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Tue-Sun 11 am to 6 pm, Thur 11 am to 8 pm<br />
Generali: Full price admission € 6,<br />
Bawag: free admission<br />
www.bawag-foundation.at<br />
www.foundation.generali.at<br />
� MAK: Museum für angewandte Kunst/<br />
Gegenwartskunst (Museum of Applied <strong>Art</strong>s/<br />
Contemporary <strong>Art</strong>) —— During the ’80s,<br />
the MAK’s permanent collection was reinstalled.<br />
Under the reign of director<br />
Peter Noever, established contemporary<br />
artists and architects rejuvenated<br />
the gallery spaces of the museum. Still<br />
impressive: Barbara Blooms Thonetshadow<br />
play and the oriental carpets on<br />
floating cement-asbestos panels by Gangart.<br />
The highlights of the collection include<br />
the Frankfurter Küche by Margarete<br />
Schütte Lihotzky and one of a kind<br />
pieces from the Wiener Werkstätte. Exhibitions<br />
about architecture and art<br />
have included Coop Himmelb(l)au,<br />
Joep van Lieshout, Franz West, Elke<br />
Krystufek etc.<br />
Tip: the MAK-Nite happens each<br />
Tuesday. The program features contemporary<br />
music, performance art,<br />
fashion shows and everything »inbetween<br />
the arts«. In combination with<br />
the MAK-Nite-Ticket, there is free<br />
entrance into the MAK museum until<br />
midnight. For a nice drink and/or for<br />
SPIKE ART GUIDE EAST 01 — 2009 Vienna<br />
Austrian cuisine: the restaurant Österreicher<br />
im MAK. The MAK design shop<br />
is another hot tip.<br />
Stubenring 5, (711 360)<br />
U4: Landstraße, U3, tram 2: Stubentor,<br />
bus 74A, 1 A: Invalidenstraße<br />
Tue 10 am to noon, Wed-Sun 10 am to 6 pm<br />
Full price admission € 7.90, free on Saturday<br />
www.mak.at<br />
� Augarten contemporary —— The contemporary<br />
outpost of the Belvedere Museum<br />
(which shows Austrian art from<br />
the Middle Ages up to Gustav Klimt and<br />
Egon Schiele) with solo shows by young<br />
artists and thematic group exhibitions.<br />
The so-called »Atelier« with an excellent<br />
adjoining restaurant is situated in<br />
the idyllic Augarten Park not so far from<br />
the city centre, which still contains two<br />
giant flak-towers from the Second World<br />
War. In July and August visitors can<br />
enjoy the open-air Augarten Kino unter<br />
den Sternen (Cinema under the Stars,<br />
www.kinounterdensternen.at). The bobos<br />
with children meet on Sunday for<br />
brunch at the Café Bunkerei, only a<br />
ten-minute walk away (weekends 9 am<br />
to 2 pm, weekdays from 11 am) and<br />
in the evenings to hear music.<br />
(www.bunkerei.at)<br />
Scherzergasse 1a, (216 861 621)<br />
U1: Praterstern, U2: Taborstraße,<br />
tram 2, 5: Am Tabor<br />
Thur-Sun 11 am to 7 pm<br />
www.belvedere.at<br />
� Galerie Andreas Huber —— Andreas Huber<br />
belongs to the youngest generation<br />
of gallery owners. Since 2005 the gallery<br />
behind the MuseumsQuartier has<br />
shown Austrian and international viewpoints,<br />
mainly in conceptual art. Exhi-<br />
<strong>Art</strong><br />
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Vienna
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