With its wide-ranging jubilee exhibition 300 YEARS OF THE VIENNA PORCELAIN MANUFACTORY, the MAK is drawing attention to the history and significance of the second-oldest porcelain manufactory in Europe. Founded
in May 1718 when the imperial privilege for porcelain production was granted to Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier, the Vienna
Porcelain Manufactory set new aesthetic standards over the following decades. Some 1 000 objects from the holdings of the
MAK as well as national and international collections offer a formidable overview of Viennese developments in the context
of Asian precursors and European competitors. The MAK has housed the legacy of the Vienna Porcelain Manufactory—under imperial ownership from 1744 and closed in 1864—and
has been dedicated to researching porcelain since its founding years. With examples from all eras of production, the legacy
provides an overview of some 150 years of porcelain production in Vienna. Viennese porcelain production covered a wide spectrum
of ceramics: from dinnerware sets and vases to clocks, from high-quality porcelain sculptures to scenic and floral miniatures,
from porcelain paintings with cobalt blue and gold decorations in relief to large-format porcelain pictures with floral still
lifes. The exhibition 300 YEARS OF THE VIENNA PORCELAIN MANUFACTORY presents the latest research findings with as yet unpublished documents on major works by the Vienna Porcelain Manufactory,
such as the porcelain room from the Palais Dubsky in Brno (ca. 1740) and the centerpiece from Zwettl Abbey (Vienna, 1767/68).
Both the “Dubsky Room,” one of the first rooms to be decorated with European porcelain, and the centerpiece from Zwettl Abbey
are on permanent display in the MAK Permanent Collection Baroque Rococo Classicism, designed by Donald Judd.
Publication The exhibition is accompanied by the publication 300 Years of the Vienna Porcelain Manufactory, edited by Christoph Thun-Hohenstein and Rainald Franz, with texts by Rainald Franz, Andreas Gamerith, Michael Macek, Errol
Manners, Waltraud Neuwirth, Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, A. Philipp Revertera, Elisabeth Schmuttermeier, Ulrike Scholda, Christoph
Thun-Hohenstein, Leonhard Weidinger, and Johannes Wieninger. German/English, ca. 208 pages with numerous color illustrations.
MAK, Vienna/Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart 2018. Available at the MAK Design Shop and at MAKdesignshop.at, for € 44.
Curator Rainald Franz, Curator, MAK Glass and Ceramics Collection Research Associate Michael Macek, MAK Glass and Ceramics Collection
Guided Tours
Exhibition Tours Every Sun, 3 p.m.
VIENNA PORCELAIN DAY Exhibition tours Sun, 27.5.2018, 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.
EVENING OF PORCELAIN TREASURES Tue, 12.6.2018 6 p.m., Expert-Guided Tour with Michael Macek, Research Associate, MAK Glass and Ceramics Collection 6–9 p.m., Have Your Porcelain Valued! The experts Regina Herbst, Magda Pfabigan and Ursula Rohringer, Dorotheum Vienna, will share their expert opinions of your
porcelain and provide an estimate of its worth in the MAK Kaminzimmer. With the password “Porzellan-Schätze,” admission is free from 6 p.m. onwards.
Curator-Guided Tours with Rainald Franz, Curator, MAK Glass and Ceramics Collection Tue, 29.5.2018, 6 p.m. Tue17. 7.2018, 6 p.m.
Expert-Guided Tours with Michael Macek, Research Associate, MAK Glass and Ceramics Collection Tue, 12.6.2018, 6 p.m. Tue 14.8.2018, 6 p.m.
Combined Guided Tours
Wed, 23.05.2018,
2.00 pm registration no longer possible
Wed, 20.06.2018, 2.00 pm registration no longer possible
Wed, 12.09.2018, 2.00 pm
Combined
Guided Tour Porcelain Museum Augarten/MAK
Meeting
point: Porcelain Museum in the Augarten Park (Obere Augartenstraße 1, 1020 Vienna), guided tour continued at the MAK through
the exhibtion 300 YEARS OF THE VIENNA PORCELAIN MANUFACTORY Attendance fee: € 24 (full price) or € 20 (reduced) Duration: ca. 3–3.5 hrs.
Meeting point: Porcelain Museum in the Augarten Park
(Obere Augartenstraße 1, 1020 Vienna), guided tour continued at the MAK Attendance fee: € 24 (full price) or € 20 (reduced) Duration: ca. 3–3.5 hrs.
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Combined Guided Tour Porcelain
Museum Augarten/MAK 300 YEARS OF THE VIENNA PORCELAIN MANUFACTORY
Meeting
point: Porcelain Museum in the Augarten Park (Obere Augartenstraße 1, 1020 Vienna), guided tour continued at the MAK Attendance
fee: € 24 (full price) or € 20 (reduced) Duration: ca. 3–3.5 hrs.
WEDNESDAYS AT THE MAK Guided tour through the exhibition followed by further
discussion at the restaurant Salonplafond im MAK.
Wed, 20.06.2018, 3.00 pm registration no longer possible
MINI MAK
Sun, 20.05.2018, 11.00 am registration no longer possible
Porcelain, What’s That?
Guided tour for the whole family (ages 4 and older)
MAK4FAMILY
Sat, 26.05.2018, 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm registration no longer
possible
Sat, 23.06.2018, 2.00
pm - 4.00 pm registration no longer possible
Porcelain This, Porcelain That, Porcelain the Other: Just don’t drop it!
Workshop and guided tour for the whole family (ages 4 and older)
MAK Design Kids
Sat, 19.05.2018, 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm registration no longer possible
Wild Porcelain
Manufactory
Workshop for 8- to 12-year-olds (unaccompanied)
Sat,
02.06.2018, 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm registration no longer possible
Wild Porcelain Manufactory
Workshop for 8- to 12-year-olds (unaccompanied)
Sat, 16.06.2018, 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm registration no longer possible
Wild Porcelain
Manufactory
Workshop for 8- to 12-year-olds (unaccompanied)
MAK on TOUR
Day Trip by Bus incl.
guided tour of the exhibition
Loosdorf Palace, Lower Austria >> Sun, 17.06.2018, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
With representative holdings of ceramics from Austrian production from the sixteenth century until today, unique groups of
objects such as the legacy of the Wiener Porzellanmanufactur (Vienna Porcelain Manufactory) and the extensive collection of
tiled stoves, hafner ware, and majolica of the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. The MAK’s Ceramics Collection is
one of the foremost collections of its type in the world.
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