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MAK NITE Lab

The event series MAK NITE Lab was a platform for experiments and experimental designs till mid-2016. MAK NITE Lab was the MAK’s open laboratory for intercreativity held on selected Tuesday evenings; it served as a practical field of experimentation for the contemporary scene and features artistic stances from contemporary art, (fashion) design, performance, architecture, media and audiovisual art.

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The event series MAK NITE Lab was a platform for experiments and experimental designs till mid-2016.

MAK NITE Lab was the MAK’s open laboratory for intercreativity held on selected Tuesday evenings; it served as a practical field of experimentation for the contemporary scene and featured artistic stances from contemporary art, (fashion) design, performance, architecture, media and audiovisual art. Single-evening experimental designs presented the opportunity for European artists, architects and designers (mostly of the younger generation) to publically introduce important aspects of their work. On the basis of an experimental and process-oriented conception of art, MAK NITE Lab opened up zones of creativity for diverse subjective interpretations of what it means to produce and perceive art; various types of performance art, film/video and installations, as well as inter-creative approaches and all manner of mixtures thereof, are given special emphasis.

Series Curator: Marlies Wirth
With the event series MAK NITE, the MAK had offered an open platform for experimental, cross-disciplinary art projects and performances in a museum setting for 16 years. Renamed MAK NITE Lab in 2012, the series than devoted itself to current museum-related issues in the context of exhibition and collection projects, as well as to the universal topic “For Change” in preparation for the European Triennial for Change.

For the MAK, the relevance of applied art for the present and the future, as well as applied art’s role as a source of inspiration for the areas of contemporary art, design and architecture, is an issue of special significance. The question, “What is applied art today?” is crucial not only to the MAK’s collecting and exhibiting activities, but also to the conception of the event program and, hence, to MAK NITE Lab.

The MAK NITE Labs supported the MAK’s transformation into a “Museum of Applied Space of the Future” by making visible stances from the arts, architecture and design which are compatible with the museum’s mission and vision. To this end, thematically oriented cooperative relationships have been sought out and synergies have been used as part of upcoming exhibition projects.
Due to the MAK’s international orientation as a Viennese museum with branches in Brtnice* (Czech Republic) and Los Angeles**, former participants in the MAK Artists and Architects-in-Residence Program at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, as well as MAK-relevant international artists, designers and architects were involved in the context of MAK NITE Labs and/or cross-disciplinary events.

*Josef Hoffmann Museum, Brtnice. A joint branch of the Moravian Gallery in Brno and the MAK in Vienna.
** MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles.



 

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