Verbundene Räume

Verbundene Räume is an online exhibition, a reproduction, and an artwork in itself. Artists from various fields such as photography, sound, composition, performance, sculpture, and object were invited to explore aspects of “closeness” in their artistic practices. The notions of proximity and, consequently, distance underwent physical and social transformations during the period characterized by quarantine. These shifts are reflected, on the one hand, in the visual perspectives presented in the artists’ works and, on the other hand, in the exploration of performative or object-related relationships with the surrounding space and oneself.

Verbundene Räume has evolved as a process, developed in close collaboration with the artists. The project was initiated by Anna Sophia Rußmann and Kilian Immervoll, and over the course of a year, it was conceptually and content-wise supervised in collaboration with Pipi Fröstl. The resulting episodes can be individually visited or experienced sequentially in the respective project layers of the artists, featuring interconnected photo and sound materials, as well as work and scene texts. They can also be viewed in a predetermined dramaturgical sequence, continuously in a loop. Various media – film, text, photo, sound – establish connections between the works, accessible through clicking, zooming, scrolling (both vertically and horizontally), and hyperlinks.

The theme of closeness is not only explored within the content but also in the navigation of the website itself.

The participating artists are Manuel Riegler, Gianna Virgina Prein, Julia Müllner, Lisa Edi, and Ralph Mothwurf. The website was designed by Lisa Eder and implemented by Left Studio.