After being appointed as the successor of Jean-Christophe Ammann in the spring of 1977, MK is confronted with an equally challenging and rewarding situation: Amman - who vacates his director's post in Lucerne in favor of heading the Kunsthalle Basel - leaves behind a high-profile institution with a reputation for cutting-edge contemporary art that is not limited to an international program but also includes emerging Swiss artists and special summer exhibitions in the context of the International Festival of Music, which takes place in the same building. When MK begins his directorship in December of 1977, he is handed a very progressive and well known institution but also faces severely restricted finances, a tiny staff as well as a demanding exhibition schedule tied to local traditions and events. As Amman departs, he takes all his ongoing projects with him - a challenge and an opportunity for MK, since the totally open program provides him with the chance to implement his own vision right away. He debuts in January 1978 with the first museum show of the German conceptual and minimal artist Peter Roehr, who died at a young age. In addition, he shows other international minimalist who, like Roehr, also work within serial structures. From the very beginning MK strives to complement the museum's mandate to regularly present Swiss artists with exhibitions of individual artists and art movements from abroad. He succeeds in growing the sophisticated audience his predecessor has cultivated. MK introduces architects and photographers to the museum's programs and also changes offerings from the collection more frequently.He also includes avant-garde artists from earlier generations, and in his first year he reaches an attendance record with the retrospective of the 19th century Lucerne artist Robert Zündl by developing novel publicity and educational campaigns. During his twelve years at the Lucerne museum, MK produces and curates over 150 exhibitions and almost as many catalogues. MK himself counts Vito Acconci's European museum debut in 1978, a site-specific tour de force with the politically charged title "Asylum," among his most important shows LINK ZU INTERVIEW. 1979 he is able to mount his own Joseph Beuys exhibit: "Traces in Italy" presents drawings, hes Gouaches, Objects and, which the artist made years after his frequent stays Italy as a soldier during WWII, delicately revisiting the experience. LINK ZU INTERVIEW