SAGMEISTER & WALSH: Beauty The exhibition SAGMEISTER & WALSH: Beauty spreads over nearly the entire MAK—multimedial objects and installations appeal to all of our senses, inviting visitors to be interactively creative. Why do people feel attracted to beauty? How do they deal with it? And which positive effects does beauty have? Sagmeister & Walsh demonstrate that beautiful objects, buildings, and strategies are not only more pleasing, but actually more effective, and that form does not merely follow function, but in many cases actually is the function. ProgramMAKOverview Toursthrough the exhibition SAGMEISTER & WALSH: Beauty11 a.m. / 12 noon / 2 p.m. / 3 p.m. / 4 p.m. / 5 p.m. Meeting point for all tours: MAK Columned Main HallDuration: approx. 50 min. eachNo registration required: First come, first served! 3 p.m.Artist’s Talk/Video Projection/Panel Discussionwith Thierry Jeannot, artist of the exhibition SAGMEISTER & WALSH: Beauty(in English) The French artist Thierry Jeannot, who has been living and working in Mexico City since 2005, combines recycled materials with high-quality manufacturing processes to create new, unique works of art. Cut to size and shaped by fire and heat, the PET bottle replaces crystal glass. The original material reveals itself to the observer only on closer scrutiny, thereby calling into question generally accepted concepts of value and beauty. As with the chandelier he designed for the exhibition SAGMEISTER & WALSH: Beauty, Jeannot’s work always reveals a social aspect. Since 2015, he has been organizing workshops for disadvantaged local communities and involving them in the production process of his works of art. For Jeannot, beauty lies in human creativity, through which everything can be transformed.Kindly supported by the Mexican Cultural Institute Vienna 10 a.m.–6 p.m.Project Presentation ART NOUVEAU. Sustainable protection and promotion of Art Nouveau Heritage in the Danube Region With its partner countries Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Romania, the EU project ART NOUVEAU focuses on a region that has hitherto received little attention from international Art Nouveau reception. Joined together by a common history, the partnership’s goal is to sustainably promote and preserve the architectural Art Nouveau heritage of the Danube region through academic research and targeted PR work. Jointly organized events and exhibitions not only present Art Nouveau architecture from Vienna to the Black Sea but also, and above all, reveal the impressive artistic variety embraced by the term “Art Nouveau.”Project co-funded by European Union funds (ERDF, IPA)MAK4FAMILYThere’s more beauty than you’d believe!2–4 p.m.Workshop for the whole family (ages 4+)Sounds, scents, colors, clouds of mist—beauty is often hidden in the details, though not always. Come and gaze at a really beautiful exhibition—and afterwards create something truly ugly.Workshop free of charge. No registration required. MAK AppDownload Now: For Tablet and now NEW for Smartphone! (iOS and Android)For the first overview at home, for a short visit or for an intensive discussion: MAK Permanent Collection VIENNA 1900: Design / Arts and Crafts 1890–1938MAK Permanent Collection ASIA: China—Japan—KoreaMAK Permanent Collection CARPETSMAK Branch GeymüllerschlösselPötzleinsdorferstraße 102, 1180 Vienna11 a.m.–6 p.m. Biedermeier Idyll and James Turrell The Geymüllerschlössel in Pötzleinsdorf was put up after 1808 as a “summer building” for the Viennese merchant and banker Johann Jakob Geymüller (1760–1834). Today, it is one of the few places in Austria offering an authentically original look at the diversity of Biedermeier decorative art. Let yourself be enchanted by secret compartments, a musical canapé and 160 artistically crafted Viennese clocks from the Franz Sobek Collection. Contemporary art works await you in the park of the Schlössel, complementing the ensemble of nature and art in exciting ways: in 1997, Hubert Schmalix’s sculpture Der Vater weist dem Kind den Weg [The Father Shows the Way to His Child] (1996) was set up in the Geymüllerschlössel’s park, and the fall of 2004 saw the permanent addition of American artist James Turrell’s skyspace The other Horizon (1998/2004).  PROGRAM Meeting point for all tours: Foyer of the GeymüllerschlösselDuration: approx. 60 min. eachNo registration required: First come, first served! 11 a.m.–6 p.m.Information service and short guided tours 11 a.m.Tour through the Geymüllerschlössel & the park 3 p.m.Tour through the Geymüllerschlössel & the parkHow to get to the Geymüllerschlössel:Tram line 41 Schottentor to Pötzleinsdorf, then bus line 41A to Khevenhüllerstraße (one stop) Friday, 26. Oktober 2018ADMISSION ONLY € 5**applies to the MAK and the MAK Branch GeymüllerschlösselMAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary ArtStubenring 5, 1010 ViennaMAK Branch GeymüllerschlösselPötzleinsdorferstraße 102, 1180 Vienna
SAGMEISTER & WALSH: Beauty
 
The exhibition SAGMEISTER & WALSH: Beauty spreads over nearly the entire MAK—multimedial objects and installations appeal to all of our senses, inviting visitors to be interactively creative. Why do people feel attracted to beauty? How do they deal with it? And which positive effects does beauty have?
 
