Mumok

The World of Tomorrow Will Have Been Another Present

Beyond merely detailing chronology and stylistic histories, this exhibition explores narratives within the mumok collection of classical modernism that resonate with contemporary issues. Anchored in a temporality characterized by circular tendencies, the speculation presented must confront the potential realities it proposes. This exhibition features five large-scale installations by artists Nikita Kadan, Barbara Kapusta, Frida Orupabo, Lisl Ponger, and Anita Witek, who engage in a dialogue with selected works of classical modernism from the mumok collection.

Never Final!

The Evolving Museum

This exhibition explores the evolution of the museum during Dieter Ronte's directorship from 1979 to 1989. It offers representative insights into the diverse development of the collection, contextualized within the cultural policy and programmatic choices of that decade. During this transformative period, the museum established collaborations with private collectors, embraced an active socio-political role, and pursued strategic acquisitions that shaped the collection's key focus areas for the following decades.

Tobias Pils

Tobias Pils is one of today's most intriguing painters. Utilizing a highly limited color palette, he crafts paintings and drawings that merge abstract and representational aspects into interconnected visual realms. His artwork explores fundamental and personal themes such as birth and death, and the processes of becoming and fading away, while addressing critical questions within the realm of painting.

Mapping the 60s

Art Stories from the Collections of mumok

The exhibition 'Mapping the 60s' is based on the idea that significant socio-political movements of the 21st century have their roots in the 1960s. For instance, movements like Black Lives Matter and #MeToo stem from the anti-racist and feminist movements of that era. The ongoing discussions surrounding war, media, technization, consumerism, and capitalism echo these past upheavals. The developments of the 1960s, particularly the events of 1968, are paradigmatic not only in social and political terms but also hold central cultural political importance. In Vienna, the Museum of the 20th Century, founded in 1962 as a predecessor to mumok, focuses its collection on the artistic currents of the 1960s, including Pop Art, Nouveau Réalisme, Fluxus, Viennese Actionism, Performance Art, Conceptual Art, and Minimal Art.