Artists View
How are regionally specific dwelling models
reflected by local artists in their work?
How do
their colleagues from the “outside” perceive a
“foreign” living culture?
Artists, photographers and authors were invited
for a few days to a city unfamiliar to them (Berlin,
Istanbul, Ferrara or Vienna) and given the task to
engage artistically with the dwelling models of that
city, to interpret them and to render them “visible”
in their respective artistic languages. The work of
artists from different backgrounds on this joint task
was also intended to facilitate inter-European exchange
on an artistic and personal level, and a selection
of the resulting works is presented here.
In addition, local artists and photographers living
in the respective cities were invited to participate
in the project with pre-existing works and through
these to create a “calling card” of their cities.
Each city’s living culture is therefore approached in several ways through the various modules, and the resulting contributions – both when viewed as a whole or in contrast with each other – give insights into the living cultures of Berlin, Istanbul, Ferrara and Vienna in very direct and personal ways.
