museum in progress
“Since its foundation, museum in progress has been a highly influential, intangible but all the more effective institution that has always been ahead of its time.” —Max Hollein, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
An immaterial museum, a social sculpture, a laboratory for the museum of the future: this book is an exhibition filled with moments of inspiration on Vienna’s legendary museum in progress. With its projects in public and media spaces, the museum has been operating beyond traditional forms of presentation for contemporary art since 1990. museum in progress uses open spaces as temporary spheres of activity for art interventions, on billboards, on building facades, in concert halls, on television and even on board aeroplanes. When it comes to newspaper art and multiples in magazines, there is no other institution in the world that would have created comparable groups of works in terms of their scope, variety and quality. In much the same way as if it were a laboratory, museum in progress is constantly undertaking cutting-edge experiments with art projects that both contribute in a practical way to the debate on the future of museums and, at the same time, take effect as a sociopolitical action. This publication presents a selection of works from museum in progress’s comprehensive archive – works which seem every bit as relevant today as at the time they were created. The artistic intervention Analogue Encounters by Adrian Paci makes every copy of the book unique, while the double-cover by Lawrence Weiner is meant to be understood in programmatic terms as an invitation to take new paths through the sensory delights of this exhibition in book form every time you open it, & THEN AGAIN.
“museum in progress is one of the most visionary museum projects of all times.” —Una Meistere, Arterritory
Edited and curated by: Kaspar Mühlemann Hartl, Alois Herrmann, museum in progress
Short texts (selection): Tauba Auerbach, Christian Boltanski, Bice Curiger, Tacita Dean, Chris Dercon, Yilmaz Dziewior, Sjarel Ex, Rainer Fuchs, Massimiliano Gioni, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Hou Hanru, Max Hollein, Kasper König, Élisabeth Lebovici, Luca Lo Pinto, Rosa Martínez, Una Meistere, Kaspar Mühlemann Hartl, Molly Nesbit, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Chiara Parisi, Julia Peyton-Jones, Stella Rollig, Jérôme Sans, Nancy Spector, Gerfried Stocker, Sally Tallant, Thomas D. Trummer, Peter Weibel, Erwin Wurm, and others.
Artists (selection): Nobuyoshi Araki, Cory Arcangel, John Baldessari, Matthew Barney, Thomas Bayrle, Alighiero e Boetti, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Minerva Cuevas, Jeremy Deller, Cerith Wyn Evans, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Gilbert & George, Nan Goldin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Douglas Gordon, Dan Graham, Richard Hamilton, Mona Hatoum, Damien Hirst, Sanja Iveković, Joan Jonas, Martha Jungwirth, Anselm Kiefer, Peter Kogler, Jeff Koons, Agnieszka Kurant, Maria Lassnig, Erik van Lieshout, Christian Marclay, Paul McCarthy, Jonathan Meese, Jonas Mekas, Matt Mullican, Olaf Nicolai, Julian Opie, Gabriel Orozco, Adrian Paci, Jack Pierson, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gerhard Richter, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Dieter Roth, Ed Ruscha, Markus Schinwald, Eva Schlegel, Christoph Schlingensief, David Shrigley, Nancy Spero, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Rosemarie Trockel, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Lois Weinberger, Lawrence Weiner, Franz West, Jun Yang, and many more.
In loving memory of Joseph Ortner and Lawrence Weiner.
museum in progress was founded by Kathrin Messner and Joseph Ortner in 1990. This publication was made possible with the kind support of the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport (BMKOES), Bildrecht and Dieter & Gertraud Bogner.
museum in progress. Art in public spaces and in media – IN ONE END & OUT THE OTHER [ & THEN AGAIN ], edited and curated by Kaspar Mühlemann Hartl and Alois Herrmann, museum in progress, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Köln, 2021, 398 pages, 486 illustrations, ISBN: 978-3-7533-0058-0
The book is available under:
museum in progress
Buchhandlung Walther König
