Guest Projects

The God of Men (Frauen im Mariendom)

Zoe Goldstein (AT), Margit Greinöcker (AT)

The Representatives by photographer Zoe Goldstein focuses on the ways of looking at things and through the metamorphosis of the pictorial material, the content, the story in the picture, is transferred, so to speak, from the spiritual to the mundane. DIE BETRACHTERIN (THE VIEWER) by Margit Greinöcker focuses on individual representations of women in the New Cathedral (Mariendom Linz) with changing perspectives - with artistic and scientific interest and with optical equipment.

flickering red lights and dead batteries

Anna Lerchbaumer (AT)

An installation that generates sound and plays with points in time, time spans and duration. It uses electricity as a performer and understands the physicality of infrastructure as a colorful material. Exploring the sites and displacement of energy, electrical or mechanical. Making it visible and audible. Colorful segments of cables, children´s toys and discarded plugs.

URSULINENHOF

Christiane Peschek (AT), S()fia Braga (IT/AT)

For the first time the OÖ Kunstverein is joining Ars Electronica Festival with a dedicated exhibition, presenting the latest works from transmedia artists Christiane Peschek and S()fia Braga.

Moments Within: Forgotten Feelings and False Memories

As a one-channel video installation, Moments Within visualizes our cerebral vascular system as dreamlike landscapes in 3D space to create an immersive experience of remembering and forgetting.

Transformation Lounge

Questioning learned patterns, throwing usual strategies overboard, thinking new ways and coming to common solutions - the Transformation Lounge developed together with the big Japanese advertising and PR agency Hakuhodo is not an exhibition, it is a place of encounter and discourse.

Digital Cave Painting — Art as Expansion of Consciousness

SHA.ART (AT)

The “Alte Post” in Vienna’s city center is currently being extensively renovated and will be reopened in 2023 as a new, innovative cultural location dedicated to Media Art in a peculiar way. An interdisciplinary team of experts led by the Austrian artist and perception researcher SHA.ART is responsible for the creative design and cultural revitalization of the historic building ensemble. During Ars Electronica 2022, the team will give the public a look into the status of work for the first time.

Meta.space - Raumvisionen

Meta.space — Raumvisionen (Spatial Visions) presents a selection of interdisciplinary and intermedial positions that are negotiated as a dialogue between “old” art and contemporary work. The framework of content ranges from the thematization of early painterly solutions to pictorial spatial problems from the 15th century onward and the spatiality of sculptural works to the sensory, scientific, and technical development of spaces and the recording and penetration of social spaces. It finally culminates in the examination of a wide variety of world concepts. It not only questions their artistic and social implications, but also critically examines the dystopian as well as utopian potential of current metaspace concepts.

PIXELS by CryptoWiener

CryptoWiener (AT)

Die CryptoWiener erobern das Metaverse im Linzer OK. Mit ihren realen Pixelarbeiten übersetzen sie die digitale Welt in den analogen Ausstellungsraum und schaffen ein mehrdimensionales Erlebnis — ein permanenter Wechsel zwischen digitaler und analoger Welt.

Deep Water

Anna Dudko (UA)

In her animated film Deep Water and her erotic sketches, the award-winning Ukrainian artist Anna Dudko stages the sensual underwater fantasy of a mermaid who is craving human erotic love from deep within her soul. This full-bodied mermaid does not hide her woman’s desires and takes pleasure in observing the human world along a drain and touching people with water as if with her body. In the exhibition, the film will be presented along with erotic sketches and film backgrounds created by Yana “ja-shi” Shypova and Olga Havrylova.

Mother Gilgamesh. Linzer Klangwolke 22 presented by Sparkasse Oberösterreich & Linz AG

Brucknerhaus (AT)

Under the direction of Pierre Audi, visitors can expect an epochal journey into the mystical world of the gods between past, present and future, between earth, sky and underworld, faith, love and hope, full of impressive and breathtaking surprises.