Sagmeister & Walsh demonstrate that beautiful objects, buildings, and strategies are not only more pleasing, but actually more effective, and that form does not merely follow function, but in many cases actually is the function.
 
Program

MAK

Overview Tours
through the exhibition SAGMEISTER & WALSH: Beauty

11 a.m. / 12 noon / 2 p.m. / 3 p.m. / 4 p.m. / 5 p.m.
 
Meeting point for all tours: MAK Columned Main Hall
Duration: approx. 50 min. each
No registration required: First come, first served!
 
3 p.m.
Artist’s Talk/Video Projection/Panel Discussion
with Thierry Jeannot, artist of the exhibition SAGMEISTER & WALSH: Beauty

(in English)
 
The French artist Thierry Jeannot, who has been living and working in Mexico City since 2005, combines recycled materials with high-quality manufacturing processes to create new, unique works of art. Cut to size and shaped by fire and heat, the PET bottle replaces crystal glass. The original material reveals itself to the observer only on closer scrutiny, thereby calling into question generally accepted concepts of value and beauty. As with the chandelier he designed for the exhibition SAGMEISTER & WALSH: Beauty, Jeannot’s work always reveals a social aspect. Since 2015, he has been organizing workshops for disadvantaged local communities and involving them in the production process of his works of art. For Jeannot, beauty lies in human creativity, through which everything can be transformed.

Kindly supported by the Mexican Cultural Institute Vienna
 
10 a.m.–6 p.m.
Project Presentation ART NOUVEAU. Sustainable protection and promotion of Art Nouveau Heritage in the Danube Region
 
With its partner countries Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Romania, the EU project ART NOUVEAU focuses on a region that has hitherto received little attention from international Art Nouveau reception. Joined together by a common history, the partnership’s goal is to sustainably promote and preserve the architectural Art Nouveau heritage of the Danube region through academic research and targeted PR work. Jointly organized events and exhibitions not only present Art Nouveau architecture from Vienna to the Black Sea but also, and above all, reveal the impressive artistic variety embraced by the term “Art Nouveau.”

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

MAK4FAMILY
There’s more beauty than you’d believe!

2–4 p.m.
Workshop for the whole family (ages 4+)
Sounds, scents, colors, clouds of mist—beauty is often hidden in the details, though not always. Come and gaze at a really beautiful exhibition—and afterwards create something truly ugly.
Workshop free of charge. No registration required.
 
MAK App
Download Now: For Tablet and now NEW for Smartphone!
(iOS and Android)
For the first overview at home, for a short visit or for an intensive discussion:
 
  • MAK Permanent Collection VIENNA 1900: Design / Arts and Crafts 1890–1938
  • MAK Permanent Collection ASIA: China—Japan—Korea
  • MAK Permanent Collection CARPETS

MAK Branch Geymüllerschlössel

Pötzleinsdorferstraße 102, 1180 Vienna
11 a.m.–6 p.m.
 
Biedermeier Idyll and James Turrell
 
The Geymüllerschlössel in Pötzleinsdorf was put up after 1808 as a “summer building” for the Viennese merchant and banker Johann Jakob Geymüller (1760–1834). Today, it is one of the few places in Austria offering an authentically original look at the diversity of Biedermeier decorative art. Let yourself be enchanted by secret compartments, a musical canapé and 160 artistically crafted Viennese clocks from the Franz Sobek Collection.
 
Contemporary art works await you in the park of the Schlössel, complementing the ensemble of nature and art in exciting ways: in 1997, Hubert Schmalix’s sculpture Der Vater weist dem Kind den Weg [The Father Shows the Way to His Child] (1996) was set up in the Geymüllerschlössel’s park, and the fall of 2004 saw the permanent addition of American artist James Turrell’s skyspace The other Horizon (1998/2004).
 
 
PROGRAM
 
Meeting point for all tours: Foyer of the Geymüllerschlössel
Duration: approx. 60 min. each
No registration required: First come, first served!
 
11 a.m.–6 p.m.
Information service and short guided tours
 
11 a.m.
Tour through the Geymüllerschlössel & the park
 
3 p.m.
Tour through the Geymüllerschlössel & the park

How to get to the Geymüllerschlössel:
Tram line 41 Schottentor to Pötzleinsdorf, then bus line 41A to Khevenhüllerstraße (one stop)
 


Friday, 26. Oktober 2018

ADMISSION ONLY € 5*
*applies to the MAK and the MAK Branch Geymüllerschlössel

MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art
Stubenring 5, 1010 Vienna

MAK Branch Geymüllerschlössel
Pötzleinsdorferstraße 102, 1180 Vienna