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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.

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.

The exhibition investigates how artistic models of a “we” can be cultivated for life together as a society: What does collaboration mean in the twenty-first century when fundamental social structures continue to dissolve? How have artists responded to such social and political developments over the decades and what is their position today?

When it comes to recognising the apparent nature of a good many opposites so as to stimulate more complex thinking, these are great times to live in. And this piece, which has been completely reworked for an entire floor of mumok Vienna, is a perfect example of this.

Davi Pontes and Wallace Ferreira are standing naked in front of the audience and propose an alternative to the structural and political violence that seems to have be­come a persistent presence in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro: dance.

Guided tour through the mumok

In our monthly WorldPictures workshop, mumok holds art workshops open to the public, offering people from all over the world - migrants and non-migrants - a creative space for encounter and exchange.

Accompany us through the exhibition of Wolfgang Tillmans. Sound is liquid. Start is at 16h in the entrance hall. The tour is free with a valid exhibition ticket and open to all guests of the museum.

Workshop for children aged 8 to 13