The World of Tomorrow Will Have Been Another Present

Nikita Kadan, On Protection of the Monuments, 2023–2025 Photo: © Klaus Pichler/mumok
Friday, 3 October 2025
16:00
mumok
In cooperation with mumok we cordially invite you to a free guided tour in English through the exhibition The World of Tomorrow Will Have Been Another Present on October 3.
The World of Tomorrow Will Have Been Another Present stakes out moments in the mumok Collection of classical modernism that resonate to the present day—beyond mere chronology and style histories, beyond supposedly linear narratives.
The exhibition features five large-scale installations, linked together by the participating artists’ shared interest in temporal matters. Nikita Kadan, Barbara Kapusta, Frida Orupabo, Lisl Ponger, and Anita Witek were invited to select works of classical modernism from the mumok Collection and enter into a dialogue with them. Departing from their own artworks, which are also among the museum’s acquisitions, and complemented by works that the artists have created or re-contextualized specifically for this occasion, these contemporaries not only form part of the history of the museum: by localizing themselves in art history, they participate in a discourse on contemporary art.
Artists: Alexander Archipenko, Hans Arp, Giacomo Balla, Willi Baumeister, Rudolf Belling, Hans Bellmer, Herbert Bayer, Karl Blossfeldt, Louise Bourgeois, Constantin Brâncuşi, Victor Brauner, André Derain, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, Marcel Duchamp, Raymond Duchamp Villon, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Julio González, Juan Gris, George Grosz, Albert Paris Gütersloh, Raoul Hausmann, Florence Henri, Johannes Itten, Nikita Kadan, Barbara Kapusta, Friedrich Kiesler, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Henri Laurens, Fernand Léger, René Magritte, Kazimir Malevich, André Masson, Vladimir W. Mayakovsky, László Moholy-Nagy, František Muzika, Frida Orupabo, Alicia Penalba, Antoine Pevsner, Franz Pomassl, Lisl Ponger, Man Ray, Germaine Richier, Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko, August Sander, Oskar Schlemmer, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Victor Servranckx, Edward J. Steichen, Alexander Stern, Nikola Vučo, Anita Witek, Fritz Wotruba, Ossip Zadkine
Curated by Franz Thalmair
in collaboration with Nikita Kadan, Barbara Kapusta, Frida Orupabo, Lisl Ponger, and Anita Witek
More information here
Free admission to the exhibition and guided tour.
Please register: office@artistshelp-ukraine.at
Many thanks to mumok for the cooperation.
