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ARTNOUVEAU2 - WORLD ART NOUVEAU DAY AT THE MAK

07-06-2021

WORLD ART NOUVEAU DAY
AT THE MAK

Saturday, 12 June, 10 a.m.– 6 p.m. 

MAK Collection, Vienna 1900, Design Arts and Crafts 1890–1938 © MAK Georg Mayer

 

WORLD ART NOUVEAU DAY was launched in 2013 to commemorate the anniversary of the deaths of the architects Antoni Gaudí and Ödön Lechner. Throughout Europe, museums and organizations contribute to this international event every year with exhibitions, photography competitions, talks, and readings.

For this year’s WORLD ART NOUVEAU DAY, the MAK invites you to enjoy a diverse, digital program that revolves around the current exhibition WOMEN ARTISTS OF THE WIENER WERKSTÄTTE. Online guided tours, Zoom talks, audio tours, leaflets, blogs, and social media posts shine a light on the women artists who were actively involved in the Wiener Werkstätte’s artistic output.

Art Nouveau and its creations are firmly established in the history of the MAK’s collection. Male and female artists alike made a vital contribution to the character of the collections. From furniture and metalwork to ceramics and drawings, their artworks permeate every aspect of the MAK’s collection. A diversity in which the notion of the Gesamtkunstwerk—or total work of art—becomes manifest and is made tangible for the museum’s visitors.

Program

Curators Anne-Katrin Rossberg and Elisabeth Schmuttermeier provide an insight into the wide-ranging exhibition WOMEN ARTISTS OF THE WIENER WERKSTÄTTE with its over 800 exhibits from the areas of textile design, fashion, home accessories, toys, commercial graphic design, ceramics, and wall decorations.

 

View of the MAK exhibition, 2021, WOMEN ARTISTS OF THE WIENER WERKSTÄTTE, MAK Exhibition Hall, © MAK/Georg Mayer

 

Audio tour of the exhibition WOMEN ARTISTS OF THE WIENER WERKSTÄTTE read by the actor Dörte Lyssewski.

 

Audio tour of the exhibition WOMEN ARTISTS OF THE WIENER WERKSTÄTTE read by the actor Louise Prack.

 

A conversation about the—often undeservedly unknown—women artists of the Wiener Werkstätte, the passion for collecting, and the curators’ intentions.

 

Anne Biber, Head of Conservation at the MAK, reports on the time-consuming restoration and conservation of the fireplace casing by Vally Wieselthier together with Anne-Kathrin Rossberg, Curator, MAK Metal Collection and Wiener Werkstätte Archive and curator of the exhibition.

 

Layers of dirt © Rupie Loghanathan, University of Applied Arts Vienna/MAK

 

  • Leaflet on women artists at the MAK (in German):

https://mak.at/jart/prj3/mak-resp/images/img-db/1619709313245.pdf

The leaflet “Künstlerinnen im MAK” on women artists at the MAK provides an overview of the history of the women’s rights movement, combining female decorative artists’ backgrounds with their training. Here the red carpet is rolled out for important female contributions to the MAK’s collection.

 

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  • Photography competition “Animals in Art Nouveau”

This year’s photography competition for the ninth WORLD ART NOUVEAU DAY revolves around animals in Art Nouveau. Nature always played a central role in this style of art, with fauna finding its way into various decorations, especially on jewelry and ornaments. Animals like butterflies, dragonflies, peacocks, and snakes served as models for the Art Nouveau movement.

Submission deadline: 6 June 2021, midnight.

Further information about the competition and submission details can be found here: https://fb.me/e/1qw8gmRjh

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The MAK is the Austrian project partner of the Interreg project ART NOUVEAU2.
This event is co-funded by European Union (ERDF, IPA, ENI) funds, INTERREG Danube Transnational Programme in the context of the project ART NOUVEAU2.

Programme co-funded by European Union funds (ERDF, IPA, ENI)