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Objects, concepts, buildings 1967−92
Kunsthalle Wien showed a retrospective of the Austrian group of artists and architects, Haus-Rucker-Co, as their opening exhibition at their location on Karlsplatz. The exhibition was curated by Dieter Bogner. In 1967 in Vienna, two young architects, Laurids Ortner and Günter Zamp Kelp, started a workgroup together with painter Klaus Pinter.
Typically for the group, they did not give in to the temptation to make use of the pneumatic structures that attracted so much attention in the sixties. The exhibition presents the colourful artefacts from Haus-Rucker-Co, squeezed into steel shelves, “yellowed”, unrestored and non-functioning after decades in storage. This creates a sense of programmatic decline, of nostalgia, of museological remembrance of a historical position and a distant way of dealing with relics of the past.
