imumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig WienNeubau
Terminal Piece
A five-act show across five levels built around Kate Millett's 1972 installation, setting some 400 collection works, loans and commissions around the act of looking.
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You step into a dim room and the orange bulbs react to you, dimming and brightening. Behind wooden bars stand two rows of folding chairs, all empty but one, where a shop mannequin in a navy prison dress sits with her head bowed. Kate Millett made it in 1972 because, she said, it "could not be written".
That's Act 1. The rest of mumok follows as four more scenes, about 400 works by over 90 artists: Miroslav Tichý's furtive photos of women in Communist Czechoslovakia, Leviathan, filmed with handheld cameras on a North Atlantic trawler, Jean Fautrier's ghostly hostage heads, and a Level 0 that set designer Anna Viebrock has rebuilt as a stage.
In Kunstkritikk, Frans Josef Petersson praised the restraint but found "something unfinished" about it. It's on the standard €18 ticket (€15 reduced, under-19s free), Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00 to 18:00.
Look for
Kate Millett's Terminal Piece
Look for the one occupied chair behind the wooden bars: a bowed mannequin in a navy prison dress, lit by orange bulbs that respond to your movement.
Leviathan
Handheld cameras put you aboard an industrial fishing trawler in the North Atlantic, filming above and below the waterline.
Miroslav Tichý's photographs
Voyeuristic street shots of women in 1960s Communist Czechoslovakia, set in soft handmade passe-partouts.
Megan Plunkett's Dissemblance
Large photographs of objects her dying mother handled, shot so closely they turn almost abstract.
Nina Porter's Inside Landscapes
Large-format X-ray images that show an exposure from inside a camera.
Good for
- Going Solo
- Nerding Out
Skip if
You want a show that explains itself: the curators deliberately favour selection and form over explanation.
With kids
Under-19s get in free.
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- Terminal Piecemumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
- 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