Terminal Piece

Terminal Piece is an exhibition in five acts, anchored by a single artwork: the installation Terminal Piece (1972) by artist, activist, and author Kate Millett. As the first acquisition made under mumok’s new directorship, it foregrounds the act of viewing itself—asking not only what is seen but from where and on which side of the work one stands. Millett, one of the defining feminist voices of her generation, believed in art’s capacity to produce moments of intense, direct experience. The exhibition asks what this idea still means today.