ICONIC AUBÖCK
A Workshop Shapes Austrias Concept of Design.
15.5. 2025 - 6.1. 2025
MAK Central Room
Stubenring 5, 1010 Vienna, AT
The exhibition ICONIC AUBÖCK focuses on the style-defining era of the interwar and post-war period through to the experimental 1980s and explores the works of the Auböck workshop through the lens of Surrealism. In many sculptural Auböck objects, the strategies on this artistic and Liter movement, which propagated a novel view of things, are recognizable. Inspired by the Bauhaus, Carl Auböck (1900 - 1957) brought local and international movements together and shaped the characteristic Auböck design, from collections of objects for modern living, the infamous tree trunk table and various table and floor lamps.
Also, the work of sculpture and textile artist Mara Uckunowa (1985 - 1987) who met Auböck at the Bauhaus in Weimar, will be presented for the first time.
The MAK shows a large range of Auböck objects from our archive as well as parts of private collectors pieces. The exhibition is accompanied by a series of side events, such as MAK on Tour - a combination of a guided tour and a visit to the workshop. Alongside the exhibition, the catalogue ICONIC AUBÖCK was released in June 2024:
We are grateful for all the support that made this exhibition possible - first and foremost the MAK and its fantastic team, our sponsors, the auboeck collectors and the family.
Photos (c) MAK / Julia Dragosits 2024
Poster / Photo: (c) MAK / Christian Mendez
