mumok Annual Press Conference 2017 mumok Statement of the Directors mok Museum moderner Kunst Mus For 2017, mumok has planned an outstanding program. We will continue to build Stiftung Ludwig Wien eum Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien bridges between international and national positions in art. One of our key goals is to mod erne firmly anchor Austrian art within the context of international developments. r Annual Press Conference 2017 Kun January 12, 2017, 10 am We see our responsibility in furthering the profile of mumok both nationally and st Stift internationally, as a key voice in current discourse on contemporary art and art Statement by Karola Kraus and ung Cornelia Lamprechter history. mumok is the largest museum for modern and contemporary art in central Lud Exhibitions overview 2017 wig Europe, and we wish to further expose our collection to external perspectives. Good New acquisitions 2016 Wi examples of this are the projects by Austrian artists Jakob Lena Knebl and Martin Detailed exhibition program 2017 Mus Beck, both of whom are creating new own works for their mumok shows while also eum splat presenting parts of the museum’s collection in a new light. These two exhibitions are z 1, also an important contribution to strengthening the profile of Austrian art and culture. 107 0 The coming year will also see the second awarding of the Kapsch Contemporary Art Wie Prize, a solo exhibition by British artist Hannah Black, and the first ever museum n Press contact show and performance by the pop duo Fischerspooner in Austria—making for Karin Bellmann pioneering young Austrian and international positions. Projects like the large T +43 1 52500-1400 Júliu [email protected] exhibition Natural Histories and a review of the collecting activities of Wolfgang Hahn s Koll toward the close of the year will also underscore mumok’s leading role in defining Katja Kulidzhanova er T +43 1 52500-1450 and addressing issues in the history of art over the past fifty years. Auss [email protected] tellu ngs This ambitious program and our continued work on expanding our collection mean Fax +43 1 52500-1300 dau [email protected] that we must secure, earn, and acquire the necessary funds. This goes well beyond er: www.mumok.at 12. our basic state funding and we crucially require the support of external partners and Febr patrons. We are proud to have the support of the Kapsch Group, whose commitment uar bis makes it possible for us to sustainably promote the young Austrian art scene. 2016 16. was a particularly successfully year for donations of works to the museum. Thanks to Mai the generous support of donors, we have been able to add new key works from the 201 6 1960s to today to our collection. Ope ning The success of mumok should not allow us to neglect the important fact that from : 2018 a significant increase in our basic funding will be urgently necessary to 11. Febr maintain our work and to continue to fulfil our core task. Without such an increase, uar mumok’s work in fulfilling its mission as a museum and in maintaining its own 201 infrastructure will be under threat. 6 Karola Kraus, Director, and Cornelia Lamprechter, Managing Director Pres seko ntak t Kari 1 Press information,January 12, 2017 n Bell man Gift of Gertraud and Dieter Bogner: Friedrich Kiesler Austrian Collectors Give mumok Their Collection of Important Works by the Visionary Artist Friedrich Kiesler mok Mus Gertraud and Dieter Bogner are among mumok’s most dedicated supporters, eum passionately connected with the museum for the past ten years. The couple gave mod erne mumok a large collection of works back in 2007, and their collection has been r catalogued and researched by the museum. In 2017 this cooperation is crowned by Kun a very special gift to the museum. Today, on January 12, 2017, Gertraud and Dieter st Stift Bogner are giving mumok numerous major works by the Austrian–American ung architect, artist, stage designer, and theorist Friedrich Kiesler. These works will be Lud wig on permanent loan within the auspices of the Austrian Friedrich and Lillian Kiesler Wi Private Foundation and will continue to be accessible to the public in their premises, Mus as has been the case for many years. eum splat z 1, The Bogners’ interest in concrete abstraction, and in conceptual and media-based 107 0 approaches and art movements is unusual for Austrian collectors. Their purchases Wie are consistently based on a focus on the contents of formal works and theory. This is n also true of their support of the work of Friedrich Kiesler generally and now also in terms of their generous gift to mumok. Kiesler began early to break down the Júliu borders of conventional notions of genre, building bridges between various types of s Koll art. “The Bogners’ collection contains both art with an affinity to discourse and er corresponding text and archive materials. This kind of comprehensive and discursive Auss tellu collection is a core part of mumok’s identity as a museum. It is a great stroke of good ngs fortune for mumok that we are being given major works by Kiesler as a gift, including dau a series of vintage prints of the 1924 City of Space, one of two existing models for an er: 12. Endless House (1959), the large conceptual drawing for the Vision Machine Febr (1941/1949), and numerous further works and archive materials”—mumok General uar bis Director Karola Kraus is clearly delighted. 