Lilli Hollein appointed director of Vienna’s MAK

Lilli Hollein, the co-founder and former director of Vienna Design Week will head up MAK – Museum of Applied Arts from September 2021.

“To get to head the MAK, one of the most beautiful and oldest museums of applied arts in the world with its unparalleled collection and to position it as an institution that communicates actively in manifold ways and cooperates internationally, is one of the most wonderful tasks I can imagine,” said Hollein in a statement.

Hollein succeeds Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, who became the MAK’s director in 2011, and who has been instrumental in introducing topics surrounding digital design as well as social and ecological issues. Hollein says she will seek to broaden audience, and strengthen the museum’s “feministic point of view”.

Before co-founding Vienna Design Week in 2007, Hollein was commissioner of the Austrian contribution at the Sao Paulo Architecture Biennale.

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