Mapping the 60s

July 5, 2024, to February 1, 2026

Mapping the 60s
Art Histories from the mumok Collections

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, Viennese 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.

Curated by Manuela Ammer, Marianne Dobner, Heike Eipeldauer, Naoko Kaltschmidt, Matthias Michalka, Franz Thalmair

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Duane Hanson
Football-Vignette, 1969
170 x 300 x 180 cm
Bodenplatte: 180 x 300 x 5 cm
Fiberglass, polyester, original clothing
mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, On loan from the Austrian Ludwig Foundation, since 1981
Photo: mumok
© Bildrecht, Wien 2023

02 Kent

Corita Kent
king’s dream, 1969
58.6 x 30.6 cm
Screenprint
mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, acquired in 2020
© Bildrecht, Wien 2023

Wooden shoeshine box with cast-iron footrest and metal letters; complex (500) of ephemera, photographs, sheets of text, sketches, objects

03 Brecht

03 Brecht

George Brecht
The Universal Machine, 1962-1963
Shoeshine box with cast-iron footrest and metal letters; complex (500) of ephemera, photographs, sheets of text, sketches, objects
mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Former Hahn Collection, Cologne, acquired in 1978
© Bildrecht, Wien 2023

A bale of straw lies on wood, with a neon tube mounted diagonally above it.

04 Merz

04 Merz

Mario Merz
Il fulmine colpisce il campo, 1968
160 x 50 x 50 cm
Straw bales, wood, neon, transformer
mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, On loan from the Austrian Ludwig Foundation, since 1983
Photo: mumok
© Bildrecht, Wien 2023

The upper part of the picture shows 3 drawn light bulbs on a yellow background, below are 2 safety pins on a pink background. On the left you can see a green safety pin that is up and open, on the right you can see a red safety pin that is up and open.

05 Hansen

05 Hansen

Sine Hansen
Beglühte Sicherheit, 1965
170 cm x 140 cm x 1.8 cm
Egg tempera on canvas
mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, On loan from the Austrian Ludwig Foundation, since 2021
© Sine Hansen

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Published on December 19, 2023

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