16. Mai Gertraud and Dieter Bogner explained their decision as follows: “We are convinced 201 6 that the significance and standing of the works by Friedrich Kiesler that we are giving to mumok will become fully evident through the contractual agreement to Ope ning cooperate between mumok and the Austrian Friedrich and Lillian Kiesler Private : Foundation. It is important for us that in increasing our 2007 gift to the museum with 11. Febr our Kiesler collection we are able to guarantee the conceptual unity of the collection uar we have been building for some decades now. We also wish that the Kiesler Archive 201 is able to work with these major works and to present them to the general public.” 6 This gift is accompanied by the publication of the second part of the collection catalogue, entitled Perspectives in Motion. This will link that part of the collection focusing on works prior to 1945 with the most important writings by Dieter Bogner on art theory and history, addressing this period in general and the related collection. The collection that this catalogue volume presents stands for the concept that Dieter Bogner himself formulated for a “transdisciplinary museum of the history of ideas in Pres seko ntak t Kari 2 Press information,January 12, 2017 n Bell man Austrian modernism,” as a tender for the 1989 competition “Museumsquartier.” This truly welcome idea is still awaiting implementation. 3 Press information,January 12, 2017 Preview: Exhibition Year 2017 at mumok In 2017, mumok is presenting an ambitious program of exhibitions. The first half of the year is particularly shaped by women’s voices. We begin with a new arrangement of the mumok permanent collection, curated by artist Jakob Lena Knebl. Entitled Oh… Jakob Lena Knebl and the mumok Collection, this presentation will reset works of classical modernism and the 1970s and also include new courageously eccentric own works by the artist. At the same time we present Small Room, a solo show by British Hannah Black. Her young and decidedly feminist position will then lead to the historical feminist works from the SAMMLUNG VERBUND collection, whose current touring exhibition Feminist Avant-garde of the 1970s from the SAMMLUNG VERBUND will be shown from May in mumok under the heading WOMAN. With a solo exhibition by Martin Beck in summer 2017, mumok recognizes the achievement of one of Austria’s most important contemporary artists. At the same time Beck will present his own view of the mumok collection by showing a selection on the entrance level to the museum. The summer also includes the artist duo Fischerspooner, who are among the most prominent protagonists of international pop culture. Casey Spooner and Warren Fischer will present their glaring and playful universe full of queer lust and countless references to pop culture in the shape of a large installation. After its successful première in 2016, the Kapsch Contemporary Art Prize will again be jointly awarded to a newcomer living primarily in Austria by the Kapsch Group and mumok in 2017. The prize comes with 5,000 Euro prize money and a solo show at mumok, with an accompanying publication. The Kapsch Group will also purchase a work by the winner for the mumok collection. The year will conclude with two large thematic exhibitions. In the group exhibition Natural Histories, invited artists will explore representations of nature with reference to social processes and events from contemporary history. The second exhibition will present one of the key personalities in mumok’s own history to the general public, as already done in the 2015 exhibition Ludwig Goes Pop. This time the focus is on collector Wolfgang Hahn, whom mumok has to thank for much of its collections of works of nouveau réalisme, Fluxus, happenings, and conceptual art. Thanks to generous support from the mumok Board, from 2017 all exhibition openings will be celebrated in Hans Schabus’s Café Hansi. This bar decorated with all kinds of paraphernalia associated with the everyday name of Hans will open on March 16, 2017. 4 Press information,January 12, 2017 mumok cinema 2017 mumok cinema has now been running for over five years, promoting the exchange of ideas and critical exploration.