Art news from ‘MUMOK’

MUMOK Kino, Vienna: Changer d’image

Changer d’image – a series of performative events Live performances by Chto delat? and Ruti Sela Followed by a discussion with the curators and artists. Chto delat? Partisan Songspiel, 2009 © Chto delat? On the occasion of tranzit’s 10th anniversary, tranzit and ERSTE foundation announce a series of performative events with the title Changer d’image [...]

MUMOK, Vienna: Reflecting Fashion

Yayoi Kusama, Untitled, 1966, Sammlung mumok, © Yayoi Kusama Reflecting Fashion Art and Fashion since Modernism 15.06 – 23.09.12 Opening: June 14, 2012–7.00 p.m. The exhibition will be opened parallel with the "Summer of Fashion" in the MuseumsQuartier. The exhibition focuses on clothing and fashion as an essential component of art, where particularly since the [...]

MUMOK, Vienna: The Sixties

Claes Oldenburg, Geometric Mouse, mumok, acquired in 1976, Photo: mumok, © Claes Oldenburg Claes Oldenburg The Sixties 04.02 – 28.05.12 Claes Oldenburg (* 1929, Stockholm, Sweden) has not only been a major artist in Pop Art, Performance Art and Installation Art but, in partnership with Coosje van Bruggen, also a strong influence on art in [...]

mumok Vienna: POP AND THE SIXTIES

Pop and the Sixties 19.01 – 02.09.2012 Numerous works by Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Tom Wesselmann, Robert Indiana and Jim Dine constitute an important emphasis of the mumok permanent collection, which is internationally renowned for its holdings of Pop Art. The extensiveness of the collection will make it possible [...]

MUMOK, Vienna: Museum of Desires

Bruce Nauman, Fox Wheel, 1990, on loan from the Austrian Ludwig Foundation, Photo: mumok, © VBK Wien, 2011 Museum of Desires 10.09.11-08.01.12 In the Museum of Desires the new director Karola Kraus is combining the innovative presentation of the mumok collection with a dynamic strategic campaign aimed at the acquisition of new works. Integrated into [...]