to display, to support, to care

to display, to support, to care takes as its starting point a selection of design sketches by Frederick Kiesler in order to explore the relation of space, art and viewers, as well as the applied as art’s equal. What happens when the display is transformed from a means of showing into an affectively charged structure? Into a form of support that does not just refer to the room’s parameters and the pragmatic demands of the work? Selected contemporary positions continue to think about these questions. They depart the field of exhibition design to find new resonances in an interstitial space – between display and gesture, affect and structure, the institutional and its administration. In turn, the rooms of the Heiligenkreuzerhof, itself once living space, become the framing structure.

With works by Jason Dodge, Philipp Gehmacher, Frederick Kiesler, Simon Lässig, Joanna Piotrowska, Johannes Porsch and Nicole Wermers

Curated by Vanessa Joan Müller