2023-10-03 18:00:00
The legendary artist group Haus-Rucker-Co, which existed until 1992 and was made up of Günter Zamp Kelp, Klaus Pinter, Laurids Ortner and Manfred Ortner, made an international name for itself through a radical concept of architecture, implemented ideas of new forms of living and living and also took action Issues such as increasing environmental destruction.
Draw your own breath!
As part of a large show at the Lentos Museum in Linz, which starts on October 6th, essential parts of the Haus-Rucker-Co art collection will be shown for the first time under the title “Breathing Zones”.
Students at the Linz University of Art have designed a room with various projects that provide a current reference to the questions raised by the artist group in the 1970s: True to the motto “Fresh Air”, the young artists will be presenting their work at the opening on October 5th (19th). p.m.) their new interpretations of how the fight for good air is politically waged, ideologically charged and economically justified.
The art university students’ projects now on display refer experimentally and critically, but also melancholically or humorously, to the explosiveness of the topic of good air and breathing.
Similar to Haus-Rucker-Co, the young artists also deal with the space that the air takes up – for example in the form of breathing architecture and apparatus, furniture for better breathing or series of experiments with mushroom mycelia. The exhibition also includes interactive activities, for example by asking visitors to draw their own breath.
On view until February 25, 2024
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