Curator Bärbel Vischer in conversation with artist Sheila Hicks (in English)
In her conversation with curator Bärbel Vischer, the American artist Sheila Hicks (* 1934), who has been living in Paris since the mid-1960s, provides insights into her current exhibition and artistic praxis—one that eludes traditional notions of knotting and weaving techniques in the textile arts.
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MAK Dialogues
A new series of talks on current MAK exhibitions
On Tuesday evenings, MAK curators invite discussion partners to talk about current MAK exhibitions with them. The online talks focus on unique personal insights and background information, artistic intentions and motivations, and much more. Listen in—and join in too!
All dates:
ADOLF LOOS: Private Houses
Tue, 16 Feb 2021, 6:30 p.m.
Curator Rainald Franz in conversation with architect Andreas Vass (Loos expert and board member of the Austrian Society for Architecture) and guest curator Markus Kristan (curator of the Albertina Loos Archive, Vienna)
BOLD AND FREE! The Invasion of Hidden Objects
Tue, 2 Mar 2021, 6:30 p.m.
Curator Janina Falkner in conversation with designer duo mischer’traxler
ANDREAS DUSCHA: SKY GLOW
Tue, 9 Mar 2021, 6:30 p.m.
Curator Marlies Wirth in conversation with artist Andreas Duscha
SHEILA HICKS: Thread, Trees, River
Tue, 23 Mar 2021, 6:30 p.m.
Curator Bärbel Vischer in conversation with artist Sheila Hicks (in English)
100 BEST POSTERS 19: Germany Austria Switzerland
Tue, 30 Mar 2021, 6:30 p.m.
Curator Peter Klinger in conversation with the two graphic designers Fons Hickmann ([M23], Berlin) and Erich Brechbühl ([Mixer], Lucerne)
SIGN LANGUAGE: Antunes | Bayrle | Brătescu | Castoro | Pichler
Thu, 8 Apr 2021, 6:30 p.m.
Curator Bärbel Vischer in conversation with artist Thomas Bayrle
BREATHE EARTH COLLECTIVE
Tue, 27 Apr 2021, 6:30 p.m.
The Breathe Earth Collective presents itself: a conversation with Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, General Director and Artistic Director of the MAK
THE HISTORY OF THE GEYMÜLLERSCHLÖSSEL
Tue, 4 May 2021, 6:30 p.m.
Curator Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel in conversation with historian Marie-Theres Arnbom and art historian Christian Witt-Dörring
ERWIN WURM. DISSOLUTION
Tue, 11 May 2021, 6:30 p.m.
Curator Bärbel Vischer in conversation with artist Erwin Wurm
WOMEN ARTISTS OF THE WIENER WERKSTÄTTE
Tue, 25 May 2021, 6:30 p.m.
Curator Anne-Katrin Rossberg in conversation with collector Ernst Ploil and guest curator Elisabeth Schmuttermeier
