museum in progress

museum in progress (mip)
purpose	Art Association
Chair:	Prof. Kathrin Messner (chairman) MMag. Kaspar Mühlemann Hartl (Deputy Chairman)
Establishment date:	1990
Seat :	Vienna
Website:	www.mip.at

The museum in progress is a private, non-profit art association based in Vienna . The initiative was founded in 1990 by Kathrin Messner and Josef Ortner († 2009) with the aim of developing new forms of presentation for contemporary art. Projects are implemented on the basis of cooperation between business, art and media.

Exhibition activity

The exhibition activities focus on media and public spaces. For example, newspapers, magazines, billboards, building facades, television and the Internet are used. The works of art exhibited by museum in progress are media-specific, context-dependent and temporary.

Through the work of the association, the distance between everyday reality and the art location is overcome and a far larger audience is reached than by traditional museum institutions.

Projects (selection)

"Bacchus" by Cy Twombly , Iron Curtain in the Vienna State Opera , 2010/2011 season

• DO IT - TV version (1995–1996): In the cultural program “10 1/2” of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation ( ORF ), 1 to 3-minute video clips with “instructions” were presented weekly, designed by international artists. With: Leon Golub , Damien Hirst , Ilya Kabakov , Yoko Ono , Michelangelo Pistoletto , Erwin Wurm , u. a.
• Iron Curtain (since 1998): The exhibition series in the Vienna State Opera transforms the fire protection wall between the stage and the audience area into a temporary exhibition space for contemporary art. Participating artists: John Baldessari , Matthew Barney , Richard Hamilton , David Hockney , Joan Jonas , Jeff Koons , Maria Lassnig , Rosemarie Trockel , Cy Twombly , u. a.
• Art, Society and Media (1994–1996): Symposium with artists, art critics, philosophers and essayists on art, media and the social reality of the 1990s. Articles in Der Standard . Contributors: Jean Baudrillard , Pierre Bourdieu , Gilles Deleuze , Carsten Höller , Kasper König , Otto Muehl , Hans-Ulrich Obrist , Paul Virilio , u. a.
• Artist portraits (1992–2001): A video series of conversations with internationally renowned artists based on an artistic concept by Peter Kogler . Participants: Vito Acconci , Georg Baselitz , Günter Brus , Gilbert & George , Jenny Holzer , Hermann Nitsch , Arnulf Rainer , James Rosenquist , Lawrence Weiner , Christopher Wool , Heimo Zobernig , and others. a. In 2017, under the title Artists Talking, some of the conversations were published on DVD by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König .
• Poster (1991–2001): The posters designed by the artists could be seen on around 3000 billboards in Vienna for two months. Contributing artists: Thomas Bayrle , Hans-Peter Feldmann , Felix Gonzalez-Torres , Gerwald Rockenschaub , Rirkrit Tiravanija , Rosemarie Trockel , u. a.
• Remapping Mozart - Verborgene Geschichte / n (2006): Exhibition project for the Mozart year 2006 at four locations in Vienna - curated by Araba Evelyn Johnston-Arthur , Ljubomir Bratić , Lisl Ponger , Nora Sternfeld and Luisa Ziaja
• Traveling Eye (1995–1996): An exhibition project in the news magazine profil . Participants: John Baldessari , Nan Goldin , Gabriel Orozco , Gerhard Richter , and others. a.
• With an Open Mind - Tolerance and Diversity (2002): Twelve full-page artistic interventions in the daily newspapers Der Standard and Süddeutsche Zeitung . Participating artists: Thomas Bayrle , Tacita Dean , Douglas Gordon , Ken Lum u. a.
• Woman / War / Victimage / Resistance (1994–1995): A six-part work that deals with the inadequately dealt with Austrian National Socialist past, in particular with the role of perpetrators and victims. The exhibition series by Nancy Spero appeared in the media room of Der Standard .

Literature (selection)

• Vienna Chamber of Labor , museum in progress (ed.): Arbeitswelten / Worlds of Work. Vienna, 2005.
• Vienna Chamber of Labor, Roman Berka (Hrsg.): Art - Work - Society. Vienna, 2016, pp. 68–79.
• Daniel Birnbaum , Hans-Ulrich Obrist : Museums on the Move. In: Artforum, Summer 2010, pp. 301–306.
• Kim Conaty: museum in progress. in print / out, on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name from February to May 2012 at the Museum of Modern Art , New York, 2012, pp. 70–79.
• Galleria continua : Speed ​​& Slowness. Deimantas Narkevicius, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jeff Preiss and museum in progress. Gli Ori, Prato 2003.
• Edelbert Köb (Ed.): Artists. 50 conversations. 50 positions of contemporary international art. Video portraits and works on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name from September 28th – 30th. November 1997 at the Kunsthaus Bregenz. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 1997.
• Margarethe Makovec, Anton Lederer (Red.): Balkan Consulate. On the occasion of the exhibition of the same name from October 2002 to November 2003. Revolver, Frankfurt a. M. 2006.
• Kaspar Mühlemann Hartl: Making exhibitions as a socio-political act. In: Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein, Sabine Priglinger (ed.): The Curator As ... Schlebrügge.Editor, Vienna 2018, pp. 27–32 and 115–125.
• Kaspar Mühlemann Hartl, museum in progress; Dominique Meyer, Wiener Staatsoper (Ed.): CURTAIN - CURTAIN. A living museum space - the iron curtain of the Vienna State Opera. Modern art publishing house, Vienna 2017.
• museum in progress (ed.): Modular catalog - 10 years of museum in progress. 3 vols. Vienna 2000.
• Gregor Auenhammer: “It's not the size that matters.” Great and unexpected things from Austria. Metroverlag 2013, Vienna pp. 56–58.
• Cathrin Pichler , Roman Berka (Ed.): TransAct. Transnational Activities in the Cultural Field. Interventions on the situation in Austria. museum in progress, series: Edition Transfer. Springer, Vienna / New York 2010.
• Stella Rollig (ed.): Journey to the sources. 2 vols. Vienna 1994.
• Johannes Schlebrügge (Ed.): Safety Curtain 1. Kara Walker. Ed. V. museum in progress in cooperation with the Vienna State Opera. P & S, Vienna 2000.
• Johannes Schlebrügge (Ed.): Safety Curtain 2. Christine & Irene Hohenbüchler. Ed. V. museum in progress in cooperation with the Vienna State Opera. P & S, Vienna 2001.
• Tobias Wall: The impossible museum. On the relationship between art and contemporary art museums. transcript, Bielefeld 2006, pp. 264-269.
• Vitus H. Weh: museum in progress. In: Museum of Desires. On the occasion of the exhibition of the same name from September 10, 2011 to January 8, 2012 at the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna . distanz Verlag, Vienna 2011, pp. 129–132.
• Deborah Wye, Wendy Weitman: Eye on Europe. Prints, Books & Multiples / 1960 to Now. On the occasion of the exhibition of the same name from October 15, 2006 to January 1, 2007 at the Museum of Modern Art , New York, 2006, pp. 173, 180, 212–213, 280.

Web links

• Official website of museum in progress

Individual evidence

1. ↑ mip.at: Imprint
2. ↑ mip.at: museum in progress
3. ↑ See Tobias Wall: The impossible museum. On the relationship between art and contemporary art museums, Bielefeld: transcript 2006, p. 265.
4. ↑ Project page "DO IT - TV version"
5. ↑ Project page "Iron Curtain"
6. ^ Art as fire protection: The "Iron Curtain" in the State Opera , Ö1 Leporello , June 14, 2017
7. ↑ Project page "Art, Society and Media"
8. ↑ Project page "Artist portraits"
9. ^ DVDs Artists Talking 1–4
10. ↑ Project page "Poster"
11. ↑ Hidden history / n remapping Mozart , accessed on June 10, 2016.
12. ↑ Project page "Traveling Eye"
13. ↑ Project page With an Open Mind
14. ^ Project page Woman / War / Victimage / Resistance
15. ↑ See project page exhibition "Print / Out"
16. ↑ Publication "The Curator As ..."
17. ↑ Exhibition catalog "CURTAIN - CURTAIN"