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Push and Pull: A Furniture Comedy
Allan Kaprow's 1963 participatory piece, in which visitors rearrange furniture, anchors a show on collective action and the museum as a temporary studio.
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Preview: written before the show opened
"Anyone can find or make one or more rooms," Allan Kaprow's 1963 instructions begin, then the rule that matters: everyone else can come in and arrange the furniture "as they see fit. Each day things will change." It was a tribute to his teacher, Hans Hofmann. On Level -2, you are the one doing the pushing and pulling. Anyone who has lived in a Vienna flatshare already knows how that goes.
The instructions themselves belong to mumok: 55 cards in a wooden box, which came with Wolfgang Hahn's collection. Kaprow reinvented the piece in this building in 2002, and treated every restaging as a new version. This time it sits at the core of a larger show about collective action and art without a single author, with collection works on turning the museum into a temporary studio.
Come to take part rather than look on. It opens on 14 November and is on the standard ticket: €18, €15 reduced, under-19s free, Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00 to 18:00.
Look for
Kaprow's furniture rooms
Look for furnished rooms you are invited to rearrange yourself, following Kaprow's 1963 instructions, so the layout changes from one day to the next.
Good for
- Locals Who've Seen It All
- Teenagers
With kids
Under-19s get in free.
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- Push and Pull: A Furniture ComedyAllan Kaprow, Push and Pull. Reinvention by Allan Kaprow, mumok 2002
- Herbert Boeckl – Hans Josephsohn: Figural ArchetypesHerbert Boeckl Nachlass, Vienna; Josephsohn Estate / Kesselhaus Josephsohn, St. Gallen
- Glaciers out of balanceJürgen Merz / NHM Wien
- Caution, high voltage! Electrical accidents – a class of their ownNHM Wien
- mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig WienAndrzej Otrębski / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Architekturzentrum Wien (Az W)Spock1801 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Kunsthalle WienStephan Wyckoff / PresseKunsthalleWien, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Leopold MuseumPeter Gugerell / Wikimedia Commons, CC0
- Natural History Museum Vienna (Naturhistorisches Museum Wien)Stb1er (Dario Premm), Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0