Exhibiting at the Architektur Zentrum Wien

Soviet Modernism 1955-1991. Unknown Stories
Opening : 07.11.2012, 7PM
Runtime: 08.11.2012 – 25.03.2013
Vienna Architecture Congress: 24 + 25.11.12
Venue: Architektur Zentrum, Museumsplatz 1, Vienna

The Architekturzentrum Wien writes architectural (hi)stories: ‘Soviet Modernism 1955 – 1991. Unknown Stories’ explores, for the first time comprehensively, the architecture of the non-Russian Soviet republics completed between the late 1950s and the end of the USSR in 1991. The research and exhibition project shifts the Russian-dominated perspective and focuses attention on the architecture of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Krygyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, The Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
While Constructivism and Stalinist architecture have largely been included in Western architecture history, the Soviet modern architecture of the second half of the 20th century has remained practically unknown to date. Working in close collaboration with local experts and architects, a research group at the Architekturzentrum Wien has pursued the specialities in the architecture of the period and its ‘stories’. In the course of this extensive project a network has been created between a large number of researchers from the East and the West and interviews conducted with eyewitnesses of the time. Their stories have hardly been documented in writing and their works have not yet been viewed in context. Time is running out, and action is urgently needed as many of the buildings, which are still waiting for appraisal by architectural historians, are threatened. The poor construction techniques used at the time they were built means that these buildings are aging rapidly and there is a widespread lack of resources available, or support, for their upkeep.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue in English and German editions (published by Park Books). Team of curators: Katharina Ritter, Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair, Alexandra Wachter, Exhibition design: Six & Petritsch. The exhibition project is based on an initiative of Georg Schöllhammer and the association ‘Local Modernities’

(source: Architektur Zentrum Wien)

Below some of my photographs that are part of the “Soviet Modernism” exhibition
Learn more about it:
Architektur Zentrum Wien

“Ostalgia” in show at SCAN Festival

Ostalgia is going to be exhibited within the group show Talent Latent at the International Festival of Photogrpahy SCAN 12, along with works by other 9 mates: Clare Gallagher ( North Ireland, 1978); Lorena Guillén (Argentina, 1974), Dorothée Smith (France, 1985), Mariano Icaza (Bilbao, 1964), Jordi Díaz (Pontevedra – Tarragona, 1979), Sebastián Liste (Alicante, 1985), Salvi Danés (Barcelona, 1985), Salva López (Barcelone, 1984), Eva Lauterlein (Switzerland, 1977)

Curator: Jesús Micó
Coordinator: Josep Rigol
Venue: Espai Tabacalera, Tarragona
Dates: 26 Oct – 24 Dec 2012

BIG EXIT featured in VOLUME and LE JOURNAL SPÉCIALE’ Z

fragments from

VOLUME 33. Interiors + Playboy Architecture
Archis, Amsterdam. 2012

Editor in chief: Arjen Oosterman, Contributing editors: Ole Bouman, Rem Koolhaas, Mark Wigley, Feature editor: Jeffrey Inaba, Playboy Insert editor: Beatriz Colomina

“Big Exit”  pp. 81 – 91 (my thanks to Ethel Baraona and Brendan Cormier)

available to buy here

 fragments from

LE  JOURNAL SPÉCIALE’ Z  04
ESA, Paris. 2012

Diagram / The Spatial Turn / Perform
Editor in chief: Sony Devabhaktuni
“Apartment” pp. 164 – 171 (my thanks to Sony Devabhaktuni)

available to buy here

 

“Instant Village” in show at StadtMuseum Graz

Instant Village ( series in progress) will be exhibited within the group show Eyes on the city at the StadtMuseum Graz (AT) along with works by: Olivo Barbieri (IT), Peter Bialobrzeski (DE), Sabine Bitter/Helmut Weber (AT), Hin Chua (MY/GB), Lee Friedlander (US), Aglaia Konrad (AT/BE), Anne Lass (DK/DE), Paul Albert Leitner (AT).

The exhibition is curated by: Christina Töpfer and Otto Hochreiter. In the catalogue of the exhibition, the essay about Instant Village is written by Ethel Baraona Pohl (dpr- barcelona).

The opening is going to be held on the 13th of October 2012.

Catalogue: http://www.pustet.at/content.php?id=28&art_id=249
StadtMuseum Graz: http://www.stadtmuseumgraz.at/index.php?pageid=116&sid=85