26 April 2021
Image: MAK - Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, view from the Stubenring. Photo: © Gerald Zugmann/MAK. As an example for presenting applied arts as part of a story, Lilli Hollein named the museum's collection of laces donated by Austrian-Jewish feminist Bertha Pappenheim who became in the history of medicine widely known as patient Anna O. in the 'Studies on Hysteria' by Josef Breuer and Sigmund Freud. The narrative threads of exhibitions built upon a story such as of a remarkable woman like social pioneer Bertha Pappenheim will arouse the interests of a wider public additionally to the group which wants to learn more about textile design. For the mediation of applied arts and culture history, Hollein mentioned strategies for changing perspectives such as the implementation of feminist views or leaving Eurocentrism for incorporating colonial past. One of the topics Lilli Hollein was asked by journalists today was the planned exhibition of the work of her late father, architect Hans Hollein whose estate is since 2016 partly owned by the MAK. According to Lilli Hollein (she is the sister of Max Hollein, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York), the exhibition is already in preparation and will happen next year. At the embedded Instagram post, Vienna Design Week expresses its best wishes to co-founder Lilli Hollein and names the new director of the design week:
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