New MUMOK Director appointed

“Since it was founded the Museum of Modern Art has been dedicated to the contemporary art and culture of the time. It stands for cosmopolitanism, progress, and artistic diversity at the highest qualitative levels. Both the exceptional collection and the incisive architecture of Ortner & Ortner at the centre of the Museumsquartier have given the MUMOK a standing that extends far beyond Vienna’s borders and, in comparison to larger institutions, allow it to be regarded as a jewel," says Kraus.

And she adds: "When one considers the collections as a whole, one is both astounded and delighted at the density of radical and high-quality art works which marked a change of paradigm at the time and continue to bear witness to that change. It is my aim to continue to position the MUMOK as a site for discourse and confrontation, as a place of education and the initiation of encounters with the important phenomena of modernity up to the present.”

Since the MUMOK exhibitions through to spring 2011 are already in an advanced state of planning, the programme conceived and managed by Karola Kraus will be implemented next year, in early summer. The exhibition programme will be presented at a press conference in mid-November 2010.