Events / Design / November 2008

  december 2008

Making Architecture

The Making of Architecture

until monday february 02 2009
Architekturzentrum Wien
T : +43 (1) 522 31 15
Museumsplatz 1
A-1070 Vienna
Austria

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Ines Purtauf
T : +43 (1) 522 31 15-23
purtauf@azw.at

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This exhibition tells about the very different ways in which architects use their various tools, from the pencil to the computer.


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Katagami

2 x JAPAN - Katagami / Textiles

until sunday march 29 2009
Mak - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art
T : (+43-1) 711 36-0
Stubenring 5
A-1010 Vienna
Austria

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2008 marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Heinrich Siebold, to whom the MAK owes a large part of its Japanese collection.

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Artist in Focus

Artists in focus: #5 Heimo Zobernig - Total design

until sunday march 29 2009
Mak - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art
MAK Permanent Collection Contemporary Art
T : (+43-1) 711 36-0
Stubenring 5
A-1010 Vienna
Austria

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presse@mak.at
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In his oeuvre, which find his origine in the work for theatres, Heimo Zobernig, who has been a key artist in Austria’s art scene since the 1980s, moves along the boundaries between concepts and artifacts, models and architecture, materials and form, roles and film, signs and text.


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Floral in Flux

FLORALS IN FLUX: Abstract, Stylized, Naturalistic

until sunday april 12 2009
Mak - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art
T : (+43-1) 711 36-0
Stubenring 5
A-1010 Vienna
Austria

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presse@mak.at
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The exhibition deals with the aspect of floral ornamentation in the work of the Wiener Werkstätte.

Schließe, Wien 1905. Entw.: Josef Hoffmann ; Ausf.: Wiener Werkstätte (Karl Ponocny). Silber, Opale, Malachit, Korallen.
© MAK / Georg Mayer



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