#OffenfürKunst on 15th November: Leopold Museum and OMV celebrate “St. Leopold’s Day”
14.11.2022
Free admission and multi-faceted family program with workshops, guided tours, LEO Kids Studio and interactive visuals from 10 am to 9 pm
Under the motto #OffenfürKunst, OMV and the Leopold Museum invite visitors for the second year running to enjoy free admission to the museum and an all-day varied art education program for all the family on 15th November. The feast day honoring St. Leopold – the national patron saint of Austria and patron saint of the states of Vienna and Lower Austria – is a school holiday in both Austrian states.
“For the second time, the realization of St. Leopold’s Day marks a special highlight in the long-standing partnership between OMV and the Leopold Museum. It allows us to offer especially children and teenagers the opportunity to enjoy art on this school holiday.”
Alfred Stern, Head of the Board of Directors and CEO of OMV
“We are delighted to be able to invite families, children, teenagers and day care groups to enjoy art for free at the Leopold Museum for the second year thanks to the valued support of OMV. Several guided tours through our current exhibitions, a children’s studio, special workshops for groups of children and teenagers with different thematic emphases as well as an immersive room with interactive visuals offer a multi-faceted program for all the family at the Leopold Museum on St. Leopold’s Day.”
Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Director of the Leopold Museum
NEONLAND: Immersion and participation with interactive visuals
The artists Maximilian Prag and Cristian Anutoiu designed an immersive room especially for the St. Leopold’s Day celebrations at the Leopold Museum which enables visitors to delve into a new world and to engage with it. The NEONLAND’s organic neon sculptures, 3D scans of organic material and fragile veils combine the digital with the real world. Through a sensor that responds to hand movements, visitors are able to interfere with the digital eco system and to help shape the NEONLAND’s environment.
Handicraft pad and raffle: Gifts for children, teenagers and adults
The handicraft pad, conceived in cooperation with paperlatur, focuses on the girl’s bedroom Josef Hoffmann designed for Katharina Biach, the daughter of textile manufacturer Max Biach. Created in 1902 by the Wiener Werkstätte, the bedroom by the famous Viennese architect and designer is now part of the Leopold Museum’s collection and currently displayed in the context of the permanent presentation Vienna 1900. Birth of Modernism. The gift for kids and teenagers offers age-appropriate information and encourages them to become creative themselves by designing a room from paper. As a special highlight, our raffle includes 10 packages with various presents, including annual tickets to the Leopold Museum. Additionally, visitors are given special St. Leopold Day’s cloth tote bags – #OffenfürKunst-Goodie Bags – containing little surprise gifts, while stocks last.
On 15th November 2022, the Leopold Museum is open to visitors from 10 am to 9 pm.
The program on 15th November 2022 in detail:
Guided tours for adults of the current exhibitions
Registration on 15th November at the museum
VIENNA 1900. BIRTH OF MODERNISM at 10.30 am, 11.30 am, 1.30 pm, 2.30 pm, 4.30 pm, 5.30 pm
TILLA DURIEUX. A WITNESS TO A CENTURY AND HER ROLES at 1 pm, 3 pm, 5 pm, 7 pm
HAGENBUND. FROM MODERATE TO RADICAL MODERNISM at 2 pm, 4 pm, 6 pm, 8 pm
LEO KIDS STUDIO with two stations
For kids aged 6 to 12, from 10.30 am to 5.30 pm, registration on 15th November at the museum
STATION I: square, ROUND and COLORFUL
Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele expressed their creativity and inner worlds through different shapes and colors. Do you prefer round or pointed shapes? Which is your favorite color? Draw inspiration from the two artists, let colors and forms speak for themselves, and design your own world with scissors, colored paper and crayons.
STATION II: A BEDROOM FOR KATHARINA
Discover Katharina Biach’s bedroom at the Leopold Museum which Josef Hoffmann designed 120 years ago for the 17-year-old girl. It is almost an entire apartment, and includes a bed, wardrobes, a washstand, a full-length mirror and desk. With the handicraft pad designed by paperlatur you can recreate the room from paper, and furnish it just the way you like.
Pre-bookable workshops for groups of kids and day care groups
Limited number of participants, registration
young style | JUGENDSTIL? For kids aged 6-10, at 10.15 am and 12 noon
Welcome to our design workshop! Have you ever designed a vase, a book cover or a toy? We will take inspiration from the exhibited furniture created by the Wiener Werkstätte, the dresses designed by Emilie Flöge and the objects from the School of Arts and Crafts. Whether geometrical vases or flowery toys, the choice is huge. In our workshop, we become designers in our own right!
EXPLOSIVE COLORS! For teenagers aged 10-14, at 12 noon and 1.45 pm
Egon Schiele and other Expressionist painters wanted to express their feelings. They did this by using certain colors and color combinations. Whether bright or gloomy, wild or restrained – with the help of the color wheel, we get to the bottom of their secrets. We allow the Austrian Expressionists to inspire us and let our emotions run free in the studio!
Participations in the raffle are possible up to and including 22nd November 2022:
More information on the Leopold Museum’s St. Leopold’s Day supported by OMV
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