At the invitation of the Gangwon Cultural Foundation, members of the Künstlerhaus Vereinigung and their project partners will address questions of sustainability, humanism, respectful treatment of nature and social compatibility. The concept is based on the exhibition Longing for Future – Time, Space, Existence, which has already been shown very successfully during the 2023 Architecture Biennale in Venice and at the Austrian Cultural Forum in Rome.
Think twice before tearing down
Under the motto ‘think twice before tearing down’, Josef Weichenberger and photographer Leo Fellinger show the opportunities for urban development and the environment that lie in the sustainable conversion of existing buildings. In times of raw material scarcity, steel and concrete are seen as grey gold, whose lasting value enables a second life.
As a large proportion of CO2, the so-called grey emissions, is bound in the steel and concrete supporting structure, considerable amounts of CO2 can be saved with building conversions. This means an existing building is often much more sustainable to remodel than to build a new one.
The advancing climate problem does not allow us to continue to indulge our constant need for only the new. Rather, it leads us to pay much greater attention to the existing. We are challenged to perform the new by understanding the new as a constant appropriation and transformation of the existing building fabric.
Preserve the existing, but create new!
LONGING FOR FUTURE
Or What We Make of Our Environment
An interdisciplinary exhibition project of the Austrian Künstlerhaus Association on invitation of Gangwon Art & Culture Foundation
With the kind support of the Austrian Embassy in Seoul
Artists: Andrea Graser & Friedrich Biedermann, Thomas Hoppe, Mladen Jadric, Tanja Prušnik, Martin Roth, Sne Veselinović, Josef Weichenberger and Leo Fellinger
Curated by Tanja Prušnik
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Chuncheon, Kangwon National University Museum of Art
4 to 10 September 2024
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Pyeongchang, Space ChangGong
26 September to 27 October 2024
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