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May 23, 2025 to April 6, 2026

The World of Tomorrow Will Have Been Another Present

The World of Tomorrow Will Have Been Another Present

Beyond mere chronology and style histories, the exhibition The World of Tomorrow Will Have Been Another Present traces narratives in the mumok collection of classical modernism that resonate to the present day. The departure point is a form of speculation firmly anchored in temporality—a temporality with circular tendencies. “Speculation,” says cultural scientist Karin Harrasser, “is not about the extrapolation of the present or betting on probable processes; it has to do with a retroactive allegiance, an operation in Future II: speculative thinking has to measure up with the possibilities that it will have brought into being.”* Who, if not the artists from a collection of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries like that of the mumok, no matter when they may have been active, would understand more about this way of thinking in loops, backward and forward at the same time, about meandering through history?

The exhibition consists of five large-scale installations by Nikita Kadan, Barbara Kapusta, Frida Orupabo, Lisl Ponger, and Anita Witek, which enter into a dialogue with works of classical modernism they have selected from the mumok collection. As their own artworks are also part of the collection, these contemporaries continue to write the history of the museum and the history of contemporary art. In the exhibition, urgent questions of our time are mirrored in historical manifestations of themselves, which, in turn, point from an already past present to a still indefinite future. 

With works by Herbert Bayer, Hans Bellmer, Karl Blossfeldt, Louise Bourgeois, Constantin Brâncuși, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, Henri Florence, Alberto Giacometti, Juan Gris, George Grosz, Raul Hausmann, Johannes Itten, Friedrich Kiesler, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Fernand Léger, René Magritte, Man Ray, Alicia Penalba, Antoine Pevsner, Germaine Richier, Alexander Michailowitsch Rodtschenko, Oskar Schlemmer, Kurt Schwitters, Victor Servranckx, Nicola Vučo, Fritz Wotruba, and many more.

Curated by Franz Thalmair

* Karin Harrasser, “As reality creates itself, unforeseeable and new, its image reflects behind it into the indefinite past.” in: Kunstraum Lakeside — Recherche | Research, ed. Franz Thalmair, trans. Peter Blakeney and Christine Schöffler (Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2019), p. 17.

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01 Bayer
01 Bayer

Herbert Bayer
hands act, 1932 
35.4 x 28 cm
b/w photograph
mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, donation by Oswald Oberhuber 1979
© Bildrecht, Wien 2024

 

Herbert Bayer
hands act, 1932 
35.4 x 28 cm
b/w photograph
mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, donation by Oswald Oberhuber 1979
© Bildrecht, Wien 2024

 

02 Bellmer
02 Bellmer

Hans Bellmer
The Mouth, 1935 
16 x 16 cm
Silver-bromide print, colored
mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, acquired in 1978
© Bildrecht, Wien 2024

 

Hans Bellmer
The Mouth, 1935 
16 x 16 cm
Silver-bromide print, colored
mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, acquired in 1978
© Bildrecht, Wien 2024

 

03 Gris
03 Gris

Juan Gris
Carafe, Glass and Newspaper, 1919
40 x 33 x 2 cm
Oil on canvas
mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, donation by Emanuel and Sofie Fohn 1994
© public domain

 

Juan Gris
Carafe, Glass and Newspaper, 1919
40 x 33 x 2 cm
Oil on canvas
mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, donation by Emanuel and Sofie Fohn 1994
© public domain

 

04 Magritte
04 Magritte

René Magritte
Dieu, le huitième jour, 1937 (1976)
8 x 14 cm
 b/w photograph
mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, acquired in 1995
© Bildrecht, Wien 2024

 

René Magritte
Dieu, le huitième jour, 1937 (1976)
8 x 14 cm
 b/w photograph
mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, acquired in 1995
© Bildrecht, Wien 2024

 

05 Schlemmer
05 Schlemmer

Oskar Schlemmer
Abstract Figure, 1921 (1962)
107 x 63 x 21 cm
Bronze casting
mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, acquired in 1962
© public domain

 

Oskar Schlemmer
Abstract Figure, 1921 (1962)
107 x 63 x 21 cm
Bronze casting
mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, acquired in 1962
© public domain

 

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Published on December 1, 2024