The shattered panel is a 1:1 plaster cast of the fragmentary remains of the ransacked grave plaque of Isak Löw Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal (1761-1849) from the Jewish Cemetery in Währing, Vienna’s 18th district. Hofmannsthal was the great-great-grandfather of Dr. Hans v. Karabacek, the owner of this building prior to, during, and after World War […]
My show Détache-moi!/Zimmerflucht, a meditation on the topic of fascism and fate/luck, in an existing Viennese space. Shown here are images from the picture series Détache-moi! and the stool edition Untitled (Big Die).
My show Détache-moi!/Zimmerflucht, a meditation on the topic of fascism and fate/luck, in an existing Viennese space. Shown here are images from the picture series Détache-moi! and the stool edition Untitled (Big Die).
My show Détache-moi!/Zimmerflucht, a meditation on the topic of fascism and fate/luck, in an existing Viennese space. Shown here images from the picture series Détache-moi! and the stool edition Untitled (Big Die) in the context of the installation of a precise plaster cast of the shattered gravestone of my spouse’s 4th-g-grandfather Isak Löw Hofmann v. […]
The Burnt Book at left belonged to the library of Schloss Grafenstein in Carinthia and, according to the owner, was misused as heating material during the occupation of the Schloss by the Soviet army at the end of World War II. Books may burn once a conflagration is already established, but, as the occupiers discovered, […]
Two parquet floorboards from our apartment—damaged by shrapnel in the course of a bombing raid in the spring of 1945—cling together in isolation from a floor beneath that is identical to the one they once formed a part of. As a result of and during the same attack, an infant was killed in this same […]
Two parquet floorboards from our apartment—damaged by shrapnel in the course of a bombing raid in the spring of 1945—cling together in isolation from a floor beneath that is identical to the one they once formed a part of. As a result of and during the same attack, an infant was killed in this same […]
Photo-based works Disturbance nos. 7, 8 + 9 and sculptural work Piggyback together with a Florian Nährer painting, installation view at Galerie Reinthaler, Vienna
Photo-based work Disturbance no. 9, installation view at Galerie Reinthaler, Vienna
Photo-based work Disturbance no. 9 with a painting by Florian Nährer, installation view at Galerie Reinthaler, Vienna