Exhibition
Art Histories from the mumok Collections
December 4, 2024 to April 19, 2026
mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
loan
The exhibition Mapping the 60s is based on the thought that substantial sociopolitical movements of the twenty-first century have their roots in the 1960s. Black Lives Matter and #MeToo, for example, have built on the anti-racist and feminist upheavals of yesteryear—as have current debates on war, mass media and mechanization, consumerism, and capitalism.
The developments of the 1960s in general and the events around 1968 in particular are not only paradigmatic in social and political terms, but also essential with regard to cultural policies. In 1962, the Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts was founded in Vienna, a precursor of mumok, whose collection focuses on Pop Art, Nouveau Réalisme, Fluxus, Vienna Actionism, performance art, Conceptual Art, and Minimal Art—artistic movements of the 1960s. Even when we ask ourselves how to address art history today and make it productive, we encounter discussions that go back to that decade.
On loan from the SpallArt Collection: "An extreme highlight of the exhibition 1/5 Minute, a work by VALIE EXPORT, the first tapping and touch film and at the same time the first real film by and with and about a woman." more
mumok
Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna