With the aim to connect contemporary art with every-day life, the unique art initiative museum in progress organises exhibitions not in common exhibition spaces. All projects take place in media such as newspapers and magazines, or in public space on the façades of buildings, on billboards and in concert halls.

Many of its projects got published in the daily newspaper Der Standard over the years. Depending on their artistic practice, the artists engage differently with the media of the newspaper. Christian Marclay for example published an instruction to create a performative piece out of the newspaper itself, Maria Lassnig’s film stills remind of cartoons, which can be found often in common newspapers and Kara Walker presents a quite political image as a silhouette. Others, like Lawrence Weiner, Douglas Gordon or Yoko Ono, use language in their contributions.

The role of museum in progress in art history was recognised early on by museums like the MoMA in New York, mumok Vienna or Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, which already included the wittnesses of its work in their collections.

and the editions collaborates closely with museum in progress and can offer a selection of its newspaper multiples from the 1990s to the 2000s, directly out of the institution´s archive.

museum in progress book walther könig books

museum in progress
Art in public spaces and in media

Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther and Franz König, December 2021
Softcover, German / English, 398 pages, 17.4 x 24.4 x 3.4 cm
ISBN 978-3753300580

€60,00

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thomas bayrle museum in progress airplane multiples limited edition

Thomas Bayrle
Plakat / museum in progress
2000
Offset-Print / Newspaper
31 x 46 cm
unlimited

€205,00

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John Baldessari
Specimen (After Dürer) / museum in progress
05.05.2000
Offset-Print / Newspaper
31 x 46 cm
unlimited

€205,00

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Maria Lassnig
Artistic Freedom 04 / museum in progress
03.06.1998
Offset-Print / Newspaper
31 x 46 cm
unlimited

€205,00

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Dan Graham
Interventionen 02 / museum in progress
11.10.1995
Offset-Print / Newspaper
31 x 46 cm
unlimited

€205,00

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Yoko Ono John Lennon War is Over if you want it limited edition mutliples museum in pgroess

Yoko Ono & John Lennon
Vital Use / museum in progress
13.09.1995
Offset-Print / Newspaper
31 x 46 cm
unlimited

€205,00

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Lawrence Weiner
Interventionen in progress / museum in progress
01.08.1996
Offset-Print / Newspaper
62 x 46 cm
unlimited

€410,00

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Jason Rhoades
Century of artistic freedom
02.04.1998
Offset-Print / Newspaper
62 x 46 cm
unlimited

€410,00

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Cerith Wyn Evans
Freud and Psychoanalysis / museum in progress
08.07.1999
Offset-Print / Newspaper
31 x 46 cm
unlimited

€205,00

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Christian Marclay
Transact 38 / museum in progress
01.07.2000
Offset-Print / Newspaper
31 x 46 cm
unlimited

€205,00

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Mona Hatoum over my dead body limited edition multiples museum in progress

Mona Hatoum
Interventionen in progress / museum in progress
21.01.1998
Offset-Print / Newspaper
62 x 46 cm
unlimited

€410,00

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David Shrigley
Junge Szene / museum in progress
17.07.1998
Offset-Print / Newspaper31 x 46 cm
unlimited

€205,00

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Christoph Schlingensief
Church of Fear / museum in progress
28.06.2003
Offset-Print / Newspaper
31 x 46 cm
unlimited

€205,00

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Michelangelo Pistoletto
Interventionen in progress 02 / museum in progress
19.06.1997
Offset-Print / Newspaper
31 x 46 cm
unlimited

€205,00

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Maria Lassnig
Artistic Freedom 04 / museum in progress
27.05.1998
Offset-Print / Newspaper
31 x 46 cm
unlimited

€205,00

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Matt Mullican
From subject to matter in 10 signs / museum in progress
02.02.2000
Offset-Print / Newspaper
31 x 46 cm
unlimited

€205,00

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Mike Kelley & Paul McCarthy 
Solo Exhibition / museum in progress
23.09.1998
Offset-Print / Newspaper
62 x 46 cm
unlimited

€410,00

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Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
Vital Use / museum in progress
27.04.1995
Offset-Print / Newspaper
31 x 46 cm
unlimited

€205,00

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Christian Boltanski
This lovely family could be your neighbour / museum in progress
12./13.03.2000
Offset-Print / Newspaper
31 x 46 cm
unlimited

€205,00

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Kara WALKER VIENNA STATE OPERA MUSEUM IN PROGRESS

Kara Walker 
In Continuation of the Iron Curtain for the Vienna State Opera
15.03.1999
Offset-Print / Newspaper
62 x 46 cm
unlimited

€410,00

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