mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
Basalt-clad cube museum holding the world's leading archive of Viennese Actionism art.
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mumok in Vienna opens with a notorious 1968 performance at the University of Vienna, when artist Gunter Brus staged a shocking act that got him charged and sent him fleeing the country. The guide follows Viennese Actionism, the movement of artists who used their own bodies as art until police intervened, including Otto Muehl and Hermann Nitsch. It also describes the museum's blunt, windowless basalt-clad building, built in 2001 in the middle of the Habsburgs' imperial stables.
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