23.05.2025 – 06.04.2026
The exhibition ‘Tomorrow’s world will have been another present’ presents narratives from the mumok collection of classical modernism that go beyond chronology and stylistic history and have a history of impact right up to the present day. The starting point is a form of speculation that is strongly based on temporality – a temporality that has circular traits. The exhibition, curated by Franz Thalmair, comprises five expansive installations by Nikita Kadan, Barbara Kapusta, Frida Orupabo, Lisl Ponger and Anita Witek, all of which enter into dialogue with works of classical modernism selected by them from the mumok collection. Based on their own artworks, which are also part of the collection, and thus also based on their own practice, the contemporaries continue the history of the museum and the history of contemporary art with their selection. In the exhibition, contemporary questions meet historical variants of themselves, which in turn are directed from a now that has already passed into a future that is not yet complete.
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, Alicia Penalba, Antoine Pevsner, Man Ray, Germaine Richier, Alexander Michailowitsch Rodtschenko, Oskar Schlemmer, Kurt Schwitters, Victor Servranckx, Nicola Vučo, Fritz Wotruba and many others.
The world of tomorrow will have been another present
23.05.2025 – 06.04.2026
mumok
Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna
www.mumok.at
