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In the context of this year’s WORLD ART NOUVEAU DAY, the MAK is offering the opportunity of enjoying an extensive Art Nouveau program free of admission. This includes special tours of the exhibitions SHOWROOM WIENER WERKSTÄTTE: A Dialogue with Michael Anastassiades and JOSEF HOFFMANN: Progress Through Beauty as well as the MAK4Family workshop Viennese Lines—Typography in the Style of Art Nouveau, an experience for the entire family. Actress Sona MacDonald will accompany you through the MAK Permanent Collection Vienna 1900 with a reading and an evening architecture walk will guide you to important Viennese Art Nouveau buildings.
The WORLD ART NOUVEAU DAY was founded in 2013 on the occasion of the anniversary of Antoni Gaudi’s and Ödön Lechner’s deaths. Throughout Europe, museums and organizations contribute to this international event with exhibitions, photo competitions, presentations, and readings.
PROGRAM
2 – 3 pm
Curator-Guided Tour SHOWROOM WIENER WERKSTÄTTE—A DIALOG WITH MICHAEL ANASTASSIADES followed by a look into the archives of the Wiener Werkstätte
with Anne-Katrin Rossberg
3 – 4 pm
Curator-Guided Tour JOSEF HOFFMANN: Progress Through Beauty
with Rainald Franz
3 – 4.30 pm
MAK4Family
Viennese Lines— Typography in the Style of Art Nouveau for Young and Old
In this workshop, young and old can get to know the typography of Art Nouveau and practice drawing the artistically curved lines.
4.30 – 5.30 pm
Passages through Vienna around 1900
Actress Sona MacDonald reads texts—by Adolf Loos, Josef Hoffmann, and Karl Kraus, among others—and accompanies you through the MAK exhibition on Vienna at the time around 1900.
5.30 – 7 pm
Art Nouveau Architecture Tour in the Public Space
Evening tour, focus: Viennese Art Nouveau buildings and their typographic decoration
MEETING POINT for all tours: Columned Main Hall
Admission is free with registration. All tours are held in German.
Please note: The exhibitions at the MAK will be open until 6 pm.
Admission is free with registration. All tours are held in German.
Please note: The exhibitions at the MAK will be open until 6 pm.
The MAK is the Austrian project partner of the Interreg project ARTNOUVEAU2. This event is supported by funds from the European Union (ERDF, IPA II), INTERREG Danube Transnational Programme in the context of the project ARTNOUVEAU2.
