The exhibition The world of tomorrow will have been another present Links classical modernity with the present and the 1920s with the 2020s. The artists Nitasa Kadan, Barbara Barbara, Frida Frida Sub and Anita Witek were invited to select the works of classical modernism from the Mumok collection and to step into dialogue with them.
Reference to the current world affairs was already a week before the opening of the exhibition and a sign against war and violence that is visible from afar, the memorial On Protection of the Monuments (2023–2025) of the Ukrainian artist Nikita Kadan attached on the Mumok facade.
The work refers to a monument from Hostomel, the airport city near Kyjiw, which was severely destroyed to Ukraine in 2022 at the beginning of the Russian war of aggression. The original for Nikita Kadan’s configuration was built after the Second World War to commemorate the end of fascism under the Nazi regime. Installed by the former Soviet Union in the second half of the 20th century to propagate the idea of liberation, the monument was demolished by the post -Soviet Russia at the beginning of the 21st century as well as the city in which it was once. A paradox that is changing in the course of history, the transformation of global conditions, the reversal of truths and strange synchronous moments of the output and devastation is characteristic.
Date of the press conference
Wednesday, September 9th, 2025, 10 a.m.
Your interlocutors:
Karola Kraus, General Directorin Mumok
Franz Thalmair, Curator of “The World of Tomorrow”
The artists: Nichehea, Barbara Barbara Barbara, Lissal Punger and Anita Witek
Appointment opening
Thursday, 22.5.2025, from 7 p.m.
In the presence of the artists
We ask for registration at press@mumok.at
MUMOK – Museum Modern Art Foundation Ludwig Vienna
Mag. Katharina Murschetz (conductor)
Telephone: +43-1-52500-1400
Mag. Katharina Kober
Telephone: +43-1-52500-1309
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