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The director of the Vienna Museum, Matti Bunzl, was quite sparing with appointments at the annual press conference on Wednesday. In “volatile” pandemic times, it makes little sense to announce specific exhibition opening dates. Safety planning is the greatest luxury these days that cultural managers just don’t have. But there was a date: on February 11 a new photographic exhibition will be presented on the fence of the Vienna Museum in Karlsplatz: “Almost. Vienna World Travel”. Displays images of Vienna locations that are reminiscent of international locations.
This year, the exhibitions in the alternative neighborhood MUSA, which was occupied during the renovation of the Vienna Museum, are dedicated to street photography in Vienna. The Vienna Museum has a large collection of photos, also of this genre, which, according to Bunzl, “accompanies photography from its beginnings to the present day”. Also on display will be photos from Austria’s top photographers: Franz Hubmann, Erich Lessing, Barbara Pflaum, Edith Tudor-Hart and others. The show should take place in spring or summer.
A second exhibition deals with Nazi cultural politics in Vienna and, in addition to the question of how to deal with Nazi art, which is also stored in the Vienna Museum warehouses, it also aims to shed more light on Oswald Haerdtl, the Museum’s architect. from Vienna. He was not a formal member of the NSDAP, but, according to Bunzl, “a supporter who tried to win projects related to power.”
Reconstruction on time
A major project this year is the detailed conception of the new permanent exhibition to be moved to the remodeled Vienna Museum, which includes a thunder fountain and a St. Construction work is currently on schedule and on budget.
When it can be unlocked again differs from place to place: in the MUSA or in the Hermesvilla, the distance rules can be fulfilled more easily than, for example, in the composer’s apartments or with the frescoes of envy, according to Bunzl .(cb)
