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Large amphore with soldiers depicting a tranquil scene drinking, shaving, smoking and playing cards together, trying to take their minds off their looming deaths on the battlefield; date unknown.

Painted clay

Shahab Nedaei Collection

Sharks have evolved on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago. Fossil records suggest they have existed even before trees. The first signs of shark’s ancestors are a few scales dating to 450 million years ago and the earliest shark-like teeth archeologists have come across are 410 million years ago, from the Doliodus problematicus.

Ferdinand Doblhammer & Patryk Senwicki live and work as an artist duo in Vienna. Since 2020 they have been dealing with the fields of mixed reality, simulated environments and live performances in a multidisciplinary manner.

Topics such as digitization and surveillance of privacy as well as the political discourse in new media are of central importance in their work.

This 3d model is a metaphor for the mentally and physically not accessible idea of an angel.

If Homo sapiens would be able to empathize with all kinds of entities (something angels supposedly do), the phenomenon of making war would never have existed.

Stopping natural decay with the help of an artificial plastic skin. Tscherner decontextualizes industrial packaging technology, on the one hand to make objects from their environment durable and on the other hand to accentuate the contrast between nature and artifacts. The things that are collected, vacuumed and photographed here may not have a long-term place in our changing ecosystem. These objects are also a reflection of our time and Tscherner tries to systematize and archive them. The process of collecting has a playful character which is reflected in the title

A teratoma (from the Greek teras "terrifying image, monster" and the suffix - om, here in the sense of "similar", hence "monstrosity"), is a rare type of tumor that can contain tissues such as hair or teeth.

Replica made of ceramics, human hair, teeth.

On a bicycle and pedalling, the rigid figure is nevertheless in motion. She has a sheet over her head and the breeze shapes the white fabrics. This cover is a moment of turning inward. It is a moment of pausing and resting. It is a moment of pulling the blanket over one's head and hiding while perception and distraction undergo a transformation. Covering is also a change of form, visibility and awareness to see and feel what might not be possible without it.