piggyback/huckepack

Photo-based works Disturbance nos. 7 + 8 with painting by Florian Nährer, installation view at Galerie Reinthaler, Vienna

piggyback/huckepack

Sculptural work Piggyback with photo-based works Disturbance nos. 7 + 8 and a painting by Florian Nährer, installation view at Galerie Reinthaler, Vienna

piggyback/huckepack

Photo-based work Disturbance no. 9 and sculptural work Piggyback with paintings by Florian Nährer, installation view at Galerie Reinthaler, Vienna

piggyback/huckepack

Installation view of photographic work Disturbance no. 9 with sculptural works Piggyback and An Object’s Memory of Its Life as a Door (background) and paintings by Florian Nährer at Galerie Reinthaler, Vienna

piggyback/huckepack

Installation view of sculptural works (Piggyback and An Object’s Memory of Its Life as a Door) with paintings by Florian Nährer at Piggyback/Huckepack, Galerie Reinthaler, Vienna

piggyback/huckepack

Sculpture Piggyback with two paintings by Florian Nährer, installation view at Galerie Reinthaler

piggyback/huckepack

Installation view at Piggyback/Huckepack with two sculptural works (Piggyback and An Object’s Memory of Its Life as a Door), a photographic work (Disturbance no. 9), and three paintings by Florian Nährer; Galerie Reinthaler, Vienna

piggyback/huckepack

Foreground: An Object’s Memory of Its Life as a Door, 2022 (wooden door, ca. 1920; porcelain handle, metal fittings; painted wooden socle); door object executed by Joe Nedow, socle executed by Nikolaus Fuchs. Background: painting by Florian Nährer.

Sisyphus

Reassembling the pieces of the grave inscription to the tomb of Isak v. Hofmannsthal.

ghost stories

Private presentation in the context of my show Ghost Stories of the shattered grave monument inscriptions from the tomb of Isak and Theresia von Hofmannsthal to a large group of their descendants The tomb was ransacked during the NS period For many years Christian and I have been working on the restoration of this and other desecrated family gravesites in the Jewish Cemetery in Währing (an outer district of Vienna) with the goal of eventually returning these to the monument, which until recently was also in pieces on the ground; our efforts resulted in its reassembly in 2017—how the inscription panels (which we have pieced together over time) can now be secured to it remains an open question that was discussed at length here by the family