{"id":82758,"date":"2025-04-25T09:33:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T08:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/?p=82758"},"modified":"2025-09-07T19:02:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T18:02:36","slug":"water-pressure-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/water-pressure-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Pressure exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/waterpressuresmall.jpg\" alt=\"A running tap\" class=\"wp-image-82753\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/waterpressuresmall.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/waterpressuresmall-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve not treated the elixir of life well of late. But the <em>Water Pressure<\/em> exhibition at the MAK offers hope for the future of water resource management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Focus on design solutions, but\u2026<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Adds art, history, culture &amp; science<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fascinating ideas, displays &amp; perspectives<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Runs May 21 &#8211; Sept 7, 2025<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See also:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/mak\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"7100\">MAK museum overview<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/events\/exhibitions\/#design\">design<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/events\/exhibitions\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"37363\">art<\/a> exhibitions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Water, design &amp; art<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/waterpressure1.jpg\" alt=\"Close up of a cloud net\" class=\"wp-image-82755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/waterpressure1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/waterpressure1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(WaterFoundation, CloudFisher, since 2012, CloudFisher net (detail) \u00a9 WaterFoundation)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even Samuel Taylor Coleridge&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/151\/151-h\/151-h.htm\">Ancient Mariner<\/a> knew the challenges of water resource management back in the 1700s:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Water, water everywhere<br>Nor any drop to drink<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>And today?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, I don&#8217;t need to tell you about all the water-related crises faced across the globe. The issues touch on so many aspects of life: human health, agriculture, environmental protection &amp; quality, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even Vienna, rich in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/eatingdrinking\/water\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"77\">Alpine water pipelines<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/donauinsel\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"62574\">hydrological protection measures<\/a>, only narrowly escaped major flooding in the great storm of September 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/waterpressure4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/waterpressure4.jpg\" alt=\"A water drop run\" class=\"wp-image-83602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/waterpressure4.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/waterpressure4-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(My absolute highlight. Watch as drops of water travel individually along this run. Sometimes stopping, sometimes coalescing. Ever changing. Truly fascinating. Dutch Invertuals &amp; Edhv, FLOW, 2025 MAK Exhibition Hall, upper floor \u00a9 kunst-dokumentation.com\/MAK)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>Water Pressure. Designing for the Future<\/em> exhibition at the MAK offers a multifaceted perspective on this critical element.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At its heart, the exhibition presents innovative design approaches and solutions for improving water resource management, particularly in terms of sustainability and equitable access to clean supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But <em>Water Pressure<\/em> spreads its wings to draw in contributions from art, science, history, and socioculture, encouraging us to recalibrate our approach and relationship to water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The displays fall into five themes that avoid a dry (ba dum tish) presentation of facts, figures, and concepts.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"368\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/waterpressure3.jpg\" alt=\"A river mural\" class=\"wp-image-82757\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/waterpressure3.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/waterpressure3-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Marjetica Potrc, The Time on the Lachlan River, 2022, mural, courtesy of Galerie Nordenhake Berlin, Stockholm, Mexico City \u00a9 Marjetica Potrc)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So <em>Water Stories<\/em>, for example, encourages us to value water as a cultural asset with a rich social history and intimate connection with peoples across the world. Water as much more than a biological component.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And everywhere you find ideas and projects that offer hope and showcase human ingenuity&#8230;often inspired by nature and\/or indigenous systems. From Moroccan cloud nets that relieve girls of water collection tasks so they can go to school to biological dyeing processes that don&#8217;t pollute water supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rich diversity of the presentation arises through a cooperation between the MAK, the Museum f\u00fcr Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MK&amp;G), and Jane Withers Studio in London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So you may find yourself viewing a 19th-century communal Viennese water tap or a Jugendstil water glass. A Hokusai woodcut from 1830 or a baroque Venetian water jug. A contemporary art installation, an architectural model or a documentary video. Among much more\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/waterpressure5.jpg\" alt=\"Video wall of a burning fountain\" class=\"wp-image-83603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/waterpressure5.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/waterpressure5-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Julian Charri\u00e8re&#8217;s impressive video installation \u00a9 kunst-dokumentation.com\/MAK)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The variety is truly impressive. As are many of the displays themselves. A huge video wall of a burning fountain confronts you just after the entrance, for example: Julian Charri\u00e8re&#8217;s 2019 <em>And Beneath It All Flows Liquid Fire<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, frankly, I could have spent all day watching the water droplets flow along the equivalent of a hydrological marble run: Dutch Invertuals &amp; Edhv 2025 <em>FLOW<\/em>. A quite remarkable installation that touches you at different levels. I&#8217;d have paid the admission just for that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"tickets\">Dates, tickets &amp; tips<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Take a deep dive (again, ba dum tish) into water from May 21st to September 7th, 2025. An entrance ticket from or for the MAK includes the special exhibitions within.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Environmental issues have become a common topic for museal treatment in Vienna. Consider, for example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/hundertwasser\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"17067\">Kunst Haus Wien<\/a>, which focuses on exhibitions for artists who tackle environmental and sustainability themes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/technical-museum\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"18107\">Technisches Museum<\/a>, which has a permanent <em>Climate. Knowledge. Action!<\/em> exhibition I found rather illuminating. Environmental themes run through a number of displays in this museum. Do check out, for example, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/more-than-recycling\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"85272\">More than Recycling special exhibition<\/a> (until December 30th, 2026)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And, should you wish to taste some of the lovely Viennese water mentioned earlier, pop over the road from the MAK to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/eatingdrinking\/cafespubsbars\/cafe-pruckel\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"10344\">Caf\u00e9 Pr\u00fcckel<\/a>. Coffee served in Vienna <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/eatingdrinking\/coffee-house-experience\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1947\">almost always comes<\/a> with a glass of water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to get there<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow the travel tips at the end of my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/mak\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"7100\">MAK overview page<\/a>. But the museum lies next to the Stubentor subway station on the U3 line (and 2 tram line).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Address: Stubenring 5, 1010 Vienna<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/embed?mid=1G1JqCaIFJT9xk7v01SX4IL93otIsKj2D\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MAK presents design projects offering hope for water resource management, along with related art, science, history, and more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-museums","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82758"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85629,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82758\/revisions\/85629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}