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Wolfgang Tillmans’s artistic practice attributes central importance to the observation of people, their relationship to one another, and their connection to the things around them. These subjective relations and modes of perceiving bodies, images, materials, or surfaces are undergoing massive shifts in light of the current health crisis, calls for social distancing, and the relocation of our everyday life and interaction into virtual space.

Ten years after joining the museum, Karola Kraus is organizing with her team a collection presentation that includes central donations and acquisitions from the past decade. The selected works range from classical modernism to the present day, following the path of the collection’s development. Twenty years after mumok opened in Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier, and forty years after the founding of the Austrian Ludwig Foundation, this exhibition is both a survey of the past and a glimpse ahead to the future. As the past years are reviewed, new perspectives are proposed as basis for the museum’s future collection and exhibition activities. The collection exhibition Enjoy sets out to convey the intertwining of past and present as a living process of continual reassessment and revaluation that reflects everchanging socio-political, socio-cultural, and philosophical developments and discourses. The main themes cut across time and media: the depiction of life in society, the human body, and nature, as well as migration and the drawing of boundaries.Curated by Karola Kraus with Manuela Ammer, Heike Eipeldauer, Rainer Fuchs, Naoko Kaltschmidt, Matthias Michalka

The collection, analysis, and circulation of ecological data, often invisible to the human eye, is at the core of Jesse Stecklow’s artistic practice. The Los Angeles-based artist (b. 1993) works with a precisely defined repertoire of objects that oscillate between image, text and sound.

Guided tour on the work of Wolfgang Tillmans with Jörg Wolfert, curator.

The Vordemberge-Gildewart Foundation awards an annual grant to support an independent visual artist or art writer aged 35 or under living in Europe. The nominees for this year's award will present their works at mumok.

Guided tour with Mikki Muhr.

Poetry recital; followed by a discussion on Pride as protest and the legacy of Marsha P Johnson.

Observing, imitating, revisiting the forgotten, remembering. The program Learning by Heart brings together a series of films that look into the hidden facets of learning, teaching, and the intergenerational connections created by it.

Guided tour on the work of Wolfgang Tillmans and the mumok collection with Andreas Brunner (historian, QWIEN – Zentrum für queere Geschichte) and Jörg Wolfert, curator.