Based on the mumok collection’s focus on the avant-gardes of the 1960s and 1970s as well as the conceptual and socio-analytical approaches of contemporary art, the exhibition Collaborations explores different strategies of collective authorship. The show spans from the smallest to the largest unit of togetherness: from the internal connectedness of the collective to the selective union of the connective, from the couple to society – and last but not least from the love relationship to the all-connectedness. Kollaborationen explores the question of how artistic model forms of a “we” can be made fruitful for social coexistence: What does collaboration mean in the 21st century, when fundamental social structures are visibly dissolving, and how do artists* respond to this?

Artists: Marina Abramović & Ulay, Ant Farm, Art & Language, Martin Beck, Bernadette Corporation, Anna & Bernhard Blume, George Brecht, Günter Brus, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Chto Delat, Leidy Churchman, Clegg & Guttmann, Phil Collins, Bruce Conner, DIE DAMEN, Jean Dupuy, VALIE EXPORT, Peter Faecke and Wolf Vostell, Robert Filliou, Rimma Gerlovina & Valeriy Gerlovin, Gilbert & George, Manfred Grübl, Andreas Gursky, Richard Hamilton and Dieter Roth, Haus-Rucker-Co. , Christine & Irene Hohenbüchler, IRWIN, Ray Johnson and Berty Skuber, On Kawara, Friedrich Kiesler, Alison Knowles, Brigitte Kowanz and Franz Graf, Louise Lawler, Lucy R. Lippard, Sharon Lockhart, George Maciunas, Larry Miller, Ree Morton, Otto Muehl, museum in progress, Moriz Nähr, Natalia L.L., Otto Neurath, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Stephen Prina, Jörg Schlick, Hubert Schmalix, Secession, Seth Siegelaub, Christian Skrein, Daniel Spoerri, Petr Štembera and Tom Marioni, Thomas Struth, Timm Ulrichs, VBKÖ, Kerstin von Gabain and Nino Sakandelidze, Franz Erhard Walther, Robert Watts, Franz West, Wiener Gruppe, Oswald Wiener, Heimo Zobernig and others. a.m. ; with the video series lumbung calling of documenta fifteen, curated by ruangrupa