Mapping the 60s

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.

Artists

Pierre Alechinsky, Eric Andersen, Karel Appel, Arman, Siah Armajani, Richard Artschwager, Evelyne Axell, Ay-O, Jo Baer, John Baldessari, Iain Baxter, Marlène Belilos / André Gazut, Joseph Beuys, Peter Blake, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, George Brecht, Bazon Brock, Peter Brüning, Günter Brus, Mark Brusse, Jack Burnham, Michael Buthe, James Lee Byars, Pier Paolo Calzolari, César, Henning Christiansen, Christo, Chryssa, Johannes Cladders, Jef Cornelis, Philip Corner, Robert Cumming, François Dallegret, Hanne Darboven, Alan Davie, Walter De Maria, Gerard Deschamps, Jan Dibbets, Jim Dine, Jean Dupuy, VALIE EXPORT, Peter Faecke, Öyvind Fahlström, Robert Filliou, Mathilde Flögl, Sam Francis, Ken Friedman, Karl Gerstner, Alviani Getulio, John Giorno, Domenico Gnoli, Roland Goeschl, Dan Graham, Robert Grosvenor, Hans Haacke, Raymond Hains, Sine Hansen, Sohei Hashimoto, David Hockney, Michael Heizer, Richard Hamilton, Al Hansen, Duane Hanson, Jann Haworth, Geoffrey Hendricks, Dick Higgins, Ludwig Hoffenreich, Davi Det Hompson, Robert Huot, Robert Indiana, Alain Jacquet, Rolf Jährling, Olga Jančić, Tess Jaray, Alfred Jensen, Peter Jirak, Jasper Johns, Ray Johnson, Joe Jones, Asger Jorn, Allan Kaprow, Ellsworth Kelly, Corita Kent, Khasaq, Edward Kienholz, Konrad Klapheck, Yves Klein, Bengt af Klintberg, Ute Klophaus, Milan Knížák, Alison Knowles, Kiki Kogelnik, Julius Koller, Joseph Kosuth, Kurt Kren, Gary Kuehn, John Lennon, Les Levine, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Long, Lee Lozano, Jackson Mac Low, George Maciunas, Mario Merz, Larry Miller, Joan Mitchell, Charlotte Moorman, Robert Morris, Otto Muehl, Ronald Nameth, Bruce Nauman, Serge III Oldenbourg, Claes Oldenburg, Jules Olitski, Malte Olschewski, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Panamarenko, Pino Pascali, Ben Patterson, Walter Pichler, Larry Poons, Eckart Rahn, Martial Raysse, Germaine Richier, Willem de Ridder, James Riddle, Bridget Riley, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Mimmo Rotella, Dieter Roth, Teresa Rudowicz, Niki de Saint Phalle, Takako Saito, Antonio Saura, Ernst Schmidt jr., Tomas Schmit, Carolee Schneemann, Karl Schwanzer, George Segal, Richard Serra, Miriam Shapiro, Mieko Shiomi, Berty Skuber, Robert Smithson, Keith Sonnier, Daniel Spoerri, Herbert Stumpfl, Christof Šubik, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Anne Tardos, Paul Thek, Walasse Ting, Jean Tinguely, Günther Uecker, Stan Vanderbeek, Jacques de la Villeglé, Frank Lincoln Viner, Franz Erhard Walther, Franz Erhard Walther / Arno Uth, Ben Vautier, Bernar Venet, Wolf Vostell, Yoshimasa Wada, Andy Warhol, Robert Watts, William Wegman, Peter Weibel, Lawrence Weiner, Oswald Wiener, William T. Wiley