With the statement, “I had to make this work because it could not be written,” the artist, activist, and writer Kate Millett summarized the driving force behind her installation Terminal Piece. This sentiment serves as the point of departure for the eponymous exhibition and sets the stage for the vision of the upcoming program at mumok.
Like a play, Terminal Piece is divided into several acts, each addressing different forms of perception. Works from the mumok collection are placed in dialogue with newly conceived pieces. Each act is developed around a specific mode of seeing. Across the exhibition, this approach takes shape as an exploration of embodied attention and the encounter between artwork and viewer as an active form of participation.
The prologue to the exhibition, which spans five levels of the museum, is located on the ground floor. It is conceived by the German scenographer and costume designer Anna Viebrock as a stage for art and its viewers.
Terminal Piece will be accompanied by an extensive event program and a publication co-edited with Camilla Wills of Divided Publishing, which will include an existing text by Kate Millett and new writing by Ariana Reines, and other authors.
Artists: Magdalena Abakanowicz, Kobby Adi, Art & Language, Lutz Bacher, Heimrad Bäcker, Peter Baum, Herbert Baumann, Ştefan Bertalan, Joseph Beuys, Anna & Bernhard Blume, Boyle Family, Marcel Broodthaers, Günter Brus, Michael Buthe, Sophie Calle, Nina Canell, Sergio de Castro, Bruce Conner, Melanie Counsell, Carla Degenhardt, Sara Deraedt, Erik Dietman, Annie Ernaux & Marc Marie, Jean Fautrier, Robert Filliou, Lucio Fontana, Adolf Frohner, Bruno Gironcoli, Christine Gironcoli, Hermann Glöckner, Nan Goldin, Louis Goodman, Robert Graham, Hans Haacke, Raymond Hains, Richard Hamilton, Hans Hollein, Rebecca Horn, Birgit Jürgenssen, Allan Kaprow, Wilfried Klansjek-Bratke, Jürgen Klauke, Marc Kokopeli, Kurt Kren, Oliver Laric, Henri Laurens, Louise Lawler, Zoe Leonard, Bettye Lane, Sol LeWitt, Friederike Mayröcker, Kate Millett, Yukio Nakagawa, Bruce Nauman, Chie Nishio, Anna Opperman, Margit Palme, Verena Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Megan Plunkett, Cora Pongracz, Nina Porter, Arnulf Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, Rudolf Richly, Dieter Roth, Susan Rothenberg, Paul Rotterdam, Thomas Ruff, Gerhard Rühm, Constanze Ruhm, Kurt Schlögl, Leander Schönweger, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Daniel Spoerri, Haim Steinbach, Takako Saito, Elisabeth Subrin, Paul Thek, Octavian Trauttmansdorff, Rosemarie Trockel, Richard Tuttle, Cy Twombly, Anna Viebrock, Wolf Vostell, Toshi Wada, Franz West, Stefan Wewerka, Markus Wilfling, Karl Anton Wolf, Heimo Zobernig.
Curated by Fatima Hellberg and Lukas Flygare