MAK × WEB ARCHIV WIEN × Markus Schinwald Special Edition 2025

MAK × WEB ARCHIV WIEN × Markus Schinwald Special Edition 2025
Set contents: 1 × tablecloth (table size 100 × 250 cm), 10 × napkins

The special edition by Markus Schinwald was created in cooperation with Web Archiv Wien and was presented on the occasion of the MAK Artist Dinner on 13 November 2025. For his design, Schinwald directly refers to historical graphics by the Wiener Werkstätte. The waves of the border are borrowed from an invitation card by Koloman Moser, the square fields originally belonged to a book design by Josef Hoffmann. Due to his intensive engagement with Viennese Modernism in the course of the reinstallation of the MAK Permanent Collection Vienna 1900, Schinwald is thoroughly familiar with work of the designers of the Wiener Werkstätte. With the new concept for the MAK, he aims to find new links to the present and offer a new perspective on this exceptional history of design.
In recent years, Markus Schinwald’s artistic practice has been dedicated to the constantly changing conditions of historiography, authorship, and memory culture. His approach is less committed to specific media and more to speculative historiographical methods. Whether in his painting, stage works, or as a curator—his approach aims at gaining knowledge, which he understands to be a result of theoretical learning and practical experience.

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Markus Schinwald (*1973 in Salzburg) studied art and cultural studies in Linz and Berlin. He represented Austria at the 54th Biennale di Venezia (2011) and has held solo exhibitions worldwide, including at the SF MoMA (San Francisco), Kunsthaus Bregenz, Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Migros Museum (Zurich), the Triennale (Mailand), Aspen Art Museum, and at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Bordeaux). His works are part of international collections, for example at the Tate Modern (London), MoMA (New York), Musée d’Art Moderne (Paris), and the Kunsthaus Zürich. Schinwald has lectured at Yale University, the Staatliche Akademie in Karlsruhe, and other institutions; he lives and works in Vienna.