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Temporary adaptation of the artwork In Then Out by student Erfan Rezai  from the HTBLVA Ortwein, Graz

Every year, the Austrian Sculpture Park invites national and international artists and art classes to engage with the park and develop their own temporary works for the sculpture park as part of an artist-in-residence project. For the year 2025, the artist Christian Kosmas Mayer was invited.

Every year, the Austrian Sculpture Park invites national and international artists and art classes to engage with the park and develop their own temporary works for the sculpture park as part of an artist-in-residence project. For the year 2024, the class Hans Schabus,  at the University of Applied Arts Vienna has been invited.

The Austrian Sculpture Park invites school classes and student groups to engage with the park. The aim is to develop their own temporary adaptation of the artwork In Then Out, 2014 by the class of Tobias Rehberger, Städelschule Frankfurt/Main. Students from the FH Joanneum, Architecture and Civil Engineering, under the direction of Anke Strittmatter and Sigrid Bürstmayr, have been recruited for 2024.

Nine solar panels of different age, size, production and application areas form a new work of art for the sculpture park.

Christoph Weber chose a freshly crushed limestone weighing around 200 kg from the quarry as the starting material for his work sechs komma vier.

As a possible meeting point, a construction of four concrete panels that can be folded up is erected, reminiscent of a card house trick.

Approximately 70 liters of wax become a sculpture that changes under the influence of heat and sunlight.

"Dieses außergewöhnliche Kunstprojekt ist so interessant, weil weder wir noch der Künstler Jun Yang das Resultat kennen." (Elisabeth Fiedler)

Samuel Ekeh places a geometric sculpture in the landscape of the park, combining both architectural and figurative elements.

In the middle of the park's "artificially created nature", the artist positions tree-trunk-like structures that show traces of both organic growth and human design.

Felix Helmut Wagner nutzt Zobernigs reduziertes Formenvokabular, lädt es mit seiner eigenen poetischen Narration auf. 

Suchart Wannaset raises the question of the importance of community and inclusion in times when the politically propagated need for security in turn forces isolation and exclusion.