First floor: Experienced Model Worlds

The Karbach high altar by the Upper Austrian poet Walter Pilar confronts various cross symbols with the eternal longing for arcadia. The piece is a poetic symbol dedicated to the Karbach-landscape and the drama of the lake landscape in the Salzkammergut. Pilar´s place of birth, Ebensee, metamorphoses into the existential "Lebenssee" (the title of his autobiography).

The artists´group CALC presents spacePLACE: eight models between new media and architecture, between nature and culture, between travels and personal life. The models as larvae reveal themselves as butterflies for worlds of ideas: the orange grove meets the time cloud, the Spanish sleeping house meets a pool near Jerusalem. On occasion of the exhibition CALC presents its work also as project on the web: spacePLACE

In the case of Justo Gallego Martinez, that which, during the Middle Ages, building guilds built over generations with the support of an entire town is the work of an individual. As God´s architect he realizes, obsessed, his life´s vision: a 50 meter long and 25 meter wide cathedral which rises 55 meters toward the heavens near Madrid. The Swiss photographer Pierre Montavon accompanies the construction with his camera - a chronicler of this spiritual phenomenon.

Second floor: Collective Utopian Visions

Green food, not gene food - beans grow out of pipes. If beds are usually thought of as being for one or two people, then the N55-bed modules can be altered in size and form according to wishes and circumstances. The collective bath and WC allows for shared bathing- and hygiene-fun The collective existence of the Danish group N55 affects the adventure of living together: art determines one´s own form of living anew.


"Work, good food, good sex" are the maxims of the free state proclaimed by the Dutch Atelier van Lieshout

. The spatial installation consists of an alchemic pharmacy, an alcohol distillery, a mechanical saw, a butcher´s, and a "bed for many women" - all parts of autonomous life-maxims and utopia. Theo Altenberg photographed the experimental commune Friedrichshof. Free sexuality and common property were expressions of the longing for an alternative society: life as art. Nightly self-presentations in front of the assembled communards made possible "the transparency of the psychic material of each individual for all".


Third floor: Unexpected Atmospheres

The Austrian twins Christine & Irene Hohenbüchler met with students for a workshop in Japan. A cheerful figural- and color world between comic strip and video clip is the result. Spontaneous colorful characters and symbols on huge sheets of paper which hang from the ceiling convey an atmosphere of the unexpected: universal communication without prejudice regarding cultural borders.

With "Ongarden", the four members of the Icelandic Love Corporation present a small Garden of Eden as a place to meditate on one´s own image. From four meditation cushions, one´s eye falls on a diamond mirror. What is the diamond within us? Happiness, fun or perhaps wisdom?

In the course of her "Kunstdienst"- project, Lyn Loewenstein, equipped with a handcart, yellow balloons and questionnaire materials, questions passers-by on their opinions on "Art in the City". Kuratoren der Ausstellung: Paolo



Curators: Paolo Bianchi, Rudolf Sagmeister
Text: Paolo Bianchi, Herbert Abrell


The catalogue "LKW Kunst in der Stadt 4" has been published on the occasion of the exhibition by Kunsthaus Bregenz and Bregenzer Kunstverein, with texts by Diedrich Diederichsen and Karl Markus Michel, among others, ca. 200 pages, numerous color- and black and white illustrations, ATS 180,-- (German only).

"LKW. Dinge zwischen Leben, Kunst und Werk", published by Paolo Bianchi and O.K Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz, with texts by Robert Menasse, Klaus Theweleit, Walter Grasskamp, among others, ATS 290,--.
Both books together: ATS 400,-- instead of 470,--.

LKW Art in the City 4

The 15 interventions between life and art present Bregenz as a "Living City".

With eyes closed, Faisal Abdu´Allah´s motifs deny the viewer eye contact. The billboards along the Seestraße and at Leutbühel show women between introspection and self-knowledge.

"Bon voyage, Monsieur Tiravanija" is the project by Franz Ackermann and Rirkrit Tiravanija. The small truck Opel Blitz holds a travel library of ca. 300 volumes and videos. The artists react to both the experience of travel and the art business.

Atelier van Lieshout´s green container as "Cantine" establishes practical connections to life: cooking, eating, drinking and conversing together.

Fabrice Gygi has anchored his floating sculpture "Minoviras" a few meters away. The inflatable sculpture changes in appearance between sea mine and virus.

Richard Hoeck makes an open spatial offer. His orange sculpture next to the "Milchpilz" can be thought of as a retreat, as a snack bar, an emergency shelter or a camp.

The artists´ label @Home from Basel weaves "incomprehensible nuances" into the existing acoustic picture in front of the Kunsthaus via a loudspeaker mast.

The four Girls from the Icelandic Love Corporation free an oversized lipstick from a block of ice during their performance "Blow Job" on July 15th.

Lyn Löwenstein´s "Kunstdienst" questions passers-by regarding their opinions on "Art in the City".

Atelier van Lieshout´s Container is the collecting tank for texts and pictures in a continuous research project on site and per fax.

The spatial sculpture "Public Things" by N55 consists of a number of functions for the things of daily life: WC, shower, bed, sound, etc. Anyone may us it and care for it - the beginning of a public life.

Flora Neuwirth has dyed street lamps in the Bahnhofstraße yellow and red. The nocturnal city sky recalls the half-light of bars and clubs.

The "Art Ship Austria", part of the Lake Constance fleet, was designed by Julian Opie and has been an artistic messenger of the summer exhibition since the springtime.

The French artist Orlan is the first artist to use surgery as an artistic medium in order to bring cosmetic surgery away from its goals (beautification, rejuvenation). Her work "African Self-Hybridization" carries this concept to the limit.

Annie Ratti has designed a landing place for migratory birds in the shape of the island of Madagascar and placed a bird house in a tree at the playground in the Weiherstraße.

"Es ist. Die Inszenierung eines Augenblicks" ["It is. The staging of a moment"] is the name CC Sauter have given their installation with the words PREVIEW HISTORY for the window of the Kokon store in Lochau.

The artist Simone Westerwinter will appear as "Clownimone", as Living Sculpture and Alter Ego, from Saturday 15th until Tuesday 18th July. A friendly-foreign appearance.