The MUMOK (Museum Moderner Kunst) is part of the MQ (Museumsquartier). It is free for all students under 26 and also offers air-conditioning, which is extremely inviting given the current temperatures in Vienna.
The exhibition at the MUMOK was called "Pictures on Pictures" and it focused on the abstract avant-gardes and reductive, conceptual movements from Bauhaus to contemporary art today.
I have always been a fan of abstract art and it's concept :
Paintings do not need objects - nature, people, things - to make pictures 'speak'.
Abstract artists worked on pictures that did not try to represent any specific object and explored the idea of a 'pure' work of art:
The work of art stands for nothing other than itself.
I learnt about new movements such as "Geometrical Abstraction", "Hard Edge" (which I like) and "Post-Painterly Abstraction" - which surely must be a piss-take... but who knows?
Anyhow, I enjoyed myself, and think that I will definitely be heading there again, or perhaps the Leopold Museum (largest Egon Schiele collection!).
The MQ is a great place - culture and leisure combined. I do seem to spend my weekends there on a regular basis, but I just can't get enough of it.
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