Enjoy – The mumok Collection in Change

Ten years after Museum of Desires, her inaugural exhibition at mumok, Karola Kraus is organizing with her team a collection presentation that showcases central donations and acquisitions from the past decade in order to shed new light on the collections development. This exhibition, following 20 years after mumok opened in Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier and 40 years after the founding of the Austrian Ludwig Foundation, is both a survey of the past and a glimpse ahead to the future. As past years are reviewed, new perspectives are proposed as basis for the museum’s future collection and exhibition activities.

The presentation sets out to convey art history since modernism as a living process reflecting ever-changing socio-political, socio-cultural, and philosophical developments and discourses. The exhibition title Enjoy quotes a motif from a poster series by Corita Kent (Sister Corita), who appropriated and repurposed texts and images from consumer and popular culture, art, politics and religion in her works. Such breaks with tradition and convention form a central leitmotif of the show.

Following a loose chronological sequence from classical modernism to the neo-avant-garde art movements of the 1960s and ’70s and onward to contemporary art, the presentation traces key themes across time and media: it demonstrates the influence of social and scientific developments on modern art as well as their relationship to contemporary art, it takes an expanded and critically ironic look at Pop Art, it explores the potential of Conceptual and performance art since the 1960s with their references to the body and to nature, and it also turns its attention to current questions regarding migration and the drawing of borders.

Participating artists
Marina Abramović, Fareed Armaly, Arman, Anna Artaker, Joannis Avramidis, Evelyne Axell, ONA B., Francis Bacon, Jo Baer, Monika Baer, John Baldessari, Giacomo Balla, Yto Barrada, Gianfranco Baruchello, Willi Baumeister, Herbert Bayer, Rudolf Belling,  Anna-Sophie Berger, Ştefan Bertalan, Renate Bertlmann, Joseph Beuys, Dara Birnbaum, Mladen Bizumic, Hannah Black, Karl Blossfeldt, Alighiero Boetti, Louise Bourgeois, Pavel Brăila, Constantin Brancusi, Geta Brătescu, Victor Brauner, Kaucyila Brooke, Günter Brus, Daniel Buren, Michael Buthe, André Cadere, Alexander Calder, Nina Canell, Ernst Caramelle, Mario Ceroli, César, Chto Delat, Leidy Churchman, Heinz Cibulka, William Nelson Copley, Radomir Damnjanović Damnjan, Destiny Deacon, Robert Delaunay, André Derain, Carola Dertnig, Gérard Deschamps, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, DIE DAMEN (ONA B., Evelyne Egerer, Ingeborg Strobl, Birgit Jürgenssen), Mark Dion, Ines Doujak, Marcel Duchamp, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Evelyne Egerer, Max Ernst, VALIE EXPORT, Simone Fattal, Stano Filko, Dan Flavin, Constantin Flondor, Andrea Fraser, Virginia Fraser, Hamish Fulton, Seiichi Furuya, Heinz Gappmayr, Alberto Giacometti, Bruno Gironcoli, Tina Girouard, Domenico Gnoli, Roland Goeschl, Félix González-Torres, Julian Göthe, Walter Gramatté, Ion Grigorescu, Eva Grubinger, Maria Hahnenkamp, Julia Haller, Richard Hamilton, Carry Hauser, Haus-Rucker-Co (Günter Zamp Kelp, Laurids Ortner, Klaus Pinter), Tamás Hencze, Florence Henri, Bernhard Höke, Judith Hopf, Robert Indiana, Sanja Iveković, Tess Jaray, Joan Jonas, Donald Judd, Martha Jungwirth, Nikita Kadan, Allan Kaprow, Barbara Kapusta, Corita Kent (Sister Corita), Friedrich Kiesler, Konrad Klapheck, Paul Klee, Yves Klein, Erika Giovanna Klien, Pierre Klossowski, Jakob Lena Knebl, Jutta Koether, Kiki Kogelnik, Peter Kogler, Oskar Kokoschka, Stanislav Kolíbal, Július Koller, Roland Kollnitz, Kurt Kren, Dieter Krieg, Richard Kriesche, Elke Silvia Krystufek, Friedl Kubelka, Tetsumi Kudo, František Kupka, Yayoi Kusama, Robert Kushner, Rachel Lachowicz, Wifredo Lam, Maria Lassnig, Le Corbusier, Fernand Léger, Sonia Leimer, Anita Leisz, Zoe Leonard, Sharon Lockhart, Richard Long, Lee Lozano, Nino Malfatti, Piero Manzoni, Dorit Margreiter, Rashid Masharawi. Henri Matisse, Mario Merz, Joan Miró, László Moholy-Nagy, Piet Mondrian, Robert Morris, Ree Morton, Otto Muehl, Christian Philipp Müller, Ulrike Müller, Bruce Nauman, Otto Neurath, Hermann Nitsch, Kenneth Noland, Marzena Nowak, Oswald Oberhuber, Albert Oehlen, Yoko Ono, Amédée Ozenfant, Wolfgang Paalen, Charlotte Moorman, Nam June Paik, Pakui Hardware (Neringa Černiauskaitė, Ugnius Gelguda), Gina Pane, Michael Part, A.R. Penck, Antoine Pevsner, Pablo Picasso, Tobias Pils, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Mathias Poledna, Sigmar Polke, Lisl Ponger, Janis Provisor, Florian Pumhösl, R.H. Quaytman, Liesl Raff, Arnulf Rainer, Christina Ramberg, Martial Raysse, Steve Reinke, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Germaine Richier, Hans Richter, James Rosenquist, Barbara Rossi, Gerhard Rühm, August Sander, Miriam Schapiro, Oskar Schlemmer, Toni Schmale, Ernst Schmidt jr., Carolee Schneemann, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Zineb Sedira, Leon Polk Smith, Robert Smithson, Louis Soutter, Anne Speier, Mladen Stilinović, Ingeborg Strobl, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, The Atlas Group, Paul Thek, Walasse Ting, Jenni Tischer, Doru Tulcan, Cy Twombly, Ulay, Timm Ulrichs, Jiří Valoch, Hannsjörg Voth, Maja Vukoje, Kara Walker, Andy Warhol, Lois Weinberger, Franz West, Hannah Wilke, Christopher Williams, Christopher Wool, Fritz Wotruba, Siegfried Zaworka, Heimo Zobernig

Curated by 
Manuela Ammer, Heike Eipeldauer, Rainer Fuchs, Naoko Kaltschmidt, Matthias Michalka

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