LINZ 2009 EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE &
OK CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
present
SCHAURAUSCH
Art in 50 Shop Windows
11 May to 2 June 2007
Linz, Austria
The city center of Linz is transformed into a living art mile. Over 30 national and international artists exhibit Art in 50 Shop Windows. With their ideas and works in showcases, passages and on facades, they create spaces of experience enticing visitors to a Schaurausch – a seeing spree.
The thematic approach of the show leads right into the interesting debate about art, advertisment and consum: Whereas shop windows as advertising surfaces involve an act of purchase, window shop art foregrounds purely the act of seeing.
Unusual objects, photos and videos enrich the city and invite passers-by to linger, to be surprised and to stop and think. The visitor to the city becomes a flaneur setting out on a journey of artistic discovery
Artists: Claudia Czimek (AT), Martin Dickinger (AT), Peng Hung-Chih (TW), Simone Eberli/Andrea Mantel (CH), Eoos (AT), Sylvie Fleury (CH), Susy Gómez (Spanien),Alfred Haberpointner (AT), Hilde Kentane (BE/CH), Laura Kikauka (CA), Lucia Koch (BR), Lena Lapschina (AT), Michael Lin (Taiwan/FR), Alicia Martín (ES), Andrea Pesendorfer (AT), Ella Raidel (AT), Stefan Sagmeister (AT/USA), Elfie Semotan (AT/USA), Christoph Steinbrener/Rainer Dempf (AT), Marion Strunk (CH),
Students of the programme Sculpture – Transmedial Space, University of Arts and Industrial Design Linz: Christa Aistleitner/Daniela Pesendorfer, Miguel Gonzalez, Katharina Lackner, Rainer Nöbauer, Georg Schobert, Wolfgang Tragseiler/Noemi Auer, Lina Vargas/Georg Schobert/Wolfgang Bretter, Ursula Walchhofer, Roland Wegerer
Curators: Paolo Bianchi & Martin Sturm in collaboration with Renate Herter
Supported by: pro helvetia, SEACEX Spain, Council for Cultural Affairs in Taiwan
For full programme details visit: www.schaurausch.at
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