Détache-moi!/Zimmerflucht

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My show Détache-moi!/Zimmerflucht, a meditation on the topic of fascism and fate/luck, in an existing Viennese space. Shown here an image from the picture series Détache-moi! and the stool edition Untitled (Big Die). By appointment.

Détache-moi! (yellow) 2025
Archival inkjet print on watercolor paper, mounted on Dibond and framed
135 x 91.5 cm (framed)
Edition of five (+2 A.P.)

Untitled (Big Die) 2025
Hand-made wooden stool in the form of an oversized playing die
50 x 50 x 50
Unlimited edition
Executed by Nikolaus Fuchs

Détache-moi!/Zimmerflucht

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Video Sisyphus (reassembling the pieces of the grave inscription to the tomb of Isak Löw Hofmann von Hofmannsthal). In Détache-moi!/Zimmerflucht, a meditation on the topic of fascism and fate/luck, shown in an existing Viennese space. Click here to view video.

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The installation Austrian Suitcase features the house banner of our building in the 6th district in Vienna. After the end of World War II this banner in red-white-red was created from a former German flag cut in two and enlarged with a household scrap in white linen. At its center it clearly shows a darker, circular section where, during the NS-period, a field with a swastika had been affixed on the (then) German flag. The suitcase is that of Dr. Hans v. Karabacek, the building’s owner before, during, and after the war, and the tenant, with his family, of this space. It also contains two earlier house flags, one of which is composed of the colors of the monarchy, black and yellow. Karabacek’s own story of being measured for Jewish features at the Natural History Museum is related in “Immeasurable,” in Michael Huey, Inside Stories, Album Verlag, Vienna 2021, pp. 176-195.

Détache-moi!/Zimmerflucht

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The installation Austrian Suitcase features the house banner of our building in the 6th district in Vienna. After the end of World War II this banner in red-white-red was created from a former German flag cut in two and enlarged with a household scrap in white linen. At its center it clearly shows a darker, circular section where, during the NS-period, a field with a swastika had been affixed on the (then) German flag. The suitcase is that of Dr. Hans v. Karabacek, the building’s owner before, during, and after the war, and the tenant, with his family, of this space. It also contains two earlier house flags, one of which is composed of the colors of the monarchy, black and yellow. Karabacek’s own story of being measured for Jewish features at the Natural History Museum is related in “Immeasurable,” in Michael Huey, Inside Stories, Album Verlag, Vienna 2021, pp. 176-195.

Détache-moi!/Zimmerflucht

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The installation Austrian Suitcase features the house banner of our building in the 6th district in Vienna. After the end of World War II this banner in red-white-red was created from a former German flag cut in two and enlarged with a household scrap in white linen. At its center it clearly shows a darker, circular section where, during the NS-period, a field with a swastika had been affixed on the (then) German flag. The suitcase is that of Dr. Hans v. Karabacek, the building’s owner before, during, and after the war, and the tenant, with his family, of this space. It also contains two earlier house flags, one of which is composed of the colors of the monarchy, black and yellow. Karabacek’s own story of being measured for Jewish features at the Natural History Museum is related in “Immeasurable,” in Michael Huey, Inside Stories, Album Verlag, Vienna 2021, pp. 176-195.

Détache-moi!/Zimmerflucht

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The installation Austrian Suitcase features the house banner of our building in the 6th district in Vienna. After the end of World War II this banner in red-white-red was created from a former German flag cut in two and enlarged with a household scrap in white linen. At its center it clearly shows a darker, circular section where, during the NS-period, a field with a swastika had been affixed on the (then) German flag. The suitcase is that of Dr. Hans v. Karabacek, the building’s owner before, during, and after the war, and the tenant, with his family, of this space. It also contains two earlier house flags, one of which is composed of the colors of the monarchy, black and yellow. Karabacek’s own story of being measured for Jewish features at the Natural History Museum is related in “Immeasurable,” in Michael Huey, Inside Stories, Album Verlag, Vienna 2021, pp. 176-195.

Détache-moi!/Zimmerflucht

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The installation Austrian Suitcase features the house banner of our building in the 6th district in Vienna. After the end of World War II this banner in red-white-red was created from a former German flag cut in two and enlarged with a household scrap in white linen. At its center it clearly shows a darker, circular section where, during the NS-period, a field with a swastika had been affixed on the (then) German flag. The suitcase is that of Dr. Hans v. Karabacek, the building’s owner before, during, and after the war, and the tenant, with his family, of this space. It also contains two earlier house flags, one of which is composed of the colors of the monarchy, black and yellow. Karabacek’s own story of being measured for Jewish features at the Natural History Museum is related in “Immeasurable,” in Michael Huey, Inside Stories, Album Verlag, Vienna 2021, pp. 176-195.

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Artifact in Détache-moi!/Zimmerflucht, an exhibition/artistic intervention on the topic of fascism and fate/luck, in an existing Viennese space. Textile fragment with design likely by Gertrud Reinberger-Brausewetter (b. Feb. 10, 1903), ca. 1938. Beginning in 1912/13 until 1920/21 Reinberger-Brausewetter took courses and classes at the Universität für angewandte Kunst (formerly the Hochschule für angewandte Kunst) in Vienna unter Franz Cizek. Please note: this object is not for sale. It was found in among other used items purchased in bulk from a defunct household/estate. Stashed away in a laundry basket, its existence was unknown at the time of purchase. The original purchaser, upon discovering it, planned to incinerate it, but eventually donated it for use in this exhibition instead. Its purpose here is purely educational regarding that tragic and misguided period here in Austria. It should in no way be taken as an endorsement of NS philosophy or policies, which I reject wholeheartedly, emphatically, categorically, and unequivocally.

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My show Détache-moi!/Zimmerflucht, a meditation on the topic of fascism and fate/luck, in an existing Viennese space. Shown here the installation of a precise plaster cast of the shattered gravestone of my spouse’s 4th-g-grandfather Isak Löw Hofmann v. Hofmannsthal together with the artifact Burnt Book.

Détache-moi!/Zimmerflucht

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My show Détache-moi!/Zimmerflucht, a meditation on the topic of fascism and fate/luck, in an existing Viennese space. Shown here the installation of a precise plaster cast of the shattered gravestone of my spouse’s 4th-g-grandfather Isak Löw Hofmann v. Hofmannsthal together with the artifact Burnt Book.