Austria
The Kontakt Collection does not maintain its own museum but is available to exhibition houses worldwide as a nomadic collection, as a whole or in part, thus also supporting often inadequately equipped public contemporary art institutions. Kontakt produces, promotes and initiates academic publications and catalogues, and keeps and documents artists’ archives. Through methodical collecting, professional restoration and conservation, it aims to secure a cultural heritage and conduct research on the artists represented in the collection. The Kontakt Collection focuses on Central, Eastern and Southeastern European artistic activity which has accompanied the social and political developments of the past decades and has been contributing significant works to European art since the late 1950s. The collection's purpose is to reflect on conceptual forms of art production within Europe's changing political geographies.