Events

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MAK DAY 2021

Admission € 6, tours at no charge

iCalTue, 26.10.2021 10.00 am –9.00 pm

Opening | Free Admission

OPENING TEACHING KLIMT

STUDIES AT THE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CRAFTS

iCalTue, 02.11.2021 7.00 pm

Please register

150 Year “Ferstelval” on the Stubenring

Free admission

iCalThu, 04.11.2021 2.00 pm –10.00 pm

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Permanent Collection, MAK DESIGN LAB, temporary exhibitions as well as MAK Design Shop open until 9 p.m.

FFP2-masks mandatory.
From 7 p.m. participation only with 2.5 G proof.
If you wish to attend after 7 p.m., please register.

The building on the Stubenring, the so-called “Ferstel Wing,” is celebrating its birthday! In the course of this, many things will be opened up to all for the first time: from the former office of the directorate, which opens its doors for creative discussions, to a new digital guide—with open access to interesting facts and insights into the hidden. On this day, art and digital can be applied in the truest sense of the word and some collection objects can even be used to approach the history of the museum in an unusual way.

Presents for everyone!

The MAK gives you and everyone else the new digital MAK Guide. We invite you to join us for a celebratory launch! 150 special birthday surprises await everyone who comes to the MAK and opens the MAK Guide.

Available from 4 November at guide.MAK.at.

Friendly Takeover: Entry requested

5–7 p.m.: creative chats for all

after 7 p.m.: in a large group with Lilli Hollein, General Director MAK

Where is the MAK heading while it remains where it is on the Stubenring? What should remain as it is, what can be experimented with, what has to change?—For everyone who is interested in the history of the MAK, would like to talk to us, and would like to participate in a creative discussion about the future.

Interview partners: Janina Falkner, MAK; Julia Landsiedl, Designer; Louise Reitstätter, Department of Art History/University of Vienna; Martin Schnabl, Designer breadedEscalope; Anna Schwarz, artist; Sofia Widmann, Museum Booster

Birthday Gifts: A constant give and take

2–5 p.m.

For our young guests: Together we will build a large tower of packages with selected small items and wrapping paper from the MAK Shop collection. Give away what you create and take what others give you in return.

starting from age 5

No entry, but not on its birthday!

Every hour on the hour from 5–7 p.m.

Our guided birthday menu:

Hidden insights into MAK Restoration

Intellectual flair: Marvel at the MAK Library

The hour of open doors and drawers

And finally, one last secret escape: Under the roof and the MAK’s escape routes

Meeting point: MAK Columned Main Hall

Duration: 30 minutes

Limited number of participants: 10–12 people per tour, first come first served!

How about a bit of music?

7 p.m.–10 p.m.

DJ line-up by (young)MAK & Guest

Special Drinks: Ferstel Fizz, Eitelberger Sour and much more

(2.5 G proof mandatory)

Birthday greetings from the MAK Design Shop

Exclusively on 4 November there are selected products at reduced prices in the MAK Design Shop. It’s worth stopping by!

10 a.m.–9 p.m.

Book Presentation

CAMONDO

Eine Familiengeschichte in Briefen by Edmund de Waal

iCalWed, 10.11.2021 7.00 pm

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Free admission

An event of the Zsolnay Verlag in cooperation with the MAK.

6:00 p.m.

EXHIBITIONS

We invite you to visit the MAK permanent presentation VIENNA 1900 as well as the exhibition SHOWROOM WIENER WERKSTÄTTE. A Dialogue with Michael Anastassiades to get in the mood for the book presentation.

7:00 p.m.

BOOK PRESENTATION

CAMONDO. Eine Familiengeschichte in Briefen (Letters to Camondo)

by Edmund de Waal

After “The Hare with Amber Eyes,” a new masterpiece of memoir literature by Edmund de Waal.

History is not the past, it never stops and unfolds in our hands. This is what Edmund de Waal writes in his new book, which takes him back to the Rue de Monceau in Paris, where his ancestor Charles Ephrussi once tended the famous hare with amber eyes, where Marcel Proust lived in the immediate neighborhood, and where the banker Moïse de Camondo from Constantinople had a palace built that today houses a museum unchanged since 1936. No one just happened to find themselves in this “street of beginnings,” de Waal says, and begins to write imaginary letters to Moïse about the multifaceted relationships of their two families, about assimilation, generosity, private and public life, and again and again about the importance of memory and that there cannot and must not be a “closing line.”

Welcome:

Lilli Hollein, General Director, MAK

Herbert Ohrlinger, Publishing Director, Paul Zsolnay Verlag

Introduction:

Wolfgang Popp, journalist and author

Lecture:

Edmund de Waal, author

An event of the Zsolnay Verlag in cooperation with the MAK.

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About the author

Edmund de Waal was born in Nottingham in 1964 and studied in Cambridge. He was Professor of Ceramics at the University of Westminster and has exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Gagosian Gallery in New York, among others. He lives in London. Zsolnay published German-language editions of his internationally acclaimed book The Hare with Amber Eyes. A Hidden Inheritance in 2011, The White Road. A Journey Into Obsession in 2016, and Letters to Camondo in 2021.

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About the book

CAMONDO. Eine Familiengeschichte in Briefen, by Edmund de Waal, translated by Brigitte Hilzensauer, 26 euros, ISBN 978-3-552-07257-2, published by Zsolnay Verlag in 2021

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Registration required!

The 2.5 G rule applies to all visitors: vaccinated, recovered, tested (PCR test, performed not more than 48 hours ago).

It is obligatory to wear an FFP2 mask during the entire visit to the museum.