18.5.2025
Opening: Tue, 17.9.2024, 7 pm*

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MAK Design Nite
Tue, 24.9.2024, 6.30 pm
Registration not required
Free admission

PROGRAM
6.30–7.30 pm
Panel Discussion
AUT NOW AND THEN. 25 Years of Austrian Design
Gregor Eichinger, Curator DESIGN NOW.AUSTRIA, 1998/2005
Martina Fineder, Professor Design Theory and Design Research UWID      
Lilli Hollein, General Director MAK                                        
Gabriel Roland, Director Vienna Design Week

from 7.30 pm
PRINT AUT NOW
Open screen printing: Print textiles with design slogans by Vandasye together with the MAK Art Education Department  
Important: Please bring textiles for printing

8-11 pm: Music and Drinks
DJ-Line-Up:
8–9.30 pm: (y)MAK with Mihini b2b Deepschütt (Kollektiv Tanzmotif)
9.30–11 pm: Patrick Rampelotto
Patrick Rampelotto, designer, DJ and co-director of Circus Maximus, is originally from South Tyrol and has made Vienna his adopted home. He will be shaping the MAK Design Nite with his unique selection of exotic, bizarre, wild, unconventional and pop music. Known for his eclectic music selection and his passion for collecting records, Rampelotto has already played internationally in renowned venues such as the Golden Pudel Klub in Hamburg, the King Georg in Cologne or at the Vienna Life Ball.

Free beer sponsored by Ottakringer

6.30–11 pm
Exhibition AUT NOW. 100 × Austrian Design for the 21st Century
100 objects, 100 designers—25 years, 25 categories: furniture, household appliances, tools, lighting, accessories, as well as design for health, work, entertainment, and mobility. In the MAK exhibition, these represent the diversity and innovative strength of Austrian product design in the years 2000 to 2025. From “Alpin (Alpine)” to “Zeitgeist,” the exhibition invites visitors to view the creative qualities of design for the 21st century in a functional, conceptional, and poetic way and to discover interesting and exiting aspects in familiar objects while doing so. The exhibition AUT NOW is open until 11 pm during MAK Design Nite 2024.

6.30–11 pm
Exhibition 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 aspects of the applied arts. Architecture historian and researcher Adam Štěch has selected thousands of his own photographs, generating an atlas of architectural and interior details created by architects and designers as part of their artistic concepts for building designs. The exhibition presents these details both as aspects of architecture and as objects of unique artistic value designed for specific places and purposes. The selection of lighting, seating, storage spaces, tables, railings, doors, handles, windows, floors, walls and other decorative or functional elements celebrates the Modernist idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk and records the range of skills practised by modernist architects from Art Nouveau to Modernism and beyond. The aim of this project is to create the biggest database of one-of-a-kind designs from specific buildings and interiors captured by a single person and to survey previously unexplored chapters in the history of applied art. The exhibition ELEMENTS is open until 11 pm during MAK Design Nite 2024.

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Fr, 27.9.2024, 4.30 pm
Curator Guided Tour AUT NOW
with Vandasye (Georg Schnitzer, Peter Umgeher) and Marlies Wirth in context of the Vienna Design Week
Please register at mak.at/autnow

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Fri, 20.9.2024, 4 pm
Presentation of the Results of the MAK-it! Extended Furniture Building Workshop with Yves Ebnöther
On 13.9.2024, MAK-it! Extended will be premiered: For the first time, the former MAK Cabinetmaker’s Workshop will be used to host a DIY furniture workshop over the weekend (13.–15.9.2024). Together with Swiss designer Yves Ebnöther, the conceptional and creative possibilities of computerized furniture production processes will be explored collaboratively. The innovative works will be exhibited in the context of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2024 and will also be presented at this event. Together with Yves Ebnöther, we will talk about the interplay of the chosen material and digital precision.

Fri, 13-Sun, 15.9.2024*
MAK-it! Extended. Cabinetmaker’s Workshop
More Info and tickets for the Workshop at mak.at/makit

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Exhibition ELEMENTS: Adam Štěch’s Perspective on Architectural Details and Architecture Talk
In a version adapted to the museum, the MAK has adopted the exhibition Elements: Unique Details of the 20th Century Architecture and Interior conceived by Adam Štěch for the Dropcity, Milan in the context of the Salone del Mobile in April 2024. The exhibition presents almost 3,000 architectural details captured by Adam Štěch aka @okolo_architecture. For the exhibition, Prague architectural historian and researcher Adam Štěch created an “atlas” of architectural details sorted by criteria such as lighting, seating, doors, fittings, windows, floors, walls, as well as other decorative or functional elements of interior design. In a team with Matěj Činčera and Jan Kloss, a mobile display system was developed that makes a flexible presentation of the selection possible. The exhibition ELEMENTS is open until 11 pm during MAK Design Nite 2024.

Exhibition Dates: 18.9.2024—2.3.2025
Opening: Tue, 17.9.2024, 6 pm*

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Sat, 21.9.2024, 2 pm
Architecture Talk
Following Mies van der Rohe’s famous dictum “God is in the detail,” the Architecture Talk in the context of the exhibition will explore the question of the meaning of design details in modern architecture. Host: Rainald Franz, MAK Curator of the ELEMENTS: Adam Štěch’s Perspective on Architectural Details exhibition.

*The openings AUT NOW: 100 × Austrian Design for the 21st Century, Adam Štěch. Elements and the MAK-it! extended furniture making workshop will take place before the start of Vienna Design Week 2024. The openings AUT NOW: 100 × Austrian Design for the 21st Century and Adam Štěch. Elements will take place on the same day.