AESTHETICS OF CHANGE, MAK - Museum of Applied Arts

AESTHETICS OF CHANGE / 150 Years of the University of Applied Arts Vienna

MAK - Museum of Applied Arts Vienna
Exhibition brochure, 67 pages
2017
Deutsch/English
Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Gerald Bast, Elisabeth Schmuttermeier, Peter Weibel, Patrick Werkner

www.mak.at

The exhibition AESTHETICS OF CHANGE: 150 Years of the University of Applied Arts Vienna in two parts casts a glance back onto 150 years of the University’s history, while at the same time daring to look into the future.
The Angewandte: 150 Plus 30
The second part of the jubilee exhibition in the MAK’s upper Exhibition Hall, curated by Peter Weibel and Gerald Bast, outlines theses for the future and advocates for a reorientation of education, art, and society. Three chapters present aggregated trends. The exhibition focuses on current and visionary research, in addition to contemporary artistic positions.
“Future is there, where we ourselves strive towards it”
Pursuing this idea leads to an interactive exhibition experience. The spotlight is on the new; old structures dissolve in the darkness. This combination of ruins and enchanted forest allows the search for the future to commence.

Kuratiert vons:
Elisabeth Schmuttermeier, Kuratiert von, MAK Metal Collection and Wiener Werkstätte Archive
Patrick Werkner, Professor and Head of the Art Collection and Archive, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Gerald Bast, President, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Peter Weibel, Professor (emer.), University of Applied Arts Vienna; Executive Director, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe

Künstler*innen:
Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau, David Bowen, David Reiner, Martin Kusch & Ruth Schnell & Marie-Claude Poulin, Marc Lee, Monika Piórkowska, Scenocosme (Grégory Lasserre & Anaïs met den Ancxt), Peter Weibel, Robotlab (Matthias Gommel, Martina Richter, Jan Zappe) and others.