Mobile pavilion of the STEIERMARK SCHAU: Young art and current research on atmospheres can be seen from March 23rd to April 3rd, 2023 as an immersive exhibition experience.
Vienna (OTS/LCG) – The second edition of the STEIERMARK SCHAU, the future-oriented successor format to the state exhibitions, starts under the title “Diversity of Life” on March 22, 2023 in the heart of Vienna’s city center. From March 23 to April 3, 2023, the extraordinary, mobile museum space invites you to explore climate change and the atmosphere. The exhibition entitled “Atmospheres: Art, Climate and Space Research” transcends all boundaries – especially between art and science, contemporary composition and fine arts.
“The prologue to the STEIERMARK SCHAU in the mobile pavilion in Vienna is an invitation to an artistic examination of the diversity of life and its framework. The presentation of the STEIERMARK SCHAU brings the cultural diversity of Styria to the center of the federal capital. In the presentation, the regional is combined with the major, global issues of our time.”
according to the governor Christopher Drexler.
On a total area of around 700 square meters, there are impressive projection surfaces that extend over 200 square meters. The pavilion, which is 35 meters long, 20 meters wide and eight meters high, weighs an impressive six tons Alexander When was designed. Eight steles, each five meters high, serve as information carriers and introduce the multimedia exhibition.
Diversity of Life: The Big Questions of Biodiversity
Ten films by 17 artists will be shown inside the mobile pavilion of the STEIERMARK SCHAU. Works by Azra Akshami and Dietmar Offenhuber, Benedikt Alphart and Adina Camhy, Michael Grill, Markus Jeschaunig, Rainer Kohlberger and Peter Kutin, Gudrun Krebitz, Ralo Mayer, Markus Muntean and Adi Rosenblum, Kay Walkowiak, Richard Wilhelmer and Sonja Mutić. There are also insights into the current climate atlas of Styria on animated maps and scientific contributions from the Institute for Space Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Graz. Interviews and offers for children complete the presentation in the futuristic pavilion. Have a children’s art project of their own Silvana Beraldo and Daniela Brazil designed.
“The mobile museum in public space invites people to talk regarding current social issues. The mobile pavilion at the STEIERMARK SCHAU raises awareness of the diversity of life and its transience. The art contributions sensitize to perceive the beauty of nature and everything that surrounds us more consciously”
explained Marko Melescientific director of the Universalmuseum Joanneum.
Under the title “Diversity of Life”, the STEIERMARK SCHAU 2023 is dedicated to the big questions of biodiversity and thus topics that might not be more topical. Among other things, it is regarding the preservation of habitats and the protection of biodiversity as well as the challenges that arise from human intervention in nature. The presentation in the mobile pavilion spans the spectrum from the regional to the planetary. Highly complex scientific findings are communicated in a comprehensible and informative way in connection with contemporary art using multimedia.
Open-air museum at Vienna’s Heldenplatz
Both the openness of the pavilion and the content of the exhibition aim to stimulate dialogue and place the current climate debate on a scientifically sound basis without polarizing. The presentation in the mobile pavilion of the STEIERMARK SCHAU poses essential questions that will determine our future: Who are we humans in relation to nature, to the diversity of life? She explores the question of where people are in the world. At the same time, she warns once morest overexploiting, polluting or destroying landscapes.
“The mobile pavilion at the STEIERMARK SCHAU is unique in Europe. It is an ideal mobile presentation space and allows the museum to leave its traditional rooms and enter the public space. In Vienna, as part of the prologue to the STEIERMARK SCHAU, we are presenting an open-air museum that is open to visitors: the inside of the pavilion is visible from the outside and is accessible from all sides.”
explains the curator Astrid Kury.
The mobile pavilion of the STEIERMARK SCHAU will be in Vienna from March 23rd to April 3rd, 2023. From April 29th to November 5th, 2023 he will be on display in the Herberstein animal world, the main venue of this year’s STEIERMARK SCHAU.
More information at steiermarkschau.at
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