BOLD AND FREE

8/12/2020 — 6/06/2021
The MAK invites to a special journey of discovery in these extraordinary times. To date rarely or never shown special features from the collection and hidden depot treasures will be staged for a short time in the rooms of the MAK Permanent Collection by the design duo mischer’traxler, together with the curator Janina Falkner. Employees who have been involved with the collection objects for years, primarily curators, but also collection employees, restorers, art educators, and the directors, have selected more than 100 masterpieces that have to date been hidden, but are very much worth seeing.
The objects press into already assigned areas in cheeky gestures, butt in and demand new latitude. Unexpected associations, humorous constellations, and paradox scenarios arise from this spontaneously curated advent of things. Following the restructuring of the MAK DESIGN LAB, BOLD AND FREE! The Invasion of Hidden Objects is the second cooperation with the internationally successful design studio mischer’traxler. Creative approaches to masterpieces of applied arts once again convey the diversity of the MAK Collection in an unconventional and imaginative way.

MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst
The MAK focuses on the role of applied art in the design of our living spaces. It operates at the interface of design, architecture and contemporary art in order to create new perspectives and explore boundary areas. The MAK would like to provide answers to the question as to how design can contribute to shaping the world and expanding possibilities for action and decision-making.

Ö1 Talent Grant
Ausstellung der Nominierten

Sebastian - Sasha Auerbakh

Raffaela Bielesch. YES, STILL AVAILABLE!

Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Green Coconuts and Other Inadmissible Evidence

DAS PARADIES IM STILLEN OZEAN

CCC | click, connect, collect
pop-up gallery

SIX SOLO SHOW
Thean Chie Chan, József Csató, Stefanie De Vos, Hanakam & Schuller, Linus Riepler, Anja Ronacher

Beach Road Scissors
Thea Moeller

Bernard Frize
Logische Schlussfolgerung

Ernst Yohji Jaeger - Quince Moon

Abiona Esther Ojo & Huda Takriti. Weaving Truths, Untangling Fictions

cats, dogs and other pieces

Stories of Traumatic Pasts
Counter-Archives for Future Memories

INSPIRATIONAL BEETHOVEN
A Symphony in Pictures from Vienna 1900

EMIL PIRCHAN
Visual Revolution

Hugo Canoilas. On the extremes of good and evil

Rainer Wölzl PANOPTIKUM

My Generation - The Jablonka Collection

Zoology by Stefan Oláh

Želimir Žilnik. Shadow Citizens

100 best posters 19
GERMANY AUSTRIA SWITZERLAND

CAMILA SPOSATI
Phonosophia

Faces. The Power of the Human Visage

DRAW A DISTINCTION.
Rafaela Bielesch, Teresa Kasalicky, Katharina Scheucher

Higher Powers
People, Gods and Elements of Nature

Masterpieces of Modernist Art.
The Batliner Collection

Hidden Thoughts of A Visual Nature

HELMUT LANG ARCHIVE
AN INTERVENTION BY HELMUT LANG