23 March 2007 – 7 October 2007

The Modern Laboratory - Visual Arts, Photography and Film on the Move

The first decade of the 20th century was shaped by great political, economic and aesthetic changes. The exhibition is concerned with the new artistic viewpoints connected with that and shows how the considerable avantgarde movements of the early 20th century took up the various media and developed them further. As if in a laboratory artists experimented inside a “new” world that stood under the sign of progress. The exhibition relates modern art, with its innovative contents and forms, to the changing modes of work and production that also anchored the new media of film and photography in society. The references to everyday life with its technology, urban planning and architecture are characteristic for the art of this period as is a strong tendency towards utopianism. Group formation and manifestos are thus also ideologically motivated and are positioned between lived reality and revolutionary fantasy. During this period the new media of photography and film fought for their status as art.

Address

MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
MuseumsQuartier Museumsplatz 1
1070 Wien
phone +43 1 525 00
http://www.mumok.at

Opening Hours

Daily 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., Thursday till 9 p.m..

Description of the Museum

The collection consists in classical modernism (Kandinsky, Klee, Magritte...)

New building opened 2001; architects: Ortner & Ortner

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