Exhibition

ba ≠ b+a | 10 Years of MUSA - From the Collection of the City of Vienna

MUSA

Barbis Ruder, Wertschöpfungskette 1D - Attacke, 2014, Video, 1:08 min, photo: Ewa Stern © Barbis Ruder

Sep 8 2017 to Jan 13 2018
Felderstraße 6-8
Vienna 1010
Phone: 01 400084754
Tuesday - Wednesday:
11:00-18:00
Thursday:
11:00-20:00
Friday:
11:00-18:00
Saturday:
11:00-16:00
free
Friday, September 8, 2017 to Saturday, January 13, 2018
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The exhibition ba ≠ b+a explores the question of how a museum’s activities—its mechanisms, modes of operation, and logics—are reflected in the works in its collection. On the occasion of MUSA’s tenth anniversary, the museum’s program of exhibitions and publications takes a self-reflective turn, shedding light on the specific characteristics of Vienna’s municipal art collection, whose origins go back to the 1950s, and raising far-reaching questions concerning the museum as an institution. The assumption underlying the exhibition is that the objects in a museum’s collection are crucial to its character. They may seem to be innumerable separate pieces—but the museum is more than their mere juxtaposition. “That which is composed of something in such a way that the whole is a unity,” Aristotle writes, “is a unity not as an aggregate is a unity, but as a syllable is. The syllable is not the letters, nor is BA the same as B and A; nor is flesh fire and earth.”* It is only in the interweaving of the individual components, in their layering and inexhaustible potential constellations, that they engender the necessary density that lets us understand, and interact with, the museum as a living archive.

With works by:
a room of one's own, Maria Anwander / Ruben Aubrecht, Anna Artaker, Miriam Bajtala, Black Pages (Christoph Meier / Ute Müller / Nick Oberthaler), Kirsten Borchert, Johanna Braun, Dejan Dukic, Sophie Dvořák, Christian Eisenberger, VALIE EXPORT, Fabian Fink, Peter Fritzenwallner, Nikolaus Gansterer, Elisabeth Grübl, Daniel Hafner, Harpune Verlag (Sarah Bogner / Josef Zekoff), Lone Haugaard Madsen, Kathi Hofer, Bernhard Hosa, Luisa Kasalicky, Birgit Knoechl, Ulrike Königshofer, Sonia Leimer, Lotte Lyon, Joseph Marsteurer, Christoph Meier, Edith Payer, Wendelin Pressl, Arnold Reinthaler, Barbis Ruder, Markus Schinwald, Susanne Schuda, Margret Weber-Unger, Anita Witek

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