Stefanie Wurnitsch – Graphic Design

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2022

Angelika Fitz, Monika Platzer

Monika Platzer

Sonja Pisarik, Iris Ranzinger, Katrin Stingl

Andreas Kurz

Karin Lux

Barbara Kapsammer

tracing spaces – Michael Hieslmair, Michael Zinganel
seite zwei – Christoph Schörkhuber, Stefanie Wurnitsch

Lisa Rastl, Stefanie Wurnitsch

The new permanent exhibition at the Architekturzentrum Wien provides insights into the most extensive and comprehensive collection on Austrian architecture of the 20th and 21st centuries. At the centre is the investigation of key exponents, including well-known and less well-known objects. Selected models, drawings, furniture, fabrics, documents and films develop new threads in seven thematic episodes. Each episode is preceded by one of today’s burning issues, a Hot Question that brings Cold Storage to life.

The exhibition engages with the ideological instrumentalisation of architecture and spatial planning and the active collaboration of architects in authoritarian systems, as well as their resistance. At the same time, the exhibition challenges deficits in the canon of Austrian architectural history, for instance from a perspective of gender equality. This diversity is also reflected in the exhibition design. The sheer variety of the exponents and their display makes a visit to the exhibition a sensual and an atmospheric experience. A strictly „NO WHITE-CUBE“ exhibition.