MRP/Colliers
2018-today
Vienna (AT)
Mood Management in Vienna's Biedermeier House: Site-specific artistic interventions for the revitalization of a 200-year-old attic space in downtown Vienna. The artistic dialogue between old and new should keep the spaces alive for future users. Developed a comprehensive light installation, several LichtBilder and a dedicated app to control "Illumination". Completion 2018. Commissioned by MRP GmbH (AT).
A Biedermeier attic in the center of Vienna. Listed as a historical monument. The new owners want to create an attractive living space out of it. The dialogue between old & new should be characterized by an artistic signature.
The Viennese artist and perception researcher SHA. develops a site-specific intervention for this. He wants to enhance what is there - and enrich it with a contemporary counterpoint. In this way, the artist gives the resulting attic apartments a stylistically original character.
With its ILLUMINATION, SHA. wants to broaden, brighten and qualitatively increase the feeling of space: The artwork illuminates the 200-year-old roof construction anew, moves it into a new, different light and, as it were, makes it float.
Purposefully placed light images reflect the fine structure of the old, used wood. They make traces of life visible - perceptible - and history legible. The artist reworks microscopic wood fibers digitally and analogously. He superimposes them in the light space. The synopsis opens up a spatial multidimensionality that makes the past, present and future of the house permeable.
The result is an artistic illumination that gives the attic a new charm. Together with their domicile, the future apartment owners also receive a work of art that remains alive: Using an app on their smartphones, residents can access various lighting programs that SHA. has composed for these spaces. The soft lighting atmospheres can be used to create fantastic room atmospheres. Or as the artist puts it:
"A sensory space that lives with you."
An art-in-architecture project commissioned by MRP, mediated by Colliers International.
