Future visions in art: New exhibition opened at Mumok Vienna!

Future visions in art: New exhibition opened at Mumok Vienna!

in the Mumok in Vienna, the exhibition entitled "The World of tomorrow will have been another present". This show, which will be shown by April 6, 2026, is curated by Franz Thalmair and invites visitors to enter a dialogue between the past and the presence of art. According to Krone, the exhibition serves as a platform for five contemporary artists who set their works in relation to the stocks of the Mumok collection.

The participating artists are Barbara Kapusta, Lisl Ponger, Anita Witek, Frida Orupabo and Nikita Kadan. They react to historical works by renowned artists such as Willi Baumeister, Hans Bellmer, Man Ray and Edward Steichen. The director of Mumok, Karola Kraus, describes that the exhibition stimulates to reflect on questions of self-location in art history and socio-political issues SN.AT.

artistic positions and topics

Each of the five artists brings different perspectives and themes into the exhibition. Lisl Ponger presents the installation "Work in Progress", which shows artifacts that occur in their work but are no longer real. Her works are confronted with those of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and other artists, which leads to a search for traces for visitors SN.AT.

Barbara Kapusta shows large-format aluminum sculptures that produce the dialogue between aluminum sculptures by Oskar Schlemmer, Rudolf Belling, Fritz Wotruba, Victor Brauner and the current questions about the resistance of future body. Her work reflects the topic of the fragility of bodies today Krone.

Anita Witek brings works by Raoul Hausmann and Constantin Brâncuși to the exhibition. It also addresses "utopian architectures" and creates collages from the mass medically widespread photographs. In her work, Frida Orupabo, on the other hand, is critical of women in her work "against the colonial look" with the sexualized and racial bodies by positioning their works on historical sculptures, including those of Alberto Giacometti and Louise Bourgeois sn.at.

Nikita Kadan analyzes monuments and their role as collective memory supports, taking up the theme of war and violence in his work. His most outstanding work can be found on the museum's outer facade: "On Protection of the Monuments", which shows enlarged reproductions of a destroyed monument. This work expands the discussion about the representation of violence and the influence of historical stories on the present Krone.

artistic practices in change

The exhibition not only reflects the interactions between the works presented, but also the current trends within contemporary art. The Leuphana University emphasizes the transformation of art as a material and intellectual practice, which occurs both artistic procedures and socio-political discussions, especially after the 1960s. It addresses the dissolution of traditional genres and the critical examination of art production in the context of social processes.

These trend-specific elements also become clear in the Mumok exhibition, where contemporary artists: inside drive a critical questioning of art history and its colonial as well as gender-specific narratives. The speculative character of the exhibition title illustrates this approach and sets the framework for a deeper examination of the art historical heir SN.AT.

Overall, "The world of tomorrow will have been another present" in Mumok a multi -layered platform that enables both artistic innovation and social reflection and can be understood as an invitation to visitors to think about the importance of art in today's society.