Friedrich Kiesler. Endless House 2

Amid the grey basalt architecture of mumok, a presentation of the architect and multifaceted artist Friedrich Kiesler (1890–1965) can be found. At its center is the model of his Endless House (1959): an organic-looking wire mesh and concrete architectural sculpture in a sonorous gray and an icon of twentieth-century visionary architecture. In 2017, this model, for a house that was never built, found its way alongside numerous sketches, drawings, and plans as well as other works by the artist into the mumok Collection by way of a donation by the collector couple Gertraud and Dieter Bogner.

The museum’s bunker-like architecture thus houses a kind of centerpiece of architectural history, an organoid entity that still resonates spiritually to this day. It was originally conceived as a symbolic and de facto disruption to the straightjacket of a rationalized and geometricized living environment. 

Curated by Dieter Bogner, Rainer Fuchs and Susanne Neuburger 

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