ONLINE COLLECTION (site under construction)
Zenita Komad, One Goal, 2015
ENGLISH
The Museum am Bach is a contemporary art museum acting as an art-based research on social systems. It`s aim is to find the convergance of artistic research and social antropology/ philosophy.
Museum am Bach is collecting social models within the world of art and in doing so, it introduces a new kind of museum. The aim is to focus particularly on the type of political art, which first gained recognition after documenta 5. Even earlier, around 1900, artists had begun to sketch out new ways of political interactions. The mission behind collecting and putting together an archive is to research social models in depth.
In 2014, a handful of friends who are convinced that museums of the future would have the power to be inclusive instead of exclusive, to gather and assemble, worked together on account of the foundation of mab. Their vision is to introduce a contemporary, holistic consciousness of society, one that is accurate for the current global age.
United Communities is at the center of the mab collections, founded by artist, museologist and director Alex Samyi. The UC foresee local communities, whether big or small, to unite globally and to manifest museums as their new political centres. Here all issues concerning the community shall be addressed and openly discussed at regular town meetings. These consultations or any elections would be incorporated into a global system with a bottom-to-top organisation.
The venue is an old mill in a small village in southern Carinthia named Ruden. Up until 2003, the mill, also known as Egger-Mühle, used to be a bakery. The building`s exciting architectural mix of low and high ceilings, as well as antique and modern spaces, creates an appealing atmosphere. The museum opened on July 28, 2014, the 100th anniversary of the start of WWI.
DEUTSCH
MUSEUM AM BACH/ mab
Das Museum am Bach, das Alex Samyi zusammen mit Ulli Egger-Samyi und Freunden 2014 in der ehemaligen Mühle und Bäckerei Egger gegründet hat, sammelt kunst-basierte Recherchen zu sozialen Modellen und ist somit ein neuer Typus Museum. Jährlich zwischen Mai und Oktober beziehen sich wechselnde Themenausstellungen auf Phänomene der Gesellschaft. Gezeigt werden Positionen der zeitgenössischen Kunst zusammen mit Zeugnissen der regionalen Geschichte aus der Sammlung des Komitee Lippitzbach. Die Sammlung des Hauses besteht aus Mindmaps, Grafiken und Objekten und wird ab 2021 in einer dauerhaften Schau verschiedene Gesellschaftsentwürfe der Neuzeit und Moderne verhandeln. Geforscht wird in drei Kategorien:
- Qualität der Kommunikation (C)
- Horizonte des Denkens – ideologische Ausrichtung (I)
- Individuelle Rechte (R)
Die Mission des mab ist, ein ganzheitliches Bewusstsein der Gesellschaft herzustellen und im eigenen Haus widerzuspiegeln. Seine Vision sind die „Vereinigten Communities der Welt mit den Museen als neue politische Zentren“.
