OPENING HOURS:
Mon-Fri (weekdays) 9:00 – 19:00
From the outside, the exhibition can be seen daily from 9:00 – 22:00
FREE ADMISSION
Guided tours will once again take visitors from the artistically decorated foyer to the 74-meter-high roof of the Power Tower.
REGISTRATION: +43 732 7720 – 52501
The successful cooperation between Energie AG and the OÖ Kulturquartier will be continued this year. This time, sources of light and radiation are the thematic brackets for the outpost of HÖHENRAUSCH – Wie im Paradies (As in Paradise). The headquarters of Energie AG Oberösterreich will be used as an exhibition space by three Upper Austrian artists. While Raphaela Riepl’s light bodies draw themselves, sign-like, through the foyer of the PowerTower, Anton Kehrer captures the radiated energy of light photographically. Audio artist Wolfgang Dorninger transforms the roof and stairwell into a bird’s paradise, using sunlight as an energy source.
Raphaela Riepl’s installation makes reference to the space it occupues, which is characterized by transparency and the shiny surfaces of the foyer. Neon elements and fabrics float in the foyer like drawings made out of light. The salmon-pink and blue reflections on the floor are reminiscent of underwater worlds, like coral reefs. The light box, which is usually used for advertising, is deconstructed by the artist and used as a pure light object.
Light sources of the public space, but also light installations by other artists, serve Anton Kehrer as photographic motif, as with the 4-part photo series which was created in 2018 and shows details of a neon work by Raphaela Riepl. The works conceived for the light boxes, whereby colored glass plates are layered on top of each other on a light table and photographed, were created in the studio. The resulting reduced pictorial solutions oscillate between photography and painting. The glass walls facing the inner courtyard of the building are incorporated into the color and space concept and covered with colored foils.
A 12-channel sound installation with artificial birds by Wolfgang Dorninger leads across the entire 20 floors of the stairwell and high up to the roof. Once there, he presents a sound installation together with Ralf Schreiber, Uwe Schüler and the apprentice workshop. The apprentices made solar bobs from electronic components, which react to sunlight and make the Power Tower emit sound.
Credits
Curated by Reinhard Gattinger, Genoveva Rückert und Maria Venzl.
raphaelariepl.com
antonkehrer.com
dorninger.servus.at
