Enjoy – the mumok Collection in Change

Saturday, June 19, 2021 to Sunday, June 12, 2022

Enjoy - The mumok Collection in change

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

Ten years after joining the museum, Karola Kraus is organizing with her team a collection presentation that includes central donations and acquisitions from the past decade. The selected works range from classical modernism to the present day, following the path of the collection’s development.

Twenty years after mumok opened in Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier, and forty years after the founding of the Austrian Ludwig Foundation, this exhibition is both a survey of the past and a glimpse ahead to the future. As the past years are reviewed, new perspectives are proposed as basis for the museum’s future collection and exhibition activities. The collection exhibition Enjoy sets out to convey the intertwining of past and present as a living process of continual reassessment and revaluation that reflects everchanging socio-political, socio-cultural, and philosophical developments and discourses. The main themes cut across time and media: the depiction of life in society, the human body, and nature, as well as migration and the drawing of boundaries.

Bright exhibition space, on the front right on a white base a black sculpture that appears human and bends over, on the right on the wall a light green painting, in the centre on the wall a dark blue painting, on the left on the wall a human-sized, filigree, black sculpture of a standing person

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Photo: Klaus Pichler © mumok

View of an exhibition room with a light-coloured floor and white walls; in the centre is a white base with a round, golden sculpture; various photos are mounted in a line on the walls

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Photo: Klaus Pichler © mumok

Exhibition view, a bright room with various colourful paintings, a golden sculpture on a base in the centre

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Photo: Klaus Pichler © mumok

a black, filigree sculpture stands on a white base in the centre of the picture, with pictures of different sizes in dark colours on white walls in the background

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Photo: Klaus Pichler © mumok

Exhibition view, on the right in the foreground an abstract, dark sculpture, in the centre a brown and black painting, on the left in the background a colourful abstract painting

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Photo: Klaus Pichler © mumok

View of an exhibition room with white walls, in the centre an abstract painting of a woman in green and blue dresses by Picasso, on the left and right white bases with small sculptures

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Photo: Klaus Pichler © mumok

Dark, almost black paintings in different sizes hang on a white wall

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Photo: Klaus Pichler © mumok

Two pictures hanging on a white wall: the one on the left is black and white with geometrically curved shapes, on the right hangs a small dark picture

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Exhibition View: Enjoy. The mumok Collection in Change

Photo: Klaus Pichler © mumok

Small abstract paintings in yellow and black on a white wall

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Photo: Klaus Pichler © mumok

View of a bright exhibition space, on the left a geometric sculpture in yellow, red and blue, on the right a red sculpture in the background

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Exhibition View: Enjoy. The mumok Collection in Change

Photo: Klaus Pichler © mumok

View of an exhibition room with a light-coloured stone floor and white walls, on the right are two small sculptures on white bases on the wall, on the left are elongated sculptures on the floor, the one in front is red, the ones behind are black and white

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Photo: Klaus Pichler © mumok

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Photo: Klaus Pichler © mumok

Exhibition room with various colourful works of art on the walls and on bases

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Photo: Klaus Pichler © mumok

Large painting of various wheels and technical instruments

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Exhibition View: Enjoy. The mumok Collection in Change

Photo: Klaus Pichler © mumok

On the left is a black picture on the wall, in the middle a small sculpture holding up a sign with "NO", on the right a dark picture with two colourful figures on it

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Photo: Klaus Pichler © mumok

white wall, on the left hangs a painting showing two figures, on the right hangs a black man's suit

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Photo: Klaus Pichler © mumok

white wall with almost 15 small graphics and paintings, some of which show lettering, such as the exhibition title Enjoy

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Exhibition View: Enjoy. The mumok Collection in Change

Photo: Klaus Pichler © mumok

wiry sculpture with long hair that looks like a dog in the centre, abstract paintings on the wall in the background

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Photo: Klaus Pichler © mumok

Exhibition room with a wooden, round object in the centre, a mirror in the corner to the right behind it, a green object on the wall to the right

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Exhibition View: Enjoy. The mumok Collection in Change

Photo: Klaus Pichler © mumok

Exhibition room with light pink walls, a large white painting on the right wall, a dark abstract object at the back left

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Exhibition View: Enjoy. The mumok Collection in Change

Photo: Klaus Pichler © mumok

Various objects and small pictures on a white wall

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Photo: Klaus Pichler © mumok

Light blue wall with small pictures on the right, sculpture of a rocket with the number 7 painted in pink on the left in the foreground

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Exhibition View: Enjoy. The mumok Collection in Change

Photo: Klaus Pichler © mumok

Light blue wall, a large silver sphere on the floor, abstract artwork on the wall in the background

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Exhibition View: Enjoy. The mumok Collection in Change

Photo: Klaus Pichler © mumok

Exhibition space with light yellow walls, in the foreground light-coloured stones in a pile, in the centre an abstract object made of white, filigree material

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White walls with colourful, abstract pictures in a row

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Television on a white base in a corner, a small picture on the wall to the left and right of it, a wooden, elongated object leaning against the wall on the far right

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Artwork showing abstract film strips on a light blue background

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A base in the exhibition space with a large projector projecting an image of a head onto the wall on the right and framed video tapes in the background on the left

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Showroom with several televisions on bases, a red box in the centre

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Exhibition view, on the left in the corner is a television on a white base, on the right on the wall hangs a black and white picture

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Photograph of two people sitting at a table looking out of a window, the photograph hangs on a white wall

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various everyday objects in the exhibition room, several armchairs, a plant and a parasol

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Exhibition room, inside another room with a blue door

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Bright exhibition space, containing various works of art, such as a wooden table with a green cloth

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Enjoy – the mumok Collection in Change