VIENNA.- Park McArthur
March 15, to September 7, 2025
This exhibition of artist Park McArthur (born 1984, North Carolina, US) brings together, for the first time, artworks made between the 2010s and 2020s. Co-organized by mumok in Vienna and Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, the exhibition is a collaboration between both institutions and will be presented simultaneously at both locations. Questions of simultaneous experience and access to art and culture shape this project’s format and purpose.
Never Final! The Museum in Change
March 28, 2025, to April 12, 2026
This exhibition is dedicated to the genesis of the Museum moderner Kunst and the way the institution changed at the time of Dieter Ronte at its helm (from 1979 to 1989). Against the backdrop of the multilayered pluralism of the 1980s, it attempts to provide an interpretive overview of the historical and cultural-political parameters of the time, while considering the programmatic decisions in the exhibitions, events, and collection expansions of that decade. It was during this period that the museum laid the groundwork for collaborations with collectors (Gertraud and Dieter Bogner), was actively involved sociopolitical matters (artistic freedom), and engaged in fundamental research for projects that manifested in the years to come (Hermann Nitsch, Rudolf Schwarzkogler).
The World of Tomorrow Will Have Been Another Present
May 23, 2025, to April 6, 2026
Beyond mere chronology and style histories, the exhibition The World of Tomorrow Will Have Been Another Present traces narratives in the mumok collection of classical modernism that resonate to the present day. The exhibition consists of five large-scale installations by Nikita Kadan, Barbara Kapusta, Frida Orupabo, Lisl Ponger, and Anita Witek, which enter into a dialogue with works of classical modernism they have selected from the mumok collection. As their own artworks are also part of the collection, these contemporaries continue to write the history of the museum and the history of contemporary art.
Kazuna Taguchi
June 13, to November 16, 2025
mumok will be mounting the first solo museum exhibition of the artist Kazuna Taguchi, who was born in Tokyo in 1979 and has been living in Vienna since 2013. A graduate of painting from the Tokyo University of Arts, Taguchi has since been honing her idiosyncratic, anachronistic and introverted studio practice. Her meticulously composed monochrome photographs often convey (female) body fragments, gestures, and gazes and resonate with the surrealist tradition, in which moments of the dreamlike and ghostly, the reference to death and questions of the photographic representation of the female body are explored.
Tobias Pils
September 27, 2025, to April 12, 2026
Born in Linz in 1971, Tobias Pils is among the most exciting painters working today. Employing a heavily reduced color palette, he creates paintings and drawings that weave abstract and representational elements into associative pictorial worlds. What in terms of subject matter can be interpreted as an investigation of both elementary and personal themes like birth and death or becoming and passing, also negotiates central questions in painting at large. For in Pils’ visual cosmos, one painterly mark leads to the next, one image to another, as if painting were constantly staging its own death and rebirth.
Claudia Pagès Rabal
4. Dezember 2025 bis 31. Mai 2026
Claudia Pagès Rabal is a visual artist, performer, and writer. With the means of language, movement and music, their own body and other choreographed bodies, the artist explores topics such as social hierarchies, a sense of belonging, queer body economies, and desire. At mumok, Claudia Pagès Rabal will present a new commissioned work in collaboration with Chisenhale Gallery in London. Continuing their research into the Iberian Peninsula during the al-Andalus era—the Arabic name for lands under Muslim rule between 711 and 1492—Pagès focuses on fortifications of inner Catalonia.
