EVA BODNÁR ׀ CLEGG & GUTTMANN ׀ HERBERT DE COLLE ׀ TOMAS ELLER ׀
CHRISTOPH HINTERHUBER ׀ SUSI JIRKUFF ׀ SONIA LEIMER ׀STEPHAN LUGBAUER ׀
MAHONY ׀ JOSH MÜLLER ׀ STEFAN NESSMANN ׀ NICOLAS JASMIN ׀ PLANK &
POSCHAUKO ׀ CHLOË POTTER ׀ HANNES RIBARITS ׀ STEFAN SANDNER ׀ HANS
SCHABUS ׀ RUDOLF STECKHOLZER ׀ INGEBORG STROBL ׀ VIKTORIA TREMMEL ׀
NADIM VARDAG ׀ HEIMO ZOBERNIG ׀ CURATED BY LI TASSERKUNST
IM BAU is a permanent art project in a recently completed, subsidized
residential housing unit for roughly one thousand occupants.22
artists were invited to place work on selected wall surfaces in areas
accessible to all tenants and visitors. The majority of the work was
created within the last six months specifically for this building.
The extensive size of the building but also the particular
architectural breakdown into "neighborhoods," according to which the
allocated wall surfaces are distributed throughout the building,
presents an opportunity to bring very different artistic positions
together in one project. Because of the physical distance between the
individual works, they can be viewed as uninfluenced by one another and
perceived all the more strongly in the context of their immediate
surroundings.This strategy, which to some extent continues the
building's fundamental concept, creates a basis for the broadest
possible range of themes, which – as it turns out – goes well beyond
the expected.
A special feature of the project is the uniform technique with which
all the work has been realized: large-scale prints, mounted directly to
the wall. The use of this technique was a consideration in the
selection and design of the works, and was also addressed in the work
of several artists. (LT)
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