MUSA Museum start gallery Artothek
Wien Museum MUSA (formerly MUSA Museum Startgalerie Artothek , MUSA Museum on demand ) refers to a location of the Wien Museum.
history
The starting point for the Museum on Demand was the exhibition Moved into Light , curated in April 1991 by Wolfgang Hilger, Art Advisor at the City of Vienna's Department of Culture from 1985 to 2003 . A museum on demand in the Volkshalle of the Vienna City Hall . It was still the aim of the cultural department under the direction of Bernhard Denscher to present the art collection to a local and international public. The Museum on Demand was planned as a flexible exhibition concept that could be presented at any location and was available "on demand" at any time. Conceived as presentations of little-known art from Austria, many of the artists taking part at the time are now established in the Austrian art scene, including Anzinger , Attersee , Birstinger, Bohatsch , Brandl , Brus , Damisch , EXPORT , Frohner , Gironcoli , Hollegha , Hrdlicka , Hildegard Joos , Lassnig , Nitsch , Arnulf Rainer , Hubert Schmalix and Erwin Wurm .
The project was a great success, further exhibitions from the collection of the cultural department have been shown over the years in Vienna and abroad. The term “ museum on demand” was retained because, on the one hand, it reflects the enormous wealth of the art collection, of which only a small part can be exhibited, and on the other hand, the flexibility of the idea, the nomadic aspect of the concept. Under the title Des Eisbergsspitze , the “Museum” presented itself in a large exhibition in the MuseumsQuartier in Vienna in 1998, and from 1998 to 2003 it continued its exhibition program in a small gallery in Makartgasse next to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . The ground-breaking ceremony for today's Vienna Museum MUSA next to the town hall was carried out by Andreas Mailath-Pokorny , acting city councilor for culture and science, on September 11, 2005; the opening took place on June 19, 2007. The original name MUSA Museum on Demand was changed to MUSA Museum Startgalerie Artothek in 2011 . The exhibition area is around 600 m², and since its founding until the end of 2017, the director was Berthold Ecker. Since January 1, 2018, it has been part of the Wien Museum as Wien Museum MUSA , and Matti Bunzl is the director.
collection
In 1951 the cultural department of the City of Vienna began to acquire works of art from mainly Viennese artists out of a social “sponsorship idea” and thus laid the foundation for one of the largest collections of contemporary Austrian art. Due to the continuous buying activity since 1951, the currently approx. 20,000 objects from 3,500 artists offer a veritable cross-section of the Viennese art development since 1945. All art branches - painting, graphics, sculpture, sculpture, photography, film, video, installation, "art in construction" (Mosaic, sgraffito, fresco) - are represented. According to the principle of the greatest possible stylistic breadth with the highest possible quality, a high-ranking jury recommends Viennese artists or works of art related to Vienna for purchase. In addition to major works by leading artists, the collection also has items that depict interesting sidewalks, unknown positions or singular, short-term occurrences of Austrian art.
Institutions in MUSA
The art institution comprises three areas:
Showroom
An exhibition area of approx. 600 m² as well as modernly equipped depots enable a demanding program in the sense of local artists. On the basis of the collection, several exhibitions with a focus on the Viennese scene were realized every year. The popular Startgalerie (an exhibition space for young artists) and the city's art library, which makes it possible to borrow art to take home, are also located in the MUSA. During the renovation phase of the Wien Museum on Karlsplatz, the MUSA will also be used as a location for cultural-historical themed exhibitions.
Art library
Since it was founded in 1979 by the then City Councilor for Culture and later Mayor of Vienna, Helmut Zilk , this service facility has offered everyone living in Vienna the opportunity to borrow art for their own living space for a small fee. The changing inventory of works of art from the collection of the cultural department of the City of Vienna consists of 1,200 to 1,500 drawings, watercolors, mixed media and various prints. The Artothek sees itself as an interface between the Viennese population, contemporary Viennese artists and collectors. The temporary coexistence with changing works of art enables direct contact with Viennese contemporary art, contributes to a better understanding of contemporary cultural production and possibly even arouses the interest of potential buyers to collect.
Start gallery
The start gallery is a funding facility and presentation area for young artists. The MUSA is located in an office building of the City of Vienna, which was completed in 1916 as one of the first reinforced concrete structures under the direction of August Kirstein (student of Friedrich von Schmidt ). Originally the poor register was located in these rooms, later, until the 1990s, the self-service restaurants of the Viennese public kitchens (WÖK) and WIGAST. The team from Kiskan Kaufmann Architects , who u. a. spanned the 300 m² inner courtyard with a cantilevered glass ceiling and made it into the central exhibition space. The start gallery at MUSA acts as a funding gallery for young artists. Above all, graduates of art universities are given the opportunity to go public for the first time in the form of a personal exhibition. The work of the Startgalerie helps to ensure that young artists are noticed in Vienna and can gain important exhibition experience for their artistic careers. The start gallery takes on the application of the artists by sending information sheets free of charge and waives commission on sales. The selection of the nine exhibiting artists each year is made by an independent jury.
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the MUSA ( memento of October 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on the MUSA website
Web links
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 42.7 " N , 16 ° 21 ′ 24.8